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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Thomas Sturm, Munich, DE;
Inventor:
Thomas Sturm, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for decoding a predetermined code word is specified in which the code word comprises a number of positions having different values. In this method, encoding is performed, in particular, by way of a terminated convolutional code. Each position of the code word is correlated with a safety measure (soft output) for a most probable Boolean value by performing the correlation on the basis of a trellis representation. The decoding of the code word is determined by the correlation of the individual positions of the code word.