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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9948426-B2
Application number	US-201715613600-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 5, 2017
Priority date	Jan 27, 2015
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding, by an encoder, data in plural PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes); processing, by a framing and interleaving block, the encoded data in the plural PLPs, wherein the processing the encoded data further includes: time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded data in the plural PLPs, frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved data onto at least one signal frame, and frequency interleaving, by a frequency interleaver, data in the at least one signal frame; and waveform modulating, by a waveform generation block, the frequency interleaved data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform generation block, broadcast signals having the waveform modulated data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of transmitting broadcast signals by an apparatus for transmitting the broadcast signals, the method comprising:
encoding first layer data;
encoding second layer data;
bit interleaving the encoded first layer data and the encoded second layer data, respectively;
combining the bit interleaved first layer data and the bit interleaved second layer data with controlling an injection level of the bit interleaved second layer data,
wherein the combined data is carried by at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP);
time interleaving the combined data,
wherein the time interleaving includes cell interleaving the combined data, block interleaving the cell interleaved data, and convolutional interleaving the block interleaved data, and
wherein the block, interleaving includes writing Forward Error Correction (FEC) blocks having the cell interleaved data column-wise into a memory, and diagonal-wise reading out the written FEC blocks from the memory;
frame building at least one signal frame including the time interleaved data;
frequency interleaving data in the built at least one signal frame;
waveform modulating the frequency interleaved data in the at least one signal frame; and
transmitting the broadcast signals having the waveform modulated data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the time interleaving is performed according to a mode for the time interleaving, wherein the mode of the second layer data is same as the mode of the first layer data.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the combining includes:
reducing a power of the bit interleaved second layer data relative to the bit interleaved first layer data;
combining the bit interleaved first layer data and the power reduced bit interleaved second layer data; and
normalizing total power of the combined data.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the combining the bit interleaved first layer data and the power reduced bit interleaved second layer data is performed using injection level information, wherein the injection level information indicates the injection level of the second layer data relative to the first layer data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first layer data is encoded by using more robust combination of parameters than the second layer data.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first layer data is a core layer data, and the second layer data is an enhanced layer data.

7. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein virtual FEC blocks are located ahead of the written FEC blocks in the memory, and
wherein the virtual FEC blocks are skipped during the diagonal-wise reading.

8. An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprising:
a first encoder configured to encode first layer data;
a second encoder configured to encode second layer data;
a bit interleaver configured to bit interleave the encoded first layer data and the encoded second layer data, respectively;
an injection block configured to combine the bit interleaved first layer data and the bit interleaved second layer data with controlling an injection level of the bit interleaved second layer data,
wherein the combined data is carried by at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP);
a time interleaver configured to time interleave the combined data,
wherein the time interleaver includes a cell interleaver configured to cell interleave the combined data, a block interleaver configured to block interleave the cell interleaved data, and a convolutional interleaver configured to convolutional interleave the block interleaved data, and
wherein the block interleaver performs column-wise writing Forward Error Correction (FEC) blocks having the cell interleaved data into a memory, and diagonal-wise reading the written FEC blocks from the memory;
a frame builder configured to build at least one signal frame including the time interleaved data;
a frequency interleaver configured to frequency interleave data in the built at least one signal frame; and
a waveform generation block configured to modulate the frequency interleaved data in the at least one signal frame and to transmit the broadcast signals having the waveform modulated data.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the time interleaver performs according to a mode for the time interleaving, wherein the mode of the second layer data is same as the mode of the first layer data.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the injection block includes:
an injection level controller configured to reduce a power of the bit interleaved second layer data relative to the bit interleaved first layer data;
an adder configured to combine the bit interleaved first layer data and the power reduced bit interleaved second layer data; and
a power normalizer configured to normalize total power of the combined data.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the adder combines the bit interleaved first layer data and the power reduced bit interleaved second layer data using injection level information, wherein the injection level information indicates the injection level of the second layer data relative to the first layer data.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the first layer data is encoded by using more robust combination of parameters than the second layer data.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the first layer data is a core layer data, and the second layer data is an enhanced layer data.

14. The apparatus of claim 8
wherein virtual FEC blocks are located ahead of the written FEC blocks in the memory, and
wherein the virtual FEC blocks are skipped during the diagonal-wise reading.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Baek Jongseob
• Back Seoyoung
• Ko Woosuk
• Hong Sungryong

Classifications

• H04L1/0071

  Use of interleaving (interleaving per se H03M13/27) · CPC title

• H04L2001/0093

  Point-to-multipoint · CPC title

• H04L27/36

  Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits · CPC title

• H04L1/0041 Primary

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04L1/0044

  specially adapted for power saving · CPC title