JP2005130076A - Digital broadcast receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems wherein when the receiving performance of a receiver cannot be ensured due to adjacent-channel interference or the like in channel selection, broadcasting waves sometimes can be normally received by changing a parameter for the AGC delay point of the receiver, however, when the receiving performance of the receiver cannot improved by the resetting of an AGC delay point in a receiving environment, in which a broadcasting wave of an adjacent area of which the reception level is not sufficiently high, or large adjacent-channel interference which sharply exceeds the actual reception performance of the receiver, there is no effect and a long time is required for control for changing the parameters for the AGC delay point of the receiver. <P>SOLUTION: In channel selection, a parameter affecting changes in receiving characteristics is controlled so as to be set to an optimum state in a receiving environment and the execution of the control is decided by a threshold for another receiving characteristic information, so that unwanted AGC control in each channel is removed and channel searching time can be shortened. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention includes a technique for improving digital broadcast wave reception performance by suppressing adjacent channel interference of analog broadcast waves with respect to digital broadcast waves in an environment where reception performance deteriorates such as in a situation where digital broadcast and analog broadcast are mixed. The present invention relates to a digital broadcast receiver.

  The channel frequency band of domestic terrestrial digital broadcasting is decided to use the same band as that allocated to conventional analog television broadcasting, and digital broadcasting is broadcast on channels not used in conventional analog broadcasting It is supposed to be. In the transition period to the digitalization of broadcast waves, digital broadcast waves based on the OFDM system are broadcast simultaneously with conventional analog broadcast waves, so that both digital and analog broadcast waves are mixed as ground waves.

  When digital broadcast waves and analog broadcast waves are mixed, for example, when there is analog broadcast waves adjacent to the channel to which digital broadcast waves should be sent, digital broadcast waves may interfere with analog broadcast waves In order to prevent this situation, digital broadcast waves are transmitted at a lower level than analog broadcast waves. Digital broadcast receivers are required to be able to receive signals in a wide level range.

  In the situation where digital broadcast waves and analog broadcast waves are mixed, there are the following conventional techniques for reducing the interference from analog to digital.

  FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the conventional digital television broadcast receiver. An RFAGC amplifier 103 that optimizes the level of the input signal by the RFAGC control signal 130, a frequency converter 104 that converts the frequency band of a desired channel from the RF signal 101 into an IF signal, and an IFAGC control signal IF amplifier unit 105 appropriately controlled by 131, quadrature detection unit 114 that separates the AD-converted time-axis quadrature-modulated signal into I-axis and Q-axis signals, and bit sequences of the I-axis and Q-axis signals The signal strength is detected by the demodulating unit 115 that converts the digital data back to the digital data, the error correction unit 116 that performs error correction on the digital data and outputs a transport stream, and the output signal of the IFAGC amplifier unit 105. Signal quality information such as bit error rate is calculated from the signal level detection unit 120 and the error correction unit 116. Digital composed of an error rate detection unit 122 and a control system including an AGC delay point control unit 123 that generates an RFAGC control signal 130 and an IFAGC control signal 131 based on information of the signal level detection unit and the error correction detection unit. It is a receiver.

Increasing the set value of the predetermined AGC delay point is advantageous in terms of noise characteristics, but when there is an adjacent interfering wave having a high signal level, significant performance degradation occurs. Therefore, it can be said that if the set value of the predetermined AGC delay point is lowered only when the adjacent interfering wave exists, the performance is not deteriorated even when the adjacent interfering wave exists while maintaining the low noise characteristics. The presence or absence of adjacent interference can be confirmed by monitoring the demodulation state. That is, when there is no adjacent disturbance, it can be demodulated normally, but when there is an adjacent disturbance, it cannot be demodulated normally, so monitoring the demodulation status such as error rate detection indirectly Presence can be estimated. That is, when the adjacent interfering wave exists, the error rate of the demodulated signal is deteriorated as compared with the case where the adjacent interfering wave does not exist. For this reason, by setting the predetermined AGC delay point to a value that gives the lowest error rate, the influence of adjacent interference can be minimized, and low noise characteristics and high adjacent interference can be obtained regardless of the presence or absence of adjacent interference. This is combined with the suppression characteristic and does not require adjustment (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2000-31235 A

