Digital broadcasting system and data processing method

• US 8,220,026 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2010
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, In Hwan, Suh, Jong Yeul, Lee, Chul Soo, Song, Jae Hyung, Kim, Jin Pil
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Pankaj
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAIG, SAHAR A
• Application Number:
  US12/700,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20100135322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 725/28, 725/39, 725/62, 725/148, 725/151, 375/316
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/30 by a single channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/80 characterised in that motion picture association of America [MPAA] ratings are used

Abstract

A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data therein are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a baseband processor unit receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, the mobile service data configuring an RS frame, the RS frame including the mobile service data and at least one signaling information data describing rating information of the mobile service data, a management processor unit obtaining the rating information of the mobile service data by parsing the signaling information data from the RS frame, the management processor unit determining a presence or non-presence of a viewing restriction by comparing the obtained rating information of the mobile service data to viewing restriction rating information set by a user, and a presentation processor unit blocking the mobile service data if the viewing restriction of the mobile service data is determined.

Claims

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

performing, by a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data in order to generate an RS frame belonging to an ensemble, the ensemble including signaling information data describing rating information of the mobile service data;

mapping data of the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of groups includes a portion of data included 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 indicating an update of the FIC data; and

transmitting a broadcast signal including the plurality of groups,

wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are positioned between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences with each group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling information data includes a rating region table (RRT) describing rating classification information of the mobile service data and a content advisory descriptor (CAD) describing the rating information on the corresponding mobile service data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD) includes rating level tag information for identifying a corresponding rating level uniquely.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling information data is included in the ensemble in a non-Internet Protocol (IP) signaling format.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling information data is included in the ensemble in an Internet Protocol (IP)-based signaling format.

6. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder for performing RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data in order to generate an RS frame belonging to an ensemble, the ensemble including signaling information data describing rating information of the mobile service data;

a group formatting means for mapping data of the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of groups includes a portion of data included 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 indicating an update of the FIC data; and

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

wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are positioned between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences with each group.

7. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the signaling information data includes a rating region table (RRT) describing rating classification information of the mobile service data and a content advisory descriptor (CAD) describing the rating information on the corresponding mobile service data.

8. The broadcast transmitter of claim 7, wherein each of the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD) includes rating level tag information for identifying a corresponding rating level uniquely.

9. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the signaling information data is included in the ensemble in a non-Internet Protocol (IP) signaling format.

10. The broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the signaling information data is included in the ensemble in an Internet Protocol (IP)-based signaling format.

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

receiving a broadcast signal, the broadcast signal comprising fast information channel (FIC) data, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, mobile service data, signaling information data describing rating information of the mobile service data, and a plurality of known data sequences, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data;

demodulating the received broadcast signal;

compensating channel distortion generated in the demodulated broadcast signal based upon at least one of the plurality of known data sequences;

building a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame including the mobile service data of the channel distortion compensated broadcast signal, the RS frame belonging to an ensemble, the ensemble including the signaling information data and

obtaining the signaling information data from the ensemble,

wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein obtaining the signaling information data comprises:

obtaining the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data;

comparing the obtained rating information of the mobile service data to viewing restriction rating information set by a user; and

determining a presence or non-presence of a viewing restriction of the mobile service data.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining a display of the mobile service data by blocking the mobile service data if the presence of the viewing restriction of the mobile service data is determined.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the presence or non-presence of the viewing restriction comprises:

extracting a non-Internet Protocol (IP) signaling packet from the ensemble when the signaling information data is received in a non-IP signaling format;

obtaining the signaling information data from the extracted non-IP signaling packet according to a unique identifier of the signaling information data; and

obtaining the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the presence or non-presence of the viewing restriction comprises:

extracting an Internet Protocol (IP) datagram from the ensemble when the signaling information data is received in an IP-based signaling format;

obtaining the signaling information data from the extracted IP datagram according to a unique identifier of the signaling information data; and

obtaining the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the signaling information data includes a rating region table (RRT) describing rating classification information of the mobile service data and a content advisory descriptor (CAD) describing the rating information on the corresponding mobile service data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each of the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD) includes rating level tag information for identifying a corresponding rating level uniquely.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining a presence or non-presence of a viewing restriction of the mobile service data by referring to the rating level tag information of the corresponding mobile service data obtained from the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD).

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the RS frame is mapped into a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups including a portion of data included in the RS frame, the FIC data, the TPC data and the plurality of known data sequences.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences.

21. A broadcast receiver comprising:

a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal, the broadcast signal comprising fast information channel (FIC) data, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, mobile service data, signaling information data describing rating information of the mobile service data, and a plurality of known data sequences, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data;

a demodulator for demodulating the received broadcast signal;

an equalizer for compensating channel distortion generated in the demodulated broadcast signal based upon at least one of the plurality of known data sequences;

a Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder for building an RS frame including the mobile service data of the channel distortion compensated broadcast signal, the RS frame belonging to an ensemble, the ensemble including the signaling information data; and

a handler for obtaining the signaling information data from the ensemble,

wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

22. The broadcast receiver of claim 21, wherein the handler obtains the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data, compares the obtained rating information of the mobile service data to viewing restriction rating information set by a user, and determines a presence or non-presence of a viewing restriction of the mobile service data.

23. The broadcast receiver of claim 22, wherein the handler determines a display of the mobile service data and blocks the mobile service data if the presence of the viewing restriction of the mobile service data is determined.

24. The broadcast receiver of claim 22, wherein the handler extracts a non-Internet Protocol (IP) signaling packet from the ensemble when the signaling information data is received in a non-IP signaling format, obtains the signaling information data from the extracted non-IP signaling packet according to a unique identifier of the signaling information data, and obtains the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data.

25. The broadcast receiver of claim 22, wherein the handler extracts an Internet Protocol (IP) datagram from the ensemble when the signaling information data is received in an IP-based signaling format, obtains the signaling information data from the extracted IP datagram according to a unique identifier of the signaling information data, and obtains the rating information of the mobile service data from the signaling information data.

26. The broadcast receiver of claim 21, wherein the signaling information data includes a rating region table (RRT) describing rating classification information of the mobile service data and a content advisory descriptor (CAD) describing the rating information on the corresponding mobile service data.

27. The broadcast receiver of claim 26, wherein each of the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD) includes rating level tag information for identifying a corresponding rating level uniquely.

28. The broadcast receiver of claim 27, wherein the handler determines a presence or non-presence of a viewing restriction of the mobile service data by referring to the rating level tag information of the corresponding mobile service data obtained from the rating region table (RRT) and the content advisory descriptor (CAD).

29. The broadcast receiver of claim 21, wherein the RS frame is mapped into a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups including a portion of data included in the RS frame, the FIC data, the TPC data and the plurality of known data sequences.

30. The broadcast receiver of claim 21, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences.