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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Jin Pil Kim, Seoul, KR;
C. Gomer Thomas, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4384 (2013.01); H04N 21/26283 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01);
Abstract
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.