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Hi everyone! I'm 22, 5'4", and about 120 llbs. I've had some "final straw" moments this summer that have ended in tears and am now considering a BR more than ever. The number one thing keeping me from doing it is the possibility of nipple sensation loss. The second thing is I have seen a lot of BR surgeries where the breasts end up having "boxy" shapes. Could you guys give me any insight on your thoughts or experiences with either of these things? And yes..I realize my right breast is much larger than my left :(
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Hi Creeper. Go away. NOW.
lol agreed! Thank you kgait..I've been getting creeper private messages too that say stuff along the same lines which is why I haven't posted on here in awhile. :\ Why are people so weird and decide to spend their Saturdays looking up people who could be getting breast reductions and telling them not to..
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Had a consultation this past Friday..Dr. was very much of a straight shooter you could say. I was trying to tell her that I wanted to be a full C small D and she kind of flipped saying that insurance wouldn't cover it if I wasn't going to get that much taken off..blahty blah. That could be because the way she measured me, she told me I was a 34DD/34E (uhh..I'd love to have shown her what that size bra looked like on me..aka spilling out everywhere) She estimated 400-500 off from my left and 500-600 from my right to send to insurance. What I liked about her was I'm not going to have to do anything for insurance..I don't have to provide record from my primary care doc or anything like that, she submits everything and will let me know in 4-6 weeks if it is approved/declined. Now I'm just worried that she would want to make them too small because she kept saying that your boobs are dynamic and they will grow..I don't want to bank on that! Because what if they don't? I'm not planning on gaining a lot of weight anytime soon (who ever is?) soo now I'm just feeling torn if I should have her as my surgeon. I think I'm going to call on Monday and ask to see more pictures of people who had a reduction around my size as well as speak to a patient around my size that has had one. Thank you for all the support everyone! All you ladies are awesome. And for the creeps who keep privately messaging me saying don't do it..please go away. While I'm flattered (they do look good naked) they look ginormously not good in clothes..and I am in clothes the majority of my life..so please find a hobby.. other than trolling plastic surgery websites and creeping on women there :)
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ASmith...get a second opinion. My first consultation the surgeon said I would be a b-cup. That floored me. I haven't been a b-cup since 7th grade! I went for a second opinion and the doctor asked me where I wanted to be, rather than where he would put me. There is a sliding scale based on your body (Schnur scale) but I don't know if all insurance companies use it. I'm probably going to end up a small D, full C when it all relaxes. :) And, it's where I wanted to be. I didn't want to be tiny, I just wanted to be smaller.
I did not want to creep you and I am sorry. My wife and I have had plastic surgery. She was an H and was reduced to a D. It was a mistake from the scarring and loss of nip feeling. Not to mention she is pregnant and will now not only have the scarring but ruin the lift/reduction. I myself had lipo. The situation is if you do receive surgery ensure it is from a professional that has done this for a while. This allows them to bring experience with the ability to identify a problem before it happens. No worries I will not comment again, however, you wanted an opinion and my wife and I came with the experience of having the plastic surgery.
All evidence points to no real life, oh well. They will be blocked like all the others. I think we all get them, we just have to report them –– which I did (again). They pose as women and men but they are all obvious creepers.
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To compensate for transmission errors of a non-ideal system for transmitting digital signals, first signal deviations are determined and stored, and then there is a direct processing of the input signals into output signals by combining the input signals with the stored signal deviations. The invention includes both method and apparatus and provides a substantial reduction in equipment costs.
1. A method for reproducing a digital signal, wherein said digital signal comprises a plurality of individual binary pulses arranged in groups of one or more such pulses whereby said pulses define run lengths, comprising steps of:
(1) determining the deviation between each of said run lengths of the reproduced signal and the corresponding run length of said digital signal prior to reproduction of the digital signal,
(2) storing said deviations,
(3) producing a signal derived from said reproduced signal, and
(4) processing said derived signal by combining run lengths of said derived signal with corresponding previously stored deviations.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step (3) is performed by detecting the rising and falling edges of each of said run lengths.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said step (3) is performed by integration.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step (3) is performed by differentiation.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein with the particular single pulse of the reproduced binary signal are associated run length deviations, which correspond to the run length of one or more preceding and/or succeeding single pulses.
