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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 11, 2001
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
In accordance with a rate detecting method for detecting a predetermined rate at which a received signal has been coded, the coded signal is decoded based on a first synchronizing signal having a frequency corresponding to a first rate such that a first decoded signal (ST ) is generated and then it is judged whether or not synchronization is determined for the first decoded signal (ST ). If the synchronization cannot be determined, there is generated only a second synchronizing signal having a frequency corresponding to a second rate having a difference between itself and a first rate which is smaller than a permissible value of the rate determined by the lower and upper values of the rate (ST , ST ).