Lg Electronics Inc.

Chulkyu Mun

Woosuk Ko

Sungryong Hong

Jaehyung Kim

Jongseob Baek

Byounggill Kim

Woochan Kim

Kookyeon Kwak

Jinyong Choi

Jaeho Hwang

Sangchul Moon

Jinwoo Kim

Inhwan Choi

Wongyu Song

Byeongkook Jeong

Hochul Jung

Jongwoong Shin

JaeHyung Song

Jonbseob Baek

Hyounggon Lee

A device includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal; a pilot detector configured to detect pilots in the tuned broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to parse a signal frame of the broadcast signal. Further, the signal frame carries Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, and the signal frame includes a preamble and at least one subframe. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the PLP data.

Apparatus and method for sending and receiving broadcast signals

A broadcast signal receiver includes a tuner for tuning a broadcast signal, a reference signal detector for detecting pilots from the tuned broadcast signal, a de-framer for de-framing a signal frame of the broadcast signal and deriving service data based on a number of carriers of the signal frame, and a decoder for performing error correction process on the derived service data.

A broadcast signal receiver is disclosed. A broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a synchronization & demodulation module performing signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parsing & deinterleaving module performing parsing and deinterleaving of a signal frame of the broadcast signal; a demapping & decoding module performing conversion of data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into the bit domain and FEC decoding of the converted PLP data; and an output processing module outputting a data stream by receiving the at least one PLP data.

A transmitting system, receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The method for processing a broadcast signal in a broadcast receiver comprises receiving a DTV signal including a data group, the data group including mobile service data, segmented known data sequences, long known data sequences and transmission parameter data, compensating carrier frequency offset of the DTV signal and channel-equalizing the carrier frequency offset compensated DTV signal using at least one of the long known data sequences and segmented known data sequences in the data group of the DTV signal, wherein the channel-equalizing includes performing a Error Correction (FEC) decoding on data located between the segmented known data sequences, and estimating Channel Impulse Response (CIR) using the FEC decoded data as known data.

Receiving system and method for processing digital broadcast signal in the receiving system

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an input formatter to format at least one input stream to output DP (Data Pipe) data corresponding to each of a plurality of DPs, wherein the each of a plurality of DPs carries at least one service or at least one service component, an encoder to encode the DP data, a mapper to map the encoded DP data onto constellations, a time interleaver to time interleave the mapped DP data, a frame builder to build at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, a modulator to modulate data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signals having the modulated data.

Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals

A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding data which is carried by Data Pipes (DPS); mapping the encoded data to constellations; interleaving the mapped data by skipping virtual cells based on a memory address for the interleaving; building at least one signal frame having symbols including the interleaved data; frequency interleaving cells of the symbols in the at least one signal frame; modulating the at least one signal frame including the frequency interleaved cells of the symbols by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme; and transmitting the broadcast signal including the modulated at least one signal frame.

Broadcast signal transmission apparatus, broadcast signal reception apparatus, broadcast signal transmission method, and broadcast signal reception method

A device includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal; a pilot detector configured to detect pilots in the tuned broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to parse a signal frame of the broadcast signal, the signal frame carrying Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, the signal frame including a preamble and at least one subframe; and a decoder configured to decode the PLP data.

A method for processing a broadcast signal, includes encoding Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data; generating a signal frame by mapping the encoded PLP data onto data symbols in at least one subframe of the signal frame and mapping signaling data onto preamble symbols of a preamble of the signal frame; inserting first pilots into the data symbols of the signal frame and inserting second pilots into the preamble symbols of the signal frame, wherein the first pilots are different from the second pilots, each data symbol has a pilot density according to a first pilot pattern and each preamble symbol has a pilot density according to a second pilot pattern; and modulating data in the signal frame, the signaling information including a boosting parameter of which value has a range defined from 0 to 4 for a subframe.

A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The method for processing a broadcast signal in a broadcast receiver comprises receiving a DTV signal including a data group, the data group including mobile service data, segmented known data sequences, long known data sequences and transmission parameter data, compensating carrier frequency offset of the DTV signal and channel-equalizing the carrier frequency offset compensated DTV signal using at least one of the long known data sequences and segmented known data sequences in the data group of the DTV signal, wherein the channel-equalizing includes performing a Error Correction (FEC) decoding on data located between the segmented known data sequences, and estimating Channel Impulse Response (CIR) using the FEC decoded data as known data.

A broadcast signal receiver includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal, a pilot detector configured to detect pilots comprised in the tuned broadcast signal, a de-framer configured to de-frame a signal frame of the broadcast signal and to extract Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, and a decoder configured to decode the extracted PLP data.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals includes encoding DP data according to a code rate, wherein the encoding further includes LDPC encoding the DP data according to the code rate, bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data, mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations, MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) encoding the mapped DP data, and time interleaving the MIMO encoded DP data; building at least one signal frame by arranging the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by OFDM method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the step of modulating includes inserting CPs in the built signal frame based on a CP set which includes information about locations of CPs, wherein the CP set is defined based on FFT size.

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Seoul, South Korea

Chulkyu Mun