Digital signal transmission method providing high error correction capability
US4649542A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 18, 1984 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 18, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B20/1809
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of transmitting a digital signal in the form of successive signal frames containing codes for detecting and correcting errors of the digital signal for reducing degradation in the quality of the reproduced sound due to generation of the code errors in a digitized audio signal transmission system. An analog signal such as an audio signal is sampled and subjected to A/D conversion. The sample word thus obtained is divided into a plurality of symbol elements. Parity words for detecting and correcting code errors are added to every group of a predetermined number of the information symbols through an interleave procedure before being transmitted. The method includes the steps of applying a first frame of symbols, taken one from each input channel, and having a first arrangement state, to a first error-correcting code encoder to generate a series of first parity words; delaying each of the symbols in the first frame and each of the first parity words by a respective different delay time in a unit of the sample word at a delay line to provide a resulting second frame of symbols in a second arrangement state; applying the second frame of symbols to a second error-correcting code …
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