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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
May. 13, 1998
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Clock is reproduced stably. If data (limiting code) containing a plurality of consecutive minimum inversion interval Tmin is contained in the data inputted from a shift register, a Tmin consecution limiting code detection unit detects such consecutive interval. A constraint length judgement unit judges the constraint length i to be the constraint length corresponding to the code for limiting the constraint length i when a detection signal is inputted from the Tmin consecution limiting code detection unit, and outputs the judged constant length to a multiplexer. The multiplexer selects the output of a converter corresponding to the constraint length supplied from the constraint length judgement unit out of converters 14-1 to 14-r, and supplies the selected output to a run detection processing unit through a buffer.