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exemplary embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the annexed drawings . in the following description , a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein has been omitted for clarity and conciseness . fig6 is an internal schematic diagram of a data receiver for mpe - fec in a mobile broadcasting receiver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention . in fig6 the receiver is equal in structure to the conventional receiver of fig3 , and a detailed description of the equal parts will not be given herein . a datagram extractor 613 , unlike a conventional extractor , uses an interface scheme which immediately transmits an ip datagram to an application controller upon detecting that the ip datagram determined that there is no error by detecting a crc included in a mpe - fec section as a result of the mpe - fec processing . however , if it is determined that there is an error in the burst , the datagram extractor 613 acquires error - corrected ip datagrams by performing a mpe - fec rs decoding process , so as to selectively transmit the parts untransmitted to the ap chip . a viterbi decoded signal is input to a rs decoder 311 after undergoing a convolutional deinterleaver ( not shown ), and converted into a ts packet therein . as described in fig3 , the process of ofdm demodulation , viterbi decoding , and convolutional deinterleaving is called a “ preprocessing process .” the ts packet is input to a checker 312 and the datagram extractor 613 . then the checker 312 receives ts packets , detects sections of them , and performs crc check thereon , thereby verifying reliability of ip datagrams which are payloads in the sections . the datagram extractor 613 , before it stores the ip datagram reliability - verified by the crc check in a buffer 314 which stores the mpe - fec data , transmits the ip datagram to an application controller 612 via a datagram controller 611 , thereby removing an unnecessary waiting time and reducing a processing time . in addition , in order to correct an error of an error - included section by the crc , the datagram extractor 613 stores the mpe - fec data in the buffer 314 for storing the mpe - fec data , so that the ip datagram part of the error - included section undergoes error or erasure processing by the crc . thereafter , a datagram including an error , as a result of crc check in one burst , is error - corrected by a mpe - fec rs decoder 315 , and then delivered to the application controller 612 via the datagram controller 611 . the datagram controller 611 selects datagrams to be transmitted to the application controller 612 . the datagram controller 611 first transmits ip datagrams with the crc =‘ good ’ among the datagrams to be transmitted from the datagram extractor 613 to the application controller 612 , and for an ip datagram part with crc =‘ bad ’, the datagram controller 611 receives the output of the mpe - fec rs decoder 315 and transmits it to the application controller 612 . if one datagram is divided into several sections during its transmission , the datagram controller 611 transmits the sections to the application controller 612 in units of datagrams using a section number “ section_number ” and a last section number “ last_section_number ” included in a mpe section header . herein , because the last section number means the number of sections constituting one datagram and the section number means a position of a received section in the datagram , it is possible to find out the datagram from the section using the section number and the last section number . therefore , if there is an error - included (“ crc = bad ”) section among the sections constituting one datagram as a result of the crc check , the datagram controller 611 transmits the datagram to the application controller 612 after performing the mpe - fec decoding thereon using the rs decoder 315 , instead of directly transmitting the datagram to the application controller 612 . for example , assume that a burst composed of 10 mpe - fec sections is received . also , assume that the mpe - fec sections are individually allocated numbers 1 to 10 in their received order , and errors have occurred in the 3 rd and 7 th sections . in this case , the conventional receiver transmits the sections to the application controller of the mobile broadcasting receiver in the following manner . here , the receiver stores the sections in the buffer 314 , which is a mpe - fec memory , error - corrects the sections using the rs decoder , which is a second decoder , and sequentially transmits the sections with section numbers 1 to 10 . however , the new receiver according to the present invention immediately transmits the crc =‘ good ’ sections with section numbers 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 and 10 to the application controller , upon detecting them . the receiver transmits the 3 rd and 7 th error correction - required sections to the application controller 612 after error correction using the rs decoder 315 . therefore , as the signal quality is higher , the amount of data immediately transmitted to the application controller 612 after being decoded in the first rs decoder 311 in the baseband channel chip increases , thereby contributing to a reduction in the time required for transmitting all datagrams to the application controller 612 . fig7 and 8 show two processing timing diagrams for a mpe - fec processing scheme applied to a mobile broadcasting terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention . fig7 illustrates a timing diagram for a crc =‘ good ’ channel environment and , conversely , fig8 illustrates a timing diagram for a crc =‘ bad ’ channel environment . in duration 701 , as described above and illustrated in fig7 , the receiver converts an rf signal into a baseband signal and performs an ofdm synchronization process thereon before the burst , in order to