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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exactly focus on each of the recording layers of an optical disk having a plurality of the recording layers. SOLUTION: After starting the optical disk at a step S1, a focus offset position optimal to the prescribed recording layer of the optical disk is searched at a step S2. This search is performed by varying an offset value stepwise to retrieve the offset value maximizing the amplitude of a tracking error signal. When the optimal focus offset position is searched, the value is stored at a step S3. Similar processing is performed at the other recording layers. When a command of reproduction to a prescribed recording layer is inputted at a step S8, focus jump to the recording layer is performed at a step S9. Then, an optimal focus offset value searched and stored in advance is read and added to a focus error signal at a step S10. This method can be applied to an optical disk drive. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform satisfactory recording or reproducing operation by easily and speedly optimizing a focus error detecting state. SOLUTION: By a control part 180, a focus offset signal H is changed and added in an adjustment area, and simultaneously the output of a jitter detecting part 130 is monitored to detect the focus offset amount of a best jitter. Then, the offsets generated in focus error signals F in respective land and groove obtained in the adjustment area are stored in a memory. At the recording/ reproducing operation, when moved to the land or groove area, such an operation is carried out that the offset amounts optimum for each previously stored in the memory are added to the focus error signals F as a signal H. Thus, the recording/reproducing operation is performed in the state the optimum focus state is maintained for each. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the signal (Miller signal) to which a traverse signal is accurately binarized promptly after the reproduction of the scratched part on an optical disk when such a part is reproduced. SOLUTION: In a traverse signal discriminating part 4, the traverse signal which is a low frequency part of the reproduced signal, is separated from the reproduced signal and supplied to a hold circuit 5B. The traverse signal is subjected to bottom hold in the hold circuit 5B and a bottom hold signal is outputted. On the other hand, a defect detecting circuit 11 detects whether or not the defect exists in the reproduced signal, and when the defect is detected, a defect signal of H-level is supplied to a hold voltage reset circuit 12. During the H-level defect signal is received by the hold voltage reset circuit 12, a capacitor incorporated in the hold circuit 5B is discharged, thereby the holding operation is stopped.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage control device capable of controlling a read request according to a state of error correction in a memory available for both of read of standard precision and read of high precision.SOLUTION: A standard read request section requests a standard precision read to a read address on a memory. Responding to the read request of standard precision, the error correction part performs an error correction based on data returned from the memory and an error correction code. When an error which cannot be corrected by the error correction, a high precision read request section makes a request again to read the read address at a precision higher than the standard precision.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress an increase in the number of defective cells in a nonvolatile memory.SOLUTION: A second rewrite processing unit executes first rewrite processing in which a memory cell where one of two values is written is rewritten with the other value. A second rewrite processing unit executes second rewrite processing in which a memory cell where the other of the two values is written is rewritten with the one value. If an error occurs during the first rewrite processing, a first retry control unit causes the second rewrite processing to be executed in the memory cell where the first rewrite processing has been executed, and then causes the first rewrite processing to be executed again.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform error detection and correction processing by the use of error correcting codes suited to an access size without straining the storage capacity of a nonvolatile memory.SOLUTION: A first error detection unit is configured to execute error detection in accordance with a first data unit read from a memory and a first error detection code corresponding to the first data unit. A second error detection unit is configured, if a second error detection code corresponding to a second data unit smaller than the first data unit is held in an error detection code hold unit different from the memory, to execute error detection in accordance with the second data unit read from the memory and the second error detection code held in the error detection code hold unit.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonvolatile random access memory and a nonvolatile memory system which, while being randomly accessible, can retain data even after power is turned off and which make it possible to add an ECC (Error Correcting Code) matching an application. SOLUTION: A NVRAM (nonvolatile random access memory) 21 includes: a nonvolatile storage area 211 that is randomly accessible and includes two areas, i.e., a data area and an ECC (error-correcting-code) area to store an error correcting (ECC) code; and a nonvolatile storage area control unit 212 that provides a nonvolatile storage area setting function for setting a data size used when the data area is accessed, as the data area unit size. The nonvolatile storage area control unit 212 includes functions to manage the data area and the ECC area based on the set data area unit size and to assign the ECC area with the ECC area unit size set by the nonvolatile storage area control unit to each data area unit size. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a card type peripheral device with its size reduction achieved, having a switch for disabling recording/erasure to a card, and allowing efficient handling of the card in host equipment by conveying information thereabout to the outside by a card terminal. SOLUTION: This card type peripheral device has: an electronic component including a memory stored inside a case body; a terminal part 102 formed with connection terminals connectable with the connection target equipment; and the switch 110 for forbidding the recording to the memory. The card type peripheral device includes a signal terminal 1022 capable of transmitting a state of the switch 110 to the connection target equipment side. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly vary speeds of data write processing and data read processing. SOLUTION: On receipt of a grade designation signal for designating a grade from a set unit 11, a controller 3 of a semiconductor memory unit 1 executes logic block assignment processing so that the data write processing and the data read processing can be executed in parallel to a flash memory chip CP of which the number corresponds to a grade designated by the received grade designation signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably perform data communication without being affected by noise, in a memory card to which a module for data communication is newly added. SOLUTION: The memory card 100 includes a holding body 20 like a thin plate, a memory 24 buried in the holding body 20, a plurality of first contacts 2 to 10 connected to the memory 24, a data communication part 26 buried in the holding body 20, and two second contacts 11 and 12 connected to the data communication part 26. The two second contacts 11 and 12 are arranged at the end of a column R1 where only the plurality of first contacts 2 to 10 are arrayed. One first contact 10 placed at the end of the column R1 is a ground terminal. That is, the first contact 10 adjacent to the second contact 11 out of the plurality of first contacts 2 to 10 is the ground terminal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI