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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Tsuyoshi Nakasendo, Hyogo, JP;
Yasumori Hino, Nara, JP;
Kohei Nakata, Nara, JP;
Yuji Takagi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A decoding device () has: a reliability calculating unit () which calculates reliability information having a non-linear relationship with a noise distribution of a PR communication path () in at least part of or all of the reliability information based on characteristics of the PR communication path () and a predetermined modulation rule from an encoded signal that is obtained from the PR communication path (); a reliability correcting unit () which corrects the reliability information calculated by a reliability calculating unit (); and an error correction decoding unit () which performs error correction decoding on the reliability information corrected by the reliability correcting unit ().