A device for processing a broadcast signal, includes a tuner configured to receive the broadcast signal carrying a bootstrap prefixed to the beginning of a signal frame, the bootstrap including one or more bootstrap symbols, a last bootstrap symbol immediately followed by a preamble of the signal frame including bootstrap termination information, the bootstrap including first information for representing a structure of the preamble; a demodulator configured to demodulate the broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to de-frame the signal frame in the broadcast signal to output the preamble and PLP data, the preamble carrying Layer 1 (L1) signaling data for the signal frame; a signaling decoder configured to decode the L1 signaling data; and a decoder to decode the PLP data based on the L1 signaling data.

A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.

The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method for securing good communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code.

The LDPC coding is performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code with the code length N of 17280 bits and the coding rate r of 13/16 or 14/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table representing positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix for every 360 columns. The present technology can be applied to, for example, data transmission using an LDPC code.

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method so that an LDPC code with a good bit error rate is provided. An LDPC encoder encodes by an LDPC code whose code length is 16200 bits and code rate is 8/15. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits. A parity check matrix H includes an information matrix part corresponding to the information bits of the LDPC code and a parity matrix part corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix part of the parity check matrix H is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table that indicates a position of an element 1 of the information matrix part for each 360 columns. The present technology is applicable to a case in which LDPC encoding and LDPC decoding are performed.

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rater is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder to encode service data corresponding to a number of physical paths, a time interleaver to time interleave the encoded service data in each physical path, a frame builder to build at least one signal frame including the time interleaved service data, a modulator to modulate data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter to transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.

A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.

A data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a program are disclosed. They improve communication performance by performing bit interleaving suitable for a modulation method that is a non-uniform constellation. One example of a data processing apparatus includes a mapping unit configured to generate a second bit sequence by mapping a first bit sequence to any symbol on a complex plane corresponding to a NUC modulation method, an inter-symbol interleaving unit configured to generate a third bit sequence by performing inter-symbol interleaving to the second bit sequence, an intra-symbol interleaving unit configured to generate a fourth bit sequence by performing intra-symbol interleaving for shifting M bits as a whole of the third bit sequence per a same number of M bits as the bit number M representing the symbol, and a modulation unit configured to wirelessly transmit the fourth bit sequence according to the NUC modulation method.

The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 5/16, 6/16, 7/16, or 8/16. The check matrix includes a matrix A with M1 rows and K columns, where M1 represents a predetermined value, and K=N×r represents an information length of the LDPC code, a matrix B with M1 rows and M1 columns in a dual diagonal structure, a matrix Z with M1 rows and N-K-M1 columns that is a zero matrix, a matrix C with N-K-M1 rows and K+M1 columns, and a matrix D with N-K-M1 rows and N-K-M1 columns that is an identity matrix. The matrix A and the matrix C are represented by a check matrix initial value table. The check matrix initial value table is a table indicating positions of elements of 1 in the matrix A and the matrix C on a basis of 360 columns and is a predetermined table. The present technique can be applied to, for example, data transmission using the LDPC code.