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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1998
Toshio Kanai, Moriyama, JP;
Takeo Yasuda, Yasu-gun, JP;
Kazuhiro Tsuruta, Sagamihara, JP;
Wataru Ichihara, Kusatsu, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing the effect of inter-wave interference on signals read from a storage medium and to precisely digitize the read signals are described. An apparatus for digitizing a signal read from a storage medium according to an embodiment of the invention, comprises: a peak detector, for detecting a peak value for an amplitude of a signal read from the storage medium; a threshold value determiner, for employing the peak value obtained by the peak detector to determine a compensation value that is used for compensating for the effect of inter-wave interference on the signal, and for employing the threshold value calculated by the conventional method and the compensation value to determine a compensated threshold value; and a digitization circuit, for digitizing the signal by using the threshold value determined by the threshold value determiner. Optionally an interpolator may be used to obtain more accurate peak values which occur between sample points.