|Publication number||US7086076 B1|
|Application number||US 09/310,091|
|Publication date||1 Aug 2006|
|Filing date||12 May 1999|
|Priority date||15 May 1998|
|Publication number||09310091, 310091, US 7086076 B1, US 7086076B1, US-B1-7086076, US7086076 B1, US7086076B1|
|Original Assignee||Lg Electronics Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (25), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (40), Classifications (24), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a digital TV receiver, and more particularly, to a method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver.
2. Background of the Related Art
Recently, keeping pace with development on TV technologies, there has been growing interests in digital TV receivers having a digital transmission system applied thereto, and, in a domestic case, the Mugungwha satellite was launched and started digital test broadcasting in July '96. In general, a time multiplexed signal of video, audio and program specific information signals intended to transmit in a digital satellite broadcasting is called as a transport stream(TS), which is QPSK modulated before transmission to respective receivers through a satellite.
The PAT and PMT have architectures as shown in
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver that substantially obviates one or more of the problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver which can deal with a channel cancellation/addition during broadcasting.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention, as embodied and broadly described, the method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver includes the steps of (1) determining a channel information of being changed from a broadcasting signal received at every preset time interval and storing the changed channel information, and (2) comparing the stored changed channel information and channel information stored already, for updating the channel information.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention:
In the drawings:
Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
The method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver of the present invention is achieved by parsing PAT and PMT in the PSI information, which will be explained with reference to
The method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver of the present invention starts with demultiplexing a received transport stream at fixed intervals and extracting PATs therefrom (S101). Then, a version number is detected from the extracted PAT (S102), and it is determined whether the version number is changed or not (S103). If it is found that the version number is changed as a result of the determination (S103), it is determined whether the repeater is switched or not (S104). And, if the repeater is not switched, it is determined that the version number change comes from a channel information change. In this instance, if each repeater has its own transmission station, a new parsing is not required in a case a version change is caused by the switch of the repeater because there are cases when the version number change comes from difficulty in matching versions caused by different situation of the transmission station even if contents of the SI (Service Information) are identical. For example, in the case of Korean Mugungwha satellite, even if version numbers of the Mokdong transmission station and the Yongin transmission station are different, the SI information is the same. Therefore, as a result of the determination (S104), if it is found that the repeater is not switched, which implies that the SI is changed, the version number change is determined to be an actual channel information change, the changed version number is stored, and a PAT parsing is started (S105). Then, the PAT parsing conducted presently is determined of being an initial parsing (S106). As a result of the determination (S106), if it is found that the PAT parsing conducted presently is the initial PAT parsing, each channel information is detected, stored in First_DB, and forms EPG_First (S107). The First_DB is a memory for providing a data base of the initial PAT parsing channel information, and the EPG_First is a memory for storing a channel architecture, both are named by the inventor. As a result of the determination (S106), if it is found that the PAT parsing conducted presently is not the initial PAT parsing, the initial EPG_First is cleared (S108), each channel information of the change version is detected, stored in Changed_DB, and forms EPG_Changed (S109). In this instance, the Changed_DB is a memory for providing a data-base of the change channel information after the First_DB, and the EPG_Changed is a memory for storing change channel architecture after the EPG_First, which is named by the inventor. The subroutine (S107) or the subroutine (S109) is conducted, and a PMT start command is provided upon completion of the PAT parsing (S110). Then, the process stands by for reception of a PMT parsing completion signal, to return to the initial subroutine (S111).
A process of the PMT parsing will be explained with reference to
Upon completion of the PAT parsing, the process stands by for reception of a PMT start command(S201). Upon reception of the PMT parsing start command, it is determined if the PMT parsing is an initial PMT parsing(S202). If it is found that the PMT parsing is the initial PMT parsing, PMT information is stored in the First_DB(S203), and a PMM information processing command is provided for providing a program specific information to a user(S204). Upon completion of the PMT parsing, a PMT parsing completion signal is provided(S207). If it is found that the PMT parsing is not the initial PMT parsing, as a result of the determination (S202), new PMT information is stored in Changed_DB, and EPG_First and EPG_Changed are compared, to check actually canceled or added channel(S205), and channel information update is executed, and the channel update is waited(S206).
Detail operation of the channel checking and updating will be explained.
The channel check is conducted by comparing EPG_First and EPG_Changed as shown in
Key points of the channel connection architecture re-arrangement algorithm are as follows.
First, upon completion of the channel cancellation or an additional check, a link structure is changed.
Second, no data base re-arrangement should be made, in which the link structure is changed, during an EIT parsing.
Third, no DB re-arrangement should be made during an Event Delete process proceeds, in which program is re-arranged at one hour intervals.
Fourth, the data base should be re-arranged when a channel watched presently is not included in canceled channels.
Thus, when the PMT parsing completion signal is provided upon completion of the PMT parsing, the PAT parsing at standby is started again to proceed the PAT parsing, to conduct the PAT and PMT parsing, thereby conducting a channel information change.
The method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver of the present invention has the following advantages.
First, the conduction of PAT and PMT parsing based on channel information change known from version number and repeater switch reduces additional load on the controller, and the constant provision of a stable broadcasting program to users in response to channel information change possible to occur during broadcasting improves a reliability.
Second, the re-arrangement of channel connection architecture while matching synchronization between multi-processors facilitates stabilization of a system reception state.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the method for changing channel information in a digital TV receiver of the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
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|Cooperative Classification||H04N21/4331, H04N21/4586, H04N21/235, H04N21/435, H04N21/4345, H04N5/4401, H04N21/434|
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