Coded data generation or conversion – Digital code to digital code converters – To or from minimum d.c. level codes
Patent
1996-10-07
1998-07-14
Williams, Howard L.
Coded data generation or conversion
Digital code to digital code converters
To or from minimum d.c. level codes
341 67, H03M 500
Patent
active
057811318
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an encoding method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus and an information recording medium. More particularly, it relates to an encoding method and apparatus for recording data to a high density on an information recording medium, a decoding method and apparatus and the information recording medium.
BACKGROUND
In a conventional magneto-optical recording system, the signal recording characteristics are deteriorated in general in a high frequency range. This is known as the modulation transfer factor and represents the high range deterioration characteristics proper to optical recording. The magnetic recording system also suffers from such high range deterioration characteristics ascribable to e.g., a head gap.
For correct data recording/reproduction despite such loss or noise, it is more advisable to effect digital modulation suited to a particular recording system before recording the data on the recording medium since this enables stabilized storage of a larger quantity of information data. Thus it is recently practiced to encode the recording data into recording codes in accordance with a pre-set rule.
Among these recording codes is a block code. With the block code, a data string is blocked every m i bits into units termed data words which are then converted into n i channel bit codewords in accordance with a suitable code rule. If i=1, the code is a fixed length code, whereas, if i is not less than 1 and the constraint length r is not less than 1, the code is a variable length code. The block code is also termed the (d,k;m,n;r) code, where d is the minimum number of contiguous symbols "0" and k denotes the maximum number of contiguous symbols "0".
Nowadays, there is used in a magneto-optical disc device or a magnetic disc device a block code termed (2,7;1,2;4) or (2,7 RLL) code. In this block code, the minimum length between transitions Tmin=1.5 T, where T is the interval of digital data, while the window margin TW=0.5 T, with the product of the two being 0.75. In the block code, since the product of the minimum length between transitions Tmin and the window margin TW influences the recording density and the signal band, it is desirable to use larger values of Tmin and Tw.
However, in a recording medium in general and, above all, in a magneto-optical recording medium, the playback output is deteriorated significantly in the higher range such that the signal to noise ratio is diminished and hence it becomes impossible to improve the recording density and the signal band.
That is, the values of the minimum length between transitions Tmin and the window margin TW of the conventional block code known as (2,7;1,2;4) or (2,7 RLL) cannot be said to be sufficiently large values, such that it has been desired to increase these values further.
The present invention has been completed in view of the foregoing and aims at realizing recording/reproduction at a higher density.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In one aspect, the present invention provides a data encoding method for converting a (m i) bit based data word string into a (n i) bit based codeword string. The method includes a first step of receiving a (m i) bit based data word string, a second step of finding a constraint length specifying the length of a data word which is to be converted and which is a constituent of the (m i) bit based data word string, a third step of finding on which number of m bits, divided from the data word string as a unit, falls the leading end bit of the data word now to be converted, a fourth step of selecting one of a plurality of conversion tables constituting the variable length tables and at least satisfy the minimum run length d, in accordance with the results of decision in the third step, and a fifth step of generating a codeword corresponding to the data word, now to be converted, in accordance with the conversion table selected by the fourth step. In the encoding method of the present invention, a (m i) bit based data word string is received, and the const
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Nakagawa Toshiyuki
Shimpuku Yoshihide
Sony Corporation
Williams Howard L.
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