APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING TRANSMISSION ERRORS TO PROVIDE ROBUST ERROR RECOVERY IN A LOSSY TRANSMISSION ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A system and method are disclosed for source coding a signal to localize a transmission error to a sample set. The signal comprises a plurality of signal elements SE with each SE having a plurality of components 132. The signal is divided into a number of data sets 122 having each data set having an SE set. Each SE component of the data set is grouped into a number of partitions with each SE component having a number of bits 140. Multiple bits of the SE component are distributed from multiple divisions through the generated bitstream. In one embodiment, this is used for the transmission of video signals over potentially lossy communication channels.