| 摘要 |
A remote control apparatus for a digital cable television system and a method thereof which are capable of inserting and transmitting a control data into each channel of a head end (HE) which is an output unit of a transmitting unit and modulating a state checking data of a receiving unit for a VSB/QAM receiving unit based on a QPSK method, thus upwardly transmitting the date, whereby it is possible to remotely control and monitor a VSB/QAM receiving unit without additionally allocating a frequency band width. The apparatus includes a transmitting unit for carrying a control signal on an MPEG transport stream of each channel for a remote control of a high definition television (HDTV) VSB/QAM receiving unit and transmitting the same, and remotely monitoring and controlling a state of the HDTV VSB/QAM receiving unit in accordance with a state checking signal from the HDTV VSB/QAM receiving unit, and a receiving unit for receiving a control signal from the transmitting unit, controlling the HDTV VSB/QAM receiving unit, modulating a state checking signal from the HDTV VSB/QAM and transmitting the thusly modulated signal to the transmitting unit.
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