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Digital signal decoder

US5278846A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 7, 1991
Grant dateJan 11, 1994
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/6343
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A decoder for product codes includes a received symbol reliability detector for detecting the reliability of each erase-flag-carrying symbol produced by a row code decoder, and an erase flag adjuster for eliminating the erase flag of a particular symbol which has a higher reliability than a predetermined reference value among erase-flag-carrying symbols supplied from a row code decoder in accordance with a data output of a received symbol reliability detector.

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