摘要 |
According to the present invention, a data reproduction apparatus sampling, at a given rate, a reproduced signal obtained from a recording medium and complying with a partial response waveform, and reproducing data from sampled values of the reproduced signal in accordance with the Viterbi decoding algorithm includes difference value calculation means for calculating a difference between compared ones of path metric values in selecting paths, alternative path selection means for selecting a path different from a corresponding one of the paths, which are selected in accordance with a given rule, as an alternative path based on the difference between the compared ones of the path metric values, and reproduced data determination means for determining data to be reproduced based on the paths selected in accordance with the given rule and the alternative path.
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