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The present invention relates to a Vestigial Side Band (VSB) Digital Television (DTV) in agreement with the DTV standards (A/53) of the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), and to a method thereof. More particularly, it provides 4-VSB DTV transceiver that improves reception performance of a receiver by transmitting and receiving dual streams formed of normal data and robust data without increasing average power, regardless of a mixing rate of the normal and robust data. The 4-VSB DTV transceiver of the present research includes an encoding unit for encoding the robust data to be mapped to one of two groups having 4 levels {−5, −3, 1, 7} and {−7, −1, 3, 5}.

Provided is a Vestigial Side Band Digital Television (DTV) transmitter/receiver based on Advanced Television System Committee A/53. The invention provides DTV transmitter/receiver having a dual stream structure through generation of robust data which has a transmission rate a fourth as fast as that of normal data, and a method thereof. The DTV transmitter includes: input means for receiving digital video data stream including normal and robust data; encoding means for performing ¼ rate coding on the digital video data stream so that one bit can be transmitted through two symbols; and transmitting means for modulating/transmitting output signals of the encoding means. This invention can reduce SNR and satisfy TOV of robust data by performing additional FEC on robust data, transmitting/receiving ¼ rate coded robust data, which are capable of transmitting one-bit data for two symbols, and improving decoding ability of an equalizer and a trellis decoder of a DTV receiver.

A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver includes a block interleaver formed of a plurality of columns each comprising a plurality of rows, and the block interleaver is configured to divide the plurality of columns into at least two parts and interleave the LDPC codeword.

Memory devices and/or error control codes (ECC) decoding methods may be provided. A memory device may include a memory cell array, and a decoder to perform hard decision decoding of first data read from the memory cell array by a first read scheme, and to generate output data and error information of the output data. The memory device may also include and a control unit to determine an error rate of the output data based on the error information, and to determine whether to transmit an additional read command for soft decision decoding to the memory cell array based on the error rate. An ECC decoding time may be reduced through such a memory device.

A method for transmitting control signals in a multi-carrier system. A method for arranging pilots in a transmitting side which transmits and receives data using a plurality of sub-carriers includes acquiring transmission data to be transmitted to a receiving side, processing data of a specific region among the transmission data in accordance with hidden pilots for channel estimation of the receiving side, allocating specific radio resources exclusively for the transmission data and dedicated pilots for channel estimation of the receiving side.

A data modulating device includes: an LDPC encoding unit configured to execute LDPC encoding; and a balance encoding unit configured to input a data string subjected to encoding by the LDPC encoding unit as data to be encoded, and convert k bits of this data to be encoded into balance code made up of m-bit block data; with the balance encoding unit executing balance encoding of said data to be encoded using a data conversion table subjected to mapping so that a set of the k-bit data patterns of which the Hamming distance is 1 corresponds to a set of block data of which the Hamming distance is 2.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method, a device and a system for encoding and decoding and relates to the field of communication. The invention aims to improve the decoding performance and improve the accuracy of a survivor path. The method comprises the following steps: first, encoding information bits according to a first-stage encoding method to obtain a first-stage encoded codeword; acquiring the sorting data volume of each check bit of the first-stage encoded codeword, and adjusting each check bit to a corresponding position according to the sorting data volume of the check bit, wherein the sorting data volume is the value of S when the check bit is related to the first S information bits among the information bits in the first-stage encoded codeword, and S is a non-zero integer; and carrying out second-stage encoding on the first-stage encoded codeword of which the positions of the check bits are adjusted according to a second-stage encoding method to obtain a second-stage encoded codeword. The method, the device and the system for encoding and decoding are applicable to various communication systems.

A network side equipment, a user equipment, and a method for soft buffer processing are provided. The method includes allocating, by a base station, transmission resource for a User Equipment (UE), and processing a soft buffer according to at least one parameter of the soft buffer, when uplink and downlink configurations of a plurality of cells of the UE Carrier Aggregation (CA) are different, sending, by the base station, data to the UE by a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), wherein the at least one parameter of soft buffer is determined by at least one of a Primary cell (Pcell) and a Secondary cell (Scell) uplink and downlink configurations of the UE, and wherein rate matching is performed on the PDSCH.

A unequal protection hybrid automatic retransfer request method based on equality and un-equality constellation diagram mapping, it is used in MQAM communication system with which the stage numbers is M and M=2, the modulation mapping of sending end and the resolving mapping of receiving end adopt constellation diagrams that have same distribution, in the first transmission and anterior m/2-1 time retransmission, adopts equality constellation diagram, at the m/2 time and the latter retransmission adopts un-equality constellation diagram, provides higher error protection for two most significant bit in the modification symbol; the bits un-equality protection in the modification symbol of sending end reset; uses m/2 reset and opposite reset rules, at different retransmission time adopts circularly in turn, achieves alternative protecting the bits in modulation symbol; the bits in modulation symbol of receiving end reset oppositely. Reset oppositely the bits according to the reset rules of sending end, recover it into bits sequence soft value before sending end bits resetting. It promotes the signals S/N of combining soft value after demodulating and resolving mapping at receiving end, reduces efficiently grouping retransmission time, makes the output of system maximum.

