Data processing device and data processing method

1. A transmitting device for generating a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal, the device decreasing a signal-to-noise power ratio per symbol for a selected bit error rate of the generated terrestrial digital television broadcast signal and/or expanding reception range of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal at which the data is decodable by a receiving device for presentation to a user, the device comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive data to be transmitted in a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal;

perform low density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits of the received data according to a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 16200 bits and an encoding rate r of 6/15 to generate an LDPC code word, the LDPC code enabling error correction processing to correct errors generated in a transmission path of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal;

wherein the LDPC code word includes information bits and parity bits, the parity bits being processed by the receiving device to recover information bits corrupted by transmission path errors,

the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits,

the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and

the parity check matrix initial value table, having each row indicating positions of elements ‘1’ in corresponding 360 columns of the information matrix portion as a subset of information bits used in calculating the parity bits in the LDPC encoding, is as follows

27 430 519 828 1897 1943 2513 2600 2640 3310 3415 4266 5044 5100 5328 5483 5928 6204 6392 6416 6602 7019 7415 7623 8112 8485 8724 8994 9445 9667

27 174 188 631 1172 1427 1779 2217 2270 2601 2813 3196 3582 3895 3908 3948 4463 4955 5120 5809 5988 6478 6604 7096 7673 7735 7795 8925 9613 9670

27 370 617 852 910 1030 1326 1521 1606 2118 2248 2909 3214 3413 3623 3742 3752 4317 4694 5300 5687 6039 6100 6232 6491 6621 6860 7304 8542 8634

990 1753 7635 8540

933 1415 5666 8745

27 6567 8707 9216

2341 8692 9580 9615

260 1092 5839 6080

352 3750 4847 7726

4610 6580 9506 9597

2512 2974 4814 9348

1461 4021 5060 7009

1796 2883 5553 8306

1249 5422 7057

3965 6968 9422

1498 2931 5092

27 1090 6215

26 4232 6354,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to

perform group-wise interleaving the LDPC code word in units of bit groups of 360 bits to generate a group-wise interleaved LDPC code word;

wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the generated LDPC code word is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the generated LDPC code word of 16200 bits is interleaved into a following sequence of bit groups

31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3, 42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18, 2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29;

map the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word to any one of 64 signal points in a modulation scheme in units of 6 bits; and

a terrestrial broadcast transmitter configured to transmit the digital television broadcast signal including the mapped group-wise interleaved LDPC code word in units of 6 bits.

2. The transmitting device of claim 1 , wherein

the LDPC encoding is performed in accordance with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 standard, and

the modulation scheme employs non uniform constellations (NUCs).

3. A method for generating a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal, the method decreasing a signal-to-noise power ratio per symbol for a selected bit error rate of the generated terrestrial digital television broadcast signal and/or expanding reception range of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal at which the data is decodable by a receiving device for presentation to a user, the method comprising:

receiving data to be transmitted in a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal;

performing low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, in an LDPC encoding circuitry, on input bits of the received data according to a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 16200 bits and an encoding rate r of 6/15 to generate an LDPC code word, the LDPC code enabling error correction processing to correct errors generated in a transmission path of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal;

wherein the LDPC code word includes information bits and a parity bits, the parity bits being processed by the receiving device to recover information bits corrupted by transmission path errors,

the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits,

the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and

the parity check matrix initial value table, having each row indicating positions of elements ‘1’ in corresponding 360 columns of the information matrix portion as a subset of information bits used in calculating the parity bits in the LDPC encoding, is as follows 27 430 519 828 1897 1943 2513 2600 2640 3310 3415 4266 5044 5100 5328 5483 5928 6204 6392 6416 6602 7019 7415 7623 8112 8485 8724 8994 9445 9667

27 174 188 631 1172 1427 1779 2217 2270 2601 2813 3196 3582 3895 3908 3948 4463 4955 5120 5809 5988 6478 6604 7096 7673 7735 7795 8925 9613 9670

27 370 617 852 910 1030 1326 1521 1606 2118 2248 2909 3214 3413 3623 3742 3752 4317 4694 5300 5687 6039 6100 6232 6491 6621 6860 7304 8542 8634

990 1753 7635 8540

933 1415 5666 8745

27 6567 8707 9216

2341 8692 9580 9615

260 1092 5839 6080

352 3750 4847 7726

4610 6580 9506 9597

2512 2974 4814 9348

1461 4021 5060 7009

1796 2883 5553 8306

1249 5422 7057

3965 6968 9422

1498 2931 5092

27 1090 6215

26 4232 6354;

group-wise interleaving, by interleaving circuitry, the LDPC code word in units of bit groups of 360 bits to generate a group-wise interleaved LDPC code word;

wherein, in the group-wise interleaving, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the generated LDPC code word is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the generated LDPC code word of 16200 bits is interleaved into a following sequence of bit groups

31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3, 42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18, 2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29;

mapping the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word to any one of 64 signal points in a modulation scheme in units of 6 bits; and

transmitting, by a terrestrial broadcast transmitter, the digital television broadcast signal including the mapped group-wise interleaved LDPC code word in units of 6 bits.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein

the LDPC encoding is performed in accordance with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 standard, and

the modulation scheme employs non uniform constellations (NUCs).

