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AssigneeSilicon Image, Inc.
InventorsSeung Ho Hwang, Jano Banks, Paul Daniel Wolf, Eric Lee, William Sheet, Albert M. Scalise
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A system in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video and auxiliary data) are transmitted over a serial link. Other aspects of the invention are transmitters for use in encoding data for transmission over a serial link, receivers for receiving such data, and methods for sending encoded data over a serial link. Source data to be transmitted are encoded using a subset of a full set of code words. The subset consists of preferred code words. Disjoint clusters of code words in the full set are predetermined. Each cluster includes one or more of the preferred words, and optionally also at least one additional code word that is similar to a preferred word of the cluster in the sense that it is likely to be generated as a result of probable bit errors in transmission, or transmission and decoding, of such preferred word. Each preferred word of a cluster is indicative of a single source data value. Each received code word in a cluster is mapped to the source data value determined by each preferred word of the cluster.
A communication system, including:
A receiver for receiving transmitted code words resulting from transmission, over a serial link, of a sequence of selected code words indicative of input data, wherein each of the selected code words is a member of a robust subset of a full set of code words, the full set includes predetermined disjoint clusters of the code words, the input data can be encoded as a conventional sequence of code words of the full set, the sequence of selected code words is less susceptible to inter-symbol interference during transmission over the link than would be the conventional sequence of code words, the robust subset consists of preferred words of the full set, the code words of the full set that are not preferred words are non-preferred words, each of the preferred words is indicative of an input data value, each of the clusters includes a preferred word set consisting of at least one of the preferred words, at least one of the clusters also includes at least one of the non-preferred words, and each said preferred word set is indicative of a different input data value, said receiver including:
A method for transmitting encoded data over a serial link, said method including the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.