November 2017
No.0015The 2nd APG-19 meeting
APG-19 (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Conference Preparatory Group for WRC-19) has
responsibilitytocreatethe

APT

Common

Proposal

towards

the

World

Radiocommunication Conference to be held in 2019 (WRC-19).
The 2nd meeting of APG-19 was held on July 2017. Overview and Major results of themeeting are as follows.
1. Overview of the meeting
Schedule

From 17 to 21 July 2017

Venue

Bali, Indonesia

Participants

About 460 people from 23 countries

Participantsfrom Japan

53 people (including 4 people from ARIB) headed by Mr. Kimura(Director of International Frequency Policy Office, MIC)

2. Major results
At the meeting, APT provisional opinion document which is the basis of the APT joint
proposal in each agenda of WRC-19 was deliberated based on contribution of eachcountry, and its first edition of the draft text was completed.
Discussions were also held on how the APG and AWG (APT Wireless Group) would
cooperate in relation to the WRC-19 agenda, and it was confirmed that the AWG would
conduct study on both technical and operational aspects according to APG's request
confirmed.
It was decided that the input from AWG to ITU - R is limited to technical or operational
information, and can be submitted after approval as APT recommendation / report, andthat the development progress of recommendation / report should be reported to APG by
AWG.
1Study Organization of APG-19
ChairmanVice-chairman
Chairman of editorial committee
WP1: Land mobile and fixed services
WP2: Broadband applications in the mobile
service
WP3: Satellite services
WP4: Science services
WP5: Maritime, aeronautical and amateur
services
WP6: General issues

Dr. Kyu-Jin Wee(Korea)Mr. Xiaoyang Gao
Mr. Neil Meaney
Dr. Tommy Chee
Ms. Zhu Keer

(China)(Australia)(New Zealand)(China)Dr. Kyung-mee Kim(Korea)Mr. Muneo Abe(Japan)Dr. Atmadji Wiseso Soewito (Indonesia)
Mr. Bui Ha Long

(Vietnam)

Mr. Taghi Shafee(Iran)

3. The future meeting schedule
Meeting

Venue

Date

Agenda3rd

12-16 March. 2018

Australia

Revision of the APT provisional view

4th

7-12 January 2019

Korea

Completion of the CPM19-2 proposal
Revision of the APT provisional view

5th

31 July - 6 August 2019

Japan

Complete the APT joint proposal

The 2nd APG-19 Meeting2

Liaison meeting on collaboration and cooperation
between NICT and ARIB
Based on the agreement of the promotion of collaboration and cooperation signed between
the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and ARIB,
the 5th liaison meeting was held on 3 August 2017. This agreement was signed on 12
March 2013 to strengthen the collaboration and cooperation of the two institutions on
research, development and standardization.
In the liaison meeting, the activities of both institutions were introduced, followed by alively exchange of views on the issues in telecommunication field and further promotion ofcollaboration and cooperation.

The 5th liaison meeting of NICT and ARIB
* Lower left : Mr. Matsui (Secretary General of ARIB)*Lower right : Mr. Okano (Vice President of NICT)SET EXPO 2017 in Sao PauloThe SET EXPO 2017, the largest conference and exhibition in Latin American broadcasting,
was held by SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão) from 21 Augustthrough 24 at the Expo Center Norte in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where seminars, sessions andexhibition of broadcast-related engineering and technology were performed.

Mr. Tominaga

Opening Ceremony3

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Tominaga, Vice Minister for Policy Coordination of Internal
Affairs and Communications (MIC), offered his opening greetings. The subsequent VIP tour
to visit the exhibition area, including the Japan Pavilion, was headed by Mr. Gilberto
Kassab, Minister for Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications.
At the Japan Pavilion set by MIC, 6 companies and institutions participated in the
exhibition; from ARIB, NHK, NHK ITEC, Maspro Denkoh, Furukawa Electric and NEC.
Japanese companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi Kokusai, etc. had their own exhibitionbooths.

