ATSC 3.0

ESSENTIALITY OVERVIEW

Pursuant to Section 1.1 of the ATSC 3.0 Patent Portfolio License, "ATSC 3.0 Standard" shall mean the suite of digital terrestrial television standards defined by the Advanced Television Systems Committee ("ATSC") to include specifically the following individual standards:

    • A/200:2022-03 Regional Service Availability, only to the extent this standard relates to other sections of the ATSC 3.0 Standard explicitly included in this section
    • A/300:2022-04 ATSC 3.0 System, only to the extent this standard relates to other sections of the ATSC 3.0 Standard explicitly included in this section
    • A/321:2022-03 System Discovery and Signaling
    • A/322:2022-11 Physical Layer Protocol
    • A/324:2022-06 Scheduler/Studio to Transmitter Link, with Amendment No. 1
    • A/330:2022-03 Link-Layer Protocol
    • A/331:2022-11 Signaling, Delivery, Synchronization, and Error Protection, with Amendments No. 1, 2, 3, and 4
      • In connection with A/331:2022-11, all non-ATSC 3.0 standards for implementing MPEG-DASH are excluded, including but not limited to ISO/IEC 23009 (all parts and editions)
    • A/332:2022-03 Service Announcement, with Amendment No. 1
    • A/333:2022-03 Service Usage Reporting
    • A/336:2022-03 Content Recovery in Redistribution Scenarios, with Amendment No. 1
    • A/337:2022-03 Application Signaling
    • A/338:2022-03 Companion Device
    • A/343:2022-03 Captions and Subtitles, with Amendments No. 1 and No. 2
    • A/344:2022-03 Interactive Content
    • A/360:2022-11 ATSC 3.0 Security and Service Protection, with Amendment No. 1 and Amendment No. 2

The following standards (all versions) within the ATSC 3.0 suite are specifically not included in the ATSC 3.0 Standard definition of this Section 1.11: ​

    • A/323 Dedicated Return Channel for ATSC 3.0 ·
    • All ATSC 3.0 Recommended Practices, including but not limited to A/325 (ATSC 3.9 PHY Lab Performance Test Plan) and A/326 (ATSC 3.0 Field Test Plan)​
    • A/334 Audio Watermark Emission
    • A/335 Video Watermark Emission
    • A/341 Video – HEVC (including HDR)
    • A/342 Audio Common Elements (Part 1), AC-4 System (Part 2), and MPEG-H (Part 3)

To assist in your research, click here to download the most recent available cross-reference chart showing illustrative claims of patents in the patent families on the Attachment 1 Patent List and sections of the ATSC 3.0 Standard for which they are essential.

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