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Decoding apparatus

US4802172A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 27, 1987
Grant dateJan 31, 1989
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Expiry dateFeb 27, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B20/10527
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A decoding apparatus in which the operation to write error correction coded data into a memory and a decoding processing operation of the data read out of the memory are executed in parallel. This decoding apparatus comprises: a comparator for comparing the address to write the data into the memory with the address in the memory for the decoding processing operation; and control means for inhibiting the writing operation when it is detected by the comparator that the decoding processing operation is precedent to the writing operation. With this apparatus, the data which was subjected to the correcting process is prevented from being rewritten into the memory and the pointer derived by the decoding process from being broken.

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