摘要:
A signal quality measuring apparatus includes a binary signal generating unit to generate a binary signal from an input signal; a level information extracting unit to extract level information from a relationship between the input signal and the binary signal using at least two window lengths; and a quality calculating unit to calculate a quality of the input signal based on the level information.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for controlling operations of a controlled devices in a network including a control device and at least one controlled device are provided. The method includes: receiving information about a device usage history of a user for the at least one controlled device from the at least one controlled device; setting an optimum power consumption level corresponding to the controlled device from among a plurality of power consumption levels classified based on power consumption of the controlled device, based on the received information about the device usage history and information about time-based price; and controlling operations of the controlled device based on the set optimum power consumption level.
摘要:
A method of controlling operations of a participating controlled device in a network that includes a control device and the participating controlled device, the method including: receiving operation limiting information from the participating controlled device, the operation limiting information including combinations of allowed operations from among a plurality of operations that the participating controlled device is capable of performing, and power consumption levels that are relative amounts of power consumption of the combinations of allowed operations; setting a power consumption level corresponding to the participating controlled device, from among the power consumption levels, based on information regarding time-based price and the operation limiting information; and controlling the operations of the participating controlled device based on the set power consumption level.
摘要:
A Viterbi decoder and a Viterbi decoding method are provided for simplifying hardware and increasing an operation speed by using a decision feedback unit selecting one of at least two levels based on at least one survivor symbol fed back from a path memory unit. The Viterbi decoder includes a path memory unit (PMU) storing a survivor path, a decision feedback unit (DFU) selecting one of at least two levels based on at least one survivor symbol fed back from the PMU, a branch metric calculation unit (BMCU) calculating a branch metric by using the level selected by the DFU and the received symbol, and an add-compare-selection unit (ACSU) deciding the survivor path by using the branch metric calculated by the BMCU and a previously stored state metric and transmitting the decided survivor path to the PMU.
摘要:
A method of setting write strategy parameters includes recording predetermined data on a disk loaded in a disk drive using write strategy parameters stored in a memory; adaptively equalizing a reproduction signal obtained by reproducing the recorded predetermined data from the disk; Viterbi decoding the adaptively equalized signal using a reference level; generating an ideal reproduction signal using the predetermined data, the Viterbi decoded signal, and the reference level; detecting a difference between the adaptively equalized signal and the ideal reproduction signal; generating a selection signal using the predetermined data and the Viterbi decoded signal; processing the difference using a predetermined function to detect a write strategy feedback error; and updating the write strategy parameters stored in the memory at an address specified by the selection signal using the write strategy feedback error.
摘要:
An apparatus of generating the optimum reference level of a Viterbi decoder for an input signal includes: a first reference level detection unit detecting a first reference level using a delayed input signal from the Viterbi decoder and an output signal of the Viterbi decoder; a second reference level detection unit detecting a second reference level using input signals input after and before one clock cycle with respect to the delayed input signal and the output signal; and a control unit controlling one of the first reference level and the second reference level to be the reference level of the Viterbi decoder by using a result of comparison between a first square level error for the first reference level calculated in the first reference level detection unit and a second square level error for the second reference level calculated in the second reference level detection unit.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for reproducing data, by which the quality of signals input to a Viterbi decoder are improved by using a two-step equalizer, and the Viterbi decoder is operated in an optimum state so that the quality of reproduction signals is improved, the apparatus including: a first equalizing unit to compensate for frequency gain properties of an input signal according to predetermined levels, a second equalizing unit to reduce noise of the input signal processed by the first equalizing unit, and a Viterbi decoder to Viterbi-decode the input signal processed by the second equalizing unit to output a binary signal corresponding to the data.
摘要:
A method for to restore quantization data to binary data in a system for recording and/or reproducing the binary data includes selecting a selection region predicted to include an alignment mark from the quantization data, determining a location of the alignment mark within the selection region; and converting the quantization data to the binary data based on a comparison of the determined location of the alignment mark and an original location of the alignment mark.
摘要:
An image data obtaining method to obtain three-dimensional (3D) image data by using a plurality of pieces of two-dimensional (2D) image data obtained by capturing an image of a scene, the image data obtaining method including: setting a focal length of an image-capturing device so as to allow a reference component, from among a plurality of components of the scene, to be focused; obtaining the plurality of pieces of 2D image data by using different aperture values in the image-capturing device having the set focal length; and obtaining the 3D image data by using a relation between the plurality of pieces of 2D image data.
摘要:
A method of determining characteristics of a signal and an apparatus using the method. The apparatus for determining characteristics of a signal includes: a level detector receiving sample values of a radio frequency (RF) signal and binary data obtained by binarizing the RF signal, generating selection signals based on the binary data, classifying each of the sample values of the RF signal into one of a plurality of levels using the selection signals, and outputting average values of sample values of each level; and a signal characteristics determiner determining a characteristics value that indicates the characteristics of the RF signal using the average values of the sample values belonging to each level.