Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system

• US 8,121,064 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2011
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Chul Soo, Choi, In Hwan, Park, Sang Kil
• Primary Examiner(s): Afshar, Kamran
• Assistant Examiner(s): Behnamian, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US13/050,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20110222494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/322, 370/26, 370/329, 370/342, 370/348, 370/395.52, 370469-470, 455/450, 455/509, 455/445, 455/130, 725/68
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/26 Arrangements for switching distribution systems

Abstract

A digital broadcasting system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, by using the extracted fast information channel (FIC) signaling information, acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and service of an ensemble, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, by using the acquired program table, detecting a descriptor defining basic information required for accessing the received service, and, by using the detected descriptor, controlling the receiving system to enable access to the corresponding service.

Claims

1. A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:

performing, by a Reed Solomon (RS) frame encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to form an RS frame belonging to an ensemble that comprises a service map table (SMT) including access information of the mobile service data;

mapping data in the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each group includes a portion of the data in the RS frame, a plurality of known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data; and

transmitting a transmission frame including the plurality of groups,

wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of sub-frames, wherein the TPC data further includes a total number of groups to be transmitted during a sub-frame for the transmission frame, and wherein the SMT further includes profile information, audio sampling rate information and language information for the mobile service data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the SMT includes at least an ensemble level descriptor including ensemble level information, a service level descriptor including mobile service level information or a component level descriptor including component level information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least the profile information, the audio sampling rate information or the language information is included in the component level descriptor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the SMT is encapsulated with a user datagram protocol (UDP)/Internet protocol (IP) (UDP/IP) header including a well-known IP address and a well-known UDP port number.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.

6. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

a Reed Solomon (RS) frame encoder for performing RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to form an RS frame belonging to an ensemble that comprises a service map table (SMT) including access information of the mobile service data;

a group formatting means for mapping data in the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each group includes a portion of the data in the RS frame, a plurality of known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data; and

a transmitting means for transmitting a broadcast signal including the plurality of groups,

wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of sub-frames, wherein the TPC data further includes a total number of groups to be transmitted during a sub-frame for the transmission frame, and wherein the SMT further includes profile information, audio sampling rate information and language information for the mobile service data.

7. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the SMT includes at least an ensemble level descriptor including ensemble level information, a service level descriptor including mobile service level information or a component level descriptor including component level information.

8. The broadcast transmitter of claim 7, wherein at least of the profile information, the audio sampling rate information or the language information is included in the component level descriptor.

9. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the SMT is encapsulated with a user datagram protocol (UDP)/Internet protocol (IP) (UDP/IP) header including a well-known IP address and a well-known UDP port number.

10. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.