Demodulation apparatus and method for reducing time delay of on-channel repeater in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting system

摘要

Provided is a demodulation apparatus capable of reducing time delay of an on-channel repeater in a terrestrial digital television (TV) broadcasting system and a demodulation method thereof. The demodulation method includes the steps of a) converting an analogue intermediate frequency (IF) signal into a digital IF signal; b) generating an in-phase (I) signal and a quadrature (Q) signal by converting the frequency of the digital IF signals and down-converting the frequencies of the pilot components of the I and Q signals so that the center frequencies of the I and Q signals could be shifted to 0; c) filtering the down-converted I and Q signals and maximizing signal-to-noise ratio; d) up-converting the filtered I and Q signals into baseband signals in which the center frequencies of the filtered I and Q signals are placed in baseband and shifting the frequency of the pilot components of the filtered I and Q signals to 0; and e) adding up the up-converted I and Q signals to restore the signals into baseband signals for broadcasting.