6. The method of claim 1, determining the run length of the reproduced signal using a test frequency, using the result of this last mentioned determination to quantify said run length, and relating the magnitude of said test frequency to the speed of the recording support used in reproducing said digital signal.
7. The method of claim 1, and decoding the reproduced binary signal using a frequency whose magnitude is dependent upon the speed of the recording support used in reproducing said digital signal.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said decoding step takes place by direct conversion of all bit cells of a run length jointly into a sequence of identical bit signals.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining step including a step of measuring said run length deviations.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining step including a step of calculating said run lengths deviations.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing step including the using, comprising at least one memory for storing said deviations, and registers are associated with said memory, whose number corresponds to the number of those single pulses whose deviations are to be taken into consideration during the correction of said run lengths and a unit in which the reproduced signal can be corrected in the corresponding deviation or deviations.
12. A method according to claim including a step of connecting the upstream of said registers for preceding single pulses and connecting the downstream of the registers for following single pulses.
13. A method according to claim 11, including a step of connecting a decoding unit downstream of said unit for correcting the run lengths of the reproduced binary signals.
14. Apparatus for reproducing a digital signal, wherein said digital signal comprises a plurality of individual binary pulses arranged in groups of one or more such pulses whereby said pulses define run lengths, comprising:
means for determining the deviation between each of said run lengths of the reproduced signal and the corresponding run length of said digital signal prior to reproduction of the digital signal;
means for storing said deviations;
means for producing a signal associated with each run length; and
means for processing said reproduced run lengths of said digital signal by combining said reproduced run lengths with corresponding previously stored deviations.
15. The apparatus of claim 14, said item (3), means for producing comprising means for detecting the rising and falling edges of each of said run lengths.
16. The apparatus of claim 14, said item (3), means for producing comprising integration means.
17. The apparatus of claim 14, said item (3), means for producing comprising differentiation means.
18. A method for reproducing a digital signal, wherein said digital signal is a binary signal comprising a plurality of single pulses defining run lengths, comprising the steps of:
determining deviations between each run length of reproduced signals and the corresponding run length of such digital signals prior to reproduction;
storing said deviations prior to the reproduction of digital signals to be reproduced; and
selecting stored deviations depending on the actual run lengths of a signal to be reproduced and combining the deviations with said actual run lengths of said signal to be reproduced, for obtaining a reproduced signal with corrected run lengths.
The present invention relates to reproducing a digitized signal, in which the amplitudes of the individual scanning pulses representing the digitized signal are recorded in binary form. Prior to recording, these binary signals, which consist of single pulses, are treated by means of a run-length code. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing this method.
As is known, analog signals can be digitized by scanning their pattern with a specific frequency, so that pulses are obtained with an amplitude corresponding to the deflection of the information signal at the time of the particular scan. The numerical value of the amplitude of the scanning pulse is then converted into binary form and said binary signal is recorded on the particular record support. When reproducing a signal recorded in this way, the binary values of the amplitudes of the successively following scanning pulses are converted back into the corresponding analog pattern of the information signal.
The transition from level 0 or -1 to level +1 in the binary signal can be considered as the rising front of a single pulse in the binary signal. The transitions from level +1 to level 0 or -1 can be looked upon as the falling front of the single pulse. The binary signal, which reproduces the numerical value of the amplitude of one of the scanning pulses, normally contains several such single pulses and consequently also transitions between the -1 and +1 levels. The length located in the binary signal between two transitions is referred to hereinafter as the "run length" or just as "signal". A run length may comprise only a single bit or several directly succeeding bits or bit positions of the same level and/or value 0 or 1. Thus, the run length also gives the duration of the individual pulses in the binary signal.
If in a single binary signal, several single pulses succeed one another, wherein each comprises only one or only a few bit positions, then the time interval between the rising front and the falling front of the single pulse, i.e., the duration of the particular single pulse, is very short. The shorter the run length of the single pulse, the greater the demands on the width of the frequency spectrum to be transmitted by the system.
When recording the binary amplitudes of scanning pulses, problems occur if a binary-expressed numerical value of the amplitude of a scanning pulse has a frequent change of level between 0 and/or -1 and +1. In such a binary signal, the run lengths of the single pulses are short. In the case where such a signal is to be recorded, the pulse ratio is high and the demands made on the necessary frequency width of the system are correspondingly high. If the system does not have the necessary frequency width, then the single pulses are reproduced in distorted form in the binary form of the scan value.
