A receiving apparatus which receives multiplexed data which is obtained by multiplexing coded audio data and coded picture data, said receiving apparatus comprising: a demultiplexing unit configured to separate the multiplexed data into the coded audio data and the coded picture data; an audio processing unit configured to decode the separated coded audio data; and a picture decoding unit configured to decode the separated coded picture data, wherein said picture decoding unit includes a block decoding unit configured to decode coded block data included in the coded picture data, the coded block data being obtained by dividing a picture signal into plural blocks, generating a residual block image from a block image of the respective blocks and a predictive block image obtained by intra-picture prediction or inter-picture prediction, and coding, on a block basis, coefficients obtained by performing orthogonal transformation and quantization on the residual block image, said block decoding unit includes: a coefficient number decoding unit configured to decode the coded block data to obtain the number of non-zero coefficients which are coefficients included in a current block to be decoded and having a value other than “0”; a unit configured to obtain coefficients corresponding to a residual block image of the current block by decoding the coded block data; a unit configured to obtain the residual block image of the current block by performing inverse quantization and inverse orthogonal transformation on the coefficients corresponding to the residual block image of the current block; and a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a block image of the current block, from the obtained residual block image and a predictive block image obtained by intra-picture prediction or inter-picture prediction, said coefficient number decoding unit includes: a determining unit configured to determine a predictive value for the number of non-zero coefficients included in the current block based on the number of non-zero coefficients included in a decoded block located on a periphery of the current block; a selecting unit configured to select a variable length code table based on the determined predictive value; and a variable length decoding unit configured to perform variable length decoding on a coded stream which is generated by coding the number of the non-zero coefficients included in the current block, by using the selected variable length code table. view more

A transmitter for transmitting a digital data block to a receiver, said transmitter comprising:</claim-text> a coding circuit for coding the digital data block and generating a mother code word; a reordering circuit for reordering the mother code and generating a reordered mother code word, wherein the reordered mother code word is generated based on an ordering vector, the ordering vector defining an order in which bits forming the reordered mother code word are to be modulated and forwarded to a receiver; and a modulating circuit for modulating at least one subsequence and for forwarding, to the receiver, the at least one modulated subsequence, each of the at least one modulated subsequence having a desired number of bits taken from the reordered mother code word to fill the available bandwidth of at least one available gross rate channel. view more

A mobile terminal for use in a mobile communication system, the mobile terminal comprising: a receiver unit for receiving a sub-frame of physical radio resources comprising a control channel signal destined to the mobile terminal, a processing unit for determining based on the received control channel signal a transport format of and a redundancy version for an initial transmission or a retransmission of a protocol data unit conveying user data, and a transmitter unit for transmitting the protocol data unit on at least one physical radio resource using the transport format and the redundancy version of the protocol data unit indicated in the received control channel signal, wherein the control channel signal received within said sub-frame comprises a control information field, in which the transport format and the redundancy version of the protocol data unit are jointly encoded, wherein the processing unit is further configured for the determination of the control information field, which consists of a number of bits representing a range of values that can be represented in the control information field, wherein a first subset of the values is reserved for indicating the transport format of the protocol data unit and a second subset of the values, different from the first subset of the values, is reserved for indicating the redundancy version for transmitting the user data, and wherein the first subset of the values contains more values than the second subset of the values. view more

The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the data processor is configured to determine whether a scheduling request triggering event has occurred by determining whether second data that became available for transmission to the base station after the first SR was transmitted has a higher priority than the first data. view more

A reception apparatus comprising: a receiving section configured to receive encoded first data which is mapped to symbols in a first part of a domain comprising a time index and a frequency index, and encoded second data which is mapped to groups of symbols in a second part of the domain; and a decoding section configured to decode the encoded first data and the encoded second data, wherein: at least a part of the encoded first data is mapped to at least a part of the symbols in the first part of the domain in an increasing order according to the frequency index; at least a part of the encoded second data is mapped to at least a part of the groups of symbols in the second part of the domain and each group of the at least a part of the groups of symbols is aligned in an increasing order according to the time index; and each symbol within each of the groups of symbols is aligned along the frequency index. view more

The reception apparatus according to claim 11, wherein at least a part of the encoded second data is not continuously mapped to each symbol within each of the groups of symbols aligned along the frequency index.