Minister Kassab visiting Japan Pavilion
At the Japan Pavilion, ARIB/DiBEG showed some panels introducing its international
promotion activities on ISDB-T with some hand-outs, and also exhibited a new information
display based on EWBS (Emergency Warning Broadcast System), as well as the actual
ISDB-T receiving demonstration with a compact-size indoor antenna.
At the conference sessions, Mr. Ogawa of MIC, Dr. Sugawara of DiBEG and Mr. Murayama,
Chairman of the DiBEG Task Force for Japan–Brazil Joint Working for Next Generation
Broadcasting, respectively made a presentation.

Demonstration of EWBS

Demonstration of antenna

The Technical Harmonization Meeting was held in Sao Paulo on 21 August at the Expo
Center Norte among the members of ISDB-T International Forum, in parallel with the SETEXPO 2017, to discuss ISDB-T implementation.
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6 member country representatives participated in the meeting; from Japan (MIC, two JICA
experts from Peru and Costa Rica, and ARIB/DiBEG member company representatives andsecretariat), Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine, Ecuador, and El Salvador.
Each country representative explained the latest progress of ISDB-T implementation, ASO(Analog Switch-Off), etc.

Technical Harmonization Meeting in Sao PauloThe 16th CJK IT Standards Meeting
CJK Meeting on Information and Telecommunication Standards started on June 2002
with an initiative of ARIB of Japan, CCSA* of China, TTA* of South Korea, and the TTC*
of Japan to promote mutual cooperation among the standards development organization ofJapan, China and South Korea more actively.
The 16th CJK IT Standards Meeting was held from 29 to 31 August 2017, hosted by TTA
at Jeju, Korea. A total of about 33 people (6 people from ARIB led by Dr. Kohei Satoh,
Executive Manager on Standardization) participated in the meeting.
This year, the 14th WPT (Wireless Power Transmission) WG had been held just before the
Plenary Meeting at the same venue.
The plenary meeting was composed of three parts; (1) Report from each SDO, (2) Reportfrom each WG, and (3) Strategic Session.
In the session of (1) Report from SDO, the latest status (priorities, issues, strategic
initiatives, etc.) were presented from each SDO.
In the next session (2) Report from each WG, following activities were reported from IMT
WG.
- Joint contribution to the 26th and the 27th, WP5D meeting- Contribution to the completion of Report M[IMT-2020.EVAL] and M[IMT-2020.
SUBMISSION]- Plan to cooperate in standardization toward TG5/1 and AWG
WPT WG reported the activities below.
- Admission of the report at AWG-21 related to application, technologies, standardization- Plan to input the technical report- Plan to cooperation toward ITU-R WP1A/B and AWG- Plan to extend working area, such as frequency sharing, EMC, effect to human body5In the (3) Strategic Session, presentations from each SDO were delivered, followed by thepanel discussion as to what fields to advance into and approaches.
Next CJK-17 meeting was announced to be held in Matsue, Japan hosted by ARIB and
TTC at the closing of the meeting.

The Plenary of the 16th CJK IT Standards Meeting

The 50th CJK IMT Working Group MeetingCJK IMT Working Group Meeting is aiming to exchange information and views about theactivities of international IMT standardizations in ITU-R, APT, 3GPPs, and so on, among
members of SDOs in China, Japan and Korea.
The 50th CJK IMT Working Group Meeting was held in Suzhou, China on 4 to 5
September. 5 people from ARIB, 10 people from CCSA (China) and 7 people from TTA(Korea) participated in the Meeting.
In the Meeting, following actions were carried out.
(1) The results of the 2nd ITU-R TG5/1, the 2nd APG-19 (ASIA- PACIFICTELECOMMUNITY Conference Preparatory Group for WRC-19) , the 27th ITU-R SG5
WP5D were confirmed. And also, report of each SDO’s activities and the discussion at 3
GPP were shared.
(2) Information was shared regarding the schedule of IMT-2020 technical proposals to
ITU-R in each country, and the activities of the external evaluation group.
(3) Information was shared on the preparation progress of each country for the 3rd TG 5/1
meeting to be held from September 19.
(4) Information was shared on preparation progress of each country for the 28th WP 5D
meeting scheduled to be held from 3rd October, and based on the activities of the twoSpecial Interest Groups (SIG - Spectrum, SIG - Evaluation), and it was decided that
China and Korea and Japan would draft a co-contribution document.
(5) SIG-Requirement was decided to be closed because study of the issue had completed,and to set up a new SIG in case of arising of issues to study in the future.
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The next CJK IMT Working Group Meeting will be scheduled on 12 and 13 December 2017
in Okinawa Japan.

