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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1996
Milton de Ribeiro Filho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kornelis A Schouhamer Immink, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for decoding a channel signal into an information signal is disclosed. The channel signal comprises subsequent blocks of information, a block of information comprising a sync word and a plurality of channel words. The information signal includes subsequent information words. The apparatus includes an input terminal for receiving the channel signal, a conversion unit for converting the channel words into the information words, and an error concealment unit. The information signal obtained is supplied to an output terminal. The conversion unit includes a channel word detector for establishing whether channel words received are channel words not belonging to a group of valid channel words. If so, the channel word detector is adapted to supply a detection signal upon such detection. This enables the detection signals to be counted so as to establish a mis-synchronization of the decoding apparatus.