Patent ID: 7631340

Claim:
A method of processing digital broadcast data, the method comprising: demodulating a digital television (DTV) signal containing additional service data multiplexed with data for a legacy vestigial sideband (VSB) receiver, wherein predefined sequences are periodically inserted into the additional service data; detecting signaling information from the demodulated DTV signal; performing channel equalization on the demodulated DTV signal using the predefined sequences inserted into the additional service data in order to enhance ghost cancellation performance; trellis decoding the additional service data and the data for the legacy VSB receiver in the channel-equalized DTV signal for first forward error correction in order to correct errors in the additional service data that occurred during reception of the DTV signal; separating the error-corrected additional service data from the error-corrected data for the legacy VSB receiver; and Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding the separated additional service data for second forward error correction in order to additionally correct errors in the additional service data that occurred during reception of the DTV signal.