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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1995
Adrianus J Denissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Ludovicus M Tolhuizen, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for transmitting and receiving a digital data signal. At the transmitter side, packets of p m-bit digital words in a digital signal are error protection encoded to produce error protection encoded packets of n m-bit digital words making up an error protection signal, where n>p. The error protection encoded packets are converted into converted packets of digital words to form a channel encoded signal, which signal is supplied to a transmission medium. The conversion involves use of a generator for supplying a fixed auxiliary packet of n digital words; a calculation unit for calculating in a Galois field GF(2.sup.m) a converted digital word in accordance with the formula DW.sub.i +.alpha..FW.sub.i, where DW.sub.i and FW.sub.i are the binary values corresponding to the i-th digital words in the packet to be converted and the auxiliary packet, respectively, .alpha. is a binary value, and the converted digital word is the i-th converted digital word in the converted packet, where i runs from 1 to n; and a digital sum value determining unit for determining the digital sum value of at least a converted packet in the channel encoded signal. The calculation unit determines a value .alpha..sub.def with the converted digital words obtained by the Galois field GF(2.sup.m) calculation of DW.sub.i +.alpha..sub.def. FW.sub.i so as to obtain the converted packet, the value .alpha..sub.def for .alpha. being such that a running digital sum value of the converted packets shows a desired pattern as a function of time. The receiver side operates in an opposite manner.