Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method
View Patent ↗The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that realize a process related to emergency warning information in DVB-T2 standard more promptly at a low power consumption. There is provided a transmission device including an emergency warning information acquisition unit configured to acquire emergency warning information, a content acquisition unit configured to acquire content, a transmission frame generation unit configured to generate a T2 frame including emergency warning notification information indicating that emergency warning information is being transmitted in P1 signaling or L1-pre signaling as a T2 frame, according to DVB-T2 standard, composed of a P1 symbol including P1 signaling, a P2 symbol including L1-pre signaling, and a symbol of data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the T2 frame as a digital broadcast signal. The present technology can be applied to a transmitter that is capable of transmitting the digital broadcast signal according to the DVB-T2 standard for example.
1. A transmission device comprising:
circuitry configured to
acquire emergency warning information;
acquire a content;
generate a transmission frame that includes emergency warning notification information indicating that the emergency warning information is being transmitted in P1 signaling or L1-pre signaling, as a transmission frame, according to the digital video broadcasting-terrestrial 2 (DVB-T2) standard, composed of a first preamble signal of the P1 signaling, a second preamble signal of the L1-pre signaling, and the content; and
transmit the transmission frame as a digital broadcast signal.
2. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein, the emergency warning notification information is included in the L1-pre signaling and the emergency warning notification information is placed in a reserved bit of the L1-pre signaling.
3. The transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein
the emergency warning notification information is a 1-bit emergency warning flag, and
the emergency warning information is transmitted using service information (SI) information, an auxiliary stream, or a particular physical layer pipe (PLP) which are defined in the DVB-T2 standard.
4. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein, the emergency warning notification information is included in the P1 signaling and the emergency warning notification information is placed in a reserved bit of the P1 signaling.
5. The transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein
the emergency warning notification information is a particular bit sequence, and
the emergency warning information is transmitted using SI information, an auxiliary stream, or a particular PLP which are defined in the DVB-T2 standard.
6. The transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the P1 signaling or the L1-pre signaling.
7. A transmission method of a transmission device, the transmission device executing the method comprising:
acquiring emergency warning information;
acquiring content;
generating a transmission frame that includes emergency warning notification information indicating that the emergency warning information is being transmitted in P1 signaling or L1-pre signaling as a transmission frame, according to the DVB-T2 standard, composed of a first preamble signal including the P1 signaling, a second preamble signal including the L1-pre signaling, and the content; and
transmitting the transmission frame as a digital broadcast signal.
8. A reception device comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive, as a digital broadcast signal, a transmission frame, according to DVB-T2 standard, composed of a first preamble signal including P1 signaling, a second preamble signal including L1-pre signaling, and content data; and
demodulate the first preamble signal, or the first preamble signal and the second preamble signal and monitor emergency warning notification information indicating that emergency warning information is being transmitted in the P1 signaling included in the first preamble signal or the L1-pre signaling included in the second preamble signal.
9. The reception device according to claim 8 , wherein the emergency warning notification information is placed in a reserved bit of the L1-pre signaling.
10. The reception device according to claim 9 , wherein
the emergency warning notification information is a 1-bit emergency warning flag,
the emergency warning information is transmitted using SI information, an auxiliary stream, or a particular PLP which are defined by the DVB-T2 standard, and
the circuitry is further configured to be activated when the emergency warning notification information indicates that the emergency warning information is being transmitted, and acquire the emergency warning information transmitted using the SI information, the auxiliary stream, or the particular PLP.
11. The reception device according to claim 8 , wherein the emergency warning notification information is placed in a reserved bit of the P1 signaling.
12. The reception device according to claim 11 , wherein
the emergency warning notification information is a particular bit sequence,
the emergency warning information is transmitted using SI information, an auxiliary stream, or a particular PLP, which are defined in the DVB-T2 standard, and
the circuitry is further configured to be activated when the emergency warning notification information indicates that the emergency warning information is being transmitted, and acquire the emergency warning information transmitted using the SI information, the auxiliary stream, or the particular PLP.
13. A reception method of a reception device, the reception device executing the method comprising:
receiving, as a digital broadcast signal, a transmission frame, according to DVB-T2 standard, composed of a first preamble signal including P1 signaling, a second preamble signal including L1-pre signaling, and content data; and
demodulating the first preamble signal, or the first preamble signal and the second preamble signal, and monitoring emergency warning notification information indicating that emergency warning information is being transmitted in the P1 signaling included in the first preamble signal or the L1-pre signaling included in the second preamble signal.