Patent · US Expired

Record reproduction method, apparatus, and circuit for using error correcting code

US7590929B2 · kind B2 · utility

11Cited by
4References
11Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJun 16, 2004
Grant dateSep 15, 2009
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 23, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/1515
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A record reproduction apparatus includes an encoding unit that encodes sector data to be written into a recording medium, by dividing the data into a predetermined number of blocks, and an iterative decoding unit that iteratively decodes the sector data read from the recording medium, by dividing the sector data into the predetermined number of blocks.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.