In order to obviate this and other problems, the binary-expressed values of the amplitudes of the scanning pulses to be recorded are treated on the basis of a run-length code. A large number of such codes are known. One of the purposes for using such a code is that if the single pulses are short, the binary form is transformed in accordance with a given rule. In addition, if the single pulse happens to be large, the code can cause the time interval between its edges or sides to be reduced, in order to save space on the record support. One such run-length code called HDM-1 (cf J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 31, No. 4, 1983, pp. 228-234) provides run lengths or edge spacings between 1.5 T and 4.5 T, which can be varied in 0.5 T steps. T is the time or correspondingly the length necessary for recording s single bit cell of said code.
Certain problems occur when reproducing a binary signal recorded in this way. For example, the edges of a response or a single pulse in the reproduced binary signal has a finite instead of an infinite steepness. The 0 crossings of the edges in a single pulse of a reproduced binary signal can then, in certain circumstances, have a different spacing from one another than in the single pulse to be recorded. In addition, the phase response in the reproduced signal is not linearly dependent on the frequency. Thus, equalizers are used in the known reproduction systems for the purpose of improving the behavior of the reproduction electronics in the case of a step and/or phase response. Such equalizers deal with the incoming signals as analog signals. In principle, they are analog filters, which must be adapted to the parameters of the recording system (such as, e.g., tape speed, recording head characteristics, tape characteristics, etc).
In such known reproduction electronics, the equalizer is followed by a device for measuring the run length of the particular single pulse (step responses or 0 crossings), together with a circuit for quantifying the measured run lengths.
The primary disadvantage of this known reproduction electronics is essentially that the construction of such systems with equalizers is complicated. Furthermore, as stated, such systems must be set to specific parameters, and this setting procedure is labor-intensive. Further, if the parameters are modified, then resetting is necessary. In addition, several equalizers are often used in such systems and are connected in series and set to different values of one or more parameters of the system. However, such a solution is hardly feasible in reproduction equipment because it is prohibitively expensive and takes up an excessive amount of space in the equipment.
The present invention overcomes these disadvantages and provides method and apparatus which correct the transmission errors of a not ideally functioning system for reproducing digitized signals with limited expenditure and effort and which can be easily adapted to larger changes in the relative speed between support and reading device even in the case of recovering signals from a moving record support (tape, disk).
The invention is described in greater detail hereinafter relative to non-limitative embodiments and with reference to the attached drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows the pattern of a binary signal indicated by the symbols 0 and 1 and which reproduces the numerical value of the amplitude of one of the scanning pulses of an analog information signal, which has been treated by means of a run-length code;
FIG. 2 is a graphical representation of the signal of FIG. 1 before it is recorded on a signal support or carrier;
FIG. 3 is a representation of the signal of FIG. 2 after it has been read from a record support;
FIGS. 4 and 5 show the signal of FIG. 3, which has been processed in the reproduction means in order to be able to evaluate the interlevel transitions of the signal in the vicinity of the pulse edges;
FIG. 6 shows a first embodiment of apparatus embodying the invention; and
FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of the apparatus.
FIG. 1 shows a signal pattern in known digital form. FIG. 2 shows the same signal pattern as in FIG. 1, but expressed by a sequence of signals 28 to 33 defining several successive single pulses with run lengths, ri-2, ri-1, ri, ri+1, ri+2, etc. Such run lengths are proportional to the number of 0 or 1 bits following one another in groups in accordance with the representation of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a signal pattern 2 approximately corresponding to signal pattern 1 of FIG. 2. It consists of signals 34 to 39, which define the run lengths of run lengths r'i, r'i-1, r'i-2, r'i+1, r'i+2. These differ from the run lengths ri, ri-1, ri-2, ri+1, ri+2, by signal deviations dri, dri-1, dri-2, dri+1, dri+2.
In FIG. 4, the run lengths are determined by signals 40 to 45, which can be any sort of digital signal represented by signals such as 28 to 33. For example, such signals 40 to 45 can appear at the output of a playback head.
