Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Masaki

Takayuki Takeda

Masato Yamazaki

Yoshio Tokuno

Isamu Nose

Noritsugu Matsubishi

A processing unit for executing parallel cumulative absolute difference operations in a first mode, and an inner product operation in a second mode, includes an input bus group for receiving first input data, second input data, and third input data. A plurality of processor elements are coupled to the input bus group, each processor element being coupled to compute a cumulative absolute difference between the first input data and the second input data in the first mode, and to compute and accumulate one term of Booth's algorithm for multiplying the first input data by the third input data in the second mode. An output bus group is coupled to the processor elements, for receiving the terms of Booth's algorithm. An accumulator circuit is coupled to the output bus group, for shifting and adding terms of Booth's algorithm output by the processor elements.

Absolute difference processor element processing unit, and processor

An optical head assembly for use with an optical disk apparatus includes a magnetic circuit block having permanent magnets each being elongate in a track traversing direction and a yoke for forming a magnetic circuit which conducts a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnets. The yoke includes a first through hole extending in a focusing direction, magnetic gaps located at opposite sides of the first through hole in the track traversing direction and individually accommodating the permanent magnets, and a second through hole for admitting the light beam issuing in the track traversing direction to guide it to the first through hole. The first through hole and magnetic gaps each has a cross-section relatively long in the track traversing direction. A beam deflector is loosely fitted in the first through hole for deflecting in the focusing direction the light beam which is incident thereto from the second through hole. The beam deflector is supported by a carriage. An objective lens focuses the light beam deflected by the beam deflector in the focusing direction onto the recording medium surface. The objective lens is mounted on a lens holder which is in turn mounted on the carriage movably in the focusing direction. Guide members support the magnetic circuit block and carriage movably in the track traversing direction along the recording medium surface.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Masaki