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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
May. 22, 1998
Isao Okada, Chofu, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hirabuki, Chofu, JP;
Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical disc apparatus has a demodulation circuit performing an FSK demodulation by being provided with a binary signal which is obtained by binarizing a signal reproduced from an optical disc on which an FSK modulation signal is previously recorded. An edge interval of the binary signal is measured. An FSK modulation component is obtained from a difference between a measured edge interval value and a previously determined edge interval reference value. A demodulation value is obtained based on a moving average of the FSK modulation component. A moving average of the demodulation value is compared with a reference value so as to obtain a binary FSK demodulation signal. Additionally, the optical disc apparatus includes a decode circuit for decoding binary data from a biphase code signal which is reproduced from an optical disc and to be inverted at an end of each bit. When an inversion of the biphase code signal is not performed at an end of a bit, the decode circuit corrects the binary data immediately before or after the end of the bit. Further, the optical disc apparatus includes a digital PLL circuit which divides a frequency of a demodulated signal reproduced from the optical disc by a predetermined dividing ratio. A clock signal is obtained based on an edge interval value of the divided modulated signal.