Unlike the case of signals 34 to 38 according to FIG. 3 which are obtained through the integration of signals 40 to 45 of FIG. 4, signals 46 to 51 in FIG. 5 are obtained by the differentiation of signals 40 to 45 of FIG. 4.
FIGS. 2 to 5 reveal run lengths or ri, r- i+n,m,r'i and r'- i+n,m, where n and m are positive or negative integers. The term "run length" is understood to mean the interval or time between two successive signals. The term "signal" is understood to mean a step-like signal 28, 29 as a transition between two stable levels, as shown in FIG. 2.
As can be seen from FIG. 4, a signal 40 which immediately returns to its original position is also conceivable. In such a case, the run length is considered to represent the spacing between comparable points of the signal, e.g., between maxima and minima. However, usually the signal is understood to mean the 0 crossing or the passage of a varying signal run through a predetermined level. This applies in the case of FIGS. 3 and 5. Signals 28 to 33 etc. of the signal pattern 1 according to FIG. 2 can be termed output signals, while signals 34 to 51 according to FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 can be termed input signals. This relates to the apparatus in which they are to be processed. The run length are to be understood in such a way that the portions 52 or 53 (FIG. 5) of a signal pattern are not considered to be passages or zero crossings in the aforementioned sense. This also gives a rough definition of the run length.
FIG. 6 shows part of an apparatus for reproducing digitized data or signals recorded in accordance with a run-length code on a record support, e.g., a magnetic tape 2.
It is obvious that other record supports, such as disks, memories, etc. can be used. In the case of a magnetic tape 2, the reading device is in the form of a playback head 3, past which the tape 2 is moved in per se known manner. Upstream of the playback head 3 is connected in per se known manner a voltage transformer and amplifier 4 and, e.g., an integrator 5. If an integrator 5 is connected upstream, then signals 34 to 39 according to FIG. 3 are obtained. A differentiator can also be provided in place of an integrator 5. Then, signals 46 to 51 according to FIG. 5 are obtained. Without block 5, i.e., without an integrator or a differentiator, signals 40 to 45 according to FIG. 4 are obtained.
Deviations with respect to an input signal as shown in FIG. 2 are produced within the systems or apparatuses that transmit or record and reproduce such signals. Such deviations appear because each operation or processing of the signal they carry out are performed less than ideally, as is common in all technical processes. FIG. 2 therefore shows a signal prior to its recording on tape 2 and FIG. 3 shows the same signal after its reading from tape 2 and after its integration in block 5.
The deviations can be measured by test runs. With such test runs, signals whose run lengths are known are fed into the system and the runs are measured at the output of the system. Then the input run length and the output run length are compared and a deviation may result from this comparison. In the same way it is possible to have test runs with groups of successive run lengths and the deviation of a specific run length within this group may be produced. But, as digital signals can only assume discrete values, the number of deviations to be measured is limited. The system to which such test runs may be fed is, for example, a tape recorder or other equipment capable of transmitting digital signals. But if the inventive method or apparatus is designed to reproduce signals transmitted from a tape, then to measure the deviations the test runs have to be executed with a tape recorder. Of course deviations may also be calculated. Once the deviations are known corresponding deviation values are stored in the memory by means of well known programming operations. Such test runs and such programming need to be executed only once or twice in the lifetime of an apparatus embodying the invention.
The integrator of differentiator 5 is followed by a zero detector 56, which detects the zero crossings of signals 34 to 39 or 46 to 51 and supplies the same to a counter 57, which is started and stopped by intermediate signals produced by the zero crossings. Thus, a signal corresponding to the run lengths r'i is available at output 58 and counter 57. Components such as the integrator of differentiator 5, amplifier 4, zero detector 56 and counter 57 are known per se and consequently are not described further in detail here. The same also applies to their operation in such an arrangement.
Output 58 is followed by a selectable number of registers 59, 60 for individual values of the run length r'i+2, r'i+1, as they appear at output 58. In the same way as output 58, outputs 61 and 62 of registers 59, 60 are connected across quantizer 63, 64 and 65 to a read-only memory (ROM) 66.