In a Maximum A posteriori Probability decoding (MAP decoding), a correlation and a deviation of noises for past and future states which depend on input signal patterns in past N bits and future Q bits are calculated by training by a noise correlation arithmetic operating unit 84 and they are stored. Upon reproduction, in a white noise arithmetic operating unit 91, white noise values for the past and future states in which colored noises are converted into white noises are obtained by using the stored correlation and deviation of the noises. In an input signal arithmetic operating unit 92, an input signal (channel information) Λc(y_k|S^m_k) of the MAP decoding is calculated from the white noise values and the deviation for the past and future states. A likelihood in the MAP decoding is obtained from the input signal.

A data transfer method via a packet oriented channel and a continuous channel in parallel between a mobile station and a base stations, where the transfer via the continuous channel is interrupted whereby at least one transfer gap is formed.

Two-dimensional Code having superior decoding property which is possible to control the level of error correcting codes, and method for encoding and decoding the two-dimensional Code is provided. The two-dimensional code includes finding pattern area comprised finding patterns for discriminating the code area from whole image, timing pattern area comprised timing patterns for checking a position of data area from the whole code and positions of each cells of the data area, and data area inputted various kinds of data and decoding information of data itself.

Methods and apparatus for enabling effective decoding of rate-compatible punctured codes are presented herein. A puncturing component can derive one or more partial puncturing patterns and corresponding decoding matrices/graphs that represent punctured code from a parity check matrix/graph of a mother code and a puncturing pattern specified for the mother code. Further, a rowcombining component can combine rows of the parity check matrix/graph based on the derived one or more partial puncture patterns. Further, the rowcombining component can create at least one decoding matrix/graph to represent the punctured code based on the combined rows. In addition, a selection component can select a decoding matrix/graph from the created at least one decoding matrix/graph that does not contain a girth-4 cycle.

A system and method for transmitting and receiving acknowledgement information are provided. A method for communications device operations includes determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response for each CC in a set of configured CCs, thereby producing a set of HARQ responses, generating an information vector from the set of HARQ responses, encoding the information vector, and transmitting the encoded information vector. A sub-vector of one or more bits selected from the information vector is assigned a fixed vector value independent of HARQ responses for CCs not in a set of CCs when the set of CCs is not empty, where the set of CCs comprises at least one CC whose HARQ response is equal to DTX.

A diversity transmission scheme uses a number of antennas that is greater than the limitation of two transmitting antennas in the well-known Alamouti scheme. In an embodiment comprising four antennas, the antennas transmit in pairs such that each antenna transmits a block that is used in the Alamouti scheme. This increases the transmission rate. For example, the transmission of two signals at a given time slot increases transmission rate by a factor of two. The invention not only increases the number of antennas, but also increases the transmission rate. At the receiver end, the code is decoded without matrix inversion and without much noise enhancement. Moreover, noise enhancement stability is increased by a simple, partial interference cancellation scheme, that results in improved decoding performance.

The present invention relates to a video encoding method and apparatus for setting and encoding quantization parameters, and to a video decoding method and apparatus for decoding and setting quantization parameters in a video encoding and decoding apparatus which uses blocks having various sizes and depths as encoding and decoding units.

The invention discloses a method and device of generating low-density odd-even check codes for transmission in a channel. The method comprises the steps that a sending end conducts expansion on an LDPC code check basis matrix to obtain an LDPC code check matrix for coding; the sending end utilizes the LDPC code check matrix for coding to conduct LDPC coding on words to be coded to obtain encoded words; the sending end shortens the encoded words to generate the LDPC codes transmitted in the channel. By means of the technical scheme, a better decoding performance is obtained, the flexibility is higher, and the requirement of generating encoded words with different code lengths is met.

Techniques for encoding and decoding data are described. In an aspect, multiple code rates for a forward error correction (FEC) code may be supported, and a suitable code rate may be selected based on packet size. A transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for code rate selection, determine a packet size to use for data transmission, and select a code rate from among the multiple code rates based on the packet size and the at least one threshold. In another aspect, multiple FEC codes of different types (e.g., Turbo, LDPC, and convolutional codes) may be supported, and a suitable FEC code may be selected based on packet size. The transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for FEC code selection and may select an FEC code from among the multiple FEC codes based on the packet size and the at least one threshold.