Abstract: A power transmitter is provided. The power transmitter may synchronize a sampling start time to a pulse-width modulation signal. The power transmitter may determine an average sampling rate for sampling a power carrier signal. The power transmitter may sample the power carrier signal to obtain sample values. The power transmitter may process the sampled values. The average sampling rate may be N times a data rate. The power transmitter may process the sampled power carrier signal using two digital match filters to produce two separate digital match filter outputs. The power transmitter may determine an amplitude of peaks for the two separate digital match filter outputs. The power transmitter may determine an interval between bits for the two separate digital match filter outputs. The power transmitter may determine whether a transmitted bit is a ‘0’ or ‘1’.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for receiving media data. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives a media presentation description (MPD) file in which an essential property descriptor includes an attribute indicating uniform resource locator (URL) information for a session-based description (SBD) file. The SBD file includes one or more groups of key-value pairs. The processing circuitry receives the SBD file based on the URL information. The processing circuitry sends a request to a server based on the SBD file.

Abstract: A signal processing system includes an adjustable filter, a signal difference calculating unit, a determining unit and a selecting unit. The adjustable filter is configured to receive a digital signal outputted from an analog-to-digital converter, and filter the digital signal to generate a filtered signal. The signal difference calculating unit is configured to calculate and output a signal difference value between the digital signal and the filtered signal. The determining unit is configured to compare the signal difference value with a predetermined threshold value, to generate a comparison result, and generate a selection signal and a bandwidth adjustment signal according to the comparison result. The selecting unit is configured to receive the digital signal and the filtered signal, and output one of the digital signal and the filtered signal according to the selection signal. The bandwidth of the adjustable filter can be adjusted according to the bandwidth adjustment signal.

Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to a light detecting apparatus used in an image acquiring apparatus. The image acquiring apparatus comprises a light receiving element that outputs a current according to a light amount of incident light. A current-voltage conversion circuit converts the current output from the light receiving element to a voltage signal. The current-voltage conversion circuit includes an operational amplifier and feedback resistance, feedback capacitance, and at least one diode that are connected in parallel between an inverting terminal and an output terminal of the operational amplifier. The diode is connected to have a forward direction from the inverting terminal toward the output terminal, and following conditional expressions are satisfied, G=Rf B=1/(2?Rf(Cf+Cd/n)) and Vpr>n×Vf>G×Imax.

Abstract: An optical disc recording device includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire bitmap data corresponding to image information, an address information acquisition unit configured to acquire address information set in wobbles of an optical disc by wobble synchronization from the optical disc, a recording position determining unit configured to determine a recording position on the optical disc for recording the bitmap data using the address information, and a mark recording unit configured to form a recording mark corresponding to the bitmap data on the information recording track of the optical disc by applying a light beam having recording power to the recording position on the optical disc.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a driving circuit board, and an electronic connector. The electronic connector connects the display panel and the driving circuit board. The driving circuit board is configured with a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, a fourth wire and a fifth wire arranged in order. The first wire, the second wire, the third wire and the fifth wire extend to the electronic connector and connect to the display panel. A first convergence point of the second wire and the third wire is located on the electronic connector, and a second convergence point of the fourth wire and the third wire is located on the driving circuit board. A detection method of the display device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A transceiver to communicate in a vehicle via a single twisted-pair Ethernet cable includes a transmitter to transmit signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable and a receiver to receive signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The transceiver includes an equalizer, a signal-to-noise ratio estimator, and a controller. The equalizer includes a notch filter and a slicer. The equalizer receives an input signal received by the transceiver via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The notch filter cancels electromagnetic interference from the input signal and to output a filtered signal. The slicer slices the filtered signal. The signal-to-noise ratio estimator estimates a signal-to-noise ratio based on an output of the slicer. The controller controls a rate of adapting the equalizer by controlling a rate of change of tap values of the notch filter based on the signal-to-noise ratio.

