A METHOD FOR ENCODING MULTIWORD INFORMATION BY WORDWISE INTERLEAVING AND ERROR PROTECTION, WITH ERROR LOCATIVE CLUES DERIVED FROM HIGH PROTECTIVITY WORDS AND DIRECTED TO LOW PROTECTIVITY WORDS, A METHOD FOR DECODING SUCH INFORMATION, A DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND/OR DECODING SUCH INFORMATION, AND A CARRIER PROVIDED WITH SUCH INFORMATION

摘要

Multiword information is encoded as based on multibit symbols in relativecontiguity with respect to a medium, whilst providingwordwise interleaving and wordwise error protection code facilities. This mayprovide error locative clues across multiword groups, thatoriginate in high protectivity clue words and are directed to low protectivitytarget words. Further, the clue words may have a first uniformsize and be interspersed in a first uniform manner. The target words may havea second uniform size and be interspersed in a seconduniform manner. In particular, the organization may be applied for use withoptical storage.