Mediatek Corporation

Mediatek Incorporation

Industrial Technology Research Institute

Mediateck Inc.

Pi-Hai Liu

Chun-Nan Chen

Meng-Ta Yang

Wen-Yi Wu

Yuh Cheng

Chih-Ching Yu

Ming-Yang Chao

Hsin-Cheng Chen

Jia-Horng Shieh

Yung-Chi Yang

Yu-Hsuan Lin

Chih-Ching Chen

Li-Lien Lin

Shu-Hung Chou

Shih-Hsin Chen

Jin-Bin Yang

Gwo-Huei Wu

Shih-Ta Hung

Chung-Jen Kuo

Ying-Feng Huang

Tzu-Pai Wang

Hao-Hui Yin

Chih-Hsiung Chu

Tzu-Ching Yang

Ya-Fang Nien

Ming-Tsang Wu

A method for detecting capacitance values of a plurality of capacitive sensing nodes located at intersections of a plurality of drive lines and a sense line on a touch panel is provided. The method includes at least the following steps: obtaining a plurality of touch sense signals corresponding to the sense line during a plurality of time slots, respectively; demodulating the touch sense signals with a first oscillation signal to generate a plurality of first demodulated signals; demodulating the touch sense signals with a second oscillation signal to generate a plurality of second demodulated signals, wherein the second oscillation signal is different from the first oscillation signal; and determining the capacitance values according to at least the first demodulated signals and the second demodulated signals.

Method and apparatus for using oscillation signals with different phases to detect capacitance values at capacitive sensing nodes of touch panel

An error correction method for correcting an first ECC code from a storage unit, comprising: (a) marking at least a first part of the first ECC code according to a correction result generated by correcting error of the first ECC code, to generate a first error correction reference information; and (b) marking at least a second part of the first ECC code according to the first error correction reference information to generate a second error correction reference information.

Error correction method and error correction apparatus utilizing the method

A controller of an optical storage apparatus for generating a plurality of control signals is provided. The controller includes a code generator implemented for determining a plurality of control codes according to an input data associated with data recording, and generating the control signals to deliver the control codes. Each of the control codes represents one power level. Besides, regarding each of the control signals, a minimum transmission pulse length thereof corresponds to more than one power symbol period.

Controller and method employed in optical storage apparatus for generating control signals each having minimum transmission pulse length corresponding to more than one power symbol period

A method for tuning a write strategy parameter of an optical storage device, includes: writing a segment of data according to a plurality of write strategies; reading the data back and detecting a plurality of lengths, each length corresponding to a pit or a land on an optical storage medium accessed by the optical storage device; performing calculations according to the lengths and a plurality of data types to generate a plurality of calculation results, each of the data types corresponding to at least a specific target pit length or at least a specific target land length; and utilizing the calculation results to determine a proper write strategy.

Methods and systems for tuning at least one write strategy parameter of an optical storage device

A signal pattern detecting apparatus, which is capable of detecting a physical mark in a read back signal being read from an optical disc, includes a matching signal generator, a signal comparing device, and a decision circuit. The matching signal generator is utilized for generating a matching signal, capable of being utilized to identify the physical mark, according to a reference clock and a wobble clock. The signal comparing device is electrically connected to the matching signal generator, and utilized for comparing the matching signal with a wobble data signal to generate a comparison signal. The decision circuit is electrically connected to the signal comparing device, and utilized for generating an indication signal according to the comparison signal and a threshold value. Both the wobble data signal and the wobble clock are derived from the read back signal.

Method and apparatus for detecting specific signal pattern in a signal read from an optical disc

An address-accessing device includes first and second information generators for producing first and second information according to the received address signals; a phase offset detector for producing a phase offset according to the first and second information; a reference signal generator for producing a reference signal according to the phase offset, the first information and the second information; and a decoder used to determine the structure type of an address-in-pregroove unit (ADIP) according to the reference value. This address-accessing device is capable of adjusting the decision level and the phase offset automatically to lower the error rate occurring in the address access procedure.

Device for accessing address information in an optical disc

An apparatus for maximum likelihood signal detection comprises a reference data unit, a branch metric unit, an add-compare-select unit, a path metric unit and a path memory, and is used for detecting maximum likelihood signal. The reference information unit, the branch metric unit, the add-compare-select unit or the path metric unit can further comprise a multiplexer to removing unnecessary paths according to a control signal. The control signal is adjusted according to channel response, coding constraint or channel memory length.

Apparatus of maximum likelihood signal detection

A method for improving readability of an optical disc includes: changing a first control parameter of an optical storage apparatus that accesses the optical disc and obtaining a plurality of associated values of an index corresponding to the readability of the optical disc for respective changed/unchanged values of the first control parameter; setting the first control parameter to be an optimal value out of the changed/unchanged values of the first control parameter according to the index; changing a second control parameter with the first parameter set to be the optimal value to obtaining a plurality of associated values of the index for respective changed/unchanged values of the second control parameter; and setting the second control parameter to be an optimal value according to the index. The control parameters having their individual optimal values are utilized for further control during decoding. In addition, an associated optical storage apparatus is further provided.

Method for improving readability of an optical disc, and associated optical storage apparatus

A path metric computing method applied in a high-speed Viterbi detector and related apparatus thereof are disclosed. The path metric computing apparatus includes a comparator for generating a control signal according a plurality of previous path metrics, a combining circuit for generating a plurality of first output values according to the previous path metrics and branch costs of a plurality of branches of a current state, and a multiplexer, electrically connected to the comparator and the combining circuit, for determining a first path metric of the current state according to the control signal and the output values.

Method of computing path metrics in a high-speed Viterbi detector and related apparatus thereof

An apparatus and method for demodulating an input signal modulated from a reference signal and a data signal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a determining unit, a first calculating unit, and a comparing unit. The determining unit is utilized for determining a plurality of first calculating timings of changing different calculating modes according to the input signal. The first calculating unit is coupled to the determining unit and utilized for generating a first calculating result of the input signal according to the first calculating timings and the calculating modes thereof. The comparing unit is coupled to the first calculating unit and utilized for generating a comparing result according to the first calculating result of the input signal and a threshold setting, and for outputting a demodulated data of the input signal according to the comparing result.

Apparatus and method for demodulating input signal modulated from reference signal and data signal

A method utilized for detecting a physical mark in a signal read from an optical disc, including: generating a matching signal capable of being utilized to identify the physical mark according to a reference clock and a wobble clock; generating a comparison signal by comparing the matching signal and a wobble data signal; determining whether a period of which the level of the comparison signal surpass a predetermined level within a predetermined period is greater than a threshold or not; and if the period greater than the threshold, generating an indication signal corresponding to the location of the physical mark. Wherein the wobble data signal and the wobble clock is generated according to the read back signal.

An apparatus for identifying the address in pregroove (ADIP) of a Blu-ray disc is described. The apparatus uses a statistical scheme or distance-finding scheme to find the position of a predetermined minimum shift keying (MSK) mark or the first MSK mark, i.e. a bit sync unit, from an ADIP unit to identify data of the ADIP unit. The present invention doesn't have the error propagation effect occurring in the prior art so that the error rate for ADIP identification can be greatly reduced.

Apparatus for identifying address in pregroove of Blue-ray disc

A phase detection device comprising an analog-digital converter, an interpolator, and a determining unit. The analog-digital converter receives an analog signal and converts the analog signal to a digital signal according to a plurality of digital sampling points. The interpolator generates a plurality of interpolation points according to a predetermined amount of digital sampling points. The determining unit obtains a phase of the ZC point according to the interpolation points or the digital sampling points.

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Pi-Hai Liu