DTV receiving system and method of processing DTV signal

• US 8,068,561 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• 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, Choi, In Hwan, Kim, Jong Moon, Song, Won Gyu, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Jin Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bocure; Tesfaldet
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, LAWRENCE B
• Application Number:
  US13/069,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20110170015A1
• Time in Patent Office: 252 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240, 375/240.01, 375/240.18, 375/240.24, 375259-260, 375/265, 375/270, 375/277, 375/295, 375/301, 375/316, 375/321, 375/340, 375/341, 375/350, 375/355, 375/377, 348/608, 348723-726, 348/729, 348/E5.077, 386/46, 386 65- 66, 386/71, 386 84- 85, 386/88, 386/98, 714/755, 714761-762, 714/776, 714/E11.011, 370/314, 370/535, 370/537
• US Class Current: 375/316
• 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 27/066 Carrier recovery circuits H04L27/2271 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2272 using phase locked loops H04L27/2273 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/027 extracting the synchronising or clock signal from the received signal spectrum, e.g. by using a resonant or bandpass circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/042 Detectors therefor, e.g. correlators, state machines digital correlators in general G06F17/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• 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 21/4382 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 5/455 Demodulation-circuits

Abstract

A broadcast receiver and a method of processing broadcast data in the broadcast receiver are disclosed. The broadcast receiver includes a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data, main service data and known data sequences; an equalizer for compensating channel distortion of the broadcast signal using at least one of the known data sequences; a first decoder for decoding the mobile service data in the equalized broadcast signal; and a second decoder for CRC-decoding and RS-decoding the turbo-decoded mobile service data.

Claims

1. A broadcast receiver for processing broadcast data, the broadcast receiver comprising:

a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, main service data and known data sequences, wherein the broadcast signal is processed in a broadcast transmitter by;

generating a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame by adding RS parity data to bottom ends of columns of an RS frame payload and adding Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) data to right ends of rows of the RS frame payload having the RS parity data, the RS frame payload including mobile service data,

interleaving, by an interleaver, symbols corresponding to the mobile service data in the RS frame according to the following equation;

P(i)={S×

i×

(i+1)/2} mod L, wherein 0≦

i≦

L−

1, L≧

K, L=2ⁿ, n and S are integers, and K is a number of symbols being inputted to the interleaver,

mapping mobile service data corresponding to the interleaved symbols into at least one region of a data group and adding main service data place holders, non-systematic RS parity data place holders and MPEG header data place holders to the data group,

removing the main service data place holders and the non-systematic RS parity data place holders from the data group, replacing the MPEG header data place holders with MPEG header data and outputting mobile service data packets,

firstly multiplexing the mobile service data packets with main service data packets having main service data, and

secondly multiplexing the first-multiplexed data packets with field synchronization data and segment synchronization data,

an equalizer for compensating channel distortion of the broadcast signal using at least one of the known data sequences;

a first decoder for decoding the mobile service data in the equalized broadcast signal; and

a second decoder for CRC-decoding and RS-decoding the decoded mobile service data.

2. The broadcast receiver of claim 1, wherein at least two of the known data sequences have different lengths.

3. The broadcast receiver of claim 1, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart.

4. The broadcast receiver of claim 1, further comprising a derandomizer for derandomizing the CRC-decoded and RS-decoded mobile service data.

5. A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast receiver, the method comprising:

receiving, by a tuner, a broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, main service data and known data sequences, wherein the broadcast signal is processed in a broadcast transmitter by;

generating a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame by adding RS parity data to bottom ends of columns of an RS frame payload and adding Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) data to right ends of rows of the RS frame payload having the RS parity data, the RS frame payload including mobile service data,

interleaving, by an interleaver, symbols corresponding to the mobile service data in the RS frame according to the following equation;

P(i)={S×

i×

(i+1)/2} mod L, wherein 0≦

i≦

L−

1, L≧

K, L=2ⁿ, n; and

S are integers, and K is a number of symbols being inputted to the interleaver,

mapping mobile service data corresponding to the interleaved symbols into at least one region of a data group and adding main service data place holders, non-systematic RS parity data place holders and MPEG header data place holders to the data group,

removing the main service data place holders and the non-systematic RS parity data place holders from the data group, replacing the MPEG header data place holders with MPEG header data and outputting mobile service data packets,

firstly multiplexing the mobile service data packets with main service data packets having main service data, and

secondly multiplexing the first-multiplexed data packets with field synchronization data and segment synchronization data,

compensating, by an equalizer, channel distortion of the broadcast signal using at least one of the known data sequences;

decoding by a first decoder, the mobile service data in the equalized broadcast signal; and

CRC-decoding and RS-decoding, by a second decoder, the decoded mobile service data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least two of the known data sequences have different lengths.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising derandomizing the CRC-decoded and RS-decoded mobile service data.