Digital television system

• US 7,706,449 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2004
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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): Philippe; Gims S
• Application Number:
  US10/897,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20050041748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,104 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240.27, 375/262, 375/341, 375/240.28, 370/535
• US Class Current: 375/240.27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/006 Trellis-coded modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/02 Amplitude-modulated carrier systems, e.g. using on-off keying; Single sideband or vestigial sideband modulation H04L27/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/88 involving rearrangement of data among different coding units, e.g. shuffling, interleaving, scrambling or permutation of pixel data or permutation of transform coefficient data among different blocks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• 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 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a digital television system carrying out modulation/demodulation by VSB (vestigial side band). A VSB transmitter includes an additional error correction encoder designed in a manner that a signal mapping of a TCM encoder is considered, a multiplexer (MUX), a TCM encoder operating in a manner corresponding to state transition processes of the additional error correction encoder, and a signal transmission part including an RF converter. And, A VSB receiver includes a signal receiver part receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter, a TCM decoder, a signal processing part including a derandomizer, and an additional error correction decoder part.

Claims

1. A Vestigial Sideband (VSB) transmitter for transmitting a terrestrial broadcasting signal including main Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) data and enhanced supplemental data, the VSB transmitter comprising:

an additional error correction encoder for encoding the enhanced supplemental data for error correction;

a multiplexer for multiplexing the encoded supplemental data and the main ATSC data;

a Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) encoder for encoding or bypassing a first input data bit in accordance with whether the first input data bit belongs to the main ATSC data or the enhanced supplemental data and for trellis-encoding a second input data bit, wherein the first and second data bits are generated based on the multiplexed data; and

a VSB modulator for modulating a signal generated based on the data bits output from the TCM encoder and transmitting the modulated signal to one or more VSB receivers.

2. The VSB transmitter of claim 1, further comprising:

a randomizer for randomizing the multiplexed data;

a Reed-Solomon coder for coding the randomized data; and

an interleaver for interleaving the Reed-Solomon coded data and outputting the interleaved data into the TCM encoder.

3. The VSB transmitter of claim 2, wherein the randomizer processes the ATSC data only.

4. The VSB transmitter of claim 1, wherein the additional error correction encoder is designed in accordance with signal mapping of the TCM encoder.

5. The VSB transmitter of claim 1, wherein the additional error correction encoder uses a convolutional encoding method.

6. The VSB transmitter of claim 1, wherein the TCM encoder comprises:

a first coder for coding the first input data bit and outputting the coded first input data bit if it belongs to the main ATSC data, the first coder directly outputting the first input data bit without coding if it belongs to the enhanced supplemental data;

a second coder for coding the second input data bit; and

a VSB mapper for mapping the coded or uncoded first input data bit outputted from the first coder and the coded second input data bit into a corresponding signal.

7. A Vestigial Sideband (VSB) transmitter for transmitting a terrestrial broadcasting signal including main Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) data and additional data, the VSB transmitter comprising:

an additional error correction encoder for performing state transition processes on the additional data;

a main processor for operating in accordance with the state transition processes of the additional error correction encoder and configured to change input data if it belongs to the main ATSC data, and to bypass the input data if it belongs to the additional data; and

a VSB mapper for mapping the coded or uncoded input data outputted from the main processor into a corresponding signal.

8. The VSB transmitter of claim 7, further comprising a multiplexer for multiplexing the main ATSC data and the additional data outputted from the additional error correction encoder, and outputting the multiplexed data to the main processor.

9. The VSB transmitter of claim 8, further comprising:

a randomizer for randomizing the multiplexed data;

a Reed-Solomon coder for coding the randomized data; and

an interleaver for interleaving the Reed-Solomon coded data and outputting the interleaved data into the main processor.

10. The VSB transmitter of claim 9, wherein the randomizer processes the ATSC data only.

11. The VSB transmitter of claim 7, wherein the additional error correction encoder is designed in accordance with a signal mapping of the main processor.

12. The VSB transmitter of claim 7, wherein the additional error correction encoder uses a convolutional encoding method.

