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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1989

Filed:

Feb. 05, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;

Shinichi Yamamura, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 374 ; 371 401 ;
Abstract

An error-correcting method and apparatus for a block of data provided with an error-correcting parity for error correction and an error-checking parity that can be used to generate a syndrome for error-checking, in which error correction is carried out by the use of the error-correcting parity and then an error check is carried out by the use of the error-checking parity thereby to increase the reliability of the error-checking data, wherein error information produced by the error-correction process using the error-correcting parity is utilized to correct the syndrome used in the error-checking process, so as to execute the respective operations in parallel and reduce the required data processing time or through-put.


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