Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v.

Michael Ruf

Khaled Fazel

For digital transmission of hierarchical HDTV, EDTV and SDTV television signals, on the transmission side after an analog/digital conversion of video and audio input signals and a subsequent removal of redundancy in a source coder, the signal bits are protected in a UEP coder in accordance with their significance. Thereafter, the hierarchically built up television signals (HDTV, EDTV and SDTV) are subjected to a multilevel coding and, combined to form symbols, to a multiresolution modulation and an OFD multiplexing and transmitted after digital/analog conversion. On the receiving side the transmitted signals, after analog/digital reconversion and inverse OED multiplexing (OFDM), are demodulated in a multiresolution demodulator and then decoded in a multistage decoder. Thereupon the data are processed by digital/analog conversion to HDTV, EDTV and SDTV signals in a UEP decoder specific to the respective receiver and a following source decoder.

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Michael Ruf