Patent ID: 6603419
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A data reproduction device comprising:an A/D (Analog/Digital) converter quantizing a reproduction signal read from data recorded on a recording medium to produce quantized data based on a sampling clock; a reproduction signal determination unit determining rising and falling parts of said reproduction signal based on the quantized data, and outputting a gate signal corresponding to a result of determining the rising and falling parts; a leading-edge clock generation unit generating a leading-edge clock signal synchronous to a leading edge indicating a rising part of said reproduction signal; a trailing-edge clock generation unit generating a trailing-edge clock signal synchronous to a trailing edge indicating a falling part of said reproduction signal; a signal switch unit generating the sampling clock by selecting one of the leading-edge clock signal and the trailing-edge clock signal based on a value of the gate signal; and a signal supply unit supplying the sampling clock to said A/D converter, wherein said data reproduction device reproduces said data recorded on the recording medium by executing digital signal processing on said quantized data, wherein said signal switch unit includes a clock-speed multiplication unit multiplying a clock speed of one of the leading-edge clock signal and the trailing-edge clock signal by a fixed number, and synchronizes said gate signal to a clock whose speed is multiplied by said clock-speed multiplication unit as well as delays said gate signal for a fixed number of clock cycles.