KR20100090511A - Method of transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a broadcast signal transmission and reception method and a broadcast signal reception apparatus. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method may include receiving a broadcast signal, obtaining a transmission unit of service description information describing a broadcast stream included in the broadcast signal, and according to a segment number included in the transmission unit of the service description information. And collecting a transmission unit, segmenting the segment into segments, and decoding service description information included in the segment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, service description information of a broadcast signal can be efficiently transmitted and received.
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The present invention relates to a broadcast signal transmission and reception method and a broadcast signal reception apparatus.
When transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal, information describing a service or a program transmitted through the broadcast signal is also transmitted. For example, PSI (Program Specific Information), PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) or SI (Service Information) defines information describing a service or a program included in a broadcast signal. Information describing such a service or program (hereinafter, referred to as service description information or service information) is multiplexed and transmitted together with a broadcast signal including a service / program. Information describing a service or a program such as a program and system information protocol (PSIP) or a service information (SI) may be separately transmitted in a section form having a predetermined format on a broadcast signal.
The present invention relates to a broadcast signal transmission and reception method and a broadcast signal receiving apparatus capable of efficiently transmitting and receiving broadcast signals.
The present invention relates to a broadcast signal transmission and reception method and a broadcast signal reception apparatus capable of efficiently transmitting and receiving service description information describing a broadcast signal.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes generating service description information including a number of a segment in which transmission units of service description information describing a broadcast stream are segmented, and broadcasting the multiplexed transmission unit of the generated service description information with broadcast content. It provides a broadcast signal transmission method comprising the step of generating a stream and modulating the generated broadcast stream to be transmitted as a broadcast signal.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the method includes receiving a broadcast signal, obtaining a transmission unit of service description information describing a broadcast stream included in the broadcast signal, and according to a segment number included in the transmission unit of the service description information. And collecting a transmission unit, segmenting the segment into segments, and decoding service description information included in the segment.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a receiver for receiving a broadcast signal, a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a transmission unit of service description information describing the broadcast stream from a broadcast stream included in the broadcast signal, and the demultiplexed transmission unit. According to an embodiment, there is provided a broadcast signal receiving method including a service information decoder which collects the transmission unit according to a segment number included in the segment, segments the segment into segments, and decodes the service description information included in the segment.
The service description information may be an event information table (EIT).
The transmission unit may be a table section.
The transmission unit may further include a table section number and a last table section number.
When there are a plurality of segments, the number of table sections included in the consecutive segments may be continuous.
The number of table sections included in the segment may vary.
The service information decoder may collect the table section using the section number and the last section number of the table section.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently transmit and receive broadcast signals.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, service description information of a broadcast signal can be efficiently transmitted and received.
Hereinafter, embodiments of a broadcast signal transmission and reception method and a broadcast signal reception apparatus will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that the present invention can be easily understood.
The service description information describing the broadcast signal is transmitted in a constant transmission unit in the broadcast signal. The transmission unit is a unit called a section, and the service description information transmitted in such a section may be expressed in a table format defined in a program and system information protocol (PSIP) or service information (SI) in a broadcast signal receiving apparatus. Can be. That is, the table of service description information may be transmitted in a certain transmission unit. In this way, the service description information transmitted / received in a predetermined unit may be segmented into at least one transmission unit into one segment. For example, the transmission unit may be a table section.
Hereinafter, an IPTV (internet protocol television) is exemplified as a broadcast signal receiving apparatus among systems for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals, and EIT (event information) defined in DVB-SI (ETSI EN 300 468) as an example of service description information transmitted and received by the system. table).
For example, when segmenting an EIT table currently defined in DVB-SI, the section serial numbers of the section numbers including the event information do not increase continuously. Therefore, when receiving the service description information in the multi-section, the broadcast signal receiving apparatus may be heavily loaded to assemble the multi-section or to obtain event information from the table sections.
