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Error and loss correction in a data base stored on a two dimensional medium and method

  • US 5,479,418 A
  • Filed: 07/10/1992
  • Issued: 12/26/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A digital data base having record data codes representing an initial digital record, and having redundant check codes and one or more redundant check-check codes, comprising:

  • a base mediuma two dimensional code storage area on the surface of the base medium having a coordinate system for defining positions therein;

    code sites physically positioned within the code storage area at predetermined coordinates for containing the record data codes and the redundant check codes and the redundant check-check codes, and having code bit states defined by the presence or absence of toner material deposited on the base medium;

    a plurality of error checking sets formed by the code sites, each error checking set containing one or more data codes and one or more check codes, the bits in the check codes in each error checking set determined by the bits in the data codes of the same error checking set and in error correcting relationship therewith, each data code site and each check code site are included in "L" error checking sets to provide "L" levels of inter-locking error checking; and

    a plurality of error checking-checking sets formed by the code sites, each error checking-checking set containing one or more check codes and one or more check-check codes, the bits in the check-check codes in the error checking-checking set determined by the bits in the check codes thereof and in error correcting relationship therewith.

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