Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system

• US 8,208,501 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2011
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jin Pil, Kim, Young In, Hong, Ho Taek, Choi, In Hwan, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Kim, Byoung Gill, Kim, Jin Woo, Kim, Jong Moon, Song, Won Gyu
• Primary Examiner(s): RENNER, BRANDON M
• Application Number:
  US13/211,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20120008708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 370/206, 370/392, 370/476, 370/487, 370/502, 370/532, 370/535, 370/542, 375/240, 375/265, 375/270, 375/295, 375/355
• US Class Current: 370/532
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/95 characterised by a specific format, e.g. an encoded audio stream
• 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 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0093 Point-to-multipoint

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 pre-processing enhanced data, the pre-processor comprising;

an RS frame encoder encoding the enhanced data using a Reed-Solomon scheme;

a block-processor encoding the RS-encoded enhanced data at a coding rate of 1/2 or 1/4;

a group forming unit forming a data group including the enhanced data and known data, the data group including a first, a second and a third region, the second region being positioned between the first and third regions, the first and third regions including the enhanced data, placeholders for main data and RS parity bytes, and the second region including the enhanced data and placeholders for MPEG header bytes and RS parity bytes, wherein at least one row of the data group comprises of only the known data;

a data de-interleaver de-interleaving data in the data group; and

a packet formatter forming enhanced data packets including the de-interleaved data by adding header data to the deinterleaved data;

a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video data;

an encoder performing non-systematic RS encoding on the enhanced data packets and adding first parity data to the RS-encoded enhanced data;

an interleaver interleaving data in the non-systematic RS encoded enhanced data packets;

a trellis encoder having at least one memory and trellis-encoding the interleaved data, the at least one memory being initialized by initialization data when the interleaved data correspond to a beginning of at least one known data sequence; and

a data transmission unit inserting synchronization data into the trellis-encoded data, modulating the trellis-encoded data having the synchronization data, and transmitting the modulated data.

2. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the group forming unit further inserts initialization data location holders into the data group.

3. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the pre-processor further comprises a randomizer configured to randomize the enhanced data.

4. A method of processing enhanced data in a digital broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:

pre-processing the enhanced data, the pre-processor comprising;

an RS frame encoder encoding the enhanced data using a Reed-Solomon scheme;

a block-processor encoding the RS-encoded enhanced data at a coding rate of 1/2 or 1/4;

a group forming unit forming a data group including the enhanced data and known data, the data group including a first, a second and a third region, the second region being positioned between the first and third regions, the first and third regions including the enhanced data, placeholders for main data and RS parity bytes, and the second region including the enhanced data and placeholders for MPEG header bytes and RS parity bytes, wherein at least one row of the data group comprises of only the known data;

a data de-interleaver de-interleaving data in the data group; and

a packet formatter forming enhanced data packets including the de-interleaved data by adding header data to the deinterleaved data;

a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video data;

non-systematic Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding on the enhanced data packets;

interleaving data in the non-systematic RS encoded enhanced data packets;

trellis-encoding the interleaved data, wherein at least one memory included in a trellis-encoder being initialized by initialization data when the interleaved data correspond to a beginning of at least one known data sequence; and

transmitting through a data transmission unit by inserting synchronization data into the trellis-encoded data, modulating the trellis-encoded data having the synchronization data, and transmitting the modulated data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the group forming unit further inserts initialization data location holders into the data group.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein pre-processing further comprises randomizing the enhanced data.