BROADCASTING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, BROADCASTING SIGNAL RECEPTION DEVICE, BROADCASTING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND BROADCASTING SIGNAL RECEPTION METHOD

• US 20170013026A1
• Filed: 11/11/2015
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KWAK, Minsung, LEE, Jangwon, MOON, Kyoungsoo, KO, Woosuk, HONG, Sungryong
• Granted Patent: US 10,305,940 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/42 Arrangements for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/07 characterised by processes or methods for the generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/72 using electronic programme guides [EPG] focusing on identifying broadcast space time H04H60/39 ; menu type display of EPG in television receivers H04N21/47
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1066 Session management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/326 in the transport layer [OSI layer 4] H04L69/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream

Abstract

A broadcast transmission method includes generating service data for a service, generating service layer signaling data, the service layer signaling data including first signaling data, second signaling data and third signaling data, the first signaling data including reference information referring to the second signaling data and the third signaling data, the second signaling data including a description of a component of the service, and the third signaling data including acquisition information of the component related to the service, and transmitting a broadcast signal including the service data and the service layer signaling data.

Claims

1. A broadcast transmission method comprising:

generating service data for a service;

generating service layer signaling data,

wherein the service layer signaling data includes first signaling data, second signaling data and third signaling data,

wherein the first signaling data includes reference information referring to the second signaling data and the third signaling data,

wherein the second signaling data includes descriptions for a component of the service, and

wherein the third signaling data includes component acquisition information associated with the service;

generating low level signaling data;

wherein the low level signaling data supports bootstrapping of acquisition of the service; and

transmitting a broadcast signal including the service data, the low level signaling data and the service layer signaling data.

2. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 1, wherein the reference information includes first reference information referring to the second signaling data and second reference information referring to the third signaling data.

3. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 2, wherein the third signaling data includes a plurality of first transport session elements,

wherein the first transport session elements include information about a first transport session delivering the service.

4. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 3, wherein each of the first transport session elements includes at least one of an sIpAddr attribute indicating a source IP address of the first transport session, a dIpAddr attribute indicating a destination IP address of the first transport session, a dport attribute indicating a destination port number of the first transport session, and a PLPID attribute indicating a physical layer parameter for the first transport session.

5. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 3, wherein the second reference information includes information indicating a first transport element processed first from among the plurality of first transport session elements.

6. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 2, wherein the first reference signal includes version information indicating a version of the second signaling data and the second reference information includes version information indicating a version of the third signaling data.

7. The broadcast transmission method according to claim 3, wherein the third signaling data includes a second transport session element,

wherein the second transport session element includes information about a second transport session delivering the component of the service,

wherein the third signaling data includes at least one of a PLPID attribute identifying a physical layer pipe through which the component is transmitted and a tsi attribute identifying the second transport session.

8. A broadcast reception method comprising:

receiving a broadcast signal including service data for a service, low level signaling data and service layer signaling data;

acquiring the low level signaling data,

wherein the low level signaling data supports bootstrapping of acquisition of the service;

acquiring the service layer signaling data,

wherein the service layer signaling data includes first signaling data, second signaling data and third signaling data,

wherein the first signaling data includes reference information referring to the second signaling data and the third signaling data,

wherein the second signaling data includes descriptions for a component of the service, and

wherein the third signaling data includes component acquisition information associated with the service; and

searching for the component based on the signaling layer data.

9. The broadcast reception method according to claim 8, wherein the reference information includes first reference information referring to the second signaling data and second reference information referring to the third signaling data.

10. The broadcast reception method according to claim 9, wherein the third signaling data includes a plurality of first transport session elements,

wherein the first transport session elements include information about a first transport session delivering the service.

11. The broadcast reception method according to claim 10, wherein each of the first transport session elements includes at least one of an sIpAddr attribute indicating a source IP address of the first transport session, a dIpAddr attribute indicating a destination IP address of the first transport session, a dport attribute indicating a destination port number of the first transport session, and a PLPID attribute indicating a physical layer parameter for the first transport session.

12. The broadcast reception method according to claim 10, wherein the second reference information includes information indicating a first transport element processed first from among the plurality of first transport session elements.

13. The broadcast reception method according to claim 9, wherein the first reference signal includes version information indicating a version of the second signaling data and the second reference information includes version information indicating a version of the third signaling data.

14. The broadcast reception method according to claim 10, wherein the third signaling data includes a second transport session element,

wherein the second transport session element includes information about a second transport session delivering the component of the service,

wherein the third signaling data includes at least one of a PLPID attribute identifying a physical layer pipe through which the component is transmitted and a tsi attribute identifying the second transport session.