Apparatus, method and transmitting medium for transmitting and receiving fragmented coded data

摘要

The invention intends to transmit audio signals of multiple channels in such a manner as to be able to decode and reproduce them in real time on the receiving side. Digital signals of multiple channels are each divided into one or more fragments in an audio signal input circuit, and the fragments of multiple channels are each encoded into coded fragment data by an encoder of the corresponding channel. At the time when transmission of one of the coded fragment data is ended, a multiplexer selects another of the coded fragment data of multiple channels to be next transmitted, and supplies it to a transmitting circuit.