Digital modulating apparatus and digital demodulating apparatus

Claim 2

A digital modulating apparatus for coding a digital signal of M bit words into a digital signal of N bit words (M<N), comprising: a divider for dividing an input signal formed of M-bit words by a predetermined number greater than M and outputting a signal indicative of a quotient and a signal indicative of a residue of the division; code converting means including a bit pattern conversion table for converting the quotient output signal and the residue output signal of said dividing means into respective output signals of n i bit words ##EQU6## and a composer for composing said n i bit words of the converted quotient output signal and the converted residue output signal from said code converting means into a composite word of N bits and outputting a signal formed of the composite words.

Claim 3

A digital modulating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said divider produces output signals of h i bits respectively representing values of l i , where ##EQU7## and (l i ≦2 hi ) and the output signals of h i bits are converted into respective words of n i bits ##EQU8## by said code converting means.

Claim 4

A digital modulating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said code converting means comprises two separate bit converters, each commonly using at least a part of said bit pattern conversion table.

Claim 5

A digital modulating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said signal indicative of the quotient and said signal indicative of a residue output from said divider are both formed of words of the same number of bits and are fed to the code converting means in a time-divisional manner using a switching means.

Claim 6

A digital demodulating apparatus for demodulating a signal of N bit words that was obtained by coding a digital signal of M bit words into a digital signal of N bit words (M<N), comprising: a distributing circuit for dividing each N-bit word of an input signal into a plurality of signals of n i bits ##EQU9## and outputting the signals of n i bits; code converting means including a bit pattern conversion table for converting said plurality of signals of n i bit words into signals indicative of a quotient signal and a residue signal, which were obtained in the coding of the digital signal by dividing the digital signal of M bit words by a predetermined number; a signal multiplier for multiplying the output signal indicative of the quotient from said code converting means by the predetermined number; and a signal adder for adding the signal indicative of the residue from said code converting means and the output signal from said signal multiplier and producing a summed output signal therefrom.

Claim 7

A digital demodulating apparatus for demodulating a signal of N bit words that was obtained by coding a digital signal of M bit words into a digital signal of N bit words (M<N), comprising: a distributing circuit for dividing each N-bit word of an input signal into a plurality of signals of n i bits ##EQU9## and outputting the signals of n i bits; code converting means including a bit pattern conversion table for converting said plurality of signals of n i bit words into signals indicative of a quotient signal and a residue signal, which were obtained in the coding of the digital signal by dividing the digital signal of M bit words by a predetermined number; a signal multiplier for multiplying the output signal indicative of the quotient from said code converting means by the predetermined number; and a signal adder for adding the signal indicative of the residue from said code converting means and the output signal from said signal multiplier and producing a summed output signal therefrom.

Claim 8

A digital demodulating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said plurality of signals of n i bits comprises two signals and said code converting means comprises two separate bit converters, each commonly using at least a part of said bit pattern conversion table.

Claim 9

A digital demodulating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein plurality of signals of n i bits from said distributing circuit are each formed of words of the same number of bits and are fed to the code converting means in a time-divisional manner using a switching means.

Claim 10

A digital demodulating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said distributing circuit separates a coupling word of n j bits from each N-bit word of the input signal and divides the residual (N-n j ) bits into n i bit words.

Claim 11

A digital demodulating apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising an error detector receiving the coupling word of n j bits for performing error detection on the input signal.