Method for Estimating Transmission Modes and Lengths of Guard Intervals Using the Guard Intervals of OFDM Symbols

摘要

There is provided a method for effectively estimating transmission modes and lengths of guard intervals in the implementation of an integrated services digital broadcasting-T (ISDB-T) receiver. A method for estimating transmission modes and lengths of guard intervals in a broadcasting system having signals transmitted therein, the signals having a plurality of transmission modes, the transmission modes each having plural kinds of transmission symbols, the transmission symbols in each of the transmission modes having the same length of data intervals and different lengths of guard intervals, the transmission symbols in different transmission modes having different lengths of data intervals and different lengths of guard intervals, the guard interval in each of transmission symbols being obtained by copying a rear section of the data interval in each of the symbols and prefixing the copied rear section to a front section of the data interval, and one of the transmission symbols being periodically repeated, the method comprising: performing correlation while scanning the signals using a plurality of correlation windows respectively corresponding to the plurality of transmission modes; selecting the transmission mode corresponding to the correlation window having an outputted correlation result among the plurality of correlation windows as a transmission mode of a received signal; and estimating a existing time of the correlation result as the length of a guard interval in the received signal.