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ABSTRACT
This paper describes the development of a real-time three-dimensional television (3DTV) emission multiplexer and reception – signal status analyzing system for Advanced Television Systems Committee 8-vestigial side-band (ATSC 8-VSB) & mobile digital television (MDTV) hybrid 3DTV service. Recently, this system has been adopted as a standard (ATSC A/104 Part 5) of the terrestrial 3DTV broadcasting service under the name of service compatible-main and mobile hybrid (SC-MMH) 3DTV. Compared to the existing ATSC MDTV 2D systems, the SC-MMH 3DTV system requires 8-VSB (left-eye images) and MDTV (right-eye images) frame synchronization. 3DTV shall receive both 8-VSB and MDTV signals simultaneously. For a seamless SC-MMH 3DTV service within these service constraints, broadcasters should deploy transmitters and measuring services over the coverage area. In this paper, we introduce the implementation of SC-MMH 3DTV emission multiplexer and reception-signal status analyzer to configure the transmitter and signal measurements more efficiently. The options of the proposed system are verified by the SC-MMH 3DTV field test in a real terrestrial broadcasting environment.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP. [R0101-16-0294, Development of Service and Transmission Technology for Convergent Realistic Broadcast].
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Sung-Hoon Kim
Sung-Hoon Kim received BS, ME, and PhD in electronics engineering from Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, in 1994, 1996, and 2007, respectively. Since 2000, he has been a senior member of staff in the Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Media Research Department, ETRI. His research interests are digital signal processing in the field of video communication, Mobile DTV, 3DTV, and UHDTV broadcasting systems. E-mail: [email protected]
Dong-Wook Kang
Dong-Wook Kang received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, in 1986, 1988, and 1995, respectively. Since 2005, he has been with the School of Electronic Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, where he is now a professor. He is a trustee of the Korean Society of Broadcasting Engineers. His research interests include video coding, multimedia signal processing, 3DTV, and digital culture technology. E-mail: [email protected]
Kyeong-Hoon Jung
Kyeong-Hoon Jung received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, in 1987, 1989, and 1996, respectively. After working at the Korea Broadcasting Institute, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, from 1991 to 1997, he joined Handong University, Pohang, Rep. of Korea, as a faculty member. Since 2005, he has been with the School of Electronic Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, where he is now a professor. His research interests are broadcasting systems, video coding, and multimedia signal processing. E-mail: [email protected]
Ki-Doo Kim
Ki-Doo Kim received a BS degree in electronics engineering in 1980 from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. He worked as a research engineer at the Agency for Defense Development in Korea from 1980 to 1985. He got the MS and PhD degree in 1988 and 1990 from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He joined Kookmin University as an Assistant Professor in 1991. He also served as a visiting scholar in the EE department, UCSD, USA from 1997 to 1998. He is now working as a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering of Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. His current research interest includes digital communication and broadcasting, etc. Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]