13. The VSB transmitter of claim 7, wherein the main processor comprises:

a processor for changing a first data bit of the input data and outputting the coded first data bit if it belongs to the main ATSC data, the processor directly outputting the first data bit without changing if it belongs to the additional data; and

a coder for coding a second data bit of the input data.

14. The VSB transmitter of claim 7, further comprising a data format converter for formatting the signal output from the VSB mapper and transmitting the formatted data to one or more VSB receivers.

15. The VSB transmitter of claim 14, wherein the data format converter comprises:

a synchronizing multiplexer for multiplexing the signal outputted from the VSB mapper with a field synchronizing signal and segment synchronizing signals;

a pilot inserter for inserting pilot signals into the multiplexed signal;

a modulator for modulating the pilot-signals-inserted signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; and

a Radio Frequency (RF) converter for converting the modulated signal into a Radio Frequency (RF) signal for transmission.

16. A digital television (DTV) receiver for processing a digital broadcast signal generated from encoding additional input data for additional error correction, multiplexing the encoded additional input data with conventional input data, Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding the multiplexed input data, interleaving the RS-encoded data, performing Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) encoding on the interleaved data, and transmitting a Radio Frequency (RF) digital broadcast signal including the TCM-encoded data, the DTV receiver comprising:

a tuner for receiving the RF digital broadcast signal containing first service data corresponding to the conventional input data and second service data corresponding to the additional input data;

a demodulator for demodulating the broadcast signal;

a TCM decoder for performing trellis decoding on the first and second service data in the demodulated broadcast signal for first error correction in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the broadcast signal, and for outputting the first and second service data as a soft signal; and

an additional error correction decoder for decoding the trellis-decoded second service data for second error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the second service data that occurred during the reception of the broadcast signal.

17. The DTV receiver of claim 16, wherein the first service data comprise Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) data.

18. The DTV receiver of claim 16, wherein the TCM decoder uses one of MAP (Maximum A posteriori Probability) and SOVA (Soft-Out Viterbi Algorithm) in order to output the first and second service data as a soft signal.

19. A method of processing a digital broadcast signal generated from additional error correction encoding additional input data, multiplexing the encoded additional input data with conventional input data, Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding the multiplexed input data, interleaving the RS-encoded data, performing Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) encoding on the interleaved data, and transmitting a Radio Frequency (RF) digital broadcast signal including the TCM-encoded data, the method comprising:

receiving, through a digital television (DTV) receiver, the RF digital broadcast signal containing first service data corresponding to the conventional input data and second service data corresponding to the additional input data;

demodulating the received RF digital broadcast signal;

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

outputting the first and second service data as a soft signal; and

decoding the trellis-decoded second service data for second error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the second service data that occurred during the reception of the broadcast signal.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first service data comprise Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) data.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the first and second service data are output as a soft signal using one of MAP (Maximum A posteriori Probability) and SOVA (Soft-Out Viterbi Algorithm).

22. A method of processing a digital broadcast signal generated from additional error correction encoding additional input data, multiplexing the encoded additional input data with conventional input data, Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding the multiplexed input data, interleaving the RS-encoded data, performing Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) encoding on the interleaved data, and transmitting a Radio Frequency (RF) digital broadcast signal including the TCM-encoded data, the method comprising:

receiving, a digital television (DTV) receiver, the RF digital broadcast signal containing first service data corresponding to the conventional input data and second service data corresponding to the additional input data;

demodulating at least one of the first service data and second service data included in the received RF digital broadcast signal;

performing trellis decoding on the second service data in the demodulated broadcast signal for first error correction in order to correct errors in the second service data that occurred during reception of the broadcast signal;

outputting the second service data as a soft signal form; and

decoding the trellis-decoded second service data for second error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the second service data that occurred during the reception of the broadcast signal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first service data comprise Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) data.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the first and second service data are output as a soft signal using one of MAP (Maximum A posteriori Probability) and SOVA (Soft-Out Viterbi Algorithm).