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US 2001/0044920 A1Published application
Receiver with improved decoder
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorArie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar
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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorArie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar
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A receiver for receiving digital signals comprises a front end (18) for receiving RF signals and converting them into an input signal for an de-interleaver 22 for obtaining a de-interleaved signal. The output of the de-interleaver is connected to a decoder (24) which can be a Reed-Solomon decoder. The decoder (24) is able to use erasure information which indicates possible positions of errors in the de-interleaved signal for increasing the number of errors the decoder (24) can correct. In order to improve the error correcting capabilities of the receiver, this receiver comprises error prediction means (26) which predict the position of errors in the next codewords due to error bursts from the errors found in the present codeword. Such a predicted error is handled as an erasure by the decoder (24). To prevent that more erasures are presented to the decoder (24) than it can handle, it is proposed according to the present invention to determine a probability measure for all predicted errors and to present only those errors to the decoder (24) having the largest probability.
Receiver for receiving encoded digital signals, said receiver comprises a front end for deriving words of digital symbols from an input signal, a de-interleaver for deriving de-interleaved words of digital symbols from said words of digital symbols, a decoder for deriving decoded words of digital symbols from said de-interleaved words of digital symbols and a burst error predictor for predicting possible symbol error positions in a de-interleaved word to be decoded from symbol error positions in at least one previously decoded de-interleaved word of digital symbols, characterized in that the receiver comprises a symbol error position selector for selecting from said possible symbol error positions a reduced number of possible symbol error positions and in that the symbol error position selector is arranged for providing the reduced number of symbol error positions to the decoder.
Decoding arrangement for decoding digital symbols comprising a decoder for deriving decoded words of digital symbols from said digital symbols and a burst error predictor for predicting possible symbol error positions in a word to be decoded from symbol error positions in at least one previously decoded word of digital symbols, characterized in that the decoding arrangement comprises a symbol error position selector for selecting from said possible symbol error positions a reduced number of possible symbol error positions and in that the symbol error position selector is arranged for providing the reduced number of symbol error positions to the decoder.
Decoding method comprising deriving decoded words of digital symbols from said digital symbols, predicting possible symbol error positions in a word to be decoded from symbol error positions in at least one previously decoded word of digital symbols, characterized in that the decoding method comprises selecting from said possible symbol error positions a reduced number of possible symbol error positions and in that the decoding method comprises providing the reduced number of symbol error positions to the decoder.
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