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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1996
Genzo Takagi, Urawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Noguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Eizo Katayama, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsuhiro Araki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshinori Takahashi, Warabi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A digital signal detection circuit includes a threshold value calculator calculating a threshold value from assumptive sampled values corresponding to various data patterns of a regenerated signal. The regenerated signal is obtained by regenerating data recorded on a recording medium by a regenerating head. The detection circuit also includes a Viterbi decoder carrying out Viterbi decoding of the regenerated signal with the threshold value determined by the threshold value calculator as a constant. The threshold value calculator variably controls the threshold value using a decoded output of the Viterbi decoder and a regenerated signal corresponding to the decoded output of the Viterbi decoder.