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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Abraham J De Bart, Nuenen, NL;
Frits A Steenhof, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
714789 ; 714795 ; 714798 ;
Abstract
In order to find the position of the boundary between transmitted codewords, in a receiver a reliability measure for two possible positions are compared. If a relative difference measure of these reliability measure exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the reliability measure indicating the largest reliability corresponds to the correct position of the boundary between the codewords.