5. A receiving device for use in an environment where a signal-to-noise power ratio per symbol for a selected bit error rate of the received terrestrial digital television broadcast signal can be reduced and/or a reception range of a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal can be expanded, the receiving device comprising:

a tuner configured to receive a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal including a mapped group-wise interleaved low density parity check (LDPC) code word; and

circuitry configured to:

demap the mapped group-wise interleaved LDPC code word to produce a group-wise interleaved LDPC code word, wherein each unit of 6 bits of the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word is mapped to one of 64 signal points of a modulation scheme;

deinterleave the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word in units of bit groups of 360 bits to produce an LDPC code word;

decode the LDPC code word; and

process the decoded LDPC code word for presentation to a user, wherein

input bits of data to be transmitted in the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal are LDPC encoded according to

a parity check initial value table of an LDPC code having a code length N of 16200 bits and an encoding rater of 6/15 to generate the LDPC code word, the LDPC code enabling error correction processing to correct errors generated in a transmission path of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal,

the LDPC code word includes information bits and a parity bits, the parity bits being processed by the receiving device to recover information bits corrupted by transmission path errors,

the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits,

the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and

the parity check matrix initial value table, having each row indicating positions of elements ‘1’ in corresponding 360 columns of the information matrix portion as a subset of information bits used in calculating the parity bits in the LDPC encoding, is as follows

27 430 519 828 1897 1943 2513 2600 2640 3310 3415 4266 5044 5100 5328 5483 5928 6204 6392 6416 6602 7019 7415 7623 8112 8485 8724 8994 9445 9667

27 174 188 631 1172 1427 1779 2217 2270 2601 2813 3196 3582 3895 3908 3948 4463 4955 5120 5809 5988 6478 6604 7096 7673 7735 7795 8925 9613 9670

27 370 617 852 910 1030 1326 1521 1606 2118 2248 2909 3214 3413 3623 3742 3752 4317 4694 5300 5687 6039 6100 6232 6491 6621 6860 7304 8542 8634

990 1753 7635 8540

933 1415 5666 8745

27 6567 8707 9216

2341 8692 9580 9615

260 1092 5839 6080

352 3750 4847 7726

4610 6580 9506 9597

2512 2974 4814 9348

1461 4021 5060 7009

1796 2883 5553 8306

1249 5422 7057

3965 6968 9422

1498 2931 5092

27 1090 6215

26 4232 6354,

the LDPC code word is group-wise interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits to generate the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word such that

when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the generated LDPC code word is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the generated LDPC code word of 16200 bits is interleaved into a following sequence of bit groups

31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3, 42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18, 2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29, and

the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word is mapped to one of the 64 signal points in the modulation scheme in units of 6 bits.

6. The receiving device of claim 5 , wherein

the LDPC encoding is performed in accordance with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 standard, and

the modulation scheme employs non uniform constellations (NUCs).

7. A method for use by a receiving device in an environment where a signal-to-noise power ratio per symbol for a selected bit error rate of a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal can be reduced and/or a reception range of a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal can be expanded, the method comprising:

receiving, by a tuner, a terrestrial digital television broadcast signal including a mapped group-wise interleaved low density parity check (LDPC) code word;

demapping the mapped group-wise interleaved LDPC code word to produce a group-wise interleaved LDPC code word, wherein each unit of 6 bits of the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word is mapped to one of 64 signal points of a modulation scheme;

deinterleaving the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word in units of bit groups of 360 bits to produce an LDPC code word;

decoding, by decoding circuitry, the LDPC code word; and

processing the decoded LDPC code word for presentation to a user, wherein

input bits of data to be transmitted in the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal are LDPC encoded according to a parity check matrix initial value table of an LDPC code having a code length N of 16200 bits and a coding rate r of 6/15 to generate the LDPC code word, the LDPC code enabling error correction processing to correct errors generated in a transmission path of the terrestrial digital television broadcast signal,

the LDPC code word includes information bits and parity bits, the parity bits being processed by the receiving device to recover information bits corrupted by transmission path errors,

the parity check matrix initial value table of the LDPC code according to which the input bits are LDPC encoded is as follows,

27 430 519 828 1897 1943 2513 2600 2640 3310 3415 4266 5044 5100 5328 5483 5928 6204 6392 6416 6602 7019 7415 7623 8112 8485 8724 8994 9445 9667

27 174 188 631 1172 1427 1779 2217 2270 2601 2813 3196 3582 3895 3908 3948 4463 4955 5120 5809 5988 6478 6604 7096 7673 7735 7795 8925 9613 9670

27 370 617 852 910 1030 1326 1521 1606 2118 2248 2909 3214 3413 3623 3742 3752 4317 4694 5300 5687 6039 6100 6232 6491 6621 6860 7304 8542 8634

990 1753 7635 8540

933 1415 5666 8745

27 6567 8707 9216

2341 8692 9580 9615

260 1092 5839 6080

352 3750 4847 7726

4610 6580 9506 9597

2512 2974 4814 9348

1461 4021 5060 7009

1796 2883 5553 8306

1249 5422 7057

3965 6968 9422

1498 2931 5092

27 1090 6215

26 4232 6354,

the LDPC code word is group-wise interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits to generate the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word such that

when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the generated LDPC code word is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the generated LDPC code word of 16200 bits is interleaved into a following sequence of bit groups

31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3, 42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18, 2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29, and

the group-wise interleaved LDPC code word is mapped to one of the 64 signal points in the modulation scheme in units of 6 bits.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein

the LDPC code word is encoded based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code,

the parity check matrix includes an information matrix part corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix part corresponding to the parity bits,

the information matrix part being represented by the parity check matrix initial value table, and

each row of the parity check matrix initial value table indicates positions of elements “1” in corresponding 360 columns of the information matrix part as a subset of information bits used in calculating the parity bits in the LDPC encoding.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein

the LDPC encoding is performed in accordance with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 standard, and

the modulation scheme employs non uniform constellations (NUCs).