Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Jin-Hyuk Song

Jae-Young Lee

Sung-Ik Park

Heung-Mook Kim

Sun-Hyoung Kwon

Bo-Mi Lim

Dong-Joon Choi

Joon-Young Jung

Nam-Ho Hur

Myung-Sun Baek

Byung-Jun Bae

Sang-Jung Ra

Ho-Sook Lee

Kwan-Woong Ryu

An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time -interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and a boundary between the time interleaver groups is a boundary between Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal.

Broadcast signal frame generation device and broadcast signal frame generation method using boundary of physical layer pipes of core layer

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for detecting a broadcast signal. The apparatus includes a bootstrap detection unit for detecting whether a bootstrap signal is included in a received broadcast signal based on a preset first bootstrap window and a machine-learning method, a bootstrap offset estimation unit for searching the broadcast signal for the start point of the bootstrap signal using a preset second bootstrap window, estimating a bootstrap offset based on the machine-learning method, and estimating bootstrap symbols from the bootstrap offset, and a demodulation unit for demodulating information included in the broadcast signal from the bootstrap symbols based on the machine-learning method.

Apparatus and method for detecting broadcast signal

An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a boundary between Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and a boundary between the time interleaver groups is a boundary between Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal.

Disclosed herein are a synchronization apparatus and method for a upstream system. The synchronization apparatus for a upstream system includes one or more processors, and execution memory for storing at least one program that is executed by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one program is configured to receive a signal and calculate a first channel estimation value for the received signal using a predefined pilot, and calculate a second channel estimation value using a predefined complementary pilot and the first channel estimation value.

Synchronization apparatus and method for upstream system

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for detecting an upstream RF signal based on a preamble. The apparatus for detecting an upstream RF signal based on a preamble includes an analog-to-digital converter unit for receiving an RF analog signal and converting the same into an RF digital signal; a down-converter unit for converting the RF digital signal into a baseband digital signal; a packet detection unit for performing packet detection by performing an operation on the baseband digital signal and preset differential preamble signals; and a timing calculation unit for generating timing information of a terminal device based on the baseband digital signal and time information generated through the packet detection.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jin-Hyuk Song