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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2001
Hiroki Mouri, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Yamamoto, Fukuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Nakahira, Kyoto, JP;
Akira Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An encoding efficiency higher than 1 is achieved by accomplishing ternary recording on a recording medium. For this purpose, an 8-bit binary data word is converted to a 5-symbol ternary code word. A look-up table stores a modulation/demodulation table defining the correspondence between the binary data word ( B) and the ternary code word ( T). A table generating circuit generates the modulation/demodulation table to be stored in the look-up table such that each of constraints specified by a plurality of parameters is satisfied. If a PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) scheme is combined with an 8B5T code thus obtained, a signal-to-noise ratio is improved.