Abstract:
Provided are an on- channel repeater and an on- channel repeating method. The on-channel repeater includes : a receiving means for receiving a Radio Frequency (RF) signal; a subtracting means for subtracting a replica of feedback signals from the signal received by the receiving means; a replica generating means for calculating the replica based on the signal acquired from the subtraction in the subtracting means and feeding back the replica to the subtracting means; an inverse channel estimating means for estimating inverse of a reception channel based on the signal acquired from the subtraction in the subtracting means and generating filter tab coefficients; a first adaptive filtering means for compensating for channel distortion of the signal subtracted by the subtracting means based on the filter tab coefficients generated in the inverse channel estimating means; and a transmitting means for converting a signal whose channel distortion is compensated by the first adaptive filtering means into an RF signal and performing radio transmission.
Abstract:
Provided are transmission and reception apparatuses and methods used in a conditional access system that limitedly allows access to a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) service. The transmission apparatus selects a single service component from a transmission frame which includes a main service channel (MSC) including sub-channels including one or more service components and a fast information channel (FIC) which transmits control information regarding the main service channel to insert an entitlement management message (EMM) that is used to grant or update the entitlement on the DMB service to the selected single service component, and provides location information regarding the selected single service component to the fast information channel.
Abstract:
Provided are an apparatus and method for switching a DMB channel in a DMB multiple frequency network. The apparatus includes a handoff sensing unit for sensing a handoff operation between mobile communication base stations, which is performed according to movement of a DMB terminal, and a channel switching unit for determining necessity of switching a DMB channel when the handoff operation is sensed by the handoff sensing unit and a new mobile communication base station coverage is entered.
Abstract:
Provided is a channel estimation apparatus and method using a linear/nonlinear average in a wireless communication system. The present research provides a channel estimation apparatus and method for estimating a channel between a transmitter and a receiver from a pilot-inserted OFDM signal and linearly or nonlinearly averaging the estimating channel, thereby preventing the equalizer performance from being degraded by noise component of the estimated channel and noise amplification caused by deep fading. The channel estimation apparatus includes: a channel estimation unit configured to estimate a channel coefficient of a channel between a transmitter and a receiver from a pilot-inserted carrier signal according to pilot arrangement; and a linear/nonlinear averaging unit configured to linearly or nonlinearly averaging the estimated channel coefficient, thereby preventing an equalizer performance from being degraded by noise component existing in the channel and noise amplification caused by deep fading.
Abstract:
Provided are a scalable video coding and decoding apparatus and method for multiview video. The apparatus includes a basic scalability video encoder separating one basic video to video frames and performing scalable video coding through temporal and spatial prediction, and multiple extended scalability video encoders for receiving an own video and one or more adjacent videos as reference videos captured simultaneously, separating the received videos in video frames, performing scalable video coding for the separated low resolution image frame through temporal and spatial prediction with reference to the adjacent video frames at same temporal axis as well as own adjacent frame, and performing scalable video coding for the separated high resolution video frame through temporal and spatial prediction referring to lower layers of the adjacent video frames at same temporal axis as well as an own lower layer.
Abstract:
Provided is an inter-view frame reference method and apparatus used in multi-view video encoding. In the present invention, pictures at the sequence of spatially closer viewpoints are preferentially referred to from among pictures at previously encoded viewpoints in each Group Of Pictures (GOP), except for a basic GOP that makes only a temporal frame reference at its viewpoint, an Instantaneous Decoder Refresh (IDR) picture, and pictures at the last point of time of encoding.
Abstract:
Provided are a Vestigial Side Band (VSB) Digital Television (DTV) transmitter and receiver based on the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) A/53, and a method thereof. The present invention provides 8-VSB DTV transmitter and receiver that can improve reception performance of the receiver by transmitting and double streams formed of normal data and robust data without increasing an average power level, regardless of the ratio of the normal data and robust data, by including an encoding unit for performing 16-state trellis coding on the robust data when a data stream includes robust data, and a method thereof.
Abstract:
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for processing multimodal data broadcasting and a system and a method for receiving multimodal data broadcasting. The multimodal data broadcasting processing apparatus includes: at least one interfacing unit for receiving contents transferred from a data broadcasting server and storing the contents; a multimodal browsing unit for parsing the stored contents, classifying the contents and interpreting the classified contents to generate instructions and data necessary for running a corresponding browsing unit; a graphic browsing unit for generating a graphic output signal according to the instructions and data necessary for running the graphic browsing unit; a voice browsing unit for generating a speech output signal according to the instructions and data necessary for running the voice browsing unit; a graphic output unit for outputting graphics according to the graphic output signal; and a speech output unit for outputting speech according to the speech output signal.
Abstract:
Provided are an on-channel repeater and a method thereof. The repeater receives signals on one channel and distributes the signals on the same channel by converting RF signals from a main transmitter into baseband signals; equalizing them in a high-performance equalizer; adding a repeater identifier to them; modulating the baseband signals with the repeater identifier into RF signals. The repeater includes: a receiver for receiving RF signals; a demodulator for demodulating the RF signals into baseband signals; an equalizer for equalizing the baseband signals; an adder for adding a repeater identifier to the baseband signals; a modulator for modulating the baseband signals with the repeater identifier added in the adder into RF signals; and a transmitter for transmitting the RF signals modulated in the modulator. The technology of the present invention is used to form an on-channel repeating network in an arbitrary transmission system including a digital television broadcasting system.
Abstract:
Provided is a modulating apparatus and method of an on-channel repeater. An object of the present invention is to provide a modulating apparatus of an on-channel repeater for reducing time delay by configuring and up-sampling a baseband signal, filtering the up-sampled baseband signal with an Equi-Ripple (ER) filter or in a window method, and converting the filtered baseband signal into an RF signal. The modulating apparatus includes: a baseband signal configuring unit for configuring a baseband. signal by combining an input field and a segment sync signal; a pilot adding unit for adding a pilot signal to the baseband signal; a filtering unit for filtering the baseband signal with the pilot signal; and an RF up-converting unit for up-converting the filtered signal into an RF signal. The present invention is used to form an on-channel repeating network in a transmitting system including a digital TV broadcasting system.