US 11,968,072 B2
Coding and modulation apparatus using non-uniform constellation
Nabil Loghin, Freiburg (DE); Lothar Stadelmeier, Stuttgart (DE); Jan Zoellner, Braunschweig (DE); and Yuji Shinohara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Saturn Licensing LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/334,884.
Application 18/334,884 is a continuation of application No. 17/993,373, filed on Nov. 23, 2022, granted, now 11,716,238.
Application 17/993,373 is a continuation of application No. 17/451,112, filed on Oct. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,539,569, issued on Dec. 27, 2022.
Application 17/451,112 is a continuation of application No. 17/119,678, filed on Dec. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,190,387, issued on Nov. 30, 2021.
Application 17/119,678 is a continuation of application No. 16/406,746, filed on May 8, 2019, granted, now 10,868,706, issued on Dec. 15, 2020.
Application 16/406,746 is a continuation of application No. 16/105,666, filed on Aug. 20, 2018, granted, now 10,326,635, issued on Jun. 18, 2019.
Application 16/105,666 is a continuation of application No. 15/699,635, filed on Sep. 8, 2017, granted, now 10,091,045, issued on Oct. 2, 2018.
Application 15/699,635 is a continuation of application No. 15/340,672, filed on Nov. 1, 2016, granted, now 9,813,279, issued on Nov. 7, 2017.
Application 15/340,672 is a continuation of application No. 14/901,894, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2014/064404, filed on Jul. 7, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 13175370 (EP), filed on Jul. 5, 2013; application No. 13183318 (EP), filed on Sep. 6, 2013; application No. 14153438 (EP), filed on Jan. 31, 2014; and application No. 14168129 (EP), filed on May 13, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0327938 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 27/34 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/36 (2006.01); H04L 27/38 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 27/3405 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0003 (2013.01); H04L 1/0009 (2013.01); H04L 1/0042 (2013.01); H04L 1/0057 (2013.01); H04L 27/0008 (2013.01); H04L 27/36 (2013.01); H04L 27/362 (2013.01); H04L 27/38 (2013.01); H04L 1/0041 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A receiving apparatus comprising:
a receiver configured to receive at least one transmission stream including symbols representative of constellation values; and
at least one processor configured to
demodulate the symbols into 10-bit cell words and to decode the 10-bit cell words into output data words representing Forward Error Correction (FEC) data words, wherein each 10-bit cell word is associated with a point of a Non-Uniform Constellation (NUC),
wherein each point (Zq) of the NUC has an in-phase component Re(Zq) and a quadrature component Im(Zq),
wherein the in-phase component Re(Zq) corresponds to a constellation position of a first vector (u0, u1, u2, u3, u4, u5, u6, u7, u8, u9, u10, u11, u12, u13, u14, u15),
wherein the quadrature component Im(Zq) corresponds to a constellation position of the first vector (u0, u1, u2, u3, u4, u5, u6, u7, u8, u9, u10, u11, u12, u13, u14, u15), and
wherein the first vector (u0, u1, u2, u3, u4, u5, u6, u7, u8, u9, u10, u11, u12, u13, u14, u15) corresponds to a vector defined as (1, 2.5983, 4.5193, 6.1649, 8.2107, 9.9594, 12.0321, 13.9574, 16.2598, 18.4269, 20.9273, 23.4863, 26.4823, 29.7085, 33.6247, 38.5854).