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

• US 8,276,040 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2012
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• 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): Addy, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Behnamian, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US13/343,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 265 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: 714/758
• 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:

forming data groups, wherein each of the data groups is composed of data blocks and includes a portion of mobile service data in a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame, signaling data and known data sequences, wherein a third data block of the data blocks includes a first known data sequence of the known data sequences, wherein a fourth data block of the data blocks includes a second known data sequence and a third known data sequence of the known data sequences and the signaling data, wherein a fifth data block of the data blocks includes a fourth known data sequence of the known data sequences, wherein a sixth data block of the data blocks includes a fifth known data sequence of the known data sequences, and wherein a seventh data block of the data blocks includes a sixth known data sequence of the known data sequences; and

transmitting a transmission frame including data of the data groups, the transmission frame being composed of a plurality of sub-frames,

wherein the RS frame belonging to an ensemble is built by performing RS-CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) encoding on the mobile service data, the ensemble comprising a service map table (SMT) that includes access information of the mobile service data,

wherein the signaling data include transmission parameter channel (TPC) data that include information for indicating a current sub-frame number within 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 signaling data further include fast information data (FIC) data including information for rapid mobile service acquisition; and

the TPC data further include FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the SMT further 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.

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

5. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

a group formatting unit for forming data groups, wherein each of the data groups is composed of data blocks and includes a portion of mobile service data in a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame, signaling data and known data sequences, wherein a third data block of the data blocks includes a first known data sequence of the known data sequences, wherein a fourth data block of the data blocks includes a second known data sequence and a third known data sequence of the known data sequences and the signaling data, wherein a fifth data block of the data blocks includes a fourth known data sequence of the known data sequences, wherein a sixth data block of the data blocks includes a fifth known data sequence of the known data sequences, and wherein a seventh data block of the data blocks includes a sixth known data sequence of the known data sequences; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting a transmission frame including data of the data groups, the transmission frame being composed of sub-frames, wherein the RS frame belonging to an ensemble is built by performing RS-CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) encoding on the mobile service data, the ensemble comprising a service map table (SMT) that includes access information of the mobile service data,

wherein the signaling data include transmission parameter channel (TPC) data that include information for indicating a current sub-frame number within the transmission frame, and

wherein the SMT further includes profile information, audio sampling rate information and language information for the mobile service data.

6. The broadcast transmitter of claim 5, wherein:

the signaling data further include fast information data (FIC) data including information for rapid mobile service acquisition; and

the TPC data further include FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data.

7. The broadcast transmitter of claim 5, wherein the SMT further 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 the profile information, the audio sampling rate information or the language information is included in the component level descriptor.