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| 8108761 | Optimizing the size of memory devices used for error correction code storage Systems, methods, and apparatuses for optimizing the size of memory devices used for error correction code storage. An apparatus (such as a memory module) may include a number of memory devices to store data and a memory device to store error correction (ECC) bits. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103943 | Symbol reconstruction in Reed-Solomon codes Symbol reconstruction methods by applying Galois Field arithmetic to Reed Solomon codewords have been disclosed. Reconstruction methods by applying n-valued reversing logic functions are also provided. A correct codeword can be selected from calculated codewords by ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103944 | Memory architecture for high throughput RS decoding for MediaFLO receivers A system and method for increasing the throughput of a RS decoder in MediaFLO™ receivers. A MAC de-interleaver RAM architecture allowing operation of parallel RS decoders comprises of four equal portioned memory banks, a codeword buffer for data correction, and a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099656 | Reed solomon decoder Techniques, systems and computer program products are described for providing a Reed Solomon decoder. The Reed Solomon decoder includes a syndrome polynomial generator to generate syndrome polynomials for subchannel data received from subchannels. In addition, a syn... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095856 | Method and apparatus for mitigating memory requirements of erasure decoding processing A system and method corrects erroneous sections received in a memory by pre-filling at least a portion of memory with a pre-defined value. If a received data packet is valid, the valid received data packet is stored over the pre-defined values in the memory location... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082484 | DTV transmitter and method of coding main and enhanced data in DTV transmitter A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data and inserting known data place holders to the data packets, and a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data p... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078946 | Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system The invention relates to a data live streaming system comprising at least one data live streaming broadcaster LSB and at least two live streaming recipients LSR, said at least two live streaming recipients LSR forming at least a part of a peer-to-peer streaming netw... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078945 | Digital broadcasting system and data processing method A digital broadcasting system for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal and a data processing method are disclosed. First program table information and second program table information, which has an identifier different from an identifier of the first... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074151 | Correcting errors in disk drive read back signals by iterating with the reed-solomon decoder A signal detector comprises a first detector that generates raw decisions as a function of a read back signal. A selector generates a modified decision by at least one of applying a correction technique to soft information that is based on the raw decisions and mark... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074153 | Error correction devices and correction methods An error correction device is provided. When an error of an incorrect data group stored in a memory is detected, a memory controller of the error correction device executes a burst read, burst write or burst read-modify-write (RMW) operations to the memory instead o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074152 | Broadcasting receiver and broadcast signal processing method A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitte... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065593 | Erasures assisted block code decoder and related method An erasures assisted block code decoder and related method are provided. The erasures assisted block code decoder includes a first block decoder, an erasures processor, and a second block code decoder. The first block decoder, for example, a Reed-Solomon decoder, is... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060809 | Efficient Chien search method and system in Reed-Solomon decoding An efficient Chien search method in Reed-Solomon decoding is adapted for use in a processor having a parallel processing instruction set. The method includes the following steps: (a) if an error location polynomial that has been found matches a preset condition, fin... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055982 | Error correction system and method A method includes receiving payload data from a data source at error correction code (ECC) logic, where the ECC logic is adapted to process a block of data of a particular size via a plurality of stages. The ECC logic is initialized to a selected stage of the plural... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055983 | Data writing method for flash memory and error correction encoding/decoding method thereof A data writing method for flash memory and an error correction encoding/decoding method thereof are disclosed. In an embodiment of the data writing method, a 6-bit ECC scheme using a Reed-Solomon code derived from a Galois Field GF (29) is used to encode ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055981 | Control system for an optical storage device A control system determines read performance of an optical storage device according to lock performance of a re-timing signal. The control system includes a filtering and re-timing unit for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and outputting the re-timing signal ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051364 | Reed solomon decoder and IBMA method and parallel-to-serial conversion method thereof A parallel-to-serial conversion method for IBMA in a Reed Solomon decoder is used for obtaining discrepancies in IBMA iterations, thereby acquiring an error location polynomial and an error value polynomial. Syndrome sequences for the calculation of discrepancies in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042026 | Method for efficiently calculating syndromes in reed-solomon decoding, and machine-readable storage medium storing instructions for executing the method A method for efficiently calculating syndromes in Reed-Solomon decoding is adapted to be implemented in a processor having a parallel processing instruction set. The method includes: (a) initializing a syndrome vector; (b) obtaining a symbol from a Reed-Solomon bloc... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037395 | Encoding and decoding method for packet recovery A Partially-Overlapped Block (POB) code used in an encoding and decoding method in which a plurality of different block codes are combined so that the block codes partially overlap one another. A method for recovering a plurality of packets by using a loss correctio... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020080 | Receive circuit A method and a circuit for decoding a coded signal including a first decoding system capable of receiving the coded signal and of providing a first signal comprising portions considered correct and a second decoding system capable of providing a second signal from t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015475 | Erasure decoding for receivers A system comprising communication logic capable of receiving data signals from a network. The signals comprise both erasure error and random error. The system also comprises processing logic coupled to the communication logic and adapted to partition parity check by... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010880 | Forward error correction decoder and method thereof Provided are a forward error correction decoder and a method thereof. The method comprises: generating mapping information on a location of a symbol; deciding a location of an error in a packet; deciding an erasure of a subsequent packet following the packet on the ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001448 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device including an error detecting and correcting system, wherein the error detecting and correcting system includes a 3EC system configured to be able to detect and correct 3-bit errors, and wherein the 3EC system is configured to search err... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987411 | Method and apparatus for writing data to MPE buffer and an MPE-FEC system A method for writing data to a multi-protocol encapsulation (MPE) buffer includes the steps of determining whether an error is generated in address information of an MPE section by comparing a location of an erasure table referring to the address of the MPE section,... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987412 | Reed Solomon decoding of signals having variable input data rates A method and apparatus to achieve a resource optimized, class of Reed Solomon decoders, featuring balanced pipelined stages and parallel algorithmic components. The Reed Solomon decoder has two pipeline stages, with one stage implementing syndrome computation and th... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984365 | Turbo decoder with stake heritage for data block redundant version decoding An iterative decoding device for a communication receiver includes a decoder for decoding received encoded data blocks by a next iteration initialization, a controller to choose one of the first and second hard decision bits in order for the validity of a CRC field,... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984366 | Efficient chien search method in reed-solomon decoding, and machine-readable recording medium including instructions for executing the method An efficient Chien search method in Reed-Solomon decoding is adapted to be implemented in a processor having a parallel processing instruction set. The method includes the following steps: (a) calculating an error evaluation value; (b) subjecting the error evaluatio... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7971129 | Code generator and decoder for communications systems operating using hybrid codes to allow for multiple efficient users of the communications systems A method of encoding data for transmissions from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. The method operates on an ordered set of source symbols and may generate zero or more redundant symbols from the source symbols, wherein data is enc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7945844 | Robust DTV signals transmitted at two thirds the code rate of ordinary 8VSB DTV signals Redundant coding of 8VSB digital television signals using (12, 8) linear block codes reduces code rate by a third. The parity bits for the (12, 8) block coding of the bytes in a pair of (207, 187) Reed-Solomon codewords are transmitted in a 207-byte segment of data.... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7934145 | DTV transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing television signal A digital television transmitting system includes a pre-processor, a packet generator, an RS encoder, and a trellis encoder. The pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for first forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-code... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930617 | Sliding window block codes for cross-packet coding A block-code-based structure that allows cross-packet coding of data using a sliding window. In this structure, each transmitted packet contains both information symbols and parity symbols generated by the information in previous packets. This code structure allows ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921351 | Increasing error correction in data streams encoded with linear block code Disclosed is an apparatus and method for increasing the error correction capabilities of a receiver circuit that receives a data stream of encoded data symbols that are encoded with a linear block code. Analog and digital comparator circuits are used to detect laser... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921352 | DTV transmitter and method of coding main and enhanced data in DTV transmitter A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data and inserting known data place holders to the data packets, and a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data p... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7904795 | Iterative decoder with stopping criterion generated from error location polynomial A decoder for error correction an encoded message, such as one encoded by a turbo encoder, with reduced iterations due to an improved stopping criterion. The decoder includes an error correction loop that iteratively processes a message that is encoded prior to tran... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900122 | Simplified RS (Reed-Solomon) code decoder that obviates error value polynomial calculation Simplified RS (Reed-Solomon) code decoder that obviates error value polynomial calculation. A novel means is presented herein by which error magnitudes (or error values) can be calculated directly without requiring the generation of an error value polynomial (EVP). ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890844 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system using low density parity check code An apparatus is provided for transmitting a signal in a communication system using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. A controller determines a number of ‘0’s to be inserted in information data according to a first coding rate to be applied when generating ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890845 | Integrated MPE-FEC RAM for DVB-H receivers A MPE-FEC memory chip and method for use in a DVB-H receiver, wherein the memory chip comprises a TS demux; a RS decoder; a system bus; and a RAM unit adapted to simultaneously interface to the TS demux, the RS decoder, and the system bus through time-multiplexing, ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890846 | Electronic data flash card with Reed Solomon error detection and correction capability One embodiment of the present includes a electronic data storage card having a Reed Solomon (RS) decoder having a syndrome calculator block responsive to a page of information, the page being organized into a plurality of data sections and the overhead being organiz... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877673 | DTV transmitter and method of coding main and enhanced data in DTV transmitter A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced data, and a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets. The transmitter fur... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877672 | System and method for performing reed-solomon encoding An embodiment of the present invention provides a system for implementing a Reed-Solomon computation of parity bytes of a codeword, including an accumulator and a logic circuit. The accumulator is configured to hold a plurality of bits. In an embodiment, each bit he... | 01/25/2011 |
