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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tadashi Matsumoto, Yokosuka, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 37 ; 371 43 ;
Abstract
A soft decision decoding method which decodes a code having redundant bits added to information data bits and transmitted as an error correcting code and in which the received code is decoded bit by bit to produce a received word and reliability information for respective digits at which the received word and each of candidate code words disagree with each other is summed up. The receiving electric field level is detected for each digit of the received code, and the reliability information is obtained from the detected receiving electric field level.