Dynamic information storage or retrieval – With servo positioning of transducer assembly over track... – Optical servo system
Patent
1988-03-01
1991-07-23
Envall, Jr., Roy N.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
With servo positioning of transducer assembly over track...
Optical servo system
369 4436, 369 54, 369124, G11B 709
Patent
active
050349406
ABSTRACT:
As an optical spot (20) is scanned along a recording track (B) it interacts with optical markers (14, 16) disposed at regular intervals along adjacent sides of the track. Each interaction with an optical marker causes a peak value which is sampled and held (74, 76). A clock (46) derives a clock signal from the regular periodicity of the optical markers. A logic circuit (48) controls the sample and hold circuits such that the peak amplitude attributable to each optical marker is temporarily held. An adder (52) combines peak values attributable to optical markers on opposite sides of the track to produce a threshold signal (100) indicative of a sum or average thereof. A comparator (58) compares data (56) read from the track with the threshold signal. The comparator indicates a "1" level in response to the data signal exceeding a threshold a "0" level in response to the data signal being below the threshold level. A decoder (60) is clocked by the clock pulses to convert the 1 and 0 indications into a binary pulse train. In this manner, the threshold level which distinguishes between 1's and 0's varies or floats in accordance with the relative interaction of the optical beam and the optical markers on one or the other side of the track, i.e. the misalignment of the optical beam and the track. The threshold signal also varies in accordance with variations in the recording medium.
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Maeda Takeshi
Saito Atsushi
Envall Jr. Roy N.
Hitachi , Ltd.
Young W. R.
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