DECODER AND DECODING METHOD

摘要

The problems of pseudo-synchronization and out-of-synchronization caused by erroneous detection of synchronization codes of an encoder in which an error correction/detection coding and a synchronism restoring method using synchronization codes. There are provided a coding unit (212) for encoding a sequence of inputted multiplex codes (201) into error correction/detection codes comprising information bits and inspection bits; and a code sequence assembling unit (213) for assembling a sequence of output codes (205) by inserting a synchronization code into any of a plurality of periodically predetermined synchronization code insertion positions in the code sequence (201) and by arranging the information bits in arbitrary positions in the code sequence and the inspection bits in positions other than the synchronization code insertion positions in the code sequence (201).