Quantifiers 63, 64 and 65 are connected to inputs 67, 68 and 69 of ROM 66. An output 70 or ROM 66, as well as the output 62 of the last register 60 are connected to a summer or adder 6. Summer 6 is followed by further ROM's 7, 8. Signal deviations dri are stored in memory 8 and the possible output signals ri, ri+1, ri+2, ri-1, ri-2 are stored in memory 8. These are followed by further register 9, 10 for the individual output signals ri-1,ri-2, etc. Outputs 12, 13, 14 of registers 8, 9, 10 are connected across lines 15, 16, 17 to a ROM 18.
Further signal deviation dri are stored in ROM 18. An outgoing line 19 of memory 18 is connected to summer 6. Between memory 8 and memory 9, a line 20 is connected to output 14 and derives the output signals ri. Conventionally, this passes into a decoding unit 21.
FIG. 7 shows an apparatus, as in FIG. 6, in which the summers and ROM's 7 and 8 have been combined into a unit 71. The remaining components of the apparatus are identical and consequently have the same reference numerals.
In per se known manner, unit 71 comprises a ROM, in which all the signal deviations are stored. For example, unit 71 has inputs 73, 74 for succeeding run lengths, inputs 75, 76 for preceding run lengths and an input 77 for the actual or present run length. As in the construction according to FIG. 6, there is only one output 14 with line 20 connected thereto. Corrected run lengths ri appear at output 14. FIG. 7 also shows that a quantizer 78, 79 can be connected into each line 15, 16 and fulfills exactly the same function as quantizer 63, 64.
The reproduction of digitized data or signals has as a prior requirement that they have been previously recorded on an information carrier. Thus, for this purpose, it is necessary that the data or signals are recorded in the same code, for whose decoding decoding unit 21 is programmed. The per se known, but not shown, coding unit in the recording electronics of the reproduction equipment or a separate recording equipment converts the digital data or signals from a form according to FIG. 1 into a form according to FIG. 2. For example, signal 1 is stored on magnetic tape 2 as a magnetization changing between two magnetization states.
On reproduction, the signals at output 58 are fed on the one hand to register 59 and on the other to quantizer 63. For example, the run length r'i+2 last counted by counter 57 is stored in register 59 until the counter 57 supplies a new value r'i+3 for a run length. The value r'i+2 on the one hand is then fed into the next register 60 and on the other hand into the quantifier 64, etc.
New values (e.g., integral values)r"i+2,r"i+1,r"i are associated with the values of the run lengths, e.g., r'i+2,r'i+1 and r'i in quantizer 63, 64 and 65 and said new values are subsequently fed via inputs 67, 68 and 69 into ROM 66.
In ROM 66 the values r'i+2,r'i+1,r'i or r"i+2,r"i+1, r"i are associated with the values of the signal deviations dri+2,dri+1,dri, which are stored in ROM 66 as a function of the possible values for the run lengths r'i+2,r'i+1,r'i or r"i+2,r"i+1,r"i.
If a new value for a run length r'i+2,r'i+1,r'i appears at output 62, a value dri+2,dri+1,dri always appears at output 70 of ROM 66. The values for the run lengths r'i+2,r'i+1,r'i and the values of the signal deviation dr1+2,dri+1,dr1 are supplied to the summer or adder 6, where they are summed with further values for the signal deviations dri-1,dri-2 from ROM 18 and combined to produce on output value, which is supplied to ROM 7.
ROM 7 contains signal deviations dri (ri) which are dependent on their own run length ri. Thus, account is taken of the particular signal deviation which is a function of only its own run lengths.
In practice, run lengths ri can assume only a certain number of possible specific values. Therefore, memory 7 stores the values of the signal deviations associated with these specific run lengths which are dependent thereon. Thus, for memory 7, the input values r'i or the output values ri can be used via line 24 or 72 as addresses for the storage locations. The run lengths leaving memory 7 via line 25 are used as addresses for ROM 8, which stores the possible integral output values ri of the run lengths.
In ROM 8, the run length r'i is corrected by the signal deviation dri (noise). The output values of the S/N-ratios ri leave ROM 8 via output 14. From there, the values of the run lengths ri, pass on the one hand into decoding unit 21 and on the other into register 9. Registers 9 and 10 can in each case receive only a single value for a run length. They are connected in such a way that each value of a run length ri first passes into register 9 and then into register 10. From the outputs 12 and 13 of registers 9 and 10, the values of the run length ri-1,ri-2,ri-3 are transmitted cyclically to ROM 18 via lines 15, 16, where they are used as addresses. The number of registers 9, 10 is a function of the number of values ri-1,ri-2 . . . ri-n used for determining the signal deviations.
