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

• US 8,300,821 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2010
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, In Hwan, Lee, Chul Soo, Park, Sang Kil
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelagay, Shewaye
• Application Number:
  US12/870,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20100322424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 380/255
• 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 60/23 using cryptography, e.g. encryption, authentication, key distribution

Abstract

A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting TPC signaling information and FIC signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble, using the extracted FIC signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, detecting a conditional access descriptor indicating whether the mobile service data was encrypted, using the acquired program table, and controlling such that the encrypted mobile service data is decrypted, using information of the detected conditional access descriptor.

Claims

1. A broadcast transmitter comprising:

a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder for performing RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to package the mobile service data into an RS frame which belongs to an ensemble including a service map table (SMT) that includes Internet Protocol (IP) access information of the mobile service data and encryption information of the mobile service data, wherein the mobile service data are encrypted according to the encryption information of the mobile service data before the RS encoding;

a group formatting unit for mapping a portion of the RS frame into at least one data block of a group that comprises a plurality of data blocks, a plurality of known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are included in a fourth data block of the plurality of data blocks, and wherein a first known data sequence, a third known data sequence, a fourth known data sequence, a fifth known data sequence and a sixth known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting a broadcast signal including the group, wherein the SMT further includes IP access information for accessing to an IP stream of key information for decryption of the mobile service data.

2. The broadcast transmitter 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.

3. The broadcast transmitter of claim 2, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data is included in at least the service level descriptor or the component level descriptor.

4. The broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises type information of a system managing a key for decryption of the mobile service data.

5. The broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises information identifying encryption of the mobile service data.

6. The broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

7. The broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are positioned between the first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.

29. The method of claim 2, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are positioned between the first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.

8. 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 to package the mobile service data into an RS frame which belongs to an ensemble including a service map table (SMT) that includes Internet Protocol (IP) access information of the mobile service data and encryption information of the mobile service data wherein the mobile service data are encrypted according to the encryption information of the mobile service data before the RS encoding;

mapping a portion of the RS frame into at least one data block of a group that comprises a plurality data blocks, a plurality of known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are included in a fourth data block of the plurality of data blocks, and wherein a first known data sequence, a third known data sequence, a fourth known data sequence, a fifth known data sequence and a sixth known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart; and

transmitting a broadcast signal including the group, wherein the SMT further includes IP access information for accessing to an IP stream of key information for decryption of the mobile service data.

9. The method of claim 8, 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.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data is included in at least the service level descriptor or the component level descriptor.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises type information of a system managing a key for decryption of the mobile service data.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises information identifying encryption of the mobile service data.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are positioned between the first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.

15. A broadcast receiver comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a broadcast signal comprising a group comprising a plurality of data blocks, fast information channel (FIC) data including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data, a plurality of known data sequences, and mobile service data, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are included in a fourth data block of the plurality of data blocks, and wherein a first known data sequence, a third known data sequence, a fourth known data sequence, a fifth known data sequence and a sixth known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart;

a demodulator for demodulating the received broadcast signal;

a decoder for building and decoding a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame which belongs to an ensemble, the RS frame including the mobile service data, the ensemble including a service map table (SMT) that includes Internet Protocol (IP) access information of the mobile service data and encryption information of the mobile service data; and

a processor for acquiring the SMT from the ensemble and decrypting the mobile service data included in the RS frame according to the IP access information of the mobile service data and the encryption information of the mobile service data,

wherein the SMT further includes IP access information for accessing to an IP stream of key information for decryption of the mobile service data.

16. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, 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.

17. The broadcast receiver of claim 16, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data is included in at least the service level descriptor or the component level descriptor.

18. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises type information of a system managing a key for decryption of the mobile service data.

19. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises information identifying encryption of the mobile service data.

20. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

21. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, wherein the TPC data and the FIC data are positioned between the first known data sequence and a second known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences.

22. The broadcast receiver of claim 15, further comprising:

a known sequence detector for detecting position information of at least one of the plurality of known data sequences from the received broadcast signal; and

an equalizer for compensating channel distortion in the received broadcast signal based on the detected position information.

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

receiving, by a receiving unit, a broadcast signal comprising a group comprising a plurality of data blocks, fast information channel (FIC) data including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data, a plurality of known data sequences, and mobile service data, wherein the FIC data and the TPC data are included in a fourth data block of the plurality of data blocks, and wherein a first known data sequence, a third known data sequence, a fourth known data sequence, a fifth known data sequence and a sixth known data sequence of the plurality of known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart;

demodulating, by a demodulator, the received broadcast signal;

building and decoding, by a decoder, a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame which belongs to an ensemble, the RS frame including the mobile service data, the ensemble including a service map table (SMT) that includes Internet Protocol (IP) access information of the mobile service data and encryption information of the mobile service data;

acquiring, by a processor, the SMT from the ensemble; and

decrypting, by the processor, the mobile service data included in the RS frame according to the IP access information of the mobile service data and the encryption information of the mobile service data,

wherein the SMT further includes IP access information for accessing to an IP stream of key information for decryption of the mobile service data.

24. The method of claim 23, 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.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data is included in at least the service level descriptor or the component level descriptor.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises type information of a system managing a key for decryption of the mobile service data.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein the encryption information of the mobile service data comprises information identifying encryption of the mobile service data.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

30. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

detecting position information of at least one of the plurality of known data sequences from the received broadcast signal; and

compensating channel distortion in the received broadcast signal based on the detected position information.