The 50th CJK IMT meeting

3GPP TSG Meeting in Sapporo
The 77th Meeting of the 3GPP's Technical Specification Group (TSG), was held as follows.
1 Schedule:
2 Venue:
3 Organizer:

11(Mon) to 15(Fri) September, 2017
Hotel Emisia Sapporo (Sapporo, Japan)
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses ),TTC (Information and Communication Technical Committee)

4 Number of participants:
TSG RAN meeting: about 270, TSG SA meeting: about 150, TSG CT meeting: about
110
5 Summary:
The TSG meeting was held four times a year, and the 77th meeting was held in Japan,
co-hosted by ARIB and TTC, both of which participate 3GPP as a major
standardization organization from Japan. TSG deliberates technical studies andformulation of specifications in 3GPP, and it is composed of three review groups: TSG
RAN (Radio Access Network), TSG SA (Service and system Aspects), and TSG CT(Core Network & Terminal).
In 3GPP, studies are underway focusing on new specification formulation of "5G NR(New Radio)" which is the radio system of 5G (The 5th generation mobile
communication system), and active deliberations were held at the TSG meeting(Number of documents at this meeting - RAN: about 600, SA: about 220, CT: about
160).
Regarding the specification for 5G, Release 15 is formulated as Phase 1 as shown
below. And the specifications of detailed protocols to be concentrated for the time
being in RAN, and parameters that should be discussed were confirmed. A concrete
proposal schedule of 3GPP RAN specification of IMT-2020 radio interface for ITU-R
WP5D was also agreed.
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Conference hall and Welcome address by Mr. Nishioka

The 10th Study Group Meeting on Private wireless communication
The Study Group on Private wireless communication was established on April 2015 inorder to provide a place to investigate technologies and usage trends of the private
wireless

communication

both

domesticallyandinternationally,

and

study

the

enhancement of Private wireless communication.
The 10th study group meeting was held on 12 September 2017 with 72 participants.
In the meeting, 4 presentations (speakers and titles are described below) and exchange ofideas were carried out under the themes of "the latest policy trend", "current status ofprivate wireless communication and advanced wireless communication technology ".

■Speaker and Title of each presentation
Speaker(1)

Title

Mr. Toru Fukatsu
Deputy Director of MIC(2)

Mr. Naoki Fujimoto

Current status of wirelesscommunication utilization in long
distance wireless LAN
communication system

Nihon Dengyo Kosaku
Co., Ltd.

(3)

Mr. Tomoyuki Sone

Current status of wirelesscommunication utilization in 920
MHz low power wirelesscommunication system

Fujitsu Limited(4)

Extension of period related tocalibration etc. of measuring
instruments

Mr. Yoshio Honda

Application examples and trends of
PS-LTE and LTE

Ericsson Japan

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The 10th Study Group Meeting on Private wireless communication

ARIB - DVB Regular Meeting
The annual meeting between DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), the standardization
organization for digital television in Europe, and ARIB was held at the opportunity of
the IBC (International Broadcasting Convention), the largest exhibition of broadcasting
equipment in Europe (14 - 19 September 2017). The meeting has been held annually,
based on the agreement of exchanging information at “the regular meeting between
Japan and EC” in 1994. The information about activities and liaison has been shared,
and views on the hot topics have been exchanged at the meetings.
1. Outline of the meeting
Schedule

18 September 2017

Venue

RAI Exhibition Center (Amsterdam, Netherlands)(DVB)
Mr. Peter MacAvock (Chairman, DVB Project; EBU)
Mr. Peter Siebert (Executive Director, DVB Project)

