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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1993
Helmut Scherzer, Herrenberg-Gueltstein, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for decoding F2F signals as well as a device for decoding F2F signals read from a magnetic data carrier is provided. The signal read from the card by a magnetic reading head is amplified by an amplifier with a very high gain, discriminated in a discrimination and integration station to receive a binary looking signal. Out of this digitized signal in a reference time acquisition station a start-up time value is set and a phase is estimated to determine the correct end of a bit cell in a phase estimating station. In a symbol correlation station the received binary signal is correlated with all possible symbol combinations based on the estimated phase to create a correct bit stream. This bit stream might be processed further by a bit recovery station providing a corrected bit stream ready for interpretation.