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20100177428 | Method and Apparatus for Determining a Location of a Defect on a Storage Medium - A defect is detected on a storage medium of a disk drive. A location of the defect is determined, within a smallest addressable unit of data stored on the storage medium. An indication of the location is stored in a memory. A location of a sensor of the disk drive relative to the data stored on the storage medium is monitored. A response of at least one of a defect detector of the disk drive, a read channel controller of the disk drive, and a servo controller of the disk drive is changed based on the location of the sensor relative to the data stored on the storage medium and the stored indication of the location of the defect. | 07-15-2010 |
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20120320723 | Method and Apparatus for Offset and Gain Correction - Aspects of the disclosure provide a signal processing circuit that includes a signal processing circuit includes a processing path configured to process an electrical signal to produce input data samples, and a feed-forward correction module configured to delay the input data samples to produce delayed data samples, to apply the delayed data samples to a timing loop during periods when a profile variation of the data samples is not detected, and to apply the input data sample to the timing loop during periods when a profile variation of the data samples is detected. | 12-20-2012 |
20130021888 | Blu-Ray Optical Pick-Up Devices And Methods - New and useful methods and systems for reading optical discs, such as multi-layer Blu-ray discs are disclosed. For example, in an embodiment a device for reading two-layered optical discs includes a laser diode capable of emitting light, a set of optics including a fixed collimator, the set of optics providing a numerical aperture (NA) of substantially less than 0.85, and a detector for detecting laser light focused on a two-layer optical disc to produce a stream of detected bits. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021890 | COLLIMATOR FOR OPTICAL PICK-UP UNITS - Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus. The apparatus includes a collimator configured to have a plurality of positions, and a controller configured to control the collimator to move to a predetermined position associated with a data layer of an optical storage medium to collimate a light beam. The collimated light beam is then focused onto the data layer of the optical storage medium. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022156 | VITERBI DEVICE AND METHOD USING A POSTERIORI INFORMATION - New and useful methods and systems for providing improved performance of a Viterbi device are disclosed. For example, in an embodiment a Viterbi device includes metric circuitry configured to determine branch metrics using at least one of a variance signal based on both received data and detected data of the Viterbi device and a priori probabilities of available state transitions within a trellis of the Viterbi device. | 01-24-2013 |
20130047055 | ERROR CORRECTION CODE TECHNIQUES FOR MATRICES WITH INTERLEAVED CODEWORDS - A decoding system includes a decoder, a first module and a second module. The decoder is configured to receive data read from an optical storage medium and perform a first decoding iteration and a second decoding iteration to decode the data. The first decoding iteration includes generating a resultant matrix. The first module is configured to, based on first decoding statuses of multiple bytes in the resultant matrix, determine second decoding statuses of bytes proximate to failed bytes of a feedback matrix. The feedback matrix is generated based on the resultant matrix. The first module is configured to mark selected ones of the failed bytes as erasures based on the second decoding statuses. The second module is configured to correct one or more of the bytes marked as erasures during the second decoding iteration. | 02-21-2013 |
20130064060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A FEATURE ON A STORAGE MEDIUM - A change in a property of a signal is detected, the signal having been sensed from a storage medium by a disk drive. A count is determined, the count corresponding to a first location on the storage medium at which the change in the property of the signal sensed from the storage medium is detected. The count is used to predict a second location on the storage medium corresponding to the change in the property of the signal sensed from the storage medium. Relative to the first location on the storage medium, the second location on the storage medium is closer to an actual location of a feature on the storage medium that causes the change in the property of the signal sensed from the storage medium. | 03-14-2013 |
20130173995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING A DISC - Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit that includes a decoder, an error checking module, and a controller. The decoder is configured to receive codewords, and decode the codewords based on an error correcting code. The error checking module is configured to error-check sectors using an error detecting code in the sectors. Each sector is formed of a plurality of decoded codewords. The controller is configured to store in a memory, when the error checking fails for at least one sector, the decoded codewords and corresponding flags indicative of pass or fail of the decoding of the codewords. | 07-04-2013 |
20140086031 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF A FEATURE ON A STORAGE MEDIUM - A counter is configured to generate counts associated with different locations, within a smallest addressable unit of data, on a storage medium of a disk drive. A detector is configured to detect a change in a property of a signal sensed from the storage medium. A controller is configured to: determine a count of the counter corresponding to a location, within a smallest addressable data unit on the storage medium, at which the change in the property of the signal sensed from the storage medium is detected, and change a response of at least one of the detector, a read channel controller of the disk drive, or a servo controller of the disk drive based on (i) the count and (ii) the counter. | 03-27-2014 |
20140189467 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING AND CORRECTING A FIRST BYTE BASED ON A STATUS OF A SECOND BYTE ADJACENT TO THE FIRST BYTE AND IN RESPONSE TO A FAILURE TO DECODE THE FIRST BYTE - A decoder including a decode module, a matrix module, and a marking module. The decode module receives data and performs a first decoding iteration to decode the data. The first decoding iteration includes generating a first matrix having a first byte. The matrix module generates a second matrix based on the first matrix. The second matrix includes the first and second bytes. The second byte is adjacent and sequentially prior or subsequent to the first byte. The marking module: determines whether the first byte has been correctly decoded; based on determining whether the first byte has been correctly decoded, determines a status of the second byte; and based on the status of the second byte, marks the first byte as an erasure. The decode module, based on the second byte being marked as an erasure, corrects the second byte during the second decoding iteration. | 07-03-2014 |
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20140379923 | COMPONENTIZED PROVISIONING - A provisioning system can separately and independently provision different components for different purposes on a computing platform, and enforce component-specific purposes associated with the use of the individual provisioned components during operation of the platform. Some versions of the provisioning subsystem may operate on a virtualized mobile computing device and networked devices under control of the computing device. In some embodiments, the provisioning subsystem can enforce a desired “purpose” of a provisioned component while simultaneously denying a corresponding “anti-purpose.” | 12-25-2014 |
20140380405 | FLEXIBLE POLICY ARBITRATION CONTROL SUITE - A policy arbitration system manages the fundamental communications and isolation between executable components and shared system resources of a computing device, and controls the use of the shared resources by the executable components. Some versions of the policy arbitration system operate on a virtualized mobile computing device to dynamically compile and implement policy rules that are issued periodically by multiple different independent execution environments that are running on the computing device. Semi-dynamic policy changes allow for context enabled policy changes that enforce the desired system and component “purpose” while simultaneously denying the “anti-purpose”. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380406 | POLYMORPHIC VIRTUAL APPLIANCE RULE SET - A domain manager system as disclosed herein can control the selective activation of multiple independently-operable execution environments or domains on a computing device in accordance with one or more policies. In some embodiments, activation of a domain may at least temporarily transform a general purpose computing device into a specific purpose computing device or “appliance” by disabling use of one or more shared system resources by other domains. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380425 | POLYMORPHIC COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES - Polymorphic computing architectures can support and control separate, independently executable domains and other components on a computing platform. In some embodiments, the architectures may control the different domains and/or components according to different purposes. In some embodiments, the architectures can control domains and/or components to enforce a desired “purpose” of a domain/component while simultaneously denying a corresponding “anti-purpose.” | 12-25-2014 |