Object acquiring time saving scheme in data broadcasting [digital TV applications]

This work provides an object acquiring time saving scheme at the set-top box (STB) in a data broadcasting service, using a DSM-CC object carousel. The waiting time for contents after a user start depends on the transmission interval of the contents or their parsing time in the STB after receiving the broadcasted data. Therefore, we can reduce the waiting time to run contents by broadcasting them with a very short interval or parsing them with high processing power in the STB. In this instance, we propose a novel and sophisticated scheme which can run contents quickly using a pre-processor in the head-end.