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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:
Apr. 18, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 43 ;
Abstract
A maximum likelihood decoder for decoding a code from a signal transmitted through quadrature amplitude modulation of a code including a convolutional code can decode at high speed and high accuracy with a simple hardware configuration. In the maximum likelihood decoding of the convolutional code, the metric processing is not carried out for all of the possible paths and states but a smaller number of path(s) (metric(s)) and state(s) (metric(s)) are selected in a descending order to determine survival paths.