VSB reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data

• US 7,643,093 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2006
• Issued: 01/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, In Hwan, Gu, Young Mo, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kang, Kyung Won
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US11/563,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20070113141A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,135 Days
• Field of Search: 348/614, 348/21, 348/607, 348/554, 348/553, 348/608, 348723-726, 348/611, 348/612, 375/277, 375/262, 375/264, 375/265, 375/341, 375/295, 375/240.01, 375/240.12, 375/240.26, 375/286, 375/321
• US Class Current: 348/614
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/27 using interleaving techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2936 comprising an outer Reed-Solomon code and an inner convolutional code
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0047 Decoding adapted to other signal detection operation in conjunction with sequence estimation or equalization H04L25/03286
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0054 Maximum-likelihood or sequential decoding, e.g. Viterbi, Fano, ZJ algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0057 Block codes H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0059 Convolutional codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/006 Trellis-coded modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0065 Serial concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/007 Unequal error protection for format H04L1/0078; for codes per se H03M13/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03382 Single of vestigal sideband
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03057 with a recursive structure H04L25/03031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/061 providing hard decisions only; arrangements for tracking or suppressing unwanted low frequency components, e.g. removal of dc offset removal of dc offset in coupling arrangements H04L25/029, H04L25/0296
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/062 Setting decision thresholds using feedforward techniques only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/04 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/06 Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2383 Channel coding or modulation of digital bit-stream, e.g. QPSK modulation arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received by adapting the channel coding H04L1/0009; analogue front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4382 : Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/211 : Ghost signal cancellation H04N23/81 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/52 : Systems for transmission of a pulse code modulated video signal with one or more other pulse code modulated signals, e.g. an audio signal or a synchronizing signal assembling of a multiplex stream by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, remultiplexing of multiplex streams, insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, assembling of a packetised elementary stream at server side H04N21/236; disassembling of a multiplex stream, remultiplexing of multiplex streams, extraction or processing of Service Information, disassembling of packetised elementary stream at client side H04N21/434

Abstract

A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB receiver for processing the data received from the VSB transmission system in a reverse order of the VSB transmission system by using the sequence, and a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the data from the modified legacy VSB receiver into the MPEG data and the supplemental data. The VSB reception system also includes a supplemental data processor for processing the supplemental data segment from the demultiplexer in a reverse order of the transmission system, to obtain the supplemental data, thereby carrying out the slicer prediction, decoding, and symbol decision more accurately by using the predefined sequence, to improve a performance.

Claims

1. A digital television receiver, comprising:

a demodulator detecting sync information in an input signal comprising first service data multiplexed with second service data and demodulate the input signal;

a first forward error correction (FEC) decoder decoding the demodulated signal for first forward error correction (FEC) in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the input signal;

a demultiplexer demultiplexing the first service data and the second service data from the FEC-decoded signal; and

a second forward error correction (FEC) decoder decoding the demultiplexed first service data for second forward error correction (FEC) in order to additionally correct errors in the first service data that occurred during the reception of the input signal.

2. The digital television receiver of claim 1, wherein the first FEC decoder comprises a first Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder.

3. The digital television receiver of claim 2, wherein the first RS decoder removes first parity data from the first and second service data.

4. The digital television receiver of claim 3, wherein the second FEC decoder comprises a second Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder.

5. The digital television receiver of claim 4, wherein the second RS decoder removes second parity data from the demultiplexed first service data.

6. The digital television receiver of claim 5, wherein a length of the first parity data is different from a length of the second parity data.

7. The digital television receiver of claim 6, wherein the length of the first parity data is less than the length of the second parity data.

8. A method of decoding a digital broadcast signal, the method comprising:

detecting sync information in an input signal comprising first service data multiplexed with second service data and demodulating the input signal;

decoding the demodulated signal for first forward error correction (FEC) in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the input signal;

demultiplexing the first service data and the second service data from the FEC-decoded signal; and

decoding the demultiplexed first service data for second forward error correction (FEC) in order to additionally correct errors in the first service data that occurred during the reception of the input signal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein decoding the demodulated signal for first FEC comprises Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding the first and second service data included in the demodulated signal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein RS decoding the first and second service data comprises removing first parity data from the first and second service data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein decoding the demultiplexed first service data for second FEC comprises Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding the demultiplexed first service data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein RS decoding the demultiplexed first service data comprises removing second parity data from the demultiplexed first service data.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a length of the first parity data is different from a length of the second parity data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the length of the first parity data is less than the length of the second parity data.

15. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

a first forward error correction (FEC) coder coding first service data for first forward error correction (FEC) in order to reduce errors in the first service data during data transmission;

a first multiplexer multiplexing the FEC-coded first service data and second service data;

a second forward error correction (FEC) coder coding the multiplexed first and second service data for second forward error correction (FEC) in order to reduce errors in the first and second service data during data transmission;

a frame formatter adding sync information to the FEC-coded first and second service data; and

a modulator modulating the FEC-coded first and second service data containing the sync information for data transmission.