Abstract: A laser diode has a first gain section having a first length and a second gain section having a second length and aligned with the first gain section. The second gain section is aligned with and coupled to the first gain section along a light output direction. The second length is an integer multiple m of the first length, where m is greater than one.

Abstract: A data detecting device includes a multi-input adaptive equalizer, a binarizing unit, and an equalization error calculating unit. The multi-input adaptive equalizer includes a plurality of adaptive equalizers and outputs a reproduction information signal from a target track and a reproduction information signal from a close track close to the target track as equalization signals by calculating outputs of the adaptive equalizers, the reproduction information signals being input to the adaptive equalizers, respectively as reproduction information signals. The binarizing unit obtains binarized data by performing a binarization process on the equalization signals.

Abstract: A differential phase detector for an optical storage system is set forth. The differential phase detector includes a photodetector circuit arranged to detect light deviations associated with radial errors in the optical storage system. A non-linear equalizer is in communication with the photodetector circuit. The output of the non-linear equalizer is in communication with signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry uses the equalized signals to generate one or more radial error signals.

Abstract: Provided is a multi-functional optical disc drive that includes an interface that connects a front-end of the optical drive to a back-end, and also connects the front-end of the optical drive to an external device. The optical drive also includes a controller that selectively controls connection to the back-end or the external device.

Abstract: There are provided a resin composition that is suitable for an optical component which, while maintaining moldability, low birefringence, heat resistance, mass productivity, mechanical strength, and light transmittance, hardly exhibits a low light transmittance during the use of a blue-violet laser beam source and a deterioration in optical properties, and an optical component produced by molding the resin composition, and a optical pickup device using the optical component. The present invention provides a resin composition comprising 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of the specific hindered amine compound based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer having an alicyclic structure in at least a part of repeating structural unit, an optical component produced by molding the resin composition, and a optical pickup device using the optical component.

Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including: an adaptive filter; a PRML circuit for sequentially generating binarized data from a filtered reproduced waveform by sampling at sampling points in a period based on a clock signal and sequentially generating a partial response waveform which is to be the target waveform from the binarized data; a calculating unit for sequentially calculating first phase errors from a difference between the target waveform and the filtered reproduced waveform; a limiting unit for outputting second phase errors by excluding a specific phase error from the first phase errors; and a clock generating unit for generating the clock signal of a frequency corresponding to the second phase errors; wherein the specific phase error includes a phase error at a time when the partial response waveform reaches a specific level which excludes at least a level not less than a predetermined amplitude level.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information recording medium (1) having a plurality of pits (301) which are formed periodically, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a laser beam onto a pit string constituted by the plurality of pits (301) and changing the shape of the pits (301), the pit string is periodically wobbled, a length of a period (fp) of the pits (301) is a diffraction limit of the laser beam or less, and the period of the pit string is n times (n is a positive integer) of the period of the pits.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a controller including an interference cancelling module, a boosting module, and a decoding module. The interference cancelling module generates a first correction signal by cancelling an interference component from an adjacent track in a signal read from a target track of a disk medium. The boosting module generates a second correction signal by boosting a low frequency component of a signal corresponding to the first correction signal. The decoding module decodes a signal based on the second correction signal.

Abstract: A differential phase detector for an optical storage system is set forth. The differential phase detector includes a photodetector circuit arranged to detect light deviations associated with radial errors in the optical storage system. A non-linear equalizer is in communication with the photodetector circuit. The output of the non-linear equalizer is in communication with signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry uses the equalized signals to generate one or more radial error signals.

Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a qualification circuit that controls a read channel in a data storage device. The qualification circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit receives a first signal and generates a second signal based on a signal quality of the first signal. The second circuit receives the second signal, an envelope-derived error signal resulting from performing envelope derived error detection, and a decision-aided error signal resulting from performing decision aided error detection. The second circuit modifies the envelope-derived error signal and the decision aided error signal according to the second signal. The second circuit generates a control signal that controls the read channel according to the envelope-derived error signal and the decision-aided error signal having been modified.

