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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2009
Keitarou Kondou, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Keitarou Kondou, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporatioin, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an encoding apparatus which combines an RLL code word and an error correction code word, with an interleaving technique when encoding, including: an error correction encoding section; an interleaving section; and an RLL encoding section, wherein, if an address i (i is an integer satisfying relations 0≦i<k×m) is assigned to each symbol of k×m error correction code words and xis denoting the number of symbols included in n symbols of a jth (j is an integer satisfying relations 0≦j<m) code word of m error correction code words to serve as symbols corresponding to the address i of an information word of an RLL code, for any j, the interleaving section interleaves a series inside an information word of the RLL code word so that the following relations are satisfied: