Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system

• US 8,040,924 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2006
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• 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): Vu; Huy
• Assistant Examiner(s): RENNER, BRANDON M
• Application Number:
  US11/543,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20070086488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,839 Days
• Field of Search: 370/502, 370/487, 370/476, 370/392, 370/206
• US Class Current: 370/532
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• 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 1/0065 Serial concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0098 Unequal error protection

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, comprising:

a pre-processor configured to pre-process enhanced data, wherein the pre-processor comprises;

a frame encoder configured to form an RS (Recd-Solomon) frame, wherein the RS frame includes a plurality of rows including the enhanced data, each of the rows have same size,

wherein the frame encoder is further configured to perform an RS encoding for each of columns of the RS frame to add parity data for each of the columns, and perform a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) coding to add CRC checksum data for each of the rows of the RS frame;

wherein the enhanced data is included in a first data group, the first data group including first sequence of predetermined data and second sequence of predetermined data, the first sequence of predetermined data having a first length, the second sequence of predetermined data having a second length, wherein the first length is longer than the second length;

a multiplexer configured to multiplex enhanced data packets including the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video, AV, data packets including main AV data;

a data interleaving unit configured to interleave data in the multiplexed enhanced and main AV data packets;

a trellis encoder configured to have at least one memory and trellis-encode the interleaved data, the at least one memory being initialized by initialization data at a beginning of a sequence of the predetermined data; and

a data transmission unit configured to insert synchronization data into the trellis-encoded data, modulate the trellis-encoded data having the synchronization data, and transmit the modulated data.

2. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the enhanced data includes traffic information data including at least one of a message identifier, a status information including information on a local link, and a location information identifying a traffic route associated with the traffic information.

3. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, further comprising a compatible processor calculating second parity data of enhanced data packets having data changed and replacing the first parity data within the interleaved data with the second parity data.

4. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the pre-processor further comprises:

a group formatter configured to form the first data group including the enhanced data in the RS frame and place holders for MPEG header and main audio/video (AV) data,

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

a packet formatter configured to remove the place holders for the main AV data and replace the place holders for the MPEG header with MPEG header data, and output enhanced data packets including the enhanced data in the second data group.

5. A method of processing a digital broadcast signal in a transmitter, comprising:

pre-processing enhanced data, wherein the pre-processing enhanced data comprises;

forming an RS (Reed-Solomon) frame, wherein the RS frame includes a plurality of rows including the enhanced data, each of the rows have same size,

wherein the forming RS frame comprises performing an RS encoding for each of columns of the RS frame to add parity data for each of the columns, and performing a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) coding to add CRC checksum data for each of the rows of the RS frame;

wherein the enhanced data is included in a first data group, the first data group including first sequence of predetermined data and second sequence of predetermined data, the first sequence of predetermined data having a first length, the second sequence of predetermined data having a second length, wherein the first length is longer than the second length;

multiplexing enhanced data packets including the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video, AV, data packets including main AV data;

interleaving data in the multiplexed enhanced and main AV data packets;

trellis-encoding the interleaved data at a trellis encoder, wherein the trellis encoder has at least one memory and the at least one memory is initialized by initialization data at a beginning of a sequence of the predetermined data;

inserting synchronization data into the trellis-encoded data;

modulating the trellis-encoded data having the synchronization data and

transmitting the modulated data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the enhanced data includes traffic information data including at least one of a message identifier, a status information including information on a local link, and a location information identifying a traffic route associated with the traffic information.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

calculating second parity data of enhanced data packets having data changed; and

replacing the first parity data within the interleaved data with the second parity data.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the pre-processing enhanced data further comprises:

forming the first data group including the enhanced data in the RS frame and place holders for MPEG header and main audio/video (AV) data,

deinterleaving data included in the first data group to output a second data group;

removing the place holders for the main AV data;

replacing the place holders for the MPEG header with MPEG header data; and

outputting enhanced data packets including the enhanced data in the second data group.