Abstract:
The present invention provides a digital multimedia broadcasting transmitting apparatus, including: a pilot signal generator that is used in estimating a transmission channel in a receiving apparatus and generates a pilot signal including at least one information a; a subcarrier mapping unit that maps the pilot signal to a subcarrier corresponding thereto; and a modulating unit that modulates an output of the subcarrier mapping unit, wherein the pilot signal has a value for specific information rather than a predetermined value in the receiving apparatus.
Abstract:
Provided are hierarchical modulation apparatus and method using a pilot signal and an apparatus and method for receiving a hierarchically modulated signal. The hierarchical modulation apparatus comprises a first encoder encoding a first layer signal sequence, a second encoder encoding a second layer signal sequence, a pilot inserting unit inserting a pilot signal into the signal sequence encoded by the second encoder, and a hierarchical modulator modulating the signals output from the first encoder and the pilot inserting unit and combining the modulated signals.
Abstract:
This research provides a diversity receiving apparatus and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a switching units for sequentially scanning a plurality of directional antennas based on a first control signal and selecting a directional antenna having an optimal channel impulse response based on a second control signal; a radio frequency (RF) front end units for converting an RF signal into a digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a demodulating units for demodulating the digital IF signal into a baseband signal; a diversity signal processing units for transmitting the first control signal to the switching units, selecting a beam output signal having the optimal channel impulse response and transmitting the second control signal to the switching unit to select the directional antenna corresponding to the beam output signal; and a channel equalizing unit for compensating for remaining channel distortion of the selected beam output.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a multimedia broadcast signal transmitting/receiving method, and it generates a pilot signal by mapping transmission information on an orthogonal code, disperses the pilot signal in the frequency domain, modulates the dispersed pilot signal, and transmits the modulated pilot signal.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a channel encoder for an enhancement layer of a digital-multimedia-broadcasting transmitting device, a digital broadcasting transmitting device, a digital broadcasting receiving device, and an extension structure of sub-channel configuration field (FIG0/1 ) for designating a protection level of sub-channel at the enhancement layer. In a channel encoder for the enhancement layer according to the invention, the channel encoder is included in a hierarchical DMB transmitting unit that modulates a base layer transport stream and a enhancement layer transport stream for video and audio by a base layer modulation system and an enhancement layer modulation system, respectively, and performs symbol mapping of the enhancement layer according to the position of a constellation based on the base layer modulation system. Furthermore, the hierarchical DMB transmitting unit includes an energy dispersal scrambler that disperses energy of the enhancement layer transport stream, and a turbo encoder that receives a double-binary input vector corresponding to an output of the energy dispersal scrambler and encodes it by using a double-binary circular recursive systematic code.
Abstract:
There are provided a method for selecting an optimal beam to improve digital broadcasting receiving performance, and a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus using the same. The method includes the steps of: a) calculating a mainpath Signal to Multipath signal and Noise Ratio (SMNR) based on a channel impulse response for a plurality of beams which are formed according to steering directions from output signals of antennas, wherein the output signal of each antenna has different phase shift according to location of antenna element; b) selecting a predetermined number of beams having a high SMNR value by comparing the calculated SMNR value for respective beam; c) calculating a mainpath Signal to Dominant Multipath signal Ratio (SDMR) based on a channel impulse response corresponding to the selected beam; and d) selecting a beam output signal having the biggest SDMR value by comparing SDMR values calculated in selecting a predetermined number of beams.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a broadcast data transmission system. Said broadcast data transmission system transmits broadcast data by using a plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas. A broadcast data transmission device comprised in the broadcast data transmission system determines different modulation techniques for each transmission antenna, determines different kinds of transmission power for each data stream according to the determined modulation techniques, and determines different precoding vectors.
Abstract:
A digital multimedia broadcasting transmitting apparatus includes: a variable spreader (120) that spreads a pilot signal to a frequency domain and outputs a signal having a format where the pilot signal is partially inserted to the entire subcarriers; a modulator (130) that modulates the output of the variable spreader (120); and an antenna (140) that transmits the signal modulated by the modulator (130).
Abstract:
A digital multimedia broadcasting transmitting apparatus includes: a variable spreader that spreads a pilot signal to a frequency domain and outputs a signal having a format where the pilot signal is partially inserted to the entire subcarriers; a modulator that modulates the output of the variable spreader; and an antenna that transmits the signal modulated by the modulator.
Abstract:
Provided are an apparatus and method for selecting an optimal signal using auxiliary equalization in a diversity receiver. The optimal signal selecting apparatus includes: a plurality of sync recovery units for extracting sync information from baseband signals, which are candidate signals, except a baseband signal selected as a current optimal signal a plurality of auxiliary equalizers for channel-equalizing the candidate signals based on the extracted sync information; a plurality of SNR measuring units for measuring signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the candidate signals inputted to the auxiliary equalizers and the candidates signals equalized in the auxiliary equalizers; and an optimal signal selector for selecting an optimal candidate signal from the candidate signals by using the extracted sync information and the measured SNRs, and replacing the optimal signal with the optimal candidate signal when reception quality of the current optimal signal is poor.