16. The broadcast transmitter of claim 15, wherein the first FEC coder comprises a first Reed-Solomon (RS) coder.

17. The broadcast transmitter of claim 16, wherein the first RS coder adds first parity data to the first service data.

18. The broadcast transmitter of claim 17, wherein the second FEC coder comprises a second Reed-Solomon (RS) coder.

19. The broadcast transmitter of claim 18, wherein the second RS coder adds second parity data to the multiplexed first and second service data.

20. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein a length of the first parity data is different from a length of the second parity data.

21. The broadcast transmitter of claim 20, wherein the length of the first parity data is greater than the length of the second parity data.

22. A method of encoding a digital broadcast signal, the method comprising:

coding first service data for first forward error correction (FEC) in order to reduce errors in the first service data during data transmission;

multiplexing the FEC-coded first service data and second service data;

coding the multiplexed first and second service data for second forward error correction (FEC) in order to reduce errors in the first and second service data during data transmission

adding sync information to the FEC-coded first and second service data; and

modulating the FEC-coded first and second service data containing the sync information for data transmission.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein coding first service data for first FEC comprises Reed-Solomon (RS) coding the first service data.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein RS coding the first service data comprises adding first parity data to the first service data.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein coding the multiplexed first and second service data comprises Reed-Solomon (RS) coding the multiplexed first and second service data.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein RS coding the multiplexed first and second service data comprises adding second parity data to the multiplexed first and second service data.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein a length of the first parity data is different from a length of the second parity data.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the length of the first parity data is greater than the length of the second parity data.

29. A digital television (DTV) receiver, comprising:

a sync detector detecting sync information in a digital television (DTV) signal comprising first service data multiplexed with second service data;

a demodulator demodulating the DTV signal;

a first decoder decoding the demodulated DTV signal for first error correction in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the DTV signal;

a data extractor extracting the first service data from the decoded DTV signal; and

a second decoder further decoding the extracted first service data for second error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the first service data that occurred during the reception of the DTV signal.

30. The DTV receiver of claim 29, wherein the first decoder comprises a trellis decoder performing trellis decoding on the demodulated DTV signal.

31. The DTV receiver of claim 29, wherein the second decoder comprises a Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder performing IRS decoding on the extracted first service data.

32. A method of processing digital broadcast data, the method comprising:

detecting sync information in a digital television (DTV) signal comprising first service data multiplexed with second service data;

demodulating the DTV signal;

decoding the demodulated DTV signal for first error correction in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the DTV signal;

extracting the first service data from the decoded DTV signal; and

further decoding the extracted first service data for second error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the first service data that occurred during the reception of the DTV signal.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein decoding the demodulated DTV signal for first error correction comprises performing trellis decoding on the demodulated DTV signal.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein decoding the extracted first service data for second error correction comprises performing Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding on the extracted first service data.

35. A method of processing data in a transmission system, the method comprising:

performing first encoding on first data in a first encoder, the first data being input to the first encoder through a first path and including at least audio or video data;

multiplexing the encoded first data with second data in a multiplexer, the second data being input to the multiplexer through a second path different from the first path and including at least audio or video data;

performing second encoding on the multiplexed first and second data in a second encoder, the second encoding being different from the first encoding; and

adding sync information to the first and second data encoded in the second encoder.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the first encoding or the second encoding is forward error correction (FEC) encoding.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the FEC encoding is Reed Solomon (RS) encoding.

38. A transmission system for processing data, the transmission system comprising:

a first encoder performing first encoding on first data, the first data being input to the first encoder through a first path and including at least audio or video data;

a multiplexer multiplexing the encoded first data with second data, the second data being input to the multiplexer through a second path different from the first path and including at least audio or video data;

a second encoder performing second encoding on the multiplexed first and second data, the second encoding being different from the first encoding; and

an inserter for inserting sync information into the first and second data encoded in the second encoder.

39. The transmission system of claim 38, wherein the first encoding or the second encoding is forward error correction (FEC) encoding.

40. The transmission system of claim 39, wherein the FEC encoding is Reed Solomon (RS) encoding.

41. A method of processing data in a reception system, the method comprising:

detecting sync information from a signal in a sync detector, the signal including first data multiplexed with second data, the first and second data including at least audio or video data;

performing first decoding on the multiplexed first and second data in a first decoder;

separating the first data from the decoded first and second data in a demultiplexer, the first data being output from the demultiplexer through a first path, the second data being output from the demultiplexer through a second path different from the first path; and

performing second decoding on the separated first data in a second decoder, the second decoding being different from the first decoding.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the first decoding or the second decoding is forward error correction (FEC) decoding.

43. The method of claim 42, wherein the FEC decoding is Reed Solomon (RS) decoding.

44. A reception system for processing data, the reception system comprising:

a sync detector detecting sync information from a signal including first data multiplexed with second data, the first and second data including at least audio or video data;

a first decoder performing first decoding on the multiplexed first and second data, a demultiplexer separating the first data from the decoded first and second data, the first data being output from the through a first path, the second data being output from the demultiplexer through a second path different from the first path; and

a second decoder performing second decoding on the separated first data, the second decoding being different from the first decoding.

45. The reception system of claim 44, wherein the first decoding or the second decoding is forward error correction (FEC) decoding.

46. The reception system of claim 45, wherein the FEC decoding is Reed Solomon (RS) decoding.