ROM 18 stores signal deviations dri in each case as a function of the preceding run lengths ri-1,ri-2,ri-3, etc., as a function of the number of registers 9, 10, etc.
The run lengths ri-1,ri-2,ri-3, read as addresses into memory 18, designate storage locations containing corresponding signal deviations dri-1,dri-2,dri-3.
Prior to read-out, they are again summed in memory 18 and are supplied as signal deviations dr(ri-1,ri-2,ri-3) to summer 6 via line 19. They are there summed with the corresponding run length r'i and the sum is passed in per se known manner through read-only memories 7 and 8.
In the apparatus according to FIG. 6, run lengths as known from FIGS. 3 or 5, and which appear at output 58 of FIG. 6, are corrected to run lengths ri in accordance with the following formula:
ri =r'i -dri (noise) -dri (r'i+1,r'i+2 . . . r'i+m)-dri (r'i)-dri (r'i-1,r'i-2, . . . r'i-n)
in which:
ri is the sought run length,
r'i is the erroneous run length fed in,
dri (noise) signifies a signal deviation as produced in components which cause noise and/or results from the measurement of the run length with finite resolution,
dri (ri) is a signal deviation, which is dependent on the length of the run length ri or r'i,
dri (ri-1,ri-2, . . . ri-n) represents a signal deviation, which is influenced by the length of the preceding run length ri-1,ri-2, etc.,
dri (ri+1,ri+2, . . . ri+m) represents a signal deviation influenced by the length of the following run lengths ri+1,ri+2, etc.
This relationship is based on the finding that a run length or run length is influenced by the immediately preceding run length. Long run lengths in particular undergo an additional modification due to inadequate reproduction of the low frequency components. Noise and measurement with finite resolution can in each case bring about a change in the run lengths. In the case of less critical transmission channels, the run lengths can be the same as the original run lengths on the basis of an initial approximation. In certain physical reproduction systems there can be influencing of future signals by signals already in the vicinity of the reproduction system.
This means that run lengths arriving at output 58 are subsequently delayed in registers 59, 60, 7, 8, 9, and 10 and that parallel thereto there are signal deviations, whereby after a first time lag, when the run length has reached output 62, this can provide signal deviations of little or undelayed (future) run lengths and signal deviations of more greatly delayed (old) run lengths.
For all of the discrete run lengths ri that occur, signal deviations dri are stored in the read-only memories 7, 18 and 66. If required, it is also possible to provide all those signal deviations dri (ri-1,ri-2 . . . ri-n) or dri (ri+1,ri+2, . . . ri+m), which are obtained by combinations of two, three of more successive run lengths. These combinations take account of reciprocal influencing of the distortion of succeeding signals.
The apparatus according to FIG. 6 can be varied by using quantizer lines 15 and 16 as well, or by omitting quantizer 63, 64, 65. Because quantifier 65 with input 69 and line 17 serve to determine signal deviations dri as a function of the sought run length ri, it is possible to eliminate these components or memory 7 which serves the same purpose. Quantizers 63, 64, 65, ROM's 66, 18, 7, 8 and registers 59, 60, 9, 10 provided for storing a single value of a run length, together with summer 6, comprise per se known and consequently not further represented components. It will also be obvious to those expert in these arts that the complete apparatus can be controlled by instructions stored in a memory (not shown) in a particular operating cycle, which is dependent on the frequency of the input and/or output signals.
For example, quantizers 63, 64, 65 and 78, 79 are constructed in ROM form and make it possible to reduce the information flow. For example, they convert seven-bit input information into two- or three-bit output information. However, quantizers 63, 64, 65, 78, 79 can also be integrated into the programmable memories 66, 18. For example, known flip-flop circuits can be used as registers 9, 10, 59, 60.
The measurement of the run lengths in counter 57 can take place with a test frequency dependent on the speed with which an information carrier is moved while the information is being read from it. Thus, if the information carrier comprises, e.g., a magnetic tape 2, the test frequency can be coupled to the speed with which the magnetic tape 2 is moved past the playback head 3. However, it is also necessary to adapt the signal deviations dri stored in the ROM's 7, 18 and 66 as a function of the run length ri,ri+1,ri-1, etc.
