Pulse or digital communications – Repeaters – Testing
Patent
1990-11-07
1992-11-17
Safourek, Benedict V.
Pulse or digital communications
Repeaters
Testing
358 13, 358141, 371 43, 375 58, H04N 540
Patent
active
051649632
ABSTRACT:
Digital signals, such as digitized television signals, are subjected to a source coding step followed by a channel mapping step. The source coding step causes the television signal to be represented by two or more data streams while, in the channel mapping step, the mapping is such that the data elements of the various data streams have differing probabilities of being erroneously detected at the receiver. In preferred embodiments, a first one of the aforementioned data streams carries components of the overall television signal which are regarded as the most important--for example the audio, the framing information, and the vital portions of the video information, such as motion compensation information--and that data stream is mapped such that its data elements have the lowest probability of error. A second one of the data streams carries components of the overall television signal which are regarded as less important than those of the first data stream and that data stream is mapped such that its data elements have a probability of error that is not as low as those of the first data stream. In general, it is possible to represent the overall television signal with any number of data streams, each carrying components of varying importance and each having respective probability of error. This approach allows a graceful degradation in reception quality at, for example, the television set location because as the bit error rate at the receiver begins to increase with increasing distance from the broadcast transmitter, the bits that represent proportionately less of the video information will be the first to be affected.
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Lawrence Victor B.
Netravali Arun N.
Werner Jean-Jacques
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Safourek Benedict V.
Slusky R. D.
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