Broadcast transmitting/receiving system and method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitting/receiving system

• US 8,042,019 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Byoung Gill, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Choi, In Hwan, Song, Won Gyu, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Jin Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Abraham; Esaw
• Application Number:
  US12/891,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20110083056A1
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• Field of Search: 714/758, 714/784, 714/792, 375/265
• US Class Current: 714/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/10 Adding special bits or symbols to the coded information, e.g. parity check, casting out 9's or 11's
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/251 with block coding
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/271 Row-column interleaver with permutations, e.g. block interleaving with inter-row, inter-column, intra-row or intra-column permutations
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2792 Interleaver wherein interleaving is performed jointly with another technique such as puncturing, multiplexing or routing
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2936 comprising an outer Reed-Solomon code and an inner convolutional code
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/30 by a single channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0042 Encoding specially adapted to other signal generation operation, e.g. in order to reduce transmit distortions, jitter, or to improve signal shape H04L1/0067 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• 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 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03382 Single of vestigal sideband
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0202 Channel estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/066 Carrier recovery circuits H04L27/2271 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 : for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23608 : Remultiplexing multiplex streams, e.g. involving modifying time stamps or remapping the packet identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2365 : Multiplexing of several video streams
• 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 21/2385 : Channel allocation H04N21/266 takes precedence; Bandwidth allocation H04N21/24 takes precedence ; allocation of channels according to the instantaneous demands of the users in time-division multiplex systems H04J3/1682; admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896; negotiating bandwidth in wireless networks H04W28/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4347 : Demultiplexing of several video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4381 : Recovering the multiplex stream from a specific network, e.g. recovering MPEG packets from ATM cells transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• 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 21/44008 : involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6433 : Digital Storage Media - Command and Control Protocol [DSM-CC]

Abstract

A broadcast transmitting system and a method of processing broadcast data in the broadcast transmitting system are disclosed. Herein, the broadcast transmitting system includes a block processor for encoding mobile service data at a coding rate of 1/H, a group formatter for mapping the encoded mobile service data into at least one region of a data group that has a plurality of regions, wherein the data group further includes a plurality of known data sequences, a trellis encoder for trellis encoding data being outputted from the group formatter, the trellis encoder having at least one memory that is initialized at a start of each known data sequence, a multiplexer for multiplexing the trellis-encoded data with segment synchronization data and field synchronization data, and a modulator for modulating a broadcast signal including the multiplexed data.

Claims

1. A broadcast transmitting system, comprising:

a block processor for encoding mobile service data at a coding rate of 1/H, wherein H is an integer greater than 1;

a group formatter for mapping the encoded mobile service data into at least one region of a data group that has a plurality of regions, wherein the data group further includes a plurality of known data sequences, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences differ from each other in length, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart, wherein one of the plurality of known data sequences includes a first M-symbol sequence and a second M-symbol sequence that have a first pattern, and the rest of the plurality of known data sequences include an N-symbol sequence that has a second pattern other than the first pattern, and wherein N is greater than M;

a trellis encoder for trellis encoding data being outputted from the group formatter, the trellis encoder having at least one memory that is initialized at a start of each known data sequence;

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

a modulator for modulating a broadcast signal including the multiplexed data.

2. The broadcast transmitting system of claim 1, further comprising:

a randomizer for randomizing the mobile service data.

3. The broadcast transmitting system of claim 2, further comprising:

a Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder for RS-encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)-encoding the randomized mobile service data, wherein an RS frame comprises an RS frame payload including the randomized mobile service data, RS parity data added at bottom ends of columns of the RS frame payload, and CRC data added at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data.

4. The broadcast transmitting system of claim 3, wherein a transmission parameter is positioned between the known data sequence having the first pattern and one of the known data sequences having the second pattern.

5. The broadcast transmitting system of claim 4, wherein the transmission parameter includes mode information indicating whether the mobile service data are encoded at the coding rate of 1/2 or 1/4.

6. A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitting system, the method comprising:

encoding mobile service data at a coding rate of 1/H, wherein H is greater than 1;

mapping, by a group formatter, the encoded mobile service data into at least one region of a data group that has a plurality of regions, wherein the data group further includes a plurality of known data sequences, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences differ from each other in length, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart, wherein one of the plurality of known data sequences includes a first M-symbol sequence and a second M-symbol sequence that have a first pattern, and the rest of the plurality of known data sequences include an N-symbol sequence that has a second pattern other than the first pattern, and wherein N is greater than M;

trellis encoding, by a trellis encoder, data being outputted from the group formatter, the trellis encoder having at least one memory that is initialized at a start of each known data sequence;

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

modulating a broadcast signal including the multiplexed data.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

randomizing the mobile service data.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

RS-encoding and CRC-encoding the randomized mobile service data, wherein an RS frame comprises an RS frame payload including the randomized mobile service data, RS parity data added at bottom ends of columns of the RS frame payload, and CRC data added at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a transmission parameter is positioned between the known data sequence having the first pattern and one of the known data sequences having the second pattern.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the transmission parameter includes mode information indicating whether the mobile service data are encoded at the coding rate of 1/2 or 1/4.