For example, the signal deviations dri (ri) can be determined by test runs. It is then possible to observe how a particular signal with a known run length fed into a recording means appears at the output 58 (FIG. 6). By comparing the known run length ri at the output of a recording means and the run length r'i at output 58, it is possible to determine the signal deviation dri (ri) for the particular run length ri. This process can then be carried out for the various provided values for ri.
The same method can be performed with a signal sequence, in order to determine the signal deviation dri (ri-1,ri-2, . . . ri-n,ri+1, . . . ri+m). The signal deviation dri is then determined when the preceding and succeeding run lengths ri-1,ri+1,ri-n,ri+m are known. As the influence of its particular own run length is known, he signal deviations dri (ri) and dri (ri-1,ri-2, . . . ri-n) or dri (ri+1,ri+2, . . . ri+m) can be kept apart and stored separately in memory 7 and memories 18 and 66.
If the elements through which a signal must pass in order to bring about signal deviations are known, then it is also possible to calculate the signal deviations.
The run lengths ri transmitted via line 20 can also be carriers of particular signal patterns. For example, the latter can comprise a specific sequence of given run lengths ri. Such signal patterns are detected in an apparatus for reading signal patterns in a per se known and consequently not described manner.
In addition, decoding unit 21 can be constructed in such a way that the conversion of the run lengths into monovalent or non-valent bits always takes place together for the complete run length. This is possible because a run length in each case only covers non-valent or monovalent bits. This obviates the need of a conversion for each individual bit cell. A thus constructed decoding unit 21 consequently operates more slowly than when converting for each bit cell. The same operation also occurs in the apparatus according to FIG. 7.
As mentioned above, block 4, which may be an amplifier, produces signals as shown in FIG. 4. These signals may be processed in block 5. If block 5 is an integrator, the signals outputted from block 5 will correspond to the signals shown in FIG. 3. If block 5 is a differentiator, the signals outputted from block 5 will correspond to the signals shown in FIG. 5. In the case of any of the signals according to FIGS. 3, 4 and 5, those signals define run lengths. But it is easier to read the run length from signals according to FIG. 3 or 5, since those signals have zero-crossings which are easier to detect than the peaks of the signals shown in FIG. 4. Therefore, block 5 is not absolutely necessary for operation according to the invention.
As mentioned above, block 56 is a zero-crossings detector. Block 57 is a counter. This counter is started and stopped when block 56 reports to the counter that a zero-crossing or a peak has been sensed. The counts are, for example, 7-bit numbers each representing or corresponding to the run length of a pulse of the digital signal. Therefore such 7-bit values can be added to other values in summer 6.
As described above, blocks 63, 64 and 65 which represent quantizers are designed to quantify the values transmitted from the counter of block 57. That means that they may transform the input 7-bit value to a roughly corresponding 2-bit value. The reason for this operation is to save memory space.
The invention has only been explained relative to the example of a reproduction means for a recorded signal. However, it can be seen that the invention can be used wherever digital data is obtained that is distorted due to a non-ideal preceding transmission.
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Another advantage is the problem-free adaptation of reproduction electronics to changes in the speed of the carrier or support.
The simple manner of signal processing according to the invention leads to lower processing rates in the circuits. This increases operating reliability in the case of great loading of the apparatus. This has an especially positive effect if the signals are processed in a time multiplexing process within reproduction electronics.
A further advantage resulting from the invention is that the apparatus can be set by feeding known signals with known run lengths into recording and reproduction or playback equipment connected to the apparatus and can be taken again at the output of the reproduction part and compared with the signal fed in. This comparison leads to direct values which can be fed into the apparatus. If this process is automated, there can be automatic setting of the apparatus according to the invention.
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There are hundreds of the pale men crawling towards the piston. Each moment that passes another ten hurl themselves into its machinery. Their gore smears the walls of the engine and the gusting steam is fouled with their cooked stench. I join the arachnid machine, diving in a practiced maneuver and raking my forelimbs across the backs of as many as I can reach. Limbs detach and bodies fall away. Whether up or down I cannot be certain.