Abstract: An optical pickup, photodetector, and optical drive adopting the optical pickup are provided. The optical pickup may include a light emitting system having a plurality of light sources corresponding to a plurality of mediums a light receiving system including a photodetector for converting light reflected from a medium into an electrical signal. The photodetector may include first and second light receiving sensors corresponding to the plurality of mediums, each of the first and second light receiving sensors comprising a plurality of regions, each region comprising a plurality of sectors. The plurality of regions of the first and second light receiving sensors may include shared sectors that are shared by the first and second light receiving sensors and exclusive sectors that are exclusively used in the first light receiving sensor or the second light receiving sensor.

Abstract: In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.

Abstract: A data recovery device including a filter, a tilt detection unit, a tilt cancellation unit and a data conversion unit is provided. The filter filters a radio-frequency data stream to generate an original data stream. The tilt detection unit synthesizes a tangential push-pull data stream by employing a first to a fourth data streams, and generates a tilt direction signal according to symmetry of a curve composed by the tangential push-pull data stream. The tilt cancellation unit detects a plurality of rising areas and falling areas of the original data stream, and reconstructs a plurality of data points corresponding to the rising areas or falling areas in the original data stream so as to generate a tilt repair data stream. The data conversion unit recovers the tilt repair data stream to a modulation signal.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes a first connector connected to a storage controller through a second connector of a motherboard. A control circuit receives voltage signals from the storage controller and converts the voltage signals to hard disk drive (HDD) power signals. A detecting circuit includes an AND gate and first to fourth resistors. A first input terminal of the AND gate is grounded through the first resistor and connected to the control circuit through the second resistor. A second input terminal of the AND gate is grounded through the third resistor and connected to the control circuit through the fourth resistor. An output terminal of the AND gate is connected to a measuring pin of the first connector. The AND gate receives the HDD power signals and outputs a power good (PWG) signal to the measuring pin of the first connector to be measured.

Abstract: Analog components whose characteristics greatly differ from one another are removed as much as possible from an optical disc drive. Provided are means 38, 39 for changing the sampling frequency of a pulsed read signal to a different frequency, means 40, 41 for changing the modulation clock frequency by the same ratio as the sampling frequency, and means for automatically setting the sampling frequency changing means and the modulation clock changing means based on the channel clock.

Abstract: An optical pickup having a one-plane, two-wavelength diffraction grating and a two-wavelength laser generator is provided in which crosstalk noise caused by leakage of a track error signal into a focus error signal is reduced to improve focus control performance. A main beam and sub-beams generated by the one-plane, two-wavelength diffraction grating and reflected from the surface of an optical disc are incident on corresponding light receiving elements among which the one to receive the main beam and those to receive the sub-beams are relatively shifted in a linear-speed direction of the optical disc. The distance of the shifting is determined based on the characteristic, relative to the relative positions of the light receiving elements, of the leakage of the tracking error signal into the focus error signal detected based on the main beam and sub-beams.

Abstract: A differential phase detector for an optical storage system is set forth. The differential phase detector includes a photodetector circuit arranged to detect light deviations associated with radial errors in the optical storage system. A non-linear equalizer is in communication with the photodetector circuit. The output of the non-linear equalizer is in communication with signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry uses the equalized signals to generate one or more radial error signals.

Abstract: An apparatus for converging voltages of an optical recording medium may include a first converging unit, a second converging unit, and/or a switching unit. The first converging unit may be configured to converge a voltage level of a first input signal to a reference voltage. The second converging unit may be configured to converge a voltage level of a second input signal to the reference voltage. The switching unit may be configured to determine whether to short-circuit output terminals of the first and second converging units during a period when the voltage levels of the first and second input signals are being converged to the reference voltage.

