METHOD OF PROCESSING TRAFFIC INFORMATION AND DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM

• US 20120039343A1
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jin Pil, Kim, Young In, Hong, Ho Taek, Choi, In Hwan, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Kim, Byoung Gill, Kim, Jin Woo, Kim, Jong Moon, Song, Won Gyu
• Granted Patent: US 8,437,372 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/474
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0047 Decoding adapted to other signal detection operation in conjunction with sequence estimation or equalization H04L25/03286
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0065 Serial concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0098 Unequal error protection

Abstract

A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change.

Claims

1-50. -50. (canceled)

51. A digital broadcast transmitter, comprising:

a pre-processor configured to pre-process enhanced data, wherein the pre-processor comprises;

a frame encoder configured to form an RS (Reed-Solomon) frame, wherein the RS frame includes a plurality of rows including the enhanced data, each of the rows have same size,

wherein the frame encoder is further configured to perform a first randomizing processing for the enhanced data, perform an RS encoding for each of columns of a RS frame payload to add parity data for each of the columns, and perform a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) coding to add CRC checksum data for each of rows of the RS frame payload;

wherein the enhanced data is included in a data group, the data group including first sequence of predetermined data and second sequence of predetermined data, the first sequence of predetermined data having a first length, the second sequence of predetermined data having a second length, wherein the first length is longer than the second length;

a multiplexer configured to multiplex enhanced data packets including the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video, AV, data packets including main AV data;

a data interleaving unit configured to interleave data in the multiplexed enhanced and main AV data packets;

a randomizer configured to perform a second randomizing process for the main AV data in the main AV data packets, wherein the randomizer is further configured not to perform the second randomizer process for the enhanced data in the enhanced data packets;

a data transmission unit configured to transmit a broadcast signal including the main AV data packet and the enhanced data packets.

52. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 51,

wherein the data group includes the first region, a second region and a third region,

wherein the first region and the third region have area for the main AV data, and the second region have the first sequence of predetermined and, second sequence of predetermined data and no area for the main AV data.

53. The digital transmitter of claim 52,

wherein the enhanced data in each region of the data group is encoded at the coding rate of ½

or ¼

independently.

54. A method for processing a broadcast signal in a digital broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:

pre-processing enhanced data, wherein the pre-processing enhanced data comprises;

forming an RS (Reed-Solomon) frame, wherein the RS frame includes a plurality of rows including the enhanced data, each of the rows have same size,

wherein the forming RS frame comprises performing a first randomizing processing for the enhanced data, performing an RS encoding for each of columns of a RS frame payload to add parity data for each of the columns, and performing a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) coding to add CRC checksum data for each of rows of the RS frame payload;

wherein the enhanced data is included in a data group, the data group including first sequence of predetermined data and second sequence of predetermined data, the first sequence of predetermined data having a first length, the second sequence of predetermined data having a second length, wherein the first length is longer than the second length;

multiplexing enhanced data packets including the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video, AV, data packets including main AV data;

interleaving data in the multiplexed enhanced and main AV data packets;

performing a second randomizing process for the main AV data in the main AV data packets at a randomizer, wherein the randomizer is configured not to perform the second randomizing process for the enhanced data in the enhanced data packets;

transmitting a broadcast signal including the main AV data packets and the enhanced data packets.

55. The method of claim 54,

wherein the data group includes a first region, a second region and a third region,

wherein the first region and the third region have area for the main AV data, and the second region have the first sequence of predetermined data, second sequence of predetermined data and no area for the main AV data.

56. The method of claim 55,

wherein the enhanced data in each region of the data group is encoded at the coding rate of ½

or ¼

independently.