  This method is effective when used in a channel whose reception performance is improved by resetting the AGC delay point. However, the performance cannot be improved by resetting the AGC delay point, such as a broadcast wave in an adjacent area where the reception level is not sufficient for normal reception, or a reception environment where there is an adjacent interference that is far greater than the reception performance of the receiver. In some cases, the time spent for control becomes longer than it is not effective. In particular, if a conventional method is used at the time of channel search, which is a function for selecting all channels of a broadcast service and detecting channel information that can be received in that area, the channel search time increases.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a digital broadcast receiver that can eliminate unnecessary AGC control in each channel and shorten the channel search time.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a digital broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention selects a desired channel band signal from an input signal of a digital broadcast wave composed of one or more channels, and adjusts a signal level as necessary. And a digital demodulator that returns a digital data-modulated analog signal by a predetermined transmission path encoding to a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format. Control is performed so that parameters that affect the reception characteristic change are optimally set according to the characteristic information, while the activation of the control is determined by the relationship between the second reception characteristic information and a threshold value for the reception characteristic information. It is what.

  As described above, according to the digital receiver of the present invention, when channel selection is performed, control is performed so that the parameter that affects the reception characteristic change is optimally set for the reception environment, while the control is activated. By determining based on a threshold value for different reception characteristic information, it is possible to provide a digital broadcast receiver that can eliminate unnecessary AGC control in each channel and shorten the channel search time.

  A digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention includes a tuner unit that selects a desired channel band signal from digital broadcast wave input signals composed of one or more channels, and performs signal level adjustment as necessary. , Comprising a digital demodulator for returning from an analog signal digitally modulated by a predetermined transmission path encoding to a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format, and the first reception characteristic information for the reception environment at the time of channel selection Is controlled so as to optimally set parameters that affect the reception characteristic change, while the activation of the control is determined by the relationship between the second reception characteristic information and the threshold for the reception characteristic information, To provide a digital broadcast receiver that eliminates unnecessary AGC control in each channel and shortens the channel search time. Kill.

  The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2 is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as RFAGC) that adjusts the gain of the input signal by the first gain control signal. A frequency conversion unit that selects a desired channel band signal from the gain-controlled signal and converts the frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal, and a second gain control signal A tuner unit including a second gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as an IFAGC unit) for gain adjustment and an output signal of the second gain control unit as an input signal, and after analog-to-digital conversion, synchronization supplement A digital demodulator that demodulates and outputs a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format, and a power and bit error rate for the received signal from the digital demodulator. And the power conversion unit for obtaining the C / N ratio, the BER conversion unit and the C / N conversion unit, and the output to the RFAGC unit and the IFAGC unit based on the information of the power conversion unit, the BER conversion unit and the C / N conversion unit The gain control signal generating unit that controls the signal, the first reception characteristic information is a bit error rate, and the parameter that affects the reception characteristic change is the switching point setting value (from the RFAGC unit to the IFAGC unit) (Hereinafter referred to as “AGC delay point setting value”), and the second reception characteristic information is C / N ratio information, and it is possible to eliminate unnecessary AGC control in each channel and shorten the channel search time. A broadcast receiver can be provided.

