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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Redman-White, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Simon D. Bramwell, Romsey, GB;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
Abstract
An optical disk data decoder generates estimates of serial input signal values by slicing them into samples. The data sequences contained in each sample are detected. Successive samples are compared and used to increase or decrease the estimates. Such permits the center bit in a string of identical bits to be detected after subsequent bits have already been received and are being processed.