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

• US 8,386,893 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoo, Hui Sang, Choi, In Hwan, Lee, Chul Soo, Song, Jae Hyung, Kwak, Min Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Yolanda L
• Application Number:
  US12/197,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20090051811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,649 Days
• Field of Search: 714/784
• US Class Current: 714/784
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/414 Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes, receiving a broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter signaling information and fast-information-channel signaling information from a data group contained in the received mobile service data, parsing first program table information, which describes virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble acting as a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, using the fast-information-channel signaling information, parsing second program table information including a data chunk acting as data-broadcasting contents of the mobile service data, and providing a data broadcasting service using the data broadcasting contents of the parsed second program table information.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a broadcast signal in by transmitter, the method comprising:

encoding mobile data to build at least one Reed-Solomon (RS) frame according to an RS code mode;

processing data in the at least one RS frame by;

dividing at least one data portion in the at least one RS frame into first data blocks according to a block mode, an RS frame mode and a code mode of convolutional encoding;

convolutional encoding data in the first data blocks into symbols according to the code mode of the convolutional encoding;

interleaving the symbols in the first data blocks; and

mapping the first data blocks to second data blocks according to the block mode, the block mode identifying a relationship between the first data blocks and second data blocks;

encoding signaling information for the mobile data, the signaling information including first signaling data and second signaling data;

forming at least one data group including mobile data in the second data blocks, known data sequences, the signaling information for the mobile data, and data for trellis initialization; and

transmitting the formed at least one data group via the broadcast signal,

wherein the first signaling data includes information for the block mode, information for the RS frame mode and information for the code mode of convolutional encoding, and

wherein the second signaling data includes an identifier of a service of the mobile data, an identifier of an ensemble that carries the service of the mobile data and a signaling table having a service map table (SMT),

wherein the SMT includes attributes for the service carried in the ensemble and service acquisition information for Internet Protocol (IP) streams that form the service, and

wherein the service acquisition information includes an IP address and a destination user datagram protocol (UDP) port number.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the ensemble includes a first signaling table describing the service; and

the first signaling table is distinguished from a second signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the first signaling table.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the second signaling data provides binding information between the service and the ensemble that is necessary for service selection; and

the SMT provides IP stream component level information necessary for providing the service.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the service is signaled by hierarchical signaling information that includes ensemble access information in the second signaling data and IP level service access information in the SMT.

5. A transmitter for transmitting a broadcast signal, the transmitter comprising:

a Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder for encoding mobile data to build at least one RS frame according to an RS code mode;

a block processor for processing data in the at least one RS frame, the block processor comprising;

a divider for dividing at least one data portion in the at least one RS frame into first data blocks according to a block mode, an RS frame mode and a code mode of convolutional encoding;

a convolutional encoder for convolutional encoding data in the first data blocks into symbols according to the code mode of the convolutional encoding;

an interleaver for interleaving the symbols in the first data blocks; and

a mapper for mapping the first data blocks to second data blocks according to the block mode, the block mode identifying a relationship between the first data blocks and second data blocks;

a signaling encoder for encoding signaling information for the mobile data, the signaling information including first signaling data and second signaling data;

a group formatter for forming at least one data group including mobile data in the second data blocks, known data sequences, the signaling information for the mobile data, and data for trellis initialization; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the formed at least one data group via the broadcast signal,

wherein the first signaling data includes information for the block mode, information for the RS frame mode and information for the code mode of convolutional encoding,

wherein the second signaling data includes an identifier of a service of the mobile data, an identifier of an ensemble that carries the service of the mobile data and a signaling table having a service map table (SMT),

wherein the SMT includes attributes for the service carried in the ensemble and service acquisition information for Internet Protocol (IP) streams that form the service, and

wherein the service acquisition information includes an IP address and a destination user datagram protocol (UDP) port number.

6. The transmitter of claim 5, wherein;

the ensemble includes a first signaling table describing the service; and

the first signaling table is distinguished from a second signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the first signaling table.

7. The transmitter of claim 6, wherein:

the second signaling data provides binding information between the service and the ensemble that is necessary for service selection; and

the SMT provides IP stream component level information necessary for providing the service.

8. The transmitter of claim 6, wherein the service is signaled by hierarchical signaling information that includes ensemble access information in the second signaling data and IP level service access information in the SMT.