For example, if an EIT is sent that contains empty sections that do not contain event information, the broadcast signal reception device may take a long time to filter the received sections and parse the table containing the received sections. have. That is, the segment segmenting the received table section may include an empty table section having no information included therein.
In terrestrial broadcasting, since only event information about channels included in one transport stream is transmitted to the EIT, the burden on processing of service description information in a broadcast signal transmission / reception system is somewhat less. However, in the case of IPTV or IPTV set-top box, since the EIT includes event information for more than 100 channels, it is inconvenient to process unnecessary empty table sections when receiving multiple sections.
1 is a diagram illustrating an EIT. An EIT will be described as an example of service description information with reference to FIG. 1.
A table_id field (8 bits) represents an identifier of an event informatin table section.
section_syntax_indicator (1 bit) indicates that the EIT uses MPEG long-form syntax.
reserved_future_use (1 bit) is an unspecified area.
The reserved field (2 bits) is an unspecified area set to 11.
A section_length field (12 bits) indicates the length of the EIT section.
A service_id field (16 bits) indicates an identifier of a service related to the EIT.
The reserved field (2 bits) is an unspecified area set to 11.
The version_number field (5 bits) indicates the version of the table section. The version_number field value is changed when the contents of the table change.
A current_next_indicator field (1 bit) indicates whether the EIT table section is currently applied or applied to the next table.
A section_number field (8 bits) indicates the number of sections where event information is transmitted, that is, the section serial number. This value starts at 0 and increases by 1 as the section is increased.
The last_section_number field (8 bits) indicates the last section number of the table section.
A transport_stream_id field (16 bits) indicates an identifier of a transport stream of a broadcast signal.
The original_network_id field (16 bits) indicates a network identifier that originally transmitted a service.
A segment_last_section_number field (8 bits) indicates the last section number of the table section among the segments segmented when the EIT is segmented. For non-segmented sections, this field has the same value as the last_section_number field above.
The last_table_id field (8 bits) identifies the last table identifier used.
An event_id field (16 bits) represents an identification number of an event to be described.
A start_time field (40 bits) indicates the start time of the event in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and Modified Julian Date (MJD).
The duration field (24 bits) indicates the duration of the event in hours, minutes, and seconds.
A running_statsu field (3 bits) indicates the status of the event.
A free_CA_node field (1 bit) indicates whether a component stream of an event is scrambled.
A descriptor_loop_length field (12 bits) indicates the length of the following descriptor.
The last_section_number field of the EIT table section including the above information is the number of the last section filled with EIT information, not an empty section.
2 illustrates an example in which a table for service description information is segmented and transmitted when segmented and transmitted. For example, if the EIT is transmitted, three hours of program / service event information may be segmented. Thus,
Each segment is segmented into eight sections. Even if any one of the eight sections is an empty section with no information, the eight sections are segmented into one segment.
For example, if three hours of event information included in
In addition, when event information of a next three-hour unit is transmitted to
Similarly, if
And, if
In the example of FIG. 2, when receiving an EIT table section using the EIT illustrated in FIG. 1, a specific segment includes a section including event information and a blank section not including event information, and includes a broadcast signal transceiver. Must send and receive empty sections like this. That is, even if event information of a three-hour unit of one segment is included only in some sections of the segment as described above, the broadcast signal transmitter / receiver must transmit and receive all sections included in the segment.
For example, since segment_last_section_number field of the EIT table section is 7 with respect to
And, since
3 shows another embodiment of an EIT. 3, table_id field (8 bits), section_syntax_indicator (1 bit), reserved_future_use (1 bit), reserved field (2 bits), section_length field (12 bits), service_id field (16 bits), reserved field (2 bits), version_number field (5 bits), current_next_indicator field (1 bit), section_number field (8 bits), last_section_number field (8 bits), transport_stream_id field (16 bits), original_network_id field (16 bits), last_table_id field (8 bits) event_id field (16 bits), start_time field (40 bits), duration field (24 bits), running_statsu field (3 bits), and free_CA_node field (1 bit) are the same as the above-described example of EIT.
