G11B 20/10379
Based on soft decisions
Official title: {based on soft decisions, e.g. confidence values, probability estimates, likelihoods values or path metrics of a statistical decoding algorithm}
G11B20/10379 (Based on soft decisions) appears on 37 US grants and 28 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method4 Jun 2024US 12,002,488 B2Rakuten Group, Inc.
- Identifying a defect in a data-storage medium5 Dec 2017US 9,837,119 B2STMicroelectronics S.r. l.
- Signal quality evaluation apparatus, signal quality evaluation method, and reproducing device4 Oct 2016US 9,461,672 B2Sony Corporation
- Identifying a defect in a data-storage medium26 Apr 2016US 9,324,370 B2STMicroelectronics S.r. l.
- Combined soft detection/soft decoding in tape drive storage channels19 Apr 2016US 9,318,148 B2Globalfoundries Inc.
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method30 Jun 2022US 2022/0207865 A1Rakuten Group, Inc.
- Identifying a defect in a data-storage medium17 Mar 2016US 2016/0077941 A1STMicroelectronics S.r. l.
- Signal quality evaluation apparatus, signal quality evaluation method, and reproducing device21 May 2015US 2015/0143208 A1Sony Corporation
- Data decoding control apparatus, data storage apparatus and data decoding method27 Nov 2014US 2014/0347761 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Combined soft detection/soft decoding in tape drive storage channels27 Nov 2014US 2014/0347762 A1International Business Machines Corporation
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