Abstract: A processing circuit for optical data is provided. The processing circuit includes a signal-processing module and a radio frequency (RF) signal-summing module. The signal-processing module averages and filters the data signals to obtain a low-frequency signal. The RF signal-summing module receives the data signals and the low-frequency signal, sums the data signals to obtain a summed data signal, and subtracts the low-frequency signal from the summed data signal to obtain a RF summing signal.

Abstract: Bandwidth is secured for a read signal transmission line by matching the characteristic impedance of the read signal transmission line with the output impedance of a photodetector of an optical pick up, while at the same time securing bandwidth for the photodetector. In an optical disc drive according to an embodiment of the present invention, each line forming a differential transmission line is divided into a plurality of lines of the same quantity, the quantity being two or more, at or near a connection point between a flexible line and the optical pick up.

Abstract: A method for detecting a typical defect area on a disc track includes the following steps. Firstly, a source signal is provided. Then, first and second signals are generated according to the source signal. The first and second signals are held at the peak level of the source signal and respectively decreased at first and second drop rates. Then, first and second threshold values are subtracted from the first and second signals to generate first and second slice signals, respectively. Afterwards, the source signal is compared with either the first slice signal or the second slice signal. When the first slice signal is larger than the source signal, a typical defect signal is changed from a first level to a second level. Whereas, the typical defect signal is changed from the second level to the first level when the second slice signal is smaller than the source signal.

Abstract: An optical disc identifying device includes an optical pickup head, a digital signal processor and a radio frequency amplifier. The optical pickup head has a plurality of laser diodes and a lens. During a start-up procedure, a non-blue laser diode of the optical pickup head is turned on to irradiate a loaded optical disc, thereby generating an electronic signal. The digital signal processor outputs a driving signal, thereby controlling a motor driver to move the lens in a focusing direction. The radio frequency amplifier receives the electronic signal during the movement of the lens, thereby generating a first signal. The digital signal processor includes a detecting unit for comparing the first signal with a slicing signal to generate a pulse signal, and determining whether the optical disc is a blue-ray disc or a non-blue-ray disc according to a pulse number of the pulse signal.

Abstract: A method for detecting a typical defect area on a disc track includes the following steps. Firstly, a source signal is provided. Then, first and second signals are generated according to the source signal. The first and second signals are held at the peak level of the source signal and respectively decreased at first and second drop rates. Then, first and second threshold values are subtracted from the first and second signals to generate first and second slice signals, respectively. Afterwards, the source signal is compared with either the first slice signal or the second slice signal. When the first slice signal is larger than the source signal, a typical defect signal is changed from a first level to a second level. Whereas, the typical defect signal is changed from the second level to the first level when the second slice signal is smaller than the source signal.

Abstract: When a user requests a reproduction operation via a remote control, a microprocessor determines whether or not data on a medium of the type selected in advance by a user using the remote control can be reproduced. When the microprocessor determines that data on a medium of the selected type can be reproduced, it selectively reproduces data on the medium of the selected type. When the microprocessor determines that data on a medium of the selected type cannot be reproduced, it sequentially determines whether data on media other than media of the selected type among multiple types of media can be reproduced or not, sets the type of a medium on which data can be reproduced, which is found as a result of the determination, as the type of media to be played, and reproduces data on the medium on which data can be reproduced.

Abstract: If a recording rate of data is close to a writing rate on a recording medium, recorded data is externally transmitted. The problems are solved by: an efficient separate use of data in a buffer and read out data; and the use of low resolution data. As illustrated, the 0th to third low resolution data to be transmitted are not read out from an optical disc because the data remain in a buffer at the time of transmission. Instead, the buffered data is transmitted. When the fourth low resolution data is to be transmitted, the fourth to sixth low resolution data are read out from the optical disc for transmission because the data have already been erased from the buffer. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a disc recorder.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention, to provide a recording method and a storage medium for BCA data with high reliability for a storage medium and a method for reproducing BCA data from the storage medium, and an information recording apparatus and an information reproducing apparatus. In a conventional optical disk, low reliability data is recorded in a data area of BCA. Thus, the thickness of a film material for use in a recording layer oriented to BCA data or close to the inner periphery of the storage medium in the vicinity thereof is formed in uniform thickness by using a substrate of the storage medium, the substrate being formed by being suctioned by means of adsorbing mechanisms formed in an arc shape so as to integrated two of the adsorbing mechanisms to be adjacent to each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.