Participants(ARIB)Mr. Masayuki Sugawara (Chairman DiBEG)
Mr. Tomohiro Saitou (NHK), Mr. Kenichi Murayama (NHK),Mr. Ryoichi Nakai (Broadcasting Group, ARIB),
Mr. Kiyoshi Igarashi (Development Center, ARIB)

2. Main results(1) Report of the latest activities
ARIB gave the following explanations.
- Status of 4K / 8K broadcasting in Japan9

- Research topics of terrestrial 4K / 8K broadcasting in Japan- Activity status of ARIB over the past year (including international dissemination
activities by DiBEG)
DVB had the following explanations.
- Achievements over the last year
- Finalized Study Mission Group (SMG)- Ongoing Specification Activities- Ongoing Study Mission Group (SMG)(2) Liaison
ARIB and DVB reviewed and renewed
the contact person.

DVB exhibition area

The 3rd meeting of the ITU-R TG5/1
The 3rd meeting of the ITU-R TG5/1 was held at the Yas Marina Circuit - Event Centre(Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) from 19 to 28 September 2017.
TG 5/1 is responsible for the development of draft CPM text under WRC-19 Agenda item
1.13 (Addition of mobile service in the 24.25-86 GHz band for future IMT development),
and frequency sharing between radiosystems is studied there.
1. Outline of the Meeting
Schedule : From 19 to 28 September 2017
Venue : Yas Marina Circuit - Event Centre (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Participants :About 250 people from each country's Administration, Operator, Vendor, etc.
As the Japanese delegation, 9 people headed by Mr. Kobashi of MIC participated. Mr.
Kato participated from ARIB.
2. Main results
About 80 contributions were input (including liaison documents from WP etc) to themeeting. Since preparation of working documents of study for frequency shairing had
begun at the last meeting, creation and update of working documents based oncontribution from each country was conducted.
(1) Deliberation structure- WGs were set up according to frequency band, and subsidiary organizations (SWG:
Sub-Working Group, DG: Drafting Group) were set up according to frequency / work,and deliberation was started. As well as the previous meeting, ad-hoc group to clarify
the parameters provided by related WP for study of frequency sharing was establishedunder the plenary.
10(2) Study of possibility of frquency sharing with existing applications in each band
- Working documents (10 cases) which described study results for each frequency bandor application were created. The target frequencies and applications on which working
documents have been created are as follows.
24.25 - 27.5 GHz EESS / SRS, ISS, EESS (passive), RAS, FSS, FS
31-33.4 GHz: RNS, SRS, EESS (passive), RAS
37-43.5 GHz EESS / SRS (passive), FS, RAS, FSS (Earth to space)42.5 - 43.5 GHz FSS (Earth to space)45.5 - 47 GHz AMS
47-47.2 GHz Target TBD
47.2 - 50.2 GHz EESS (passive)
50.4 - 52.6 GHz EESS (passive)
71-76 GHz FS
81-86 GHz EESS (passive), FS- Liaison documents (2 cases) requesting further information on parameters provided by
WP 5D were agreed on.
.

ITU-R TG5/1 3rd meeting

3. Future meeting schedule- The 4th : 17-26 January 2018 @ Geneva, Switzerland
Study of frequency sharing, Drafting CPM text
- The 5th : 2-11 May 2018 @ Geneva, Switzerland
Completion of frequency sharing study, Drafting CPM text
- The 6th : 3-12 September 2018 @ Geneva, Switzerland
Completion of CPM text

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The 22nd Meeting of APT Wireless Group (AWG-22)
The 22nd Meeting of APT Wireless Group (AWG-22) was held as follows.
1. About the APT Wireless Group (AWG)
APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity) Wireless Group is a meeting to study the
harmonization and standardization of the frequency and technical matters of wirelesscommunication systems in the Asia-Pacific region for the purpose of advancement,
dissemination and promotion of wireless communication systems. It has been held usually
about twice a year, and the experts of the wireless technology of each country in thisregion joins the meeting. The group is chaired by Mr. Kohei Sato (ARIB) , with two vicechair Mr. K. Zhu (China) and LV Tuan (Vietnam) .
2. Outline of the Meeting
Schedule

From 25 to 29 September 2017

Venue

Haeundae・Gr and Hotel (Busan, Korea)

Participants

About 210 people from administrations, private organizations andinternational organizations in the Asia-Pacific region took part in themeeting.
As the Japanese delegation, 41 people headed by Ms. Amino, Deputy
Director of the international frequency Policy Office of MIC
participated.

