Digital broadcasting system and data processing method

• US 8,149,744 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2008
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Song, Jae Hyung, Choi, In Hwan, Hong, Ho Taek, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Byoung Gill, Suh, Jong Yeul, Kim, Jin Pil, Song, Won Gyu, Lee, Chul Soo, Kim, Jin Woo, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Lee, Joon Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): BLANTON, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US12/179,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20090028081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/09 Error detection only, e.g. using cyclic redundancy check [CRC] codes or single parity bit
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/15 Cyclic codes, i.e. cyclic shifts of codewords produce other codewords, e.g. codes defined by a generator polynomial, Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem [BCH] codes H03M13/17 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/1515 Reed-Solomon codes
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/23 using convolutional codes, e.g. unit memory codes
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2915 with an error detection code in one dimension
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2936 comprising an outer Reed-Solomon code and an inner convolutional code
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2945 using at least three error correction codes H03M13/2957 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23611 Insertion of stuffing data into a multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bitrate synchronisation arrangements in time-division multiplex systems using bit stuffing for systems with different or fluctuating information rates H04J3/073
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2381 Adapting the multiplex stream to a specific network, e.g. an Internet Protocol [IP] network transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• 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 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and 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 21/6437 Real-time Transport Protocol [RTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system may include a signal receiving unit, a demodulating unit, a demultiplexer, and an audio/video decoder. The signal receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including main service data and an RS frame including a plurality of MPH service data packets. The demodulating unit demodulates data of the RS frame. The demultiplexer identifies an MPH service data packet including an IP datagram of mobile service data with reference to an MPH header of each MPH service data packet in the RS frame, and when a stuffing data is inserted in the identified payload of MPH service data packet, removes the stuffing data from the payload and separates an audio and video data from IP datagram of the mobile service data of the payload, and outputs the separated audio and video data.

Claims

1. A method of processing data for a receiver, the method comprising:

receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data, signaling data and known data sequences;

demodulating the broadcast signal;

channel-equalizing the demodulated broadcast signal based on at least one of the known data sequences;

decoding fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data from the signaling data in the channel-equalized broadcast signal, the FIC data including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition and the TPC data including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data;

turbo-decoding the mobile service data in the channel-equalized broadcast signal;

building a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame including an IP datagram of the turbo-decoded mobile service data, wherein the RS frame comprises a plurality of mobile and handheld (M/H) transport packets, each M/H transport packet including an M-byte header, k bytes of stuffing data and an (N-M-k)-byte payload, wherein the header includes stuffing indication information indicating whether the stuffing data are included in the M/H transport packet, and wherein N and M are integers, and k is equal to or greater than 0;

acquiring the IP datagram of the mobile service data from at least one M/H transport packet included in the RS frame; and

decoding at least one of audio and video streams included in the acquired IP datagram.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes pointer field information indicating a start location of data following the IP datagram of the mobile service data in the payload of the M/H transport packet.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a length of the stuffing data is 1 byte when a value of a first data byte next to the pointer field information is 0xFF.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a length of the stuffing data is 2 bytes when values of first and second data bytes next to the pointer field information are 0xFE and 0xFF, respectively.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein a length of the stuffing data is determined based on values of first and second data bytes next to the pointer field information when the value of the first data byte is not 0xFF or the values of the first and second data bytes are not 0xFE and 0xFF, respectively.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the M/H transport packet comprises the header and the payload only, when the stuffing indication information indicates that the stuffing data are not included in the M/H transport packet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes data type information indicating that the payload of the M/H transport packet includes the IP datagram of the mobile service data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes error indication information indicating whether the M/H transport packet contains an error.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting the known data sequences from the broadcast signal, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are inserted between the known data sequences.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein at least two of the known data sequences have different lengths.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the known data sequences is repeated with a same pattern in the broadcast signal.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are encoded with a first encoding code and data included in the RS frame are encoded with a second encoding code.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first encoding code is a Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code (PCCC) and the second encoding code is a Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC).

14. A receiver comprising:

a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data, signaling data and known data sequences;

a demodulator for demodulating the broadcast signal;

a channel equalizer for channel-equalizing the demodulated broadcast signal based on at least one of the known data sequences;

a signaling decoder for decoding fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data from the signaling data in the channel-equalized broadcast signal, the FIC data including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, and the TPC data including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data;

a first decoder for turbo-decoding the mobile service data in the channel-equalized broadcast signal;

a second decoder for building a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame including an IP datagram of the turbo-decoded mobile service data, wherein the RS frame comprises a plurality of mobile and handheld (M/H) transport packets, each M/H transport packet including an M-byte header, k bytes of stuffing data and an (N-M-k)-byte payload, wherein the header includes stuffing indication information indicating whether the stuffing data are included in the M/H transport packet, and wherein N and M are integers, and k is equal to or greater than 0; and

a processor for acquiring the IP datagram of the mobile service data from at least one M/H transport packet included in the RS frame and

decoding at least one of audio and video streams included in the acquired IP datagram.

15. The receiver of claim 14, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes pointer field information indicating a start location of data following the IP datagram of the mobile service data in the payload of the M/H transport packet.

16. The receiver of claim 15, wherein a length of the stuffing data is 1 byte when a value of a first data byte next to the pointer field information is 0xFF.

17. The receiver of claim 15, wherein a length of the stuffing data is 2 bytes when values of first and second data bytes next to the pointer field information are 0xFE and 0xFF, respectively.

18. The receiver of claim 15, wherein a length of the stuffing data is determined based on values of first and second data bytes next to the pointer field information when the value of the first data byte is not 0xFF or the values of the first and second data bytes are not 0xFE and 0xFF, respectively.

19. The receiver of claim 14, wherein the M/H transport packet comprises the header and the payload only, when the stuffing indication information indicates that the stuffing data are not included in the M/H transport packet.

20. The receiver of claim 14, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes data type information indicating that the payload of the M/H transport packet includes the IP datagram of the mobile service data.

21. The receiver of claim 14, wherein the header of the M/H transport packet further includes error indication information indicating whether the M/H transport packet contains an error.

22. The receiver of claim 14, further comprising a known data detector for detecting the known data sequences from the broadcast signal, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are inserted between the known data sequences.

23. The receiver of claim 22, wherein at least two of the known data sequences have different lengths.

24. The receiver of claim 22, wherein at least one of the known data sequences is repeated with a same pattern in the broadcast signal.

25. The receiver of claim 14, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are encoded with a first encoding code and data included in the RS frame are encoded with a second encoding code.

26. The receiver of claim 25, wherein the first encoding code is a Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code (PCCC) and the second encoding code is a Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC).