• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.435-444
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• 2013

ATSC terrestrial DTV system can support high data rates for HDTV(High Definition Television) service, but it suffers from significant performance degradation caused by multipath fading. Thus, it is necessary to analyze multipath fading effects in order to enhance the DTV reception performance. Generally, DTV channel profile can be obtained by auto-correlation between reference pseudo random signal and received DTV signal. However, in the ATSC terrestrial DTV system, the estimation performance of DTV channel profile may be decreased due to the VSB modulation features. In this paper, improved DTV channel profile measurement technique is analyzed and proposed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1185-1194
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new terrestrial 3DTV broadcasting standard specification based on synchronization with non-real-time contents in order to overcome quality limitations of the current 3DTV services that are arisen from the limited bandwidth of the legacy broadcasting channel. In the services using the proposed specification, one view sequence of a stereoscopic video content is delivered as a non-real-time content in idle time, and the other view sequence is transmitted in real time broadcasting signal, thereafter two sequences are synchronized in a receiver for display. Thus, it is possible to provide higher-quality stereoscopic video content services than the current 3DTV services. In order to realize these services, a new mechanism is required which enables synchronization between the data that are from different transmission media and time. Therefore, this paper suggests a solution by multiplexing the synchronization signals of non-real-time contents into broadcasting signals with real-time streams together. This solution can provide a accurate synchronization mechanism by minimum updates of legacy broadcasting systems while maintaining compatibility with legacy services.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.847-857
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• 2016

Broadcasting services such as multi/single channel HDTV and 3DTV/2DTV use a multi-channel encoder that changes the bitrate and composition of the video service depending on the time. However, this type of multi-channel encoder could cause a longer latency owing to the variable bitrate and relatively bigger size of the buffers, which results in the same delay as in 3DTV even for a conventional DTV service. On the other hand, systems built based on separate encoders, each of which is optimized for the target service, might not have such latency problems. Nevertheless, there might be a distortion problem in the image and sound at the time of a switchover between two encoders with different output bitrates and group of picture structures. This paper proposes a system that can realize a seamless video service conversion using two different video encoders optimized for each video service. An overall functional description of the video service change control server, which is a main control block for the proposed system, is also provided. The experiment results confirm the seamless switchover and reduced broadcasting latency of DTV services compared with a broadcasting system composed of a multi-channel encoder system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12A
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• pp.1024-1033
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• 2011

Stereoscopic video for 3DTV service is emerging as a main content of the Post-HD age in the multimedia industry, and also it starts a ripple effect to build infrastructure for 3DTV service throughout the related industries such as creating contents, consumer electronics and the broadcasting. Thus, "Technical Specification of Stereoscopic Video over MPEG-2 TS for 3DTV Service" for providing a standard for 3DTV broadcasting transmitter and receiver interface is under development by the 3DTV WG8061 in ITA, Korea. This paper provides verification of the functionalities, problems and future work of the above specification with designed test-bed. Through making a test bed, this paper try to verify not only the functionality of standard but also backward compatible for the present technology and abstract problems to would be reviewed and supplemented.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.107-113
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• 2012

현재 3DTV 방송은 한국, 미국, 유럽 등 선진국을 중심으로 다양한 방식의 3DTV 실험방송 및 상용 서비스가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 3DTV 방송 방식은 기술개발 진행 측면에서 i) 서비스 호환 방식 지원, ii) 기존 디지털방송 화질 및 최대 1080i 고해상도 지원이라는 핵심 기술개발을 목표로 점차 진화되고 있으며 전 세계 표준단체는 이를 지원하기 위한 서비스 호환 3DTV 방송 서비스에 대한 표준화가 본격적으로 진행 중에 있다. 본고에서는 ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee), DVB(Digital Video Broadcasting), SCTE(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) 및 TTA(Telecommunications Technology Association) 등 다양한 디지털방송 매체 기반의 서비스 호환 3DTV 방송 방식에 대한 국내외 표준화 현황에 대해 살펴본다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.266-277
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• 2007

Recently, Transmitter Identification(TxID) technology has been issued as a technology of ATSC DTV. ATSC DTV networks are comprised of a plurality of transmitters, broadcasting the same signal sing one frequency network(SFN) connected to EDOCR. In this single frequency network, TxID technology has been recognized as a technology in the ATSC DTV system since it enables the broadcast authorities and classify multiple transmitters. However, conventional TxID uses extremely long spreading sequence to identifying transmitters, so it increases H/W complexity and registers. Thus, to solve those hardware problems, we propose an efficient signal processing technology using decimation algorithm. Furthermore, we certified the availability of the proposed algorithm via various simulations.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.4-15
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 국내에서 DTV 전환에 대비한 DTV 방송프로그램의 기술적 보호조치 방안 마련을 위하여 기술적 보호조치의 의의 및 분류, 해외의 기술조치 방안에 대하여 살펴보고 이를 바탕으로 기술적 보호조치에 필요한 요구사항을 도출하여 보았다. 무엇보다 기술적 보호조치는 사용자의 사용권한을 제한하지 말아야 하며 (공정이용 보장), 기술혁신을 저해하지 말아야 할 것이고, 또한 합리적인 비즈니스 모델을 제시하는 것이 중요하다. 또한 국내 지상파 방송은 무료 보면적 서비스라는 일반 시청자들의 인식으로 인하여, 지상파 DTV 방송프로그램의 기술적 보호조치 도입에 대한 시청자의 심리적 거부감이 강하므로 이를 해소하면서 합리적인 기술적 보호조치 방안을 마련하는 것이 중요한 과제이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.14-17
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• 2010

Following the proliferation of three-dimensional video contents and displays, many terrestrial broadcasting companies prepare for starting stereoscopic 3DTV service. In terrestrial stereoscopic broadcast, it is a difficult task to code and transmit two video sequences while sustaining as high quality as 2DTV broadcast attains due to the limited bandwidth defined by the existing digital TV standards such as ATSC. Thus, a terrestrial 3DTV broadcasting system with heterogeneous video coding systems is considered for terrestrial 3DTV broadcast where the left image and right images are based on MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively, in order to achieve both high quality broadcasting service and compatibility for the existing 2DTV viewers. Without significant change in the current terrestrial broadcasting systems, we propose a joint rate control scheme for stereoscopic 3DTV service. The proposed joint rate control scheme applies to the MPEG-2 encoder a quadratic rate-quantization model which is adopted in the H.264/AVC. Then the controller is designed for the sum of two bit streams to meet the bandwidth requirement of broadcasting standards while the sum of image distortions is minimized by adjusting quantization parameter computed from the proposed optimization scheme. Besides, we also consider a condition on quality difference between the left and right images in the optimization. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed bit rate control scheme outperforms the rate control method where each video coding standard uses its own bit rate control algorithm in terms of minimizing the mean image distortion as well as the mean value and the variation of absolute image quality differences.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2012

In this paper, low power on-channel DTV repeater is implemented to improve the fringe area of terrestrial DTV broadcasting services and its effectiveness is verified by field trials. System requirements of on-channel repeater are drive from received signal model and gain transfer model. Implemented on-channel DTV repeater has coverage of about 1km with 10mW/MHz output power. Experimental results show that implemented system can effectively improve small/medium size DTV fringe areas in Korea.