Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data

• US 8,488,717 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jong Moon, Choi, In Hwan, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Byoung Gill, Song, Won Gyu, Kim, Jin Woo, Lee, Hyoung Gon
• Primary Examiner(s): Washburn, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y
• Application Number:
  US13/418,297
• Publication Number:
  US 20120163478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 375/295, 375/230, 375/240.25
• US Class Current: 375/295
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/09 Error detection only, e.g. using cyclic redundancy check [CRC] codes or single parity bit
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2792 Interleaver wherein interleaving is performed jointly with another technique such as puncturing, multiplexing or routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/003 at baseband only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0014 Carrier regulation of chaotic carriers H04L27/001; for multicarrier receivers H04L27/2657
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/0029 interpolation of received data signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/042 Detectors therefor, e.g. correlators, state machines digital correlators in general G06F17/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2383 Channel coding or modulation of digital bit-stream, e.g. QPSK modulation arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received by adapting the channel coding H04L1/0009; analogue front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4382 Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A method of processing digital broadcast data in a digital broadcast transmitter includes performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check encoding on mobile service data to build an RS frame; dividing the RS frame into a plurality of portions; mapping one of the plurality of portions into a first data group and inserting known data sequences, transmission parameters, place holders for non-systematic RS parity data, place holders for main service data, and place holders for MPEG header data into the first data group; deinterleaving data of the first data group to output a second data group; and removing the place holders for non-systematic RS parity data and the place holders for main service data in the second data group and replacing the place holders for MPEG header data in the second data group with MPEG header data to output mobile service data packets.

Claims

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

performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to build an RS frame;

dividing the RS frame into a plurality of portions;

mapping one of the plurality of portions into a first data group and inserting known data sequences, transmission parameters, place holders for non-systematic RS parity data, place holders for main service data, and place holders for MPEG header data into the first data group,

wherein the first data group comprises a first region and a second region,

wherein the first region comprises;

an Nth segment comprising K mobile service data bytes,

an (N+1)th segment comprising L mobile service data bytes, and

an (N+2)th segment comprising M mobile service data bytes, wherein the second region comprises;

an Oth segment comprising X mobile service data bytes,

an (O+1)th segment comprising Y mobile service data bytes, and

an (O+2)th segment comprising Z mobile service data bytes,

wherein the variables K, L, M, N, O, X, Y, and Z are integers greater than 0, and wherein K<

L<

M, X=Y=Z, and N<

O;

deinterleaving, by a deinterleaver, data of the first data group to output a second data group;

removing the place holders for non-systematic RS parity data and the place holders for main service data in the second data group and replacing the place holders for MPEG header data in the second data group with MPEG header data to output mobile service data packets;

multiplexing the mobile service data packets and main service data packets, the main service data packets including main service data;

performing non-systematic RS encoding on the mobile service data packets in the multiplexed data packets and performing systematic RS encoding on the main service data packets in the multiplexed data packets; and

interleaving, by an interleaver, data of the non-systematic RS-encoded mobile service data packets and data of the systematic RS-encoded main service data packets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein performing non-systematic RS encoding on the mobile service data packets causes insertion of non-systematic RS parity data in predetermined positions within each of the mobile service data packets.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein performing systematic RS encoding on the main service data packets causes addition of systematic RS parity data at the end of each of the main service data packets.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the RS frame comprises:

an RS frame payload including the mobile service data;

RS parity data added at bottom ends of columns of the RS frame payload; and

CRC data added at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmission parameters include information for indicating a number of bytes of the RS parity data per RS frame column.

6. A digital broadcast transmitter comprising:

a first encoder for performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to build an RS frame and dividing the RS frame into a plurality of portions;

a group formatting unit for mapping one of the plurality of portions into a first data group and inserting known data sequences, transmission parameters, place holders for non-systematic RS parity data, place holders for main service data, and place holders for MPEG header data into the first data group,

wherein the first data group comprises a first region and a second region,

wherein the first region comprises;

an Nth segment comprising K mobile service data bytes,

an (N+1)th segment comprising L mobile service data bytes, and

an (N+2)th segment comprising M mobile service data bytes, wherein the second region comprises;

an Oth segment comprising X mobile service data bytes,

an (O+1)th segment comprising Y mobile service data bytes, and

an (O+2)th segment comprising Z mobile service data bytes,

wherein the variables K, L, M, N, O, X, Y, and Z are integers greater than 0, and

wherein K<

L<

M, X=Y=Z, and N<

O;

a deinterleaver for deinterleaving data of the first data group to output a second data group;

a packet formatter for removing the place holders for non-systematic RS parity data and the place holders for main service data in the second data group and replacing the place holders for MPEG header data in the second data group with MPEG header data to output mobile service data packets;

a multiplexer for multiplexing the mobile service data packets and main service data packets, the main service data packets including main service data;

a second encoder for performing non-systematic RS encoding on the mobile service data packets in the multiplexed data packets and performing systematic RS encoding on the main service data packets in the multiplexed data packets; and

an interleaver for interleaving data of the non-systematic RS-encoded mobile service data packets and data of the systematic RS-encoded main service data packets.

7. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the second encoder inserts non-systematic RS parity data in predetermined positions within each of the mobile service data packets.

8. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the second encoder adds systematic RS parity data at the end of each of the main service data packets.

9. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 6, wherein the RS frame comprises:

an RS frame payload including the mobile service data;

RS parity data added at bottom ends of columns of the RS frame payload; and

CRC data added at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data.

10. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 9, wherein the transmission parameters include information for indicating a number of bytes of the RS parity data per RS frame column.