  The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 3 is the digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a first gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as RFAGC) that adjusts the gain of the input signal by the first gain control signal. A frequency conversion unit that selects a desired channel band signal from the gain-controlled signal and converts the frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal, and a second gain control signal A tuner unit having a second gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as an IFAGC unit) for gain adjustment and an output signal of the second gain control unit as an input signal, and after analog to digital conversion, synchronization supplement A digital demodulator that demodulates and outputs a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format, and a power and bit error rate for the received signal from the digital demodulator. And the power conversion unit for obtaining the C / N ratio, the BER conversion unit and the C / N conversion unit, and the output to the RFAGC unit and the IFAGC unit based on the information of the power conversion unit, the BER conversion unit and the C / N conversion unit A gain control signal generation unit for controlling a signal, and a transmission method determination unit for determining a transmission method from the digital demodulator, wherein the first reception characteristic information is a bit error rate and affects a change in reception characteristic The parameter to be set is the RF / IFAGC switching point setting value, the second reception characteristic information is C / N ratio information, the threshold value for the reception characteristic information is set for each transmission method, and the threshold value is determined by the determination result of the transmission information. Thus, it is possible to provide a digital broadcast receiver that eliminates unnecessary AGC control in each channel and shortens the channel search time.

  The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 4 has a normal reception characteristic in the digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claims 1 to 3 by optimally setting parameters that affect the reception characteristic change for the reception environment. A digital broadcast receiver capable of shortening channel search time by eliminating unnecessary AGC control in each channel, using a value of the second reception characteristic information that can be restored as a threshold for the second reception characteristic information. Can be provided.

(Embodiment 1)
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention described in claims 1, 2, and 4 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 3, and 5.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention. The RF signal is returned to the TS signal through the tuner 102 and the digital demodulator 110. The tuner unit 102 includes an RFAGC unit 103, a frequency conversion unit 104, and an IFAGC unit 105. The RFAGC unit 103 controls the gain of the input RF signal 101 by the RFAGC control signal 130, and the frequency conversion unit 104 converts the signal of the desired channel frequency band to the IF frequency band by the frequency control signal 132, and the IFAGC unit Reference numeral 105 adjusts the gain of the IF band signal input by the IFAGC control signal 131. The digital demodulator 110 includes an AD converter 113, a quadrature detector 114, a demodulator 115, and an error corrector 116. The AD conversion unit 113 quantizes the analog signal, and is connected to a quadrature detection unit 114 that separates an I-axis signal and a Q-axis signal from a quadrature-modulated signal and a signal level detection unit 120 that detects a signal level. The quadrature detection unit 114 is connected to the demodulation unit, returns the digitally modulated signal to bit-sequence digital data, and further performs error correction by the error correction unit 116 to output a TS signal. The C / N ratio detection unit 121 detects the C / N ratio from the data of the demodulation unit 115, and the error rate detection unit 122 uses the signal of the error correction unit 116. The AGC delay point 123 is determined by the signal of the signal level detection unit 120, the signal of the C / N ratio detection unit 121, and the signal of the error correction unit 116.

  The flow at the time of channel selection will be described with reference to FIG. The channel selection step S100 sends the physical channel setting to the tuner as a frequency control signal, and starts the channel selection operation. Next, as the BER determination S101, for example, the determination is made based on the value of 2e-4 where the video is normally displayed. If the BER is smaller than 2e-4, the channel selection is ended S108, and an environment where there is a large level of adjacent interference or the like. If the BER is larger than 2e-4, the next C / N ratio is shifted to judgment S102. The set value of the C / N ratio is appropriate to be about ½ of the required C / N ratio of the modulation scheme that is sent, although it varies depending on the transmission scheme. For example, if the required C / N ratio of the modulation method is 20 dB, this set value is 10 dB. In C / N ratio determination S102, channel selection ends S108 if it is 10 dB or less, and if it is 10 dB or more, the process proceeds to the control state of the AGC delay point. The AGC delay point is stepped by several dB in the smaller direction, and a BER determination S106 is performed each time. If it is smaller than 2e-4, the channel selection ends. If it is larger than 2e-4, the AGC delay point is further changed S104. This flow is performed M times (here, set to 4 times) to improve the reception performance. Here, the AGC delay point change will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 5 shows the relationship between the tuner input level, the RFAGC reduction amount, and the IFAGC reduction amount. When the tuner input level is small, it is attenuated by IFAGC, and attenuation by RFAGC starts from a certain input level (this level is called an AGC delay point). At the start of channel selection, the AGC delay point is set as a setting that emphasizes low noise. However, in the change A104, the AGC delay point setting is shifted to the left in the figure, so that high adjacent interference is emphasized. I understand that.