3. Main results
In the APT Wireless Group, 3 working groups (WG) (frequency, technology and service /application) had been set. In each WG, sub working group or task group had been
established for each issue, and deliberation was carried out.
The main results of the meeting were as follows.
(1) IMT: The fifth generation mobile communication systems, etc.
- Worked on improving the APT report of the use situation survey of each country
concerning the 24.25 - 86 GHz band which is WRC-19 agenda item 1.13, and issue aliaison document telling the progress situation to the 3rd APG meeting- Decided to issue a questionnaire to gather information on regulations on the IMT
network- Completed and approved new report on frequency allocation of IMT in 470 MHz band(2) Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)- Agreed to include further information in the revised report on the use of ITS in the APT
region (Revison 2)(3) Wireless Power Transmission system (WPT)- Agreed to adopt the new recommendation proposal on the frequency range of the mobile
WPT (6.78 MHz band) and to proceed with the approval process
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- Completed and approved the new report draft on the frequency range of Non-BEAM
WPT for powering electric vehicles(4) Railway wireless system- Completed and approved a new APT report on RSTT (Railway radiocommunication
System between Train and Trackside) which is WRC-19 agenda item 1.11
- Sent a liaison document on work progress on RSTT to APG and WP 5 A
4. Next meeting schedule
The next AWG-23 meeting will be held from 9 to 13 April 2018 in Vietnam.

Chairman, Vice Chairman of AWG and Executives of APT

The 21st Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-21) meeting
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) meeting has been held once a year in order toexchange information about the standardization activities related to ICT among therepresentatives and experts of the telecommunication standardization institutions aroundthe world, to avoid duplication of consideration by the SDOs (Standards Development
Organizations) and to develop the strategy of cooperation and collaboration between the
SDOs to promote the global standardization.
The 21st GSC meeting was held on September 2017, hosted by IEEE-SA. The outline ofthis meeting was as follows.
- Schedule :- Venue :26- 27 September 2017
IEEE European office (Vienna, Austria)* Austrian Standards Institute Meeting Center- Participating Organizations : 12 GSC member organizations (*1)
- Participants :86 participants, including 10 guests(5 participants from ARIB)- Summary of the meeting :At first, the latest status reports (priorities, strategic initiatives, etc.) from each SDO
were presented. Mr. Nishioka from ARIB explained the latest situation and priority
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issues: (a) 5G, (b) UHDTV, (c) ITS efforts and progress situation.
After that, two strategic topics selected in teleconference which had been held prior tothe meeting: (1) Communication Technologies and Artificial Intelligence inAutonomous Systems, (2) Smart Cities, and as a special topic proposed by ARIB, (3)Global or Regional harmonized frequency bands for Intelligent Transport Systems(WRC- 19 Agenda Item 1.12) were discussed by GSC members following the initialpresentations.
In the session of Strategic Topic (1), advances in the AI field in autonomous vehicles,
cognitive computing, collaborative robotics etc., public policy and technical issues were
presented. Then, it was recognized that it was important to address current and new
standards which affect applications such as agriculture, communication, energy,
environment, health care, transportation, in order to address these issues.
In the Strategic Topic (2) session, it was concluded that the differences in conditions
such as different population density, geography, culture and the like become issues assmart city solutions move to large-scale implementation, and that efforts of thecompany to establish a world standard effective for urban / community service
interoperability were important.
In the special session (3) on WRC-19 AI 1.12, presentations of ITU-R, TIA, TTA,TSDSI, ARIB were delivered, and ITS TF explained the future activity plan. In thesubsequent discussions, the importance of WRC-19 AI 1.12 and efforts to address newissues related to LTE V2X was recognized and the continuation of ITS TF wasapproved.

