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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
May. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Josephus A Kahlman, Eindhoven, NL;
Kornelis A Schouhamer Immink, Geldrop, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 59 ;
Abstract
The invention proposes an apparatus for encoding an information signal. The information signal can be a (d,k) sequence. The apparatus encodes the (d,k) sequence into a (d+n,k+n) sequence by changing the number of zeroes between each time two subsequent ones in the sequence by n. The information signal can also be a RLL sequence of the type (d,k). The apparatus encodes the signal into a RLL sequence of the type (d+n,k+n) by changing the runlengths by n bitcells each.