Calimetrics, Inc.

Bruce V Johnson

Steven Russel Spielman

Michael P O'Neill

Terrence L Wong

Gregory A McDermott

Cezary Pietrzyk

The present invention is a system for reading a CD having a surface with a multiple level data track including a laser, a focusing and positioning system configured in a way which causes the laser to follow the multiple level data track, a detector which converts the light which is reflected from the data track to an electrical signal, a digital signal processing unit configured to receive the electrical signal including a scaling-function generator for determining a plurality of signal windows from the electrical signal, and a multiple level analog to digital converter which determines a data level based on the signal windows and the electrical signal whereby multiple data levels may be read from the CD.

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Bruce V Johnson