Abstract: A method for discriminating different types of optical discs includes the steps of focusing a beam spot generated by a laser source on an optical disc, and rotating the optical disc; generating a radio frequency signal and a corresponding first signal of the radio frequency signal; comparing a peak-to-peak value of the corresponding first signal with a predetermined value; determining the optical disc as a high density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is smaller than the predetermined value; and, determining the optical disc as a low density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is greater than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A tracking filter includes a first buffer, an impedance transformer, an inductor, a first capacitive unit, a second capacitive unit and a second buffer. The first buffer has an input terminal for receiving an input signal. The impedance transformer is connected with an output terminal of the first buffer. The inductor is connected with a second terminal of the impedance transformer. The first capacitive unit is interconnected between the impedance transformer and a ground terminal. The second capacitive unit is interconnected between the inductor and the ground terminal. The second buffer is connected with the inductor for generating an output signal. When specified values of the impedance transformer, the first capacitive unit and the second capacitive unit are simultaneously increased, an operating frequency of the output signal is decreased, so that a gain value of the output signal to the input signal is maintained constant.

Abstract: A differential offset circuit adapted for an adaptive filter of a receiver front end is provided. The differential offset circuit includes four controllable current sources which are respectively coupled to two differential output terminals of the adaptive filter. The current magnitudes of the controllable current sources are capable of being adjusted according to design requirements so that the differential offset of the adaptive filter is mitigated to avoid that the adaptive filter outputs a distorted signal to affect the accuracy of signal transmission.

Abstract: A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of driving units each including a first OP amplifier, a second OP amplifier and a plurality of switches for switching outputs and feedback paths of the OP amplifiers. Because the switches are disposed in the feedback paths of the OP amplifiers of the driving unit, an output impedance of the driving unit can be effectively reduced and the stable time of the output voltage can be shortened.

Abstract: An LCD panel driving method and device with charge sharing is disclosed. The LCD panel includes a plurality of switches, a plurality of data lines, a signal driving circuit for generating a plurality of image signals, a charge sharing common voltage driving circuit and a common capacitor having one end connected to the charge sharing common voltage driving circuit through a common voltage node. The method turns the switches on to thereby form the charge sharing common voltage driving circuit and the signal driving circuit as a short circuit, such that charges stored in the common capacitor flow into the data lines to drive the common voltage node to enter in an inverse phase state in order to sequentially turn the switches on and then off to accordingly sample the respective data lines.

Abstract: A method of recognizing a track pitch of an optical disk, adapted for an optical disk player, is provided. The method includes the steps of driving an optical pickup head to a predetermined position, so that the optical pickup head and the spindle motor are a predetermined distance apart, reading a data sector address, and recognizing the magnitude of the track pitch of the optical disk according to the value of the data sector address.

Abstract: In a cyclic video recording method for an optical storage medium, the optical storage medium is divided into a set of forward seeking sub-zones and a set of backward seeking sub-zones. Initial values of a current sub-zone and a flag are set. The flag indicates a direction to seek the sub-zones and the initial value of the flag is determined by the initial value of the current sub-zone. When the flag indicates a forward direction, it determines whether the current sub-zone is the last sub-zone. When the current sub-zone is not the last sub-zone, a next sub-zone in the forward direction is set to become the current sub-zone and the write operation is performed. When the current sub-zone is the last sub-zone, the flag is set to a backward direction, the last sub-zone is set to become the current sub-zone and the write operation is performed.

Abstract: A focusing servo device, an optical disc recording/reproducing device and a focus-searching method are provided for making a focus of an energy beam emitted by a pick-up unit to fall in an accessible range of a data layer of a disc. The method comprises the following steps: recording the deviation of the focal point during each predetermined period when the focal point of the energy beam is fallen in the accessible range such that the optical disc recording/reproducing device is operated in a feedback control mode; determining a focus-searching range based on the recorded deviation of the focal point; and moving the focal point in the focus-searching range to make the focal point to fall in the accessible range when the focal point of the energy beam is fallen out of the accessible range such that the optical disc recording/reproducing device is operated in a focus-searching mode.

Abstract: A circuit substrate includes a first pair of ground lines, a second pair of ground lines, a plurality of first connection lines, a plurality of second connection lines and a plurality of conductive pillars. The first and second pairs of ground lines are located on first and second surfaces of the substrate, respecteively. The pillars are located in the substrate and vertically conducted between the first pair of ground lines and the second connection lines and between the second pair of ground lines and the first connection lines, and the first and second pairs of ground lines are conducted, so that a 3-D grounding circuit loop is formed. Moreover, a first pair of signal lines is disposed between the first connection lines for grounding and a second pair of signal lines is disposed between the second connection lines for grounding to get a better signal integrity.

Abstract: A method for accessing image data and a method for accessing YUV420 image data are disclosed. The method for accessing image data uses two different approaches to a buffer for accessing the JPEG image data, so that the method can achieve instant JPEG image data compression with only one buffer.

