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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Takahiro Ichikawa, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Digital signal decoder which decodes coded data, for example, a coded digital video signal, that has error-correcting data such as C1/C2 convolutional Reed-Solomon type data added thereto. The decoder stores in a memory the coded data, detects correctable errors in the stored coded data, ascertains positions of the detected errors in the coded data, and supplies error correction patterns that correspond to those errors. A second memory stores the ascertained positions of the errors as well as the error correction patterns, and coded data that correspond to the positions of the errors are read from the first memory and decoded by using the error correction patterns stored in the second memory so as to produce corrected decoded data. A digital signal reproducing apparatus embodying the above decoder also is disclosed.