Patent ID: 8627185

Claim:
An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal, the apparatus comprising: a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame encoder configured to generate an RS frame by adding RS parity data to bottom ends of columns of an RS frame payload and adding Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checksum data to right ends of rows of the RS frame payload having the RS parity data, the RS frame payload including enhanced data; a block processor configured to encode data in the RS frame with a coding rate of 1/H, where H is an integer greater than 1; a group formatter configured to form data groups including encoded data, wherein at least one of the data groups includes a plurality of regions, and a specific region of the plurality of regions includes known data sequences, and wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced apart by 16 segments a packet formatter configured to form data packets including data in the data groups; a multiplexer configured to multiplex main data packets having main data and the data packets; a systematic/nonsystematic RS encoder configured to perform systematic RS encoding on the main data in the multiplexed data packets and non-systematic RS encoding on the enhanced data in the multiplexed data packets; a trellis encoder configured to trellis encode the systematic RS-encoded main data and the non-systematic RS-encoded enhanced data; and a transmitting unit configured to modulate the trellis-encoded data and to transmit the modulated data.