Port City Aug 3, 2017:

段 in photography refers to something like a unit of exposure. So, I thought ずれ was about time. But I'm totally unfamiliar with what is written in the passage. I'm not quite sure if 段 was used in the same sense as "stops" in photography. But 時分割駆動, whatever it means, seems to indicate that the passage has something to do with "time".

Marc Brunet Aug 3, 2017:

Alert to Asker... Lekhika, see Wikipedia re: Gray Codes and how they increment compared with vs natural binary series. This forces us to reconsider whether this (ずれ) of your passage refers to a 'Time-shift', as we thought, or simply to a 'binary value shift' affecting only 1 bit -- the Least Significant one of the signal's binary string. Gray's safer single bit value change per transition is not aiming for time saving nor time lag offset/correction, but for reliability in signal change execution even if it takes longer to jump from one state to one more distant in the serial set. So my post does not take this LSB element into account and should be ignored as off the track. We can exchange thoughts on new findings but I am starting on this one from scratch again. Sorry for everything. Cheers,

Marc Brunet Aug 3, 2017:

time shift cancellation story (#2: prerequisites) ＧＣから近い側から出力までoffers more than 1 parsing solution.
Settling for this one, and as a paraphrase, rather than a tight translation:

"By the time outputs from both ends (close end and GC end) are transmitted, a 1 [LSB] time shift per cluster and, for a stack of 28 clusters, a maximum time shift of 28 [LSB] will have occurred, ..."

(Makes sense in that no time-shift offset can occur without the issue (in matching numbers) of both N CK codes that cause such time shifts, and N Grey Codes to cancel those.)

For your comments...

Marc Brunet Aug 3, 2017:

this time shift cancellation story .... By the time an output from the end close to the GC reaches destination, a 1 [LSB] time shift per cluster and, for a stack of 28 clusters, a maximum time shift of 28 [LSB] will have occurred, generating a Fixed Pattern Noise; but with this CDS arrangement, both Fixed Pattern Noise and Reset Noise are cancelled out.

What is GC? = Group Control? No, of course not, = Gray Code! so that calls for some changes.... still working on it, then...