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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1991
Shakeel Masood, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
George Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The sector mark SM within a long burn data pattern recorded in each sector of an optical disk is detected asynchronously using a robust pattern detection algorithm. The terminal portion of the data pattern at the VFO field of the ANSI X3B11/ISO CCS Standard is ignored. The corner bits at the ends of the remaining pattern and between strings of one and zero bits are ignored, and the pattern that remains is stored in a register. A decoder compares adjacent strings of one and zero bits stored in the register to corresponding predetermined data. Voting circuitry uses a threshold value programmed by the user to determine the presence of a sector mark in the data pattern.