IP Library › Granted Patent US 9,948,444
Granted Patent B2
US 9,948,444 · App. 15/692,556 · Granted Apr 17, 2018

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

Inventors: Byounggill Kim (Seoul, KR); Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, KR); Woosuk Ko (Seoul, KR); Sungryong Hong (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0092H04H20/33H04H20/423H04H20/59H04L5/0048H04L27/2613
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Patent No.
US 9,948,444
App. No.
15/692,556
Granted
Apr 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame including the encoded service data, a modulator for modulating the at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the at least one modulated signal frame, wherein each of the at least one signal frame includes a preamble having signaling data, wherein the signaling data includes size of FFT, information of whether the signal frame including EAC message or not and information relating to the service data of the signal frame.

Claims (24)

1. A method for receiving broadcast signals by a broadcast signal receiver, the method comprising:

receiving the broadcast signals including a preamble and signal frames;

detecting the preamble positioned at a start of the signal frames, wherein the preamble contains a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol being generated by multiplying a sequence corresponding to signaling information with a different sequence, subcarrier allocating the multiplied sequence and Inverse Fast Fourier Transforming (IFFT) the subcarrier allocated sequence, and wherein the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol in the preamble include information for an emergency alert;

demodulating data OFDM symbols in the signal frames by an OFDM scheme;

parsing the signal frames including service data; and

decoding the service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path,

wherein each signal frame is assigned to a frame type with a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size, a guard interval length and a pilot pattern, and

wherein when two adjacent signal frames having different frame types are multiplexed in the broadcast signals, a preceding signal frame further includes an edge OFDM symbol being positioned at an end of the preceding signal frame.

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol in the preamble include different data in the frequency domain, respectively.

3. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein pilots of the edge OFDM symbol are denser than pilots of the data OFDM symbols.

4. An apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprising:

a receiver to receive the broadcast signals including a preamble and signal frames;

a preamble detector to detect the preamble positioned at a start of the signal frames, wherein the preamble contains a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol being generated by multiplying a sequence corresponding to signaling information with a different sequence, subcarrier allocating the multiplied sequence and Inverse Fast Fourier Transforming (IFFT) the subcarrier allocated sequence, and wherein the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol in the preamble include information for an emergency alert;

a demodulator to demodulate data OFDM symbols in the signal frames by an OFDM scheme;

a frame parser to parse the signal frames including service data; and

a decoder to decode the service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path,

wherein each signal frame is assigned to a frame type with a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size, a guard interval length and a pilot pattern, and

wherein when two adjacent signal frames having different frame types are multiplexed in the broadcast signals, a preceding signal frame further includes an edge OFDM symbol being positioned at an end of the preceding signal frame.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 ,

wherein the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol in the preamble include different data in the frequency domain, respectively.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 ,

wherein pilots of the edge OFDM symbol are denser than pilots of the data OFDM symbols.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2017
From: KIM, BYOUNGGILL; KIM, JAEHYUNG; KO, WOOSUK; HONG, SUNGRYONG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 043468/0636 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14465394 · Aug 21, 2014
Provisional Application 61869074 · Aug 23, 2013
Related Publication 20170366327A1 · Dec 21, 2017