# US 5,703,845 A · Reading device with cross-talk correction of two signal trains

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- Number: US 5,703,845 A
- Document ID: US5703845A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/559,319
- Filed: 1995-11-15
- Granted: 1997-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 1994-11-25
- Assignees: Thomson-CSF
- Inventors: Michel Audoin; Bertrand Moreau; Joseph Colineau
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5703845A

## CPC

- G11B 5/4992: {Circuits}
- G11B 15/12: Masking of heads; {circuits for} Selecting or switching of heads between operative and inoperative functions {or between different operative functions or for selection between operative heads}; Masking of beams, e.g. of light beams {(track selection by moving the magnetic head G11B5/54)}
- G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R)

## Abstract

A reading head has odd and even elemental areas for reading corresponding odd and even information segments that alternate to make up a frame of information on a record medium. The odd elemental areas provide a train of sequential odd information segments, each odd segment having cross-talk associated with the neighboring even segments which are on either side thereof when it is read from the record medium. Similarly, the even elemental areas provide a train of even information segments, each even segment having cross-talk associated with the odd segments which neighbored it on either side when it is read from the record medium. To correct for such cross-talk in both signal trains, both are fed to each of two cross-talk correcting circuits. These circuits derive needed adjacent segment information as to the cross-talk producing adjacent segments from one of the trains being fed thereto so as to process the segments of the other train being fed thereto for cross-talk correction.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device for reading a record medium having at least one frame of information segments arranged side by side in alternating odd and even positions, said device comprising:
a reading head for carrying out parallel reading of said frame of information segments with a first group of reading elements that are arranged to read only odd position information segments to produce an odd signal train and a second group of reading elements that are arranged to read only even position information segments to produce an even signal train;
a first cross-talk correction circuit including first input circuitry connected to receive each of the odd and even signal trains, said first input circuitry supplying first cross-talk correction circuit inputs with an odd target signal segment that corresponds to an odd target information segment of said frame along with two adjacent even signal segments from the even signal train that correspond to even information segments of said frame which are adjacent to the odd target information segment, said first cross-talk correction circuit providing a cross-talk corrected odd output signal stream of cross-talk corrected odd target signal segments;
a second cross-talk correction circuit including second input circuitry connected to receive each of the odd and even signal trains, said second input circuitry supplying second cross-talk correction circuit inputs with an even target signal segment that corresponds to an even target information segment of said frame along with two adjacent even signal segments from the odd signal train that correspond to odd information segments of said frame which are adjacent to the even target information segment, said second cross-talk correction circuit providing a cross-talk corrected even output signal stream of cross-talk corrected even target signal segments.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the cross-talk correction circuits further comprises:
an estimation operator with inputs for receiving each one of the cross-talk corrected output signal streams, said estimation operator computing residual cross-talk coefficients indicating a degree of residual cross-talk between a particular output target signal segment at one of the estimation operator inputs and each of two associated output adjacent signal segments at another of the estimation operator inputs; and
a cross-talk correction operator connected to the estimation operator to receive the residual cross-talk coefficients computed thereby and further connected to receive a target signal segment to be cross-talk corrected and associated adjacent signal segments, and providing the respective cross-talk corrected output streams of the respective cross-talk correction circuits.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A device as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of the estimation operators in each of the cross-talk correction circuits further comprises:
a first means that computes a first one of the residual cross-talk coefficients by multiplying the value of a said particular output target signal segment by +1 if one of said associated adjacent signal segments with a first orientation has a + value and by -1 if said one of said associated adjacent signal segments with said first orientation has a - value; and
a second means that computes a second one of the residual cross-talk coefficients by multiplying the value of a said particular output target signal segment by +1 if one of said associated adjacent signal segments with a second orientation has a + value and by -1 if said one of said associated adjacent signal segments with said second orientation has a - value.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein each of the estimation operators further includes filtering circuits for continuously integrating each of the first and second residual cross-talk coefficients.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

A device as claimed in claim 4, wherein plural frames of correspondingly aligned information segments are provided in a side-by-side manner on the record medium so that each of the aligned information segments form a series of segments extending in a direction perpendicular to that of the plural frames.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

A device according to claim 5, further comprising:
a subtraction circuit connected to receive both of the computed residual cross-talk coefficients from at least one of the estimation operators in at least one of a cross-talk correction circuits to determine a difference signal;
a positioning controller connected to receive said difference signal and responsive thereto to control a relative reading position of the reading head including each of the reading elements therein so that each of said reading elements reads an information segment having the same relative aligned position in each of said frames being read.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

A device according to claim 5, further comprising:
a subtraction circuit connected to receive both of the computed residual cross-talk coefficients from the estimation operators in both said first and second cross-talk correction circuits to determine a difference signal;
a multiplexer receiving both of the difference signals and alternatively supplying said difference signals to an integrator circuit; and
a positioning controller connected to receive an output from the integrator circuit and responsive thereto to control a relative reading position of the reading head including each of the reading elements therein so that each of said reading elements reads an information segment having the same relative aligned position in each of said frames being read.

### Claim 8 (depends on 4)

A device as claimed in claim 4, wherein each of the filtering circuits further comprises:
a weighting circuit for weighting each of the residual cross-talk coefficients by a further coefficient having a value less than 1 to form a weighted residual cross-talk coefficient;
a memory storing a residual cross-talk coefficient value determined from a previous cycle of operation;
an adder circuit receiving said weighted residual cross-talk coefficient and an output from said memory; and
wherein said adder output is applied to said memory to provide an update of the stored residual cross-talk coefficient value during each cycle of operation.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

A device as claimed in any one of claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, further comprising:
an optical means to transmit an optical beam to said record medium to interact with and be modulated by the frame of information segments carried thereby; and
said reading head reading elements being optical detecting elements that receive the modulated beam from the record medium so as to produce said odd and even signal trains.