ITS session

Keynote by IEEE (Host)- Communiqué
As a result of the meeting, a communiqué incorporating the outline of the content of
the discussion was created and released.
- Next meeting
Next time, the 22nd meeting will be held in Switzerland, hosted by ISO/IEC in early
March 2019. (It is planned that the 25th meeting will be held in Japan hosted by
ARIB and TTC in the second half of 2023 or the first half of 2024.)*1 : GSC member organizations
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses)
ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions)
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Japan
USA

CCSA (China Communication Standards Association)ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)IEEE-SA(IEEE- Standards Association)
IEC (The International Electrotechnical Commission)
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association)
TSDSI(Telecom Standards Development Society, India)
TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association)
TTC (The Telecommunication Technology Committee)

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China
Europe

USA
India
Korea
Japan

Monthly seminars on radio wave use

No.1512 August 2017

Title

Revision of IoT comprehensive strategy - Outline of the 4th interim reportof the Information and Communications Council -SpeakerMr. Yosuke Kishi
Deputy Director of the ICT Strategy Policy Division,
Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC

Summary

The contents of the "Revised IoT comprehensive strategy" published in Julyand the future policies were explained, based on the "IoT comprehensive
strategy" published in January this year and subsequent progress in its
realization.

No.152

31 August 2017

Title

Activities of UTMS Society of Japan- 700 MHz band Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System etc. Mr. Shunichi Kawabe
Managing Director of UTMS Society of Japan

Speaker

Summary

Mr. Masafumi Kobayashi
Chairman of the Infrastructure - Vehicle cooperation system WG,
UTMS Society of JapanFirst, the summary of activities of UTMS Society of Japan was presented
by Mr. Kawabe, followed by the clear explanation of concrete application
example of 700 MHz band ITS from Mr. Kobayashi.

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1. Newly established Standards at Standard Assembly on 27 July 2017

DATA CONTENTS EXCHANGE SPECIFICATIONFOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING (SECOND GENERATION)(STD-B70 Ver.1.0)
This standard specifies the data content exchange method developed based on themultimedia encoding method (2nd generation) in digital broadcasting.

2. Revised or abolished Standards at Standard Assembly on 27 July 2017
(1) Telecommunications field
STD
NumberStandard Name

VersionVer.12.40

abolished

STD-T104

IMT-2000 DS-CDMA and TDD-CDMA System
OFDMA Broadband Mobile Wireless Access System (WiMAX
applied in Japan)
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems （IEEE 802.20 TDD
Wideband and 625k-MC Modes Application in Japan)
150 MHz-Band Person/Animal Detection Report System
Equipment for Specified Low-Power Radio Station
LTE-Advanced System

STD-T109

700 MHz BAND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Ver.1.3

STD-T63
STD-T94
STD-T97
STD-T99

Ver.3.5

Ver.3.0
Ver.4.40(2) Broadcasting field
STD
NumberStandard Name

VersionSTD-B24SERVICE INFORMATION FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTINGSYSTEMDATA CODING AND TRANSMISSION SPECIFICATION FOR
DIGITAL BROADCASTING

STD-B26

HDTV DIGITAL SNG TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

Ver.3.0

STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF CLOSED CAPTION DATACONVEYED BY ANCILLARY DATA PACKETSSTRUCTURE OF INTER-STATIONARY CONTROL DATACONVEYED BY ANCILLARY DATA PACKETS
MMT-BASED MEDIA TRANSPORT SCHEME IN DIGITAL
BROADCASTING SYSTEMS
MULTIMEDIA CODING SPECIFICATION FOR DIGITAL
BROADCASTING (SECOND GENERATION)
Time Code Format in the Interface for UHDTV Production
Systems

Ver.2.6

STD-B10

STD-B37
STD-B39
STD-B60
STD-B62
STD-B68

ARIB SEASON
Publishing

Ver.5.11
Ver.6.4

Ver.1.3
Ver.1.10
Ver.1.7
Ver.2.0

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