  The operation will be described assuming a specific reception environment. Assume that the required C / N ratio and the adjacent interference suppression ratio with respect to the AGC delay point have the performance shown in FIG. The default value of the AGC delay point is −60 dBm, and the required C / N ratio at this time is 20 dB or less and low noise characteristics are shown. On the other hand, the adjacent interference suppression ratio is −40 or less, which is a bad characteristic for distortion characteristics. If the AGC delay point is lowered, the low noise characteristic tends to deteriorate and the distortion characteristic tends to improve. As shown in FIG. 7, the setting used in the C / N ratio determination S102 is determined by the adjacent disturbance characteristic table with the default value of the AGC delay point. In this receiver, since the capability against adjacent interference is −48 dB, the setting value used in the C / N ratio determination S102 is 12 dB. With this setting, for example, when the reception environment is adjacent interference −46 dB, since the C / N ratio is 14 dB, the AGC delay point is changed, and performance improvement can be achieved by this control. On the other hand, the C / N ratio is 10 dB in the reception environment where the adjacent disturbance, which is known to be unable to improve the performance even if the AGC delay point is changed, is -50 dB, and the control of the AGC delay point change is performed by limiting the C / N ratio. Never do.

  Note that the setting value of the C / N ratio differs depending on the transmission method, and about 1/2 of the required C / N ratio of the modulation method to be sent is appropriate, but this is only a reference value and is the maximum In order to produce an effect, it is desirable to select a value based on actual machine verification.

  Although the above description deals with channel selection of one channel, it can also be applied to a channel search operation for checking the reception status of each channel while selecting a number of channels continuously, and the set value selected as a result of channel selection. Can be used for the next channel selection by storing in the internal memory.

  Although the above description has focused on determining the optimum setting value by changing the AGC delay point value when dealing with adjacent interference, the performance can be improved by changing the performance degradation due to other reception environments. It is also possible to adapt to parameters that can be improved. For example, in the case of terrestrial digital broadcasting using the OFDM method, performance can be improved by optimizing parameters related to the FFT window position in an environment where a long delay wave exists, and the above claims can be applied. .

  Note that the present invention can also be applied when there are a plurality of adjustment items such as a change in the AGC delay point and a change in the FFT window position.

(Embodiment 2)
Embodiments of the present invention described in claims 1, 3, and 4 of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2, 4, and 6.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention. Since only the TMCC detection unit 124 is added to FIG. 1, detailed description thereof is omitted. TMCC is an information signal in which modulation information of a broadcast signal is multiplexed. For example, in the ISDB-T system adopted in domestic terrestrial digital broadcasting, it is a modulation system and its encoding rate.

  The flow at the time of channel selection is shown in FIG. 4, but based on FIG. 3, only modulation parameter determination S110 and C / N ratio threshold setting S111 are added. The C / N ratio threshold setting S111 is determined by the modulation parameter in the previous step, and for example, a table as shown in FIG. 8 needs to be created in advance.

  Further, although it is assumed that the setting value of the C / N ratio for each modulation method is about 1/2 of the required C / N ratio of the modulation method to be sent, this is only a reference value and has the maximum effect. It is desirable to select a value based on actual machine verification.

  The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention controls the reception environment so as to optimally set parameters that affect the reception characteristic change when selecting a channel, while activating the control for other reception characteristic information. By determining based on the threshold value, unnecessary AGC control in each channel can be eliminated, and the channel search time can be shortened, which is useful for channel selection or channel search of a digital broadcast receiver.

