Patent ID: 7840883

Claim:
A Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) receiver for performing forward error correction, the DVB-H receiver comprising: a tuner, for receiving a data stream; a base-band receiver, coupled to the tuner, for continuously extracting and transmitting data bytes of a multi-protocol-encapsulation forward-error-correction (MPE-FEC) frame from the data stream; a backend system, coupled to the base-band receiver, for generating corresponding syndromes of the extracted data bytes once all data bytes of the MPE-FEC frame are received, outputting the syndromes to the base-band receiver, and forward error correcting the MPE-FEC frame according to error values corresponding to the syndromes; and a storage device, coupled to the backend system, for storing the extracted data bytes; wherein the base-band receiver generates the error values and error locations according to the received syndromes and then outputs the error values and error locations to the backend system.