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

• US 8,005,167 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2008
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• 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: Kim, Byoung Gill, Suh, Jong Yeul, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Choi, In Hwan, Lee, Chul Soo, Kim, Jin Pil, Song, Jae Hyung, Song, Won Gyu, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Jin Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Khai
• Application Number:
  US12/198,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20090129504A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• Field of Search: 375/316, 375/301, 348/712, 370/312, 370/329, 370/349, 370/342, 455/445, 455/450, 455/509
• US Class Current: 375/316
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/30 by a single channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information

Abstract

The present invention provides a data processing method. The data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, acquiring transmission-parameter-channel signaling information including transmission parameter information of the mobile service data, and fast-information-channel signaling information, acquiring binding information describing a relationship between at least one ensemble transferring the mobile service data and a first virtual channel contained in any of the at least one ensemble by decoding fast-information-channel signaling information, acquiring ensemble identification information transferring the first virtual channel using the binding information, and receiving at least one mobile service data group transferring an ensemble according to the ensemble identification information, parsing service table information contained in the ensemble and decoding content data contained in the first virtual channel using the parsed service table information, and displaying the decoded content data.

Claims

1. A method of processing data for a receiver, the method comprising:

receiving and demodulating a broadcast signal comprising a fast information channel (FIC) including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, a transport parameter channel (TPC) including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC, and mobile service data belonging to a desired ensemble, wherein the mobile service data is data encoded through a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame;

acquiring a first ensemble identifier identifying the desired ensemble from the FIC;

obtaining a service map table (SMT) from the desired ensemble, the SMT comprising a header and a payload, the header including a second ensemble identifier corresponding to the first ensemble identifier, the payload including service acquisition information of the desired ensemble;

acquiring IP access information of a mobile service from the SMT and acquiring IP datagram of the mobile service data from the ensemble according to the acquired IP access information; and

decoding at least one of audio and video streams included in the acquired IP datagram of the mobile service data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the FIC comprises a plurality of FIC segments, each FIC segment comprising a 2 byte header including FIC type information and a 35 byte payload including a portion of channel binding information and the first ensemble identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting a plurality of known data sequences from the broadcast signal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least two of the plurality of known data sequences have different lengths.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the TPC and the FIC are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the FIC and TPC are encoded with a first encoding code and the RS frame is encoded with a second encoding code.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first encoding code is a Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code (PCCC) and the second encoding code is a Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the RS frame comprises a plurality of mobile and handheld (MH) transport packets, each MH transport packet having an M byte header and an N-M byte payload , the payload including the IP datagram of the mobile service data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the RS frame is divided into a plurality of slots and a data group is formed from each slot, the data group comprising a plurality of data regions, wherein first and second known data sequences are inserted into start and end portions of at least one of the data regions, respectively, and a third known data sequence is inserted in one of start and end portions of at least one of the remaining data regions.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving and demodulating the broadcast signal comprises acquiring slots corresponding to the RS frame using a time-slicing method.

11. A receiver comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving and demodulating a broadcast signal comprising a fast information channel (FIC) including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, a transport parameter channel (TPC) including FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC, and mobile service data belonginq to a desired ensemble, wherein the mobile service data is data encoded through a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame;

a first handler for acquiring a first ensemble identifier identifying the desired ensemble from the FIC;

a second handler for obtaining a service map table (SMT) from the desired ensemble, the SMT comprising a header and a payload, the header including a second ensemble identifier corresponding to the first ensemble identifier, the payload including service acquisition information of the desired ensemble;

a third handler for acquiring IP access information of a mobile service from the SMT and acquiring IP datagram of the mobile service data from the ensemble according to the acquired IP access information; and

a decoder for decoding at least one of audio and video streams included in the acquired IP datagram of the mobile service data.

12. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the FIC comprises a plurality of FIC segments, each FIC segment comprising a 2 byte header including FIC type information and a 35 byte payload including a portion of channel binding information and the first ensemble identifier.

13. The receiver of claim 11, further comprising a known data detector for detecting a plurality of known data sequences from the broadcast signal.

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

15. The receiver of claim 13, wherein the TPC and the FIC are inserted between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence.

16. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the FIC and TPC are encoded with a first encoding code and the RS frame is encoded with a second encoding code.

17. The receiver of claim 16, wherein the first encoding code is a Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code (PCCC) and the second encoding code is a Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC).

18. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the RS frame comprises a plurality of mobile and handheld (MH) transport packets, each MH transport packet having an M byte header and an N-M byte payload , the payload including the IP datagram of the mobile service data.

19. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the RS frame is divided into a plurality of slots and a data group is formed from each slot, the data group comprising a plurality of data regions, wherein first and second known data sequences are inserted into start and end portions of at least one of the data regions, respectively, and a third known data sequence is inserted in one of start and end portions of at least one of the remaining data regions.

20. The receiver of claim 11, wherein the receiving unit acquires slots corresponding to the RS frame using a time-slicing method.