receive one burst . in a dvb - h system supporting ca , the receiver should receive an entitlement control message ( ecm ) before the burst . therefore , at time 701 , the receiver receives an rf signal , performs an ofdm synchronization process thereon , and receives and decodes an ecm for conditional access . the receiver receives data transmitted in the burst and performs ofdm modulation thereon in duration 702 , performs viterbi decoding in duration 703 , and performs an rs decoding process in duration 704 . the time required for this is approximately 10 ms . however , because the new receiver outputs the datagram to the application controller 612 for the crc =‘ good ’ data , data is output in duration 707 . in addition , because there is no crc error in fig7 , datagrams are directly input to the application controller without being stored in the buffer . therefore , the duration 707 and the duration 705 are the same time duration . if , however , there is a crc error , the datagrams should undergo mpe - fec decoding in duration 706 . here , because it is assumed in fig7 that there is no error , the receiver , upon expiration of the duration 707 , can immediately perform audio / video decoding in the application controller 612 without mpe - fec decoding in the duration 706 , thereby providing the service . therefore , the new receiver in the present invention , compared with the conventional receiver , rapidly delivers the datagrams to the application processor 612 , thereby reducing the total processing time . particularly , in the good - channel environment where a signal - to - noise ratio ( snr ) is high , if the crc check result is ‘ good ’ in all sections as shown in fig7 , the datagrams detected in all sections output from the first rs decoder 311 are delivered to the application controller 612 in their received order , so there is no need to activate the second rs decoder 315 . therefore , in the conventionally required delay time of “ 200 × n + 25 ” ms except for the 10 - ms processing time required until section detection , the 25 - ms time for mpe - fec decoding is not required , and if the crc check result is ‘ good ’ after completion of the crc check in 1 - burst duration , the receiver immediately transmits datagrams increasing the data processing time , thereby contributing to a noticeable reduction in the channel switching time . in particular , as the number n of parallel services increases , the reduction effect of the processing time increases , thereby further increasing the reduction effect of the channel switching time . for example , assuming that the receiver supports five ( 5 ) parallel services per burst , the use of the existing mpe - fec processing method causes a delay time of about 1 second , but the proposed mpe - fec processing method in the present invention decreases by about 1 second the channel switching time because it does not need the delay time in the good - channel environment . fig8 illustrates the case where the snr is low ( i . e . the number of crc =‘ bad ’ sections increases .). duration 801 of fig8 is equal to the duration 701 of fig7 , duration 802 is equal to the duration 702 , duration 803 is equal to the duration 703 , and duration 804 is equal to the duration 704 . however , because there are the crc =‘ bad ’ sections according to the crc check result , the receiver should store the crc =‘ bad ’ sections and the crc =‘ good ’ sections in the buffer 314 , perform an error correction on the stored sections , and then output the resulting sections to the application controller 612 . therefore , the time 807 required for the outputting datagrams to the application controller 612 is longer than that of fig7 . for example , if the channel condition is poor , the amount of error - corrected datagrams increases . the present invention provides two processing methods for the case where there are the crc =‘ bad ’ sections . one method delivers only the crc =‘ good ’ sections to the application controller 612 and performs the a / v mpeg decoding thereon . another method delivers the crc =‘ good ’ sections and the error - corrected datagrams to the application controller 612 and performs the a / v mpeg decoding thereon . in the former method , because it delivers only the crc =‘ good ’ sections to the application controller 612 , as the snr is lower , the number of sections delivered to the application controller 612 decreases , causing a reduction in performance after mpeg decoding . therefore , this method may suffer from image degradation , but can contribute to a reduction in the channel switching time . however , the latter method can improve the a / v mpeg decoding performance even in the low - snr environment , because error - corrected datagrams are delivered to the application controller 612 in the baseband channel chip after the crc =‘ good ’ sections are first delivered to the application controller 612 . for example , fig8 shows the second exemplary method which can facilitate improvement in the image quality , but increases in the channel switching time compared with the former method . however , compared with the conventional method , this method has the same image quality but can advantageously reduce the channel switching time . in addition , the new method has a sufficient processing time for data transmission to the chip constituting the application controller 612 , thereby reducing the operation speed and thus reducing power consumption . in particular , the new method increases the reduction effect of the channel switching time , as the snr is higher and the number of parallel services is greater . fig9 is a flow diagram illustrating mpe - fec signal processing in a mobile broadcasting terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention . an rf unit ( not shown ) of a receiver receives a burst signal in step 900 , wherein m is set to 1 ( m = 1 ). thereafter , an rs decoder 311 of the receiver performs