Patent ID: 9305593
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. A method for enhancing read performance in an array reader magnetic recording (ARMR) system, the method comprising: obtaining cross-track separation (CTS) information for a plurality of readers in a multireader head of the ARMR system, the CTS information defining a relationship between skew angle and CTS between respective combinations of subsets of the plurality of readers; determining, as a function of the CTS information, a subset of the plurality of readers which provides enhanced read performance among a total number of the plurality of readers for each of a plurality of skew angles; assigning a weight value to each of a plurality of read signals generated by a corresponding one of the plurality of readers for each of the plurality of skew angles, the weight value assigned to each of the read signals being indicative of a performance of the corresponding one of the readers relative to one another; and decoding information read from at least one target track of a magnetic storage medium being read as a function of the plurality of read signals and corresponding weight values.