Diversity receiver for processing VSB signal
First Claim
1. A diversity receiver configured to receive VSB (vestigial sideband) signals, comprising:
- a first demodulator configured to receive a first VSB signal and demodulate the first VSB signal to first VSB data;
a second demodulator configured to receive a second VSB signal and demodulate the second VSB signal to second VSB data;
a path aligner configured to detect starting points of the first VSB data and the second VSB data and synchronizing the first VSB data and the second VSB data; and
a dual channel equalizer/decoder configured to repeatedly perform an equalization process for a selected section, the equalization process including filtering each of the first and second VSB data synchronized in a feed-forward manner, mixing the first and second filtered VSB data, and filtering the mixed result in a decision feedback manner, wherein the dual channel equalizer/decoder includes;
a TCM (trellis code modulation) decoder configured to decode a data stream generated by the equalization process into a Trellis code;
a de-interleaver configured to de-interleave an output of the TCM decoder;
a Reed-Solomon decoder configured to process the de-interleaved data stream by a Reed-Solomon algorithm and output the processed data stream as a transmit stream; and
a recursive equalizer configured to filter each of the first VSB data and the second VSB data by a feed-forward method, mix the first filtered VSB data and the second filtered VSB data, and filter the mixed result by a feedback method, the recursive equalizer using the output of the TCM decoder as determination values for the feed-forward filtering and the feedback filtering.
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Abstract
A diversity receiver configured to receive digital signals, including a first modulator configured to receive a first signal and modulate the first signal to first data, a second modulator configured to receive a second signal and modulate the second signal to second data, a path aligner configured to detect starting points of the first data and the second data and generate a control signal for synchronizing the first data and the second data, and an equalizer/decoder configured to synchronize the first and second data and to generate a signal to noise ratio and an equalizer output by a recursive equalization operation for the diversity signals thus synchronized.
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1. A diversity receiver configured to receive VSB (vestigial sideband) signals, comprising:
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a first demodulator configured to receive a first VSB signal and demodulate the first VSB signal to first VSB data; a second demodulator configured to receive a second VSB signal and demodulate the second VSB signal to second VSB data; a path aligner configured to detect starting points of the first VSB data and the second VSB data and synchronizing the first VSB data and the second VSB data; and a dual channel equalizer/decoder configured to repeatedly perform an equalization process for a selected section, the equalization process including filtering each of the first and second VSB data synchronized in a feed-forward manner, mixing the first and second filtered VSB data, and filtering the mixed result in a decision feedback manner, wherein the dual channel equalizer/decoder includes; a TCM (trellis code modulation) decoder configured to decode a data stream generated by the equalization process into a Trellis code; a de-interleaver configured to de-interleave an output of the TCM decoder; a Reed-Solomon decoder configured to process the de-interleaved data stream by a Reed-Solomon algorithm and output the processed data stream as a transmit stream; and a recursive equalizer configured to filter each of the first VSB data and the second VSB data by a feed-forward method, mix the first filtered VSB data and the second filtered VSB data, and filter the mixed result by a feedback method, the recursive equalizer using the output of the TCM decoder as determination values for the feed-forward filtering and the feedback filtering. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A diversity receiver configured to receive VSB (vestigial sideband) signals, comprising:
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a first demodulator configured to receive a first VSB signal and demodulate the first VSB signal to first VSB data; a second demodulator configured to receive a second VSB signal and demodulate the second VSB signal to second VSB data; a path aligner configured to detect starting points of the first VSB data and the second VSB data and synchronizing the first VSB data and the second VSB data; and a dual channel equalizer/decoder configured to repeatedly perform an equalization process for a selected section, the equalization process including filtering each of the first and second VSB data synchronized in a feed-forward manner, mixing the first and second filtered VSB data, and filtering the mixed result in a decision feedback manner, wherein the dual channel equalizer/decoder includes; a first dual channel equalizer/decoder configured to perform a first recursive equalization operation, a first TCM decoding, and a first Reed-Solomon decoding sequentially for each of the first VSB data and the second VSB data and to output a first Dibit as a result; and a second dual channel equalizer/decoder configured to perform a second recursive equalization operation, a second TCM decoding, and a second Reed-Solomon decoding for each of the first VSB data and the second VSB data and to output a transmit stream as a result, wherein the first Dibit is provided as a reliability information for a soft decision operation of the second TCM decoding operation. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A diversity receiver configured to receive VSB (vestigial sideband) signals, comprising:
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a first equalizer/decoder configured to synchronize first diversity signals and generate a first signal to noise ratio and a first equalizer output by a recursive equalization operation in a section unit for the first diversity signals thus synchronized; and a second equalizer/decoder configured to synchronize second diversity signals, generate a second signal to noise ratio and a second equalizer output by a recursive equalization operation in a section unit for the second diversity signals thus synchronized, and mix the first equalizer output and the second equalizer output by referring to the first signal to noise ratio and the second signal to noise ratio, wherein the second equalizer/decoder includes; a recursive equalizer configured to generate the second signal to noise ratio and the second equalizer output by processing the second diversity signals according to a recursive equalization operation procedure; an adaptive gain calculator configured to calculate a gain or a weight for the first equalizer output and the second equalizer output from the first signal to noise ratio and the second signal to noise ratio; and a main decoder configured to generate a transmit stream by combining the first equalizer output and the second equalizer output by referring to the gain or the weight for the first equalizer output and the second equalizer output. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 16)
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15. A diversity receiver configured to receive digital signals, comprising:
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a first demodulator configured to receive a first signal and demodulate the first signal to first data; a second demodulator configured to receive a second signal and demodulate the second signal to second data; a path aligner configured to detect starting points of the first data and the second data and generate a control signal for synchronizing the first data and the second data; and an equalizer/decoder configured to synchronize the first and second data and to generate a signal to noise ratio and an equalizer output by a recursive equalization operation for the diversity signals thus synchronized, wherein the equalizer/decoder includes; a first-stage multi-channel equalizer/decoder configured to perform a first recursive equalization operation, a first TCM decoding, and a first Reed-Solomon decoding sequentially for each of the first data and the second data and to output a first result; and a last-stage multi-channel equalizer/decoder configured to perform a last-stage recursive equalization operation, a last-stage TCM decoding, and a last-stage Reed-Solomon decoding for each of the first data and the second data and to output a transmit stream as a result, wherein the first result is provided as a reliability information for a soft decision operation of the last-stage TCM decoding operation.
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