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Disc driving device and wobble information detection method

CA 2431014 C · Owner: Panasonic Corporation · Inventors: Stek, Aalbert; Schep, Cornelis Marinus; Heemskerk, Jacobus Petrus Josephus

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In an optical disc, a wobble signal is to be detected by a simple configuration. In the optical disc, the address information modulated onto a , sinusoidal carrier signal by adding even harmonics signals to said sinusoidal carrier signal and by changing the polarity of said harmonics signals is , formed into the wobble signal. In detecting the wobble signal from the optical disc to demodulate the address information in a method for detecting the , wobble signal an even harmonics signal and data clocks are generated and the , even harmonics signal so generated are multiplied with the reproduced wobble signal. The resulting product signal is integrated every data clock. The sign of the …

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  • Filed October 10, 2002 and granted December 4, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 10, 2022.
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FiledOctober 10, 2002
GrantedDecember 4, 2012
Term endedOctober 10, 2022
Patent numberCA 2431014 C
Classification (IPC)G11B7/00 +2 more

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