Patent attributes
An optical disc apparatus, as a learning operation before a recording or reproducing operation, rotates an optical disc at a first speed to read PID information, discriminates between lands and grooves of the optical disc, detects switching positions between lands and grooves, sets a rotation angle position of tracking pull-in of an objective lens of a time length that allows the PID information to be stably read, with respect to the switching position, and stores the set position information of tracking pull-in as learning result information. During recording or reproducing, the optical disc apparatus rotates the optical disk at a second speed higher than the first speed, pulls in the objective lens for tracking based on the stored position information of tracking pull-in, reads PID information, and performs the recording or reproducing operation while discriminating between lands and grooves and detecting switching positions between lands and grooves.