Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system

• US 7,840,868 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2006
• Issued: 11/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Byoung Gill, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Hong, Ho Taek, Choi, In Hwan, Kim, Jin Pil, Kim, Jong Moon, Kim, Young In, Song, Won Gyu, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Jin Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Baker; Stephen M
• Application Number:
  US11/542,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20100257435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• Field of Search: 714/755
• US Class Current: 714/755
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/95 characterised by a specific format, e.g. an encoded audio stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0065 Serial concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0093 Point-to-multipoint

Abstract

A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change.

Claims

1. A digital broadcast receiver, comprising:

a demodulator demodulating traffic information data including a traffic information message and system information and performing error correction on the demodulated data;

a data demultiplexing and decoding unit demultiplexing the traffic information message and the system information from the error-corrected data and decoding the demultiplexed traffic information message using the system information;

a data storage storing the system information and the decoded traffic information message; and

an application manager providing a traffic information service to a user using the stored traffic information message by extracting status information, which includes at least one of traffic-flow information, traffic-flow prediction information, and additional information, and location information associated with the status information.

2. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 1, wherein the demodulator comprises:

a demodulating and equalizing unit demodulating and channel-equalizing the traffic information data using pre-known data;

a block decoder performing soft decision decoding if the channel-equalized data represent the traffic information data and performing hard-decision decoding if the channel-equalized data represent main audio and video (AV) data;

a data processor performing error correction only on traffic information data included in the data decoded by the block decoder; and

a main data processor performing deinterleaving, Reed Solomon (RS) decoding, and derandomizing to main AV data included in the data decoded by block decoder.

3. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 1, wherein the demodulator comprises:

a demodulating and equalizing unit demodulating and channel-equalizing the traffic information data using pre-known data;

a decoder performing Viterbi decoding on the channel-equalized data;

a first data processor performing deinterleaving, RS decoding, and derandomizing on the Viterbi-decoded data; and

a second data processor performing error correction only on traffic information data included in the data processed by the first data processor.

4. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 1 wherein the application manager further extracts an identifier indicating whether the status information is the traffic-flow information, the traffic-flow prediction information, and the additional information.