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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martinus P Bierhoff, Eindhoven, NL;
Job F van Mil, Eindhoven, NL;
Franciscus A Schoofs, Eindhoven, NL;
Albert H Slomp, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 44 ; 369111 ; 250202 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is described for reading optically coded discs. In this apparatus the photodiode signals are amplified by current amplifiers which are biased by the unipolar photodiode signal currents, so that offset-free class-B operation is obtained.