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Decoding method and system for doubly-encoded Reed-Solomon codes

US4646301A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 26, 1984
Grant dateFeb 24, 1987
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Expiry dateOct 26, 2004

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/29
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Error correction of digital signals is suited for codes having error detection and correction words, such as doubly-encoded Reed-Solomon code. In a first decoding, at least error detection is effected and flags indicating decoding conditions are added. In a second decoding, error detection for first code blocks and error correction for S2 words at unknown locations and E flagged word erasures, where d1 is a Hamming distance and S2 and E satisfy a relation of 2S2+E.ltoreq.d1-1, are parallely or sequentially effected, and a combination of S2 and E having a high correction capability and a low probability of miscorrection is selected from a plurality of correction results of error locations and the numbers of flags added at the first decoding, and the word errors are corrected based on the selected combination.

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