Abstract: A real-time channel estimation system, which receives a wireless transmission signal through a wireless channel and estimates channel parameters of the wireless channel in real-time. The system includes a channel estimator to receive the wireless transmission signal and output the channel parameters; first and second filters to filter the channel parameters for producing a first and a second sets of filtered channel parameters; first and second calculators to compute according to the first and the second sets of filtered channel parameters and the wireless transmission signal for producing a first and a second probabilities; a comparator to compare the first and the second probabilities for producing an indicative signal; and a multiplexer to receive the indicative signal for accordingly selecting the first or second set of filtered channel parameters as an output.

Abstract: A system for decoding and de-interlacing CVBS signal includes a 2D luminance and chrominance separator, a chrominance to color difference converter, a synchronization and scaling device, a storage and a 3D luminance and chrominance separation, de-noise and de-interlacing device. The 2D luminance and chrominance separator generates 2D luminance and chrominance signals based on sampled CVBS signal. The chrominance to color difference converter converts the 2D chrominance signal into 2D color difference signal. The synchronization and scaling device synchronizes the sampled CVBS signal, 2D luminance signal, and 2D color difference signal for generating synchronized CVBS signal, synchronized 2D luminance signal, and synchronized 2D color difference signal. The storage buffers the synchronized CVBS signal, synchronized 2D luminance signal, and synchronized 2D color difference signal.

Abstract: A memory utilization method of low density parity check code (LDPC), a LDPC decoding method and a decoding apparatus thereof are provided, applicable for a decoding process in a wireless receiver. The memory utilization method of LDPC includes the following steps. First, variable node processes (VNPs) or check node processes (CNPs) required to be executed at a same time stage are determined. Next, the VNPs or the CNPs executed at the same time stage are allocated in different VNP groups or different CNP groups. Further, a folding factor of memory units is determined according to a desired data throughput. Then, according to the folding factor and the allocated VNP groups or the allocated CNP groups, the memory units are connected serially as a plurality of parallel processing memory modules.

Abstract: A method for detecting a defect of an optical disc includes steps of: confirming an optical pickup head being accessing data in a track on state; determining a defective region of the optical disc according to a peak-to-peak value of a wobble signal; and, maintaining the optical pickup head being unchanged when the defective region is detected.

Abstract: A dynamic element matching sigma-delta modulator includes an adder to receive an analog input signal and a feedback signal to generate an error signal; a loop filter to generate a filtered signal according to the error signal; a quantizer to change the filtered signal into a quantized output signal; a digital/analog converter (DAC) having a plurality of digital/analog elements to generate the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal; and a dynamic element matching device to receive the quantized output signal to accordingly set an element of the DAC to be a previous non-participant element and the other elements to be previous participant elements, and reselects participant elements according to the quantized output signal and the previous participant elements for further generating the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal.

Abstract: A serial peripheral interface memory module using address cache comprises a flash memory array for storing data, a serial/parallel convertor for receiving serial signals and generating a control command, an address and data, an address register, an address accumulator for accumulating the address in the address register and storing the accumulated address back to the address register, and a flash memory controller for controlling the access to the flash memory array. When the control command is a standard command, the serial/parallel controller first stores the address following the control command into the address register and then the flash memory controller accesses data according to the address in the address register. When the control command is a specific command, the flash memory controller directly accesses data according to the address in the address register without waiting for an address update.

Abstract: A color signal interpolation system and method, which performs a green sample interpolation on a signal with a cross color sample. The method includes: (A) providing neighboring color samples on an interpolation sample; (B) computing a luminance respectively of the interpolation sample and the neighboring color samples; (C) computing an edge value of the interpolation sample based on the luminance computed; (D) determining if the edge value is smaller than a predetermined threshold; (E) computing an average of the neighboring color samples that have the same color with the interpolation sample when the edge value is smaller than the predetermined threshold, and using the average as a first color output of the interpolation sample.

Abstract: A rotation speed control apparatus for a disk recorder is provided, which includes a buffer monitor and a rotation speed decision maker. According to the amount of data in the buffer, the buffer monitor outputs a buffer data. According to the buffer data, the rotation speed decision maker outputs a disk-rotation-speed signal. According to the disk-rotation-speed signal, the disk recording speed of an optical storage system is adjusted by the rotation speed control apparatus to avoid disk recording interruption due to lack of buffer data.

Abstract: A document with indexes is constructed by printing plural pixels and divided into plural areas. Each of the areas has plural indexes respectively consisting of a group of indexing dots to represent an area code corresponding to the area. The indexes and the pixels have different optical reflection features.

Abstract: A Joint Bi-level Image Group (JBIG) coding and decoding system, which provides a series of fully serial and parallel computational combinations in arithmetic coding and decoding to thereby reduce the complexity of JBIG arithmetic encoder and decoder and increase the processing speed. The JBIG coding system receives pixels and contexts of an image datastream and performs an adaptive arithmetic coding on the pixels in accordance with a pre-stored table and a probability prediction table for further performing a non-distortion compression on the image datastream. The JBIG decoding system receives data and contexts of a compressed datastream and performs an adaptive arithmetic decoding on the data of the compressed datastream in accordance with the pre-stored table and the probability prediction table to thereby obtain an image datastream.