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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1989
Hiroaki Shimazaki, Moriguchi, JP;
Toyohiko Matsuta, Neyagawa, JP;
Masafumi Shimotashiro, Neyagawa, JP;
Masaaki Kobayashi, Kawanishi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A digital signal magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus converts a digital signal into multi-value digital signals and performs recording/reproducing of a multi-value quadrature amplitude-modulated signal. By using the multi-value quadrature amplitude modulation, it is possible to remove the DC component in the recording signal and improve the utilization efficiency of the recording frequency band. Further, using a system to memorize the frequency characteristic of the magnetic recording/reproducing unit and effect Viterbi decoding regarding the intersymbol interference caused by the frequency as a convolutional coding, it is possible to detect the level without necessitating frequency equalization. Accordingly, there arises no deterioration of the S/N ratio by frequency equalization. Furthermore, by providing an encoder for error control coding by increasing the number of multi-values and a corresponding decoder, the error rate can be improved against the deterioration of the S/N ratio. Further, by bias recording the multi-value quadrature amplitude modulated signal, non-linearity of the electromagnetic conversion system is relaxed, and deterioration of the S/N ratio by distortion is improved.