Apparatus and method for generating broadcasting signal frame that includes preamble for signalling injection level information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10411933-B2
Application number	US-201816204813-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2018
Priority date	Nov 2, 2015
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame including preamble for signaling injection level information. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an injection level controller configured to generate a power reduced enhanced layer signal by reducing a power of an enhanced layer signal; a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and the power reduced enhanced layer signal; 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 injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of generating broadcast signal frame, comprising:
generating a power reduced enhanced layer signal by reducing a power of an enhanced layer signal;
generating a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and the power reduced enhanced layer signal;
reducing power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal;
generating a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and
generating a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling injection level information corresponding to the power reduced enhanced layer signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the injection level information is signaled by using 31 values which are identified using a 5 bit-field.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the reducing power of the multiplexed signal corresponds to a normalizing factor which increases as a power reduction corresponding to the power reduced enhanced layer signal becomes larger, and
the generating the power reduced enhanced layer signal corresponds to a scaling factor which decreases as the power reduction corresponding to the power reduced enhanced layer signal becomes larger.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the 31 values are matched with 5 bit field values belonging to any one of a first section corresponding to a first step size and a second section corresponding to a second step size, the second step size being different from the first step size.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first section corresponds to a first rate of change of the scaling factor and the second section corresponds to a second rate of change of the scaling factor, the second rate of change being less than the first rate of change.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first section corresponds to a section from 0 dB to 5 dB and the second section corresponds to a section from 6 dB to 25 dB.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the first step size is 0.5 dB and the second step size is 1 dB.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first section includes 5 bit-field values belonging to a section of 0 dB (inclusive)˜3 dB (exclusive) and the second section includes 5 bit-field values belonging to a section of 10 dB (exclusive)˜25 dB (inclusive).

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the preamble includes layer identification information for identifying layers corresponding to a hierarchical division.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the preamble selectively includes the injection level information according to a result of comparing the layer identification information with a predetermined value for each of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs).

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Park Sung-Ik
• Lee Jae-Young
• Kwon Sun-Hyoung
• Kim Heung-Mook

Classifications

• H04N21/234327

  by decomposing into layers, e.g. base layer and one or more enhancement layers · CPC title

• H04L27/2601

  Multicarrier modulation systems · CPC title

• H04W4/06

  Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services · CPC title

• H04J11/00

  Orthogonal multiplex systems, {e.g. using WALSH codes}(H04J13/00 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L27/3488

  Multiresolution systems · CPC title