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Method of transmitting broadcast signal, method of processing broadcast signal and apparatus for the same

  • US 7,584,489 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2007
  • Issued: 09/01/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A digital television receiver, comprising:

  • a tuner for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including an emergency alert table containing a plurality of data fields, wherein one of the data fields includes information that includes an emergency alert table descriptor, wherein the emergency alert table descriptor contains additional data fields, wherein one of the additional data fields indicates program number information in the emergency alert channel in the emergency alert table;

    a parser for parsing the emergency alert table and extracting the frequency information from the emergency alert table descriptor included in the emergency alert table and channel number information of the emergency alert channel from the emergency alert table; and

    a controller for controlling the tuner to tune to the emergency alert channel when a state of emergency channel tuning to the emergency alert channel occurs, wherein the emergency alert channel is acquired from the channel number information and the program number information.

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