Patent ID: 8018977

Claim:
A digital broadcast transmitter, comprising: a pre-processor configured to pre-process enhanced data and known 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 data encoded by the block encoder and the known data into a first data group; a data deinterleaver configured to deinterleave data included in the first data group; and a packet formatter configured to add header data to the deinterleaved data to generate data packets; an encoder configured to add first parity data to the pre-processed data; a data interleaver configured to interleave the encoded data having the first parity data to output a second data group, the second data group including data segments, each data segment consisting of 207 bytes, a first segment and a second segment in the second data group having RS parity data; a trellis encoder configured to have at least one memory and trellis-encode the interleaved data, the at least one memory being initialized by initialization data when input data corresponds to a beginning of a known data sequence; a compatible processor configured to calculate second parity data based on the initialization data, and replace the first parity data within the interleaved data with the second parity 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.