Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing data in the transmitting/receiving system

• US 8,279,990 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2009
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Song, Jae Hyung, Choi, In Hwan, Thomas, Gomer
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne, David C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hassan, Sarah
• Application Number:
  US12/506,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20100195766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 375/355, 375/371, 365/200
• US Class Current: 375/355
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/95 characterised by a specific format, e.g. an encoded audio stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/25 Arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information

Abstract

A transmitting/receiving system and a data processing method of the same are disclosed herein. The receiving system may include a receiving unit, a first processing unit, and a second processing unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and an FIC segment from at least one slot. The first processing unit acquires FIC segments from the broadcast signal and obtains an FIC chunk, wherein the obtained FIC chunk is configured of a chunk header and a chunk payload. Herein, the chunk header may include FIC chunk major protocol version information and FIC chunk minor protocol version information, and the chunk payload may include signaling information between at least one ensemble and at least one mobile service. The second processing unit processes the FIC chunk based upon the FIC chunk major protocol version information and the FIC chunk minor protocol version information.

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 in order to generate an RS frame belonging to an ensemble;

mapping a portion of the RS frame into at least one of a plurality of regions of a data group, the data group including known data sequences, a fast information channel (FIC) segment and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data; and

transmitting a transmission frame including the data group,

wherein an FIC chunk includes an FIC chunk header and an FIC chunk payload,

wherein the FIC chunk payload includes at least one ensemble loop and at least one service loop,

wherein the FIC chunk header includes first length information, second length information and third length information,

wherein the first length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the FIC chunk header,

wherein the second length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the at least one ensemble loop,

wherein the third length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the at least one service loop,

wherein the FIC chunk is segmented into a plurality of FIC segment payloads and the FIC segment in the transmitted data group includes an FIC segment header and one of the plurality of FIC segment payloads,

wherein the FIC segment header includes type information indicating a type of data carried in the FIC segment,

wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC chunk, and

wherein the at least one extension field is added to the at least one service loop by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the FIC chunk header by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the at least one ensemble loop by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the at least one service loop by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

5. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

an Reed Solomon (RS) frame 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

wherein a portion of the RS frame is mapped into at least one of a plurality of regions of a data group, the data group including known data sequences, a fast information channel (FIC) segment and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, and

wherein a transmission frame including the data group is transmitted to a broadcast receiver,

wherein an FIC chunk includes an FIC chunk header and an FIC chunk payload,

wherein the FIC chunk payload includes at least one ensemble loop and at least one service loop,

wherein the FIC chunk header comprises first length information, second length information and third length information,

wherein the first length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the FIC chunk header,

wherein the second length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the at least one ensemble loop,

wherein the third length information indicates a length of at least one extension field added to the at least one service loop,

wherein the FIC chunk is segmented into a plurality of FIC segment payloads and the FIC segment in the transmitted data group includes an FIC segment header and one of the plurality of FIC segment payloads,

wherein the FIC segment header includes type information indicating a type of data carried in the FIC segment,

wherein the TPC data comprises FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC chunk, and

wherein the at least one ensemble loop includes an ensemble identifier for identifying the ensemble.

6. The broadcast transmitter of claim 5, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the FIC chunk header by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

7. The broadcast transmitter of claim 5, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the at least one ensemble loop by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.

8. The broadcast transmitter of claim 5, wherein the at least one extension field is added to the at least one service loop by one or more minor version level changes of a syntax of the FIC chunk.