Abstract: A current gain control system is described and comprises first and second gain blocks respectively associated with the first and second input channels, wherein first and second gain blocks transmit first and second gain signals in response to receiving first and second input signals; first and second converters adapted to be respectively coupled to the first and second gain blocks, the first and second converters operative for setting gains associated with the first and second input channel and for transmitting first and second converted signals in response to receiving the first and second gain signals; and first and second switches for selectively coupling the first and second converters to first and second channel drivers, respectively, wherein the first and second channel drivers transmit channel gain signals in response to receiving the first converted signal, and the channel gain signal allows control of the gain associated with the input channel.

Abstract: Bandwidth is secured for a read signal transmission line by matching the characteristic impedance of the read signal transmission line with the output impedance of a photodetector of an optical pick up, while at the same time securing bandwidth for the photodetector. In an optical disc drive according to an embodiment of the present invention, each line forming a differential transmission line is divided into a plurality of lines of the same quantity, the quantity being two or more, at or near a connection point between a flexible line and the optical pick up.

Abstract: A differential phase detector for an optical storage system is set forth. The differential phase detector includes a photodetector circuit arranged to detect light deviations associated with radial errors in the optical storage system. A non-linear equalizer is in communication with the photodetector circuit. The output of the non-linear equalizer is in communication with signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry uses the equalized signals to generate one or more radial error signals.

Abstract: A phase detector comprises a first slicing circuit that generates a first digital signal corresponding to a logic state of a first generally continuous signal. A second slicing circuit generates a second digital signal corresponding to a logical state of a second generally continuous signal. Phase detector logic compares triggering edges of the first and second digital signals to generate a phase difference signal having a pulse width corresponding to a phase difference between the first and second generally continuous signals. Aberration compensation circuitry is in communication with the phase detector logic to ensure generation of the phase difference signal in the presence of signal aberrations occurring at the triggering edges of the first and second digital signals.

Abstract: A method for generating an RFZC signal is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, an RF signal is received and the received RF signal is converted into an RF-ENVLP signal. Next, a DC offset of the RF signal is calibrated according to a variation of the RF-ENVLP signal so as to obtain a calibrated RF-ENVLP signal and obtain a gain according to the calibrated RF-ENVLP signal. Then, an RFZC signal is generated according to the calibrated RF-ENVLP signal and the gain.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting options on a media disc containing data. In one embodiment, an option identifier associated with an external surface of the media disc by a sensor unit coupled to a media player is detected, wherein the external surface is an outer surface of the media disc. A presentation option corresponding to the option identifier is identified to form an identified presentation option. Media content associated with the media disc is presented in a format corresponding to the presentation option.

Abstract: A method for reproducing a hologram includes: irradiating a recording disc with a first reference beam and a second reference beam, both having a parallel light flux, in different directions at a same incident angle to form a hologram having an unslanted grating pattern in which a grating vector is parallel to a light incident surface of the recording disc; irradiating the hologram with the first reference beam or the second reference beam to extract reproduced light; and detecting a position where an intensity of the reproduced light is maximum.

Abstract: A modulation control system for use with a high frequency modulator is described. This system comprises a latch for selectively receiving enable signals, wherein the latch transmits a latched signal in response to receiving at least two of the enable signals; a selection device coupled to the latch for receiving the latched signal, a voltage source, and a terminal for receiving at least one of the enable signals, wherein the selection device transmits a selected signal; and a logic device coupled to the selection device and a terminal for receiving a modulated enable signal, wherein the logic device transmits a synchronized signal for either enabling or disabling the high frequency modulator in response to receiving the selected signal associated with at least one of the enable signals.

