Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Olivier Pothier

Antoine Chouly

Catherine Lamy

The invention relates to digital transmissions. It particularly relates to a new transmission system (DVB-S2), which is backward compatible with a primary transmission system (DVB-S), enabling a receiver of the primary system to receive signals transmitted by a transmitter of the new transmission system. The principle of the invention is based on using a hybrid QPSK/Non-Uniform 8-PSK modulation. The hybrid modulation is specified by a periodic binary pattern indicating, for each symbol, which modulation is used.

Backward compatible DVB-S standard transmission system

The present invention relates to a method of source decoding variable-length codeword sequences, said decoding being based on an associated state diagram comprising a plurality of states (S) and on a code (C). It is characterized in that it comprises a step of reducing the states (S) in the state diagram in such a way that, at a bit time (Bj), only a number N of states in a group (G) of states is saved on the basis of a criterion derived from a partial metric computation and otherwise independently of an alphabet of said code (C), a group (G) being associated with a bit time (Bj). A group (G) corresponds to all the states (S) calculated at each bit time (Bj).

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Olivier Pothier