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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:
Nov. 15, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roland Mester, Darmstadt, DE;
Assignee:
BTS Broadcast Television Systems GmbH, Darmstadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 371 ; 371 381 ; 371 391 ;
Abstract
Circuitry for detecting and correcting errors in data words occurring in Reed-Solomon coded blocks contains a plurality of stages. One stage constructs syndromes in the data flowing through the blocks. Another stage detects erasures in the syndromes. Another stage applies a Euclid's algorithm with