However, the segment_last_section_number field (8 bits) of the above EIT example is defined as a field called segment_number (8 bits) in this embodiment. A segment_last_section_number field (8 bits) indicates the last section number in each segment, while a segment_number (8 bits) field indicates a segment number to which each table section belongs.
In order to easily explain segment_number (8 bits) of the EIT in FIG. 3, an embodiment of a segmentation method of a table section is disclosed.
4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a segmentation method of a table section. For ease of explanation, in FIG. 4, it is assumed that event information of three hours is segmented, as in the example of FIG. 2. However, the section included in each segment includes only a table section including event information. That is, the number of table sections that can be included in one segment is variable.
In this example, the number of table sections including event information in each segment is the same as that of FIG. However, the number of table sections included in each segment is variable, and the section number of the table section is continuous for a plurality of segments.
That is,
Similarly, in
The segment_number (8 bits) field of the EIT indicates the number of a segment to which each section belongs. Therefore, the segment_number (8-bit) field values of
Accordingly, the apparatus for receiving broadcast signals can efficiently receive a plurality of table sections using the service description information only with the section_number field and the last_section_number field value, and can easily segment the table sections received with the segment_number (8 bit) field value. .
5 is a view showing an embodiment of a broadcast signal transmission and reception method according to the present invention.
In operation S110, service description information including a number of a segment in which transmission units of service description information describing a broadcast stream are segmented is generated. For example, the service description information may be an event information table (EIT) that describes event information transmitted on a three-hour basis of broadcast content to be transmitted. The transmission unit of the service description information may be a table section. For example, if the service description information is an event information table (EIT) included in DVB-SI according to the definition of ETSI EN 300 468, the segment number may be set between the original_network_id field and the last_table_id field.
The generated service description information is multiplexed into broadcast content and a transmission unit and transmitted (S120). The service technology information transmitted may be in accordance with a broadcast signal format transmitted to a medium such as terrestrial, satellite, or the Internet.
The broadcast signal transmitted as described above is received (130). For example, in the case of a broadcast signal transmitted in a terrestrial wave of a DVB format, demodulation is performed according to a demodulation scheme of a DVB signal. In the case of a signal according to Internet broadcasting, an IP packet carrying a broadcast signal is decapsulated.
A transmission unit of service description information is obtained from the received broadcast signal (S140). The transmission unit of the service description information may be a table section as described above. The service description information can be identified according to the table identifier, and both the table section of the identified table can be collected by using the section number and the last section number of the identified table section.
The transmission units having the same segment number with respect to the transmission units of the obtained service description information are segmented (S150). For example, if the service description information is an event information table (EIT) included in DVB-SI according to the definition of ETSI EN 300 468, the segment number may be set between the original_network_id field and the last_table_id field. If the service description information is an EIT, segmenting as above can easily obtain a three-hour table section.
6 is a view showing an embodiment of a broadcast signal receiving apparatus according to the present invention. An embodiment of a broadcast signal receiving apparatus includes a receiving
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In the above example, an EIT is taken as an example, and an example of transmitting and receiving a table section of service description information describing a broadcast stream centering on an IPTV receiver has been described. Even the same embodiment as described above can be performed.
Therefore, it is possible to efficiently transmit and receive broadcast signals, and in particular, to efficiently transmit and receive service description information among broadcast signals.
1 illustrates an EIT
2 is a diagram illustrating an example of segmentation and transmission and reception when a table for service description information is segmented and transmitted;
3 shows another embodiment of an EIT;
4 illustrates an embodiment of a segmentation method of a table section.
5 is a view showing an embodiment of a broadcast signal transmission and reception method according to the present invention.
6 illustrates an embodiment of a broadcast signal receiving apparatus according to the present invention.
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