the rs decoding in units of ts packets in step 902 . in step 904 , a checker 312 of the receiver detects an m th section , checks the crc thereof , and outputs the crc result . based on the crc check result on the detected m th section , received from the checker 312 , a datagram extractor 613 of the receiver determines in step 906 whether the crc check result of the section is ‘ good ’. if it is determined that the crc check result is not ‘ good ’, the datagram extractor 613 proceeds to step 910 . otherwise , the datagram extractor 613 proceeds to step 908 . in step 908 , the datagram extractor 613 of the receiver transmits a datagram with a section header and crc excluded therefrom to an application controller 612 via a datagram controller 611 . however , when the datagram extractor 613 proceeds to step 910 because the crc check result is not ‘ good ’, the datagram extractor 613 buffers the datagrams in a buffer 314 . thereafter , the datagram extractor 613 of the receiver determines in step 912 whether the current section is at the end of the burst . if it is determined that the current section is at the end of the burst , i . e . if the current section is an end of the data transmitted by the time slicing technique as described in fig1 , the datagram extractor 613 proceeds to step 916 . otherwise , the datagram extractor 613 proceeds to step 914 where it increases the value m by 1 and then repeats the above process from step 904 . after proceeding to step 916 , the datagram controller 611 determines whether there is any datagram untransmitted to the application controller 612 , by checking section numbers . if it is determined that there is an untransmitted datagram ( s ), i . e . if there is data to be decoded by a rs decoder 315 as there is a crc =‘ bad ’ section , the datagram controller 611 error - corrects the crc =‘ bad ’ datagram using the rs decoder 315 in step 918 , and transmits the untransmitted datagram to the application controller 612 in step 920 . however , there is no datagram untransmitted to the application controller 612 , the application controller 612 ends the routine and waits for the next burst . the mpe - fec processing scheme of the present invention , unlike the conventional scheme of delivering sections in their received order , preferentially delivers a datagram of a crc =‘ good ’ section to the application controller 612 . therefore , for the datagrams delivered to the application controller 612 , there is a need for an additional process of reordering the datagrams . a description thereof will be made below with reference to fig1 . in an upper layer signal processing process , the application controller 612 performs reordering in one datagram taking the order of data included in a realtime transport protocol ( rtp ) header . therefore , the application controller 612 has no additional load , even though the proposed mpe - fec scheme is applied thereto . in particular , because the application controller 612 has a processing delay time that should be secured for synchronization datagrams through which audio and video are transmitted , it is possible to prevent an additional processing delay time by performing the reordering for the time . fig1 is a flow diagram illustrating an operation performed in an application controller during mpe - fec processing in a mobile broadcasting terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention . in step 1000 , an application controller 612 detects an rtp header from a received datagram and detects order of the datagram . thereafter , in step 1002 , the application controller 612 reorders the datagrams accorder to their orders and stores the reordered datagrams . because this process is performed depending on the rtp headers , the application controller 612 has no additional processing delay time and / or no additional load as described above . in step 1004 , the application controller 612 sets synchronization . the synchronization setting process matches synchronizations of audio and video data . in step 1006 , the application controller 612 performs mpeg decoding and outputs the decoded data to a corresponding output unit . that is , as for an audio signal , the application controller 612 outputs the audio signal through a speaker ( not shown ), and as for a video signal , the application controller 612 outputs the video signal through a display device ( not shown ) such as a monitor or a liquid crystal display ( lcd ). because the reordering process performed in the application controller 612 is for reordering orders of the error - corrected datagrams , the amount of the error - corrected datagrams noticeably decreases in the higher - snr environment , thus reducing the amount of datagrams to be reordered . as can be understood from the foregoing description , the use of the new mpe - fec processing scheme in the present invention can reduce the channel switching time at the dvb - h receiver . in particular , the reduction effect of the channel switching time increases , as the snr is higher and as the number of parallel services is greater . in addition , the number of required calculations decreases in a higher - snr environment , contributing to a decrease in power consumption of the channel chip . furthermore , as the proposed adaptive processing technique uses a distributed processing scheme for preferentially transmitting the crc =‘ good ’ sections to the application controller , it has a sufficient data processing time , thereby reducing the operation speed and thus reducing power consumption . in addition , the proposed method is equal to the existing method in terms of the demodulation performance , while reducing the channel switching time and the power consumption . while the invention has been shown and described with reference to a certain preferred embodiment thereof , it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims .

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