Apparatus and method for localizing transmission errors to provide robust error recovery in a lossy transmission environment

摘要

A system and method for source coding a signal to localize transmission errors to a set of samples are disclosed. The signal comprises a plurality of signal elements (SEs) with each SE having a plurality of components (132). The signal is divided into a plurality of data sets (122) with each data set having a set of SEs. Each SE component of a data set is grouped into a plurality of divisions with each SE component having a plurality of bits (140). The plurality of bits of the SE components are distributed from the plurality of divisions across a generated bitstream. In one embodiment, this is used in the transmission of video signals over a potentially lossy communications channel.