Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Tadashi Isobe

Osamu Yamada

Masayuki Takada

Yoshikazu Tomida

Syugo Yamashita

Toru Kuroda

An error correcting decoder includes a flag memory (20) which stores a flag indicative of a success of an error correction for a bit. When a column direction error correction is to be performed, if a flag for a bit indicates a success, no error correction is performed for the bit. That is, an output of a majority logic circuit (78) is forcedly made invalid. In performing the column direction error correction, if the number of success packets in a first-time row direction error correction is smaller than a predetermined value and if the number of bits corrected by the column direction error correction becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined number, it is deemed as that the column direction error correction is unsuccessful. In performing a second-time row direction error correction, when a threshold value is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the majority logic circuit determines with referring to a result of the column direction error correction, but without referring to the result when the threshold value is smaller than the predetermined value.

Error correcting decoder

A frame-synchronous reproducing circuit (10) includes a BIC status register (20) of six stages, and a BIC status signal (c) from each stage of the register is applied to a BIC pattern determination circuit (24) in which the BIC status signal (c) and a BIC changing pattern being stored in advance are compared with each other. If the both are coincident with each other, the BIC pattern determination circuit (24) applies a high-level signal to a JK flip-flop (26) via an OR circuit (48), whereby a high-level signal representing that frame synchronization has been settled is outputted from the JK flip-flop (26).

Frame-synchronous reproducing circuit

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Tadashi Isobe