Configuration diagram in Embodiment 1 of the present invention Configuration diagram of Embodiment 2 of the present invention Control flow chart of digital receiving apparatus in embodiment 1 of the present invention Control flow chart of digital receiving apparatus in embodiment 2 of the present invention Illustration of AGC delay point The figure which shows an example of the receiving characteristic in Embodiment 1 of this invention The figure which shows an example of the receiving characteristic in Embodiment 1 of this invention Reference diagram of threshold for modulation parameter Configuration diagram showing an example of conventional technology

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 RF signal 102 Tuner part 103 RFAGC part 104 Frequency conversion part 105 IFAGC part 110 Digital demodulation part 112 TS signal 113 AD conversion part 114 Orthogonal detection part 115 Demodulation part 116 Error correction part 120 Signal level detection part 121 C / N detection part 122 Error rate detector 123 AGC delay point 124 TMCC detector 130 RFAGC control signal 131 IFAGC control signal 132 Frequency control signal

Claims (4)

A tuner unit that selects a desired channel band signal from an input signal of a digital broadcast wave composed of one or more channels and adjusts the signal level as necessary, and an analog signal that is digitally modulated by a predetermined transmission path encoding It consists of a digital demodulator that converts back to a bit data sequence signal in the transport stream format. When selecting a channel, the parameters that affect the change in reception characteristics can be optimally set by the first reception characteristic information for the reception environment. A digital broadcast receiving apparatus characterized in that the control is determined on the basis of a relationship between second reception characteristic information and a threshold value for the reception characteristic information. The digital broadcast receiver according to claim 1, wherein a first gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as an RFAGC unit) that adjusts a gain of an input signal by a first gain control signal, and the gain-controlled signal A frequency conversion unit that selects a desired channel band signal and converts the frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal, and a second gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as IFAGC) that adjusts the gain of the first intermediate frequency signal by a second gain control signal. And a second gain control unit output signal as an input signal, and after analog-to-digital conversion, synchronization supplementation and demodulation are performed, and a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format is obtained. An output digital demodulator; and a power converter for obtaining power, bit error rate and C / N ratio for the received signal from the digital demodulator, BER It comprises a calculation unit and a C / N conversion unit, and a gain control signal generation unit that controls an output signal to the RFAGC unit and the IFAGC unit based on the information of the power conversion unit, BER conversion unit, and C / N conversion unit. The first reception characteristic information is a bit error rate, and the parameter that affects the reception characteristic change is a switching point setting value (hereinafter referred to as an AGC delay point setting value) of the block to be controlled from the RFAGC unit to the IFAGC unit. The second receiving characteristic information is C / N ratio information. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a first gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as an RFAGC unit) that adjusts a gain of an input signal by a first gain control signal, and the gain-controlled signal A frequency conversion unit that selects a desired channel band signal and converts the frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal, and a second gain control unit (hereinafter referred to as IFAGC) that adjusts the gain of the first intermediate frequency signal by a second gain control signal. And a second gain control unit output signal as an input signal, and after analog-to-digital conversion, synchronization supplementation and demodulation are performed, and a bit data sequence signal in a transport stream format is obtained. An output digital demodulator; and a power converter for obtaining power, bit error rate and C / N ratio for the received signal from the digital demodulator, BER A calculation unit, a C / N conversion unit, and a gain control signal generation unit that controls an output signal to the RFAGC unit and the IFAGC unit based on information of the power conversion unit, the BER conversion unit, and the C / N conversion unit. The digital demodulator further includes a transmission method determination unit for determining a transmission method, the first reception characteristic information is a bit error rate, and the parameter that affects the reception characteristic change is an RF / IFAGC switching point setting value. The second reception characteristic information is C / N ratio information, a threshold value for the reception characteristic information is set for each transmission method, and the threshold value is determined by a determination result of the transmission information. In the digital broadcast receiving device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, the value of the second reception characteristic information that can return the reception characteristic to normal by optimally setting a parameter that affects the reception characteristic change for the reception environment, A digital broadcast receiving apparatus characterized in that a threshold for second reception characteristic information is used.

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