Coded data generation or conversion – Digital code to digital code converters – To or from minimum d.c. level codes
Patent
1992-09-17
1994-09-20
Williams, Howard L.
Coded data generation or conversion
Digital code to digital code converters
To or from minimum d.c. level codes
341 69, 360 40, H03M 700
Patent
active
053493494
ABSTRACT:
A modulator circuit is constructed such that an input signal is code converted, after an error code correction code is added thereto, into a channel bit pattern suitable for characteristics of a recording and reproducing system for recording and reproduction of digital data. Margin bits are inserted between adjacent channel bit patterns in order to limit the lengths of the channel bit patterns. One or ones of a plurality of predetermined margin bit patterns which are to be inhibited from being inserted between particular two channel bit patterns are determined in accordance with a predetermined algorithm referring to the second last, the last and the present channel bit patterns and the last margin bit pattern. The output of an integrating circuit for measuring a digital sum variation of a channel bit pattern signal and a channel bit pattern is provided with a saturation characteristic so that the output may not diverge. A margin bit generating circuit receives a signal regarding one or ones of the margin bit patterns which are to be inhibited from use, a controlling signal regarding a channel bit pattern placed prior to the margin bit pattern and a cumulative digital sum variation and another controlling signal regarding another cumulative digital sum variation of another channel bit pattern placed subsequent to the margin bit pattern, and the scale of the modulator circuit is reduced with the margin bit generating circuit.
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Sony Corporation
Williams Howard L.
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