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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:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
714790 ; 714792 ; 375260 ; 375261 ; 375265 ; 375267 ; 348384 ; 348390 ; 348420 ; 345418 ;
Abstract
A digital transmission system which provides transmission error protection for transmitted data. The input data is encoded using a punctured systematic convolutional trellis code. Row and column components of a matrix formed by the encoded input data are then used to generate a product code in blocks, with trellis closure by addition of redundant data. The data thus encoded is then allocated to quadrature amplitude modulation symbols. At the receiver end the transmitted modulation symbols are decoded by iterative decoding, the reliability of hard decisions being computed so as to provide generation of soft decision output symbols.