Patent ID: 8018976

Claim:
A digital broadcast transmitter, comprising: a pre-processor configured to pre-process enhanced data and known data; a multiplexer configured to multiplex the enhanced data with one or more main audio and video data; a trellis encoder configured to have at least one memory and trellis-encode the multiplexed data, the at least one memory being initialized by initialization data when input data corresponds to a beginning of a sequence of the known data; and a data transmission unit configured to insert synchronization data into the trellis-encoded data, modulate the trellis-encoded data having the synchronization data, and transmit the modulated data, wherein the pre-processor comprises: a RS frame encoder configured to encode each RS frame for at least one of an error correction and an error detection; a block encoder configured to encode the enhanced data encoded by the RS frame encoder with a coding rate of G/H, wherein G and H are positive integers and G is less than H; a group formatter configured to insert the enhanced data encoded by the block encoder and the known data into a data group having a plurality of regions, the data group including a first, a second and a third region, the second region being positioned between the first and third regions, the first and third regions including the enhanced data, placeholders for main data and RS parity bytes, and the second region including the enhanced data and placeholders for MPEG header bytes and RS parity bytes; a data deinterleaver configured to deinterleave data included in the data group; and a packet formatter configured to add header data to the deinterleaved data to generate data packets.