Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system

• US 7,869,357 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2010
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• 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): ABELSON, RONALD B
• Application Number:
  US12/719,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20100215059A1
• Time in Patent Office: 309 Days
• Field of Search: 370229-231, 370/235, 375/265
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0057 Block codes H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence
• 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 1/0089 in payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03382 Single of vestigal sideband
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03171 Arrangements involving maximum a posteriori probability [MAP] detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03203 Trellis search techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03318 Provision of soft decisions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/04 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits

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 transmitter, the digital broadcast transmitter comprising:

a randomizer configured to randomize enhanced data;

a first encoder configured to generate data frames including the randomized enhanced data by performing at least one of error correction encoding and error detection encoding on the randomized enhanced data;

a second encoder configured to encode the enhanced data in the data frames with a coding rate of G/H, wherein G and H are positive integers and G is less than H;

a group formatting unit configured to map a portion of the enhanced data encoded by the second encoder into a first data group and to add a plurality of known data sequences, MPEG header data holders, main audio and video (AV) data holders, and parity data holders to the first data group;

a deinterleaver configured to deinterleave data included in the first data group and to output a second data group;

a packet formatter configured to remove the main AV data holders and the parity data holders in the second data group and to replace the MPEG header data holders in the second data group with MPEG header data, thereby outputting K numbers of enhanced data packets per the second data group, wherein the MPEG header data are positioned at a starting position of each enhanced data packet, and wherein K is an integer greater than 1;

a multiplexer configured to multiplex the enhanced data packets with main data packets including AV data;

an interleaves configured to interleave data in the multiplexed enhanced and main data packets and to output a third data group, wherein the third data group comprises the portion of the enhanced data, the plurality of known data sequences, the MPEG header data, and the main A/V data;

a trellis encoder configured to have at least one memory and to trellis-encode data in the third data group, the at least one memory being initialized at a beginning of each known data sequence; and

a data transmission unit configured to multiplex segment synchronization data and field synchronization data with the trellis-encoded data, to modulate the trellis-encoded data multiplexed with the segment synchronization data and the field synchronization data, and to transmit a broadcast signal including the modulated data.

2. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, further comprising:

a third encoder configured to encode the multiplexed enhanced and main data packets by adding systematic RS parity data to the main data packets and adding non-systematic RS parity data to the enhanced data packets.

3. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the group formatting unit further adds initialization data to be used for initializing the at least one memory in the trellis encoder to the first data group.

4. A method of transmitting a digital broadcast signal in a digital broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:

randomizing, by a randomizer, enhanced data;

generating data frames including the randomized enhanced data by performing at least one of error correction encoding and error detection encoding on the randomized enhanced data;

encoding the enhanced data in the data frames with a coding rate of G/H, wherein G and H are positive integers and G is less than H;

mapping a portion of the enhanced data encoded with the coding rate of G/H into a first data group and adding a plurality of known data sequences, MPEG header data holders, main audio and video (AV) data holders, and parity data holders to the first data group;

deinterleaving, by a deinterleaver, data included in the first data group and outputting a second data group;

removing the main AV data holders and the parity data holders in the second data group and replacing the MPEG header data holders in the second data group with MPEG header data, thereby outputting K numbers of enhanced data packets per the second data group, wherein the MPEG header data are positioned at a starting position of each enhanced data packet, and wherein K is an integer greater than 1;

multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets including main AV data;

interleaving, by an interleaver, data in the multiplexed enhanced and main data packets and outputting a third data group, wherein the third data group comprises the portion of the enhanced data, the plurality of known data sequences, the MPEG header data, and the main A/V data;

trellis-encoding data in the third data group in a trellis encoder having at least one memory, the at least one memory being initialized at a beginning of each known data sequence;

multiplexing segment synchronization data and field synchronization data with the trellis-encoded data;

modulating the trellis-encoded data multiplexed with the segment synchronization data and the field synchronization data; and

transmitting a broadcast signal including the modulated data.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

encoding the multiplexed enhanced and main data packets by adding systematic RS parity data to the main data packets and adding non-systematic RS parity data to the enhanced data packets.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein mapping the portion of the enhanced data to the first data group further adds initialization data to be used for initializing the at least one memory in the trellis encoder to the first data group.