Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kyung-Geun Lee

Sung-Hee Hwang

Harukazu Miyamoto

Hyun-Koo Yang

Kyung-Mo Park

Motoshi Ito

Hiroyasu Inoue

Seho Myung

Jung-Wan Ko

Belkacem Mouhouche

Yasumori Hino

Sung-Ryeul Rhyu

Alain Mourad

Hyun-Soo Park

Hak-Ju Lee

Sung-Oh Hwang

Se-Ho Myung

Byung-Rae Lee

Young-Wan So

Koichiro Nishimura

Jin-Hee Jeong

Hak-ju Lee

Jae-Hyeon Bae

Jin-Han Kim

Bo-Gyeong Kang

Won-Hee Lee

Joon-Hwan Kwon

Young-Kwon Lim

Daniel Ansorregui

Soo-Hwan Choi

In-Oh Hwang

Yoon-Woo Lee

Shoei Kobayashi

Hyo-Jin Sung

Yoshihiro Akimoto

Yoon-Woo 725-503 Hyundai Apt 989-2 Lee

Kyung-Geun 229-1006 Sibeomdanji Woosung 16 Lee

In-Ho Hwang

JW c/o 315-401 Cheongmyung Maeul 3-Danji Ko

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a packet in a communication system, the method comprising: generating drop information indicating at least one source packet to be dropped among source packets to be transmitted and whether or not to drop each of the other source packets except the at least one source packet; performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the drop information and the other source packets except the at least one source packet; generating a repair packet comprising repair data for restoring the drop information and a repair symbol for restoring the other source packets except the at least one source packet; and transmitting the other source packets except the at least one source packet and the repair packet.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet in communication system

A method for sending forward error correction (FEC) configuration information by a sending apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes sending source FEC configuration information for an FEC source packet to a receiving apparatus, wherein the source FEC configuration information includes information related to an FEC source or repair packet that is sent first among at least one FEC source or repair packet if an FEC source or repair packet block includes the at least one FEC source or repair packet.

Apparatus and method for sending/receiving packet in multimedia communication system

Provided are a data structure including a header area, and a payload area comprising data, a method of generating the data structure, and extracting information from the data structure. At least one of the header area and the payload area includes at least one sub-area in which one or more signal fields are included. At least one signal field among the signal fields includes information for signalling presence or absence of one or more information fields located at least partly in the data structure, the one or more information fields corresponding to the one or more signal fields.

Data structure for physical layer encapsulation

A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a method of signal processing are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes at least one processor configured to implement: a packet generator which generates a packet including a header and a payload, based on an input stream; and a signal processor which signal-processes the generated packet. The header includes a base header, and the base header includes various fields indicating at least one of a packet type, and a value indicating that the packet transmits one single complete input packet, a segment of an input packet, or a plurality of input packets. The fields included in the base header may also indicate presence of an additional header and a substream identifier.

Transmitting apparatus and signal processing method thereof

The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting multimedia content in a broadcast communication system, and comprises the steps of: identifying protocol information mapped for each service corresponding to multimedia content; transmitting service-related information including the identified protocol information mapped for each service; and transmitting multimedia content corresponding to related services to a receiving side by using the identified protocol.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signaling information associated with multimedia content

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a broadcasting communication system are provided. Data of an input stream is divided for transmission through a frame. A header that includes information about the input stream is constructed. The frame is constructed using the header and the divided data.

Apparatus and method for providing compatibility of transmission signal in communication system

A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting an LDPC code in a multimedia system. The method includes generating an LDPC code based on a resulting parity check matrix which is generated by performing a row splitting operation on a base parity check matrix; and transmitting the LDPC code. The row splitting operation includes splitting each row block included in the base parity check matrix into row blocks, a number of the row blocks is determined based on a splitting factor, and the splitting factor is determined based on a number of repair symbols included in a repair symbol block of the base parity check matrix, a number of rows included in the base parity check matrix, and a scaling factor for determining a size of each permutation matrix in the resulting parity check matrix and a size of each zero matrix included in the resulting parity check matrix.

Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a quasi-cyclic low density parity check code in a multimedia communication system

A method is provided for transmitting an Application Layer-Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) packet by an AL-FEC packet transmission apparatus in a multimedia communication system. AL-FEC packets are generated. The AL-FEC packets are transmitted to an AL-FEC packet reception apparatus. Each of the AL-FEC packets includes an AL-FEC codeword symbol and an AL-FEC header, and the AL-FEC codeword symbol is one of AL-FEC codeword symbols included in an AL-FEC codeword block. The AL-FEC header includes order information indicating an order of an AL-FEC codeword symbol into which the AL-FEC header is inserted among the AL-FEC codeword symbols included in the AL-FEC codeword block.

Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving an application layer-forward error correction packet in multimedia communication system

A method and system for generating a physical identifier in a storage device that includes a plurality of storage regions is provided. The method includes determining a number of reference storage regions for uniquely identifying the storage device; comparing the number of reference storage regions to a threshold; generating auxiliary storage regions for uniquely identifying the storage device, such that a number of the auxiliary storage regions corresponds to a result of the comparison; generating location distribution information of the reference storage regions and auxiliary storage regions; and storing the location distribution information in the storage device.

Method for generating physical identifier in storage device and machine-readable storage medium

Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting a variable-length transport packet in an Audio/Video (AV) communication system. Data to be transmitted is determined. It is determined whether a transport packet is the variable-length transport packet. A header having information indicating whether the transport packet is the variable-length transport packet is generated. When the transport packet is the variable-length transport packet, an optional header having length information of the transport packet is generated, and the data and the transport packet having the header and the optional header, are transmitted. When the transport packet is not the variable-length transport packet, the determined data and the transport packet having the header are transmitted.

Apparatus and method for supporting variable length of transport packet in video and audio communication system

A method is provided for transmitting a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code by a signal transmission apparatus in a multimedia system. The method includes generating the LDPC code based on a resulting parity check matrix, which is generated by performing a scaling down operation on a base parity check matrix; and transmitting the LDPC code. The scaling down operation is performed based on a scaling factor for determining a size of each permutation matrix in the resulting parity check matrix and a size of each zero matrix included in the resulting parity check matrix, and the scaling factor is determined based on a number of column blocks included in the base parity check matrix and a size of each permutation matrix included in the base parity check matrix.

An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving an Application Layer-Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) packet in a multimedia communication system are provided. In the AL-FEC packet transmission method, an AL-FEC packet transmission apparatus generates AL-FEC packets, and transmits the AL-FEC packets to an AL-FEC packet reception apparatus, wherein each of the AL-FEC packets includes an AL-FEC codeword symbol and an AL-FEC header, the AL-FEC codeword symbol is one of AL-FEC codeword symbols included in an AL-FEC codeword block, and the AL-FEC header includes order information indicating an order of an AL-FEC codeword symbol into which the AL-FEC header is inserted among the AL-FEC codeword symbols included in the AL-FEC codeword block.

An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting and receiving a quasi-cyclic Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code in a multimedia communication system. In the method, a signal transmission apparatus generates a quasi-cyclic LDPC code, and transmits the quasi-cyclic LDPC code to a signal reception apparatus. The quasi-cyclic LDPC code is generated by encoding an information word vector using a child parity check matrix, generated by performing one of a scaling operation, a row separation operation, and a row merge operation on a parent parity check matrix. In the scaling operation, a size of the child parity check matrix is determined. In the row separation operation, each of rows included in the parent parity check matrix is separated. In the row merge operation, the rows included in the parent parity check matrix are merged.

Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting a variable-length transport packet in a audio and video communication system. Data to be transmitted through a transport packet is determined. A header of the transport packet is generated. The header includes a start sync signal. When a length of the transport packet exceeds a reference size, at least one intermediate sync signal is inserted into the transport packet according to a pre-defined interval. The transport packet is transmitted.

Apparatus and method for supporting variable length of transport packet in an audio and video communication system

An apparatus and method are provided for indicating an error of a transport packet in an audio and video communication system. The method includes receiving a frame including a transport packet, attempting Forward Error Correction (FEC) on the frame, and setting a value of an error indicating field in the transport packet according to a result of the FEC. The error indicating field includes at least one of a first flag indicating a presence or absence of an error in the transport packet, a second flag indicating a success or failure of the FEC, and a third flag indicating detection or non-detection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC).

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