US 10,476,522 B2Granted

Method for receiving a broadcast signal and broadcast receiver device

AssigneePreh Car Connect GmbH

InventorsThomas Pörschmann, Franz Menzel

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for receiving a broadcast signal. The system includes a broadcast receiver device having two receiving units, two decoding units, a combining unit and a further processing unit. A broadcast signal is received by both receiving units, so that two reception signals are provided. From each reception signal, a raw data stream is extracted and decoded by the decoding units. It is checked if the data stream provided by each decoding unit is complete. If a first data stream is complete, it is processed by the further processing unit. If the first data stream is incomplete and the second data stream is complete, the second data stream is further processed. If both data streams are incomplete, they will be combined to a combined data stream by the combining unit, the combined data stream being further processed, if it is complete.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method for receiving a broadcast signal by means of a broadcast receiver device, comprising the steps of:

receiving the broadcast signal, so that a first reception signal is provided;
receiving the broadcast signal, so that a second reception signal is provided;
extracting a first raw data stream from the first reception signal;
extracting a second raw data streams from the second reception signal;
decoding the first raw data stream, so that a first data stream is provided, and checking, if the first data stream is complete;
decoding of the second raw data stream, so that a second data stream is provided, and checking if the second data stream is complete;
further processing the first data streams when the first data stream is complete;
further processing the second data stream when the first data stream is incomplete and the second data stream is complete;
combining the first data streams with the second data stream when the first data stream is incomplete and the second data stream is incomplete, so that a combined data stream is generated, and checking if the combined data stream is complete, and if the combined data stream is complete, further processing the combined data stream.

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Facts

Application: 15/841,992Filed 14 Dec 2017
Priority: DE 10 2016 015 12617 Dec 2016
Published: US 2018/0175884 A121 Jun 2018
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

H03M 13/096
Error detection codes other than CRC and single parity bit codes: checksums
H03M 13/09
Using block codes, i.e. a predetermined number of check bits joined to a predetermined number of information bits: error detection only, e.g.…
H04H 40/27
Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving: specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups…
H04H 60/11
Arrangements for device control with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time; Arrangements for control of…:…