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The hexagonal blue energy disappears. The spectral red serpents vanish from their galleries. Only the faint green glow and the lamps attached to the arachnids remain to illuminate the vast chamber. Freed of its confines, the water falls in every direction at once, flooding the galleries in a great wave, swamping the arachnids and destroying them. A single shape remains, rotating slowly like a planet in the center of the chamber, an irregular sphere of white material.
I can feel its presence, a disorienting pressure within my head. It was beneath the water. It knows me. It knows I am here. The galleries themselves are disintegrating, leaving behind drifting pieces of gold shielding. The pale men are trying to lift up their crossed beam symbols, but the center of gravity is changing from one moment to the next. Each shift of the axis of gravity and more pale men are loosed from the walls and plummet away, to break apart against the crumbling spire or to fall into the water. Those that fall towards the sphere seem to rupture into a cloud of curling smoke.
I do not know why, but it permits me to live, at least for a time. I do not sense a voice or a message. It is mindless, heartless and thoughtless, but it is filled with urges, compelled by what resides within it. It is a vessel. And we have filled it.
The spire without a home is destroyed and we are in the cold black, far from any planet or star. In this deep void even the water cannot last. It is becoming slow and cold as it surrounds me in a vast bubble. The sphere is pulling me towards it. Reminding me that I am only a thing now. Only a memory contained within it. Only a storm of electricity and intent. I cannot breathe. I am alive, but I cannot breathe. I am cold. I am close to its surface and I become smoke.
I travel many places. I become many things. I do not succumb to the will of the water, to the will of this unnatural Mother. I continue, determined.
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I am crystalline, one in a chiming field that moves by mineral expansion, communicating by tone. As old as any living thing, but with fleeting memories. I cannot stop the water. I cannot stop the crashing sea that reduces me to nothing.
I dwell in the sky, in a coven of my kind, red-crested and brilliant. Spiraling, chattering, through phosphorescent clouds and above undulating fields of scarlet bacteria. This language is difficult. I am slow to learn. I tell my coven but it is too late. The earth is cracking, the mountains exposing their marrow of fire. I can only witness an ending.
Again and again. I will not be stopped. I am aeroplankton, cohering mind of a moment. I am a starving beast of the muck. Hate-filled until the water drowns me. I climb the continent tree. I can only watch as it is consumed by fire.
I cling to my memories. I retain my will. I am reificant. I will not be stopped.
A crack opens in the lid. The water is exposed once more.
I take the shape of a four-legged mammal, covered in hair, with a long snout and prick-ears. I know this thing. I know this place. A cave lit by shafts of crystalline light. I tear away my cowl with my teeth and emerge in the empty village of River Stone's people.
How can this be? Much time has passed. Dust has gathered on my shell. The wood that once made the ladders has fallen to ruin. There are prints in the dust. Feet like those I wear now, belonging to the animal-things of the men. Their companions. My fur is black. My tongue dangles from powerful jaws.
There is a booming sound beyond the canyon. I long to take to the sky, to soar above this place and find its source, but instead I trot on clawed feet. I cross from the black rock into the white desert, over humpbacked hills and barchan dunes. The booms repeat and I recall the piston. Have the serpents built their piston here as well?
No. Smoke curls into the blue sky. Figures, familiar, but different, labor beneath the heat of the sun. Men in a great number are lifting lengths of iron and heavy blocks of wood. They wear cloth upon their flesh and some are dark and some are pale, but they are not as the men I remember. They have large animals to pull their wheeled machines laden with material. They are building something.
There is another explosion and a great shower of stones falls from the mountainside. They are cleaving the mountain itself and laying iron where they have blasted. It is still early. The water has not yet taken hold here. I can warn them. I can...
There is a growl behind me. While I watched the laboring men I was approached by undetected enemies. There are five of them. They inhabit bodies like mine, but their fur is white and their eyes are a familiar, piercing blue. They lower their heads, their fleshy lips curling back from rows of white, curving teeth.
They leap at my throat. There are five of them. I am fierce and strong. I will not be stopped. I am reificant. I am a champion of a dead Queen. Hero of a lost people.
There are five sets of snapping jaws. Five pairs of hateful blue eyes. Five snarling voices.
I silence four.
Lymph pours out, spilling between the throat-clamped jaws of my foe. I am hurtled away from this place. I am defeated. Cast across the darkness by force of malevolence.
I cannot be stopped. I will thwart the water. I will find my way back.
I am reificant.
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