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US 6,189,060 B1Granted
Transmitting device, server device and transmitting method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYasumasa Kodama
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Abstract
A transmitting device capable of transmitting video data with high speed has been disclosed. When transmitting video data, by providing a transmitting circuit for invalidating a time out signal of a timer which counts the occupied time of a bus, the video data having large volume of information can be successively transmitted by continuously using the bus, and thus the video data can be transmitted with high speed.
Claims5
A transmitting device comprising:
- a bus formed by multiple signal lines;
- transmitting means for transmitting data over said bus;
- receiving means for receiving said data supplied via said bus;
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- a bus driver for coupling said transmitting means to said bus, said bus driver including a bus sequencer for transmitting and receiving data to/from said bus, a latency timer for generating a time-out signal for stopping transmission by said sequencer after a predetermined period of transmission has expired and for transmitting said time-out signal to said sequencer, and a switch for disabling transmission of said time-out signal to said sequencer in response to a disabling signal from said sequencer.
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A server device having a transmitting device, comprising:
- a bus formed by multiple signal lines;
- transmitting means for transmitting data over said bus;
- receiving means for receiving said data supplied via said bus;
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- a bus driver for coupling said transmitting means to said bus, said bus driver including a bus sequencer for transmitting and receiving data to/from said bus, a latency timer for generating a time-out signal for stopping transmission by said sequencer after a predetermined period of transmission has expired and for transmitting said time-out signal to said sequencer, and a switch for disabling transmission of said time-out signal to said sequencer in response to a disabling signal from said sequencer.
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A transmitting method of transmitting video data via a bus, comprising the steps of:
- using a PCI bus as said bus;
- transmitting said video data to said PCI bus via a PCI bus driver, said bus driver including a bus sequencer for transmitting and receiving data to/from said bus, a latency timer for generating a time-out signal for stopping transmission by said sequencer after a predetermined period of transmission has expired and for transmitting said time-out signal to said sequencer, and a switch for disabling transmission of said time-out signal;
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- when a disabling signal is generated by said sequencer, disabling transmission of said time-out signal to said sequencer by operation of said switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.