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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsToshihide Hayashi, Masayuki Tsumura, Koki Tsumori, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Ban Kawamura
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An AV system composed of an HD recorder and a display unit uses a communication interface of the HDMI. An HDMI source of the HD recorder transmits image data (image signal) in the form of differential signals to an HDMI sink of the display unit through three TMDS channels. The HDMI source inserts content identification information for the identification of the type of a content of image data to be transmitted into an AVI InfoFrame packet placed in a blanking period. A control section of the display unit controls operation of a display processing section which carries out a process for displaying for the image data based on the content identification information received by the HDMI sink and a display section for displaying an image.
A reception apparatus, comprising:
A reception method, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Home automation networks: home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
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1. Technical Field
This invention relates to a communication system, a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus and a reception method wherein a communication interface such as, for example, an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is used. Particularly, the present invention relates to a communication system and so forth wherein an image signal having content identification information inserted in a blanking period thereof is sent in the form of differential signals through a plurality of channels whereas the reception side can carry out an optimum process for the image signal depending upon the type of the content based on the content identification information.
2. Background Art
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of an AV system as an embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a particular configuration of a display processing section and a display section of a display unit.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of an HDMI source and an HDMI sink.
40 . . . AV system, 41 . . . HD recorder, 42 . . . Display unit, 43 . . . HDMI cable, 51 . . . Recording and reproduction section, 52 . . . Codec, 53 . . . HDMI source, 54 . . . HD, 55 . . . External apparatus, 61 . . . HDMI sink, 62 . . . Display processing section, 62a . . . Chroma decoder, 62b . . . DRC portion, 62c . . . Enhancer, 62d . . . Panel driver, 63 . . . Display section, 63a . . . Liquid crystal panel, 63b . . . Backlight, 71 . . . Source signal processing section, 72 . . . HDMI transmitter, 81 . . . HDMI receiver, 82 . . . Sink signal processing section, 140 . . . AV system, 141 . . . Video camera, 142 . . . Television receiver, 143 . . . HDMI cable, 151 . . . Control section, 152 . . . User operation section, 153 . . . Display section, 154 . . . Image pickup lens, 155 . . . Image pickup element, 156 . . . Picked up image signal processing section, 157 . . . Codec, 158 . . . Recording and reproduction section, 159 . . . HD, 160 . . . HDMI source, 161 . . . External apparatus, 171 . . . Control section, 172 . . . User operation section, 174 . . . Tuner, 175 . . . Antenna terminal, 176 . . . Switch, 177 . . . Display processing section, 177a . . . Chroma decoder, 177b . . . DRC portion, 177c . . . Enhancer, 177d . . . Panel driver, 178 . . . Display section, 178a . . . Liquid crystal panel, 178b . . . Backlight, 180 . . . AV system, 181 . . . Video camera, 181a, 182 . . . USB terminal, 182 . . . Television receiver, 183 . . . USB cable
In the following, embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an example of a configuration of an AV system 40 to which the present invention is applied. Referring to FIG. 1, the AV system 40 is composed of an HD (Hard Disk) recorder 41 as a transmission apparatus and a display unit 42 as a reception apparatus. The HD recorder 41 and the display unit 42 are connected to each other by a cable 43 for the HDMI.