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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1989
Dennis G Howe, Pittsford, NY (US);
Edward J Weldon, Jr, Honolulu, HI (US);
Hugh M Hilden, Honolulu, HI (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Channel encoded data (for example run length limited encoded data) is further encoded in accordance with a shift correction code prior to transmission. Upon reception, forward and backward shift errors present in the received channel encoded data are corrected by a shift correction decoder. The shift error correction is accomplished using a code, such as (for example) a BCH code over GF(p) or a negacyclic code, which treats each received symbol as a vector having p states. For a single shift error correction, p=3 and there are three states (forward shift, backward shift, no shift). In one embodiment, conventional error correction codewords which encode the user data may be interleaved within successive shift correction codewords prior to channel encoding, thereby enabling the error correction system to easily handle a high rate of randomly distributed shift errors (which otherwise would result in a high rate of short error bursts that exceed the capacity of the block error correction code).