In-band on-channel digital broadcasting method and system
First Claim
1. An in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital broadcast receiver comprising:
- receiving means for receiving an IBOC digital signal with source bit information which is duplicated by redundant modulation of signals in both upper and lower sidebands of a predetermined radio frequency (RF) mask;
demodulation means for demodulating the received IBOC signals in both the upper and lower sidebands;
determination means for determining whether the demodulated redundant source bit information in the upper sideband or the lower sideband is less likely to be erroneous; and
selection means for selecting the demodulated source bit information determined by said determination means as less likely to be erroneous without requiring prior knowledge as to which sideband is less likely to be deleteriously affected.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method and system are provided for the transmission and reception of an In-band On-channel (IBOC) FM-band digital audio broadcast (DAB) signal. The IBOC DAB signal is generated in the transmitter to substantially occupy the upper and lower sideband frequency regions in the RF emission mask for the conventional broadcast analog FM-band. Redundant source bit information is transmitted in both the upper and lower sidebands so that the loss of information in either one but not both sidebands due to large amounts of interference or distortion, caused by, for example, first-adjacent interference, does not deleteriously affect the IBOC DAB receiver performance. The system exhibits both frequency-diversity and time-diversity. The receiver determines which codeword bit estimate, corresponding to either upper or lower sideband signals, is less likely to be erroneous. The receiver system selects between decoded estimates for each pair of demodulated ECC codewords or combines both ECC codeword estimates prior to decoding in certain embodiments.
-
Citations
23 Claims
-
1. An in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital broadcast receiver comprising:
-
receiving means for receiving an IBOC digital signal with source bit information which is duplicated by redundant modulation of signals in both upper and lower sidebands of a predetermined radio frequency (RF) mask;
demodulation means for demodulating the received IBOC signals in both the upper and lower sidebands;
determination means for determining whether the demodulated redundant source bit information in the upper sideband or the lower sideband is less likely to be erroneous; and
selection means for selecting the demodulated source bit information determined by said determination means as less likely to be erroneous without requiring prior knowledge as to which sideband is less likely to be deleteriously affected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17, 22)
-
-
6. A method of receiving an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital broadcast radio frequency (RF) signal via a receiver comprising the steps of:
-
receiving the IBOC digital signal having redundant source bit information in both an upper and a lower sideband relative to a center frequency;
determining, in the receiver, whether the source bit information in the redundantly modulated upper sideband or the lower sideband is less likely to contain source bit errors; and
selecting, in the receiver, the source bit information determined in said determining step to be less likely to contain errors, so that the method of receiving is robust against adjacent channel interference. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 23)
-
-
11. An in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital audio broadcast (DAB) communication system including a transmitter and at least one receiver, the IBOC DAB system comprising:
-
a transmitter including an analog FM signal generator, an upper sideband digital signal generator, and a lower sideband digital signal generator, said transmitter for combining an analog FM signal generated by said FM signal generator together with digital sideband signals from said upper and lower sideband generators into a composite signal to be transmitted wherein said sideband signals each include source bit information;
means for transmitting said composite signal;
an IBOC DAB receiver for receiving said composite signal, said receiver including an FM analog demodulator, an upper sideband digital demodulator, and a lower sideband digital demodulator;
said receiver further including a comparing device for determining which of (i) recovered source bit information from demodulation of the upper sideband IBOC DAB signal, and (ii) recovered source bit information from demodulation of the lower sideband IBOC DAB signal, is less likely to be erroneous; and
said receiver further including a selector for selecting for further processing and forwarding to a user the demodulated or recovered source bit information from sideband signals determined by said comparing device to be less likely to include source bit errors. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 18)
-
-
19. A method of receiving a digitally modulated signal comprising the steps of:
-
receiving the digitally modulated signal which has source bit information duplicated in redundant modulation of signals in both an upper and lower sideband relative to a predetermined center frequency;
demodulating the received signals from both the upper and lower sidebands;
determining which of demodulated recovered source bit information from demodulation of one of the upper and lower sideband signals is less likely to be erroneous; and
selecting the sideband information from one of the demodulated upper or lower sideband signals, whichever was determined in said determining step as less likely to have errors in the demodulated or recovered source bit information. - View Dependent Claims (20)
-
-
21. A method of transmitting an IBOC DAB radio frequency (RF) signal in an IBOC DAB RF communication system which is robust to certain deleterious effects, the method comprising the steps of:
-
providing a source message which is to be transmitted to a corresponding receiver;
using the source message to generate codewords which are used to redundantly data-modulate a set of subcarrier signals in an upper sideband and a lower sideband of a predetermined RF mask over a plurality of baud intervals so that the resulting sideband signals include redundant source bit information thus providing frequency diversity;
time-delaying the codewords for one of the modulated upper and lower sideband signals relative to the corresponding codewords for the modulation of the other sideband in order to create time diversity in the upper and lower sidebands;
generating an analog FM-band signal to be transmitted; and
transmitting, via an antenna, the analog FM-band signal and said redundant sideband signals to an IBOC DAB receiver.
-
Specification