Abstract: A system of sampling interface for an optical pick-up head comprises an optical pick-up head, a PMOS, a boost circuit, and a sample and hold circuit. The optical pick-up head outputs one of a reading voltage and a writing voltage. The PMOS gate receives the gate voltage and then the PMOS is turned on to pass the reading voltage to the sample and hold circuit. Moreover, the substrate of the PMOS receives a control voltage. The boost circuit is used to boost the gate voltage higher than the control voltage for turning off the PMOS and isolating the writing voltage.

Abstract: An optical disc device including a high frequency band processing circuit for removing low frequency components of signals outputted from plural photodetectors of a pickup, and generating various kinds of signals required for recording/playback of an optical disc by digital processing after performing AD conversion by a high-speed low-bit AD converter; and a low frequency band processing circuit for removing high frequency components of the signals outputted from the respective photodetectors of the pickup, and generating various kinds of signals required for recording/playback of an optical disc by digital processing after performing AD conversion by a low-speed high-bit time-division AD converter.

Abstract: A system and method of the present invention allow the playback of recorded data as the data is being recorded. Data is read from a source location, converted into an encoded format and stored in a database. At the same time, the stored data is read from the database, and played as the data is being recorded.

Abstract: A writing current circuit (42) supplies a controlled electrical current to a laser diode (34) for recording data swiftly onto a DVD (16). A plurality of current sources (62) in the writing current circuit (42) supply electrical current to the laser diode (34). Each current source (62) respectively receives a single output signal from a current control register (52) included in the writing current circuit (42) which activates or deactivates the current source (62) for supplying a particular quantity of electrical current to the laser diode (34). In each current source (62), electrical current flows to the laser diode (34) through a MOSFET output transistor (142) connected in series with the laser diode (34). Each current source's MOSFET output transistor (142) has a gate insulating layer which is thinner than the gate insulating layer conventionally used for a MOSFET output transistor (142) that is energized by the electrical potential the it applied to the writing current circuit (42).

Abstract: A two-dimensional demodulation method for reproducing a data page by means of decision feedback Viterbi detection processing from a recording medium on which a data page has been recorded as a set of a plurality of two-dimensional modulation pattern symbols each of which comprises a plurality of pixels, and which have been modulated two-dimensionally, the method comprising: a step of determining a value of pixel deviation in a reproduction image obtained by receiving light from the recording medium on an image sensor; a step of splitting an output signal of the image sensor which indicates the reproduction image of the light received from the recording medium into signal symbol data by division into blocks in accordance with the two-dimensional modulation pattern symbols; and a step of carrying out decision feedback Viterbi detection for each signal symbol data in accordance with the pixel deviation value.

Abstract: Provided is an optical disk apparatus which has high read retry ability and high compatibility by performing a proper verify for other apparatuses. The optical disk apparatus includes a playback system capable of arbitrarily changing playback performance, and means which detects and determines a factor causing a read error. Moreover, a read retry is performed by use of playback parameters corresponding to the factor causing the read error. Furthermore, a verify is performed with the playback performance of the playback system lowered.

Abstract: An optical disk reproducing apparatus to equalize and reproduce a signal optically read from an optical disk includes a controller to determine a number of regions to divide the optical disk into according to a reproduction frequency variation corresponding to a signal quality variation, and an equalizer to filter signals optically read from the divided regions with a cut-off frequency corresponding to the reproduction frequency variation.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus which irradiates a laser light onto a recording medium such as a DVD+R to record information records an adjustment RF signal in a PCA used for calibration of the laser light (OPC process). Thereby, on the recording medium having no recorded area of an RF signal in an entire circumference, such as the DVD+R, it becomes possible that the adjustment RF signal is recorded in the PCA to be read out and a mechanism adjustment and the like are executed. In addition, the information recording apparatus searches the inside of the PCA in order from the area having highly possibility that the adjustment RF signal is recorded. Thereby, the adjustment RF signal in the PCA can be rapidly detected.