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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1993
Petrus Arts, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for correcting symbol errors and a method for correcting symbol errors and symbol erasures in a code word composed of plural-bit symbols that has been encoded according to an error protection code with a predetermined symbol error correction capability. The method includes the following steps: (1) imposing an erasure indication for each symbol of a sub-set of the symbols; (2) executing a complete error correction operation by means of the imposed erasure(s); (3) verifying correctness of the error correction operation; and (4) repeating steps 1, 2 and 3 for different sub-sets until either the verifying indicates said correctness or until all relevant sub-sets have been subjected to steps 1, 2 and 3.