Image transmission system, image transmission apparatus and image transmission method

An image transmission apparatus transmitting first to N-th (N:

• an integer of 2 or more) images to a time-division display apparatus which sequentially displays the first to N-th images, with a frequency of M×N [Hz] (M:
• an integer of 1 or more) by time division, the image transmission apparatus comprising:
• a multiplexing unit that plane-sequentially multiplexes the first to N-th images in accordance with the order of displaying the first to N-th images on the time-division display apparatus;
• and
• a transmitting unit that transmits the multiplexed images which have been multiplexed by the multiplexing unit to the time-division display apparatus via a predetermined image transmission path with a frame frequency of M [Hz], wherein
• each of the first to N-th images is a subframe included in one frame;
• the time-division display apparatus scans and displays each of the first to N-th images with a speed K times (K:
• a real number satisfying 1<K) as fast as the speed of displaying and scanning an image corresponding to one subframe during a one-subframe period;
• and
• the multiplexing unit
• plane-sequentially multiplexes dummy images with the number of pixels K−1 times as large as that of the first to N-th images, to the first to N-th images, respectively, and
• plane-sequentially multiplexes the first to N-th images to which the dummy images have been multiplexed.

A method by an image transmission apparatus transmitting first to N-th (N:

• an integer of 2 or more) images to a time-division display apparatus which sequentially displays the first to N-th images, with a frequency of M×N [Hz] (M:
• an integer of 1 or more) by time division, the method comprising:
• a multiplexing step of plane-sequentially multiplexing the first to N-th images in accordance with the order of displaying the first to N-th images on the time-division display apparatus;
• and
• a transmission step of transmitting the multiplexed images which have been multiplexed by the multiplexing unit to the time-division display apparatus via a predetermined image transmission path with a frame frequency of M [Hz], wherein
• each of the first to N-th images is a subframe included in one frame;
• the time-division display apparatus scans and displays each of the first to N-th images with a speed K times (K:
• a real number satisfying 1<K) as fast as the speed of displaying and scanning an image corresponding to one subframe during a one-subframe period;
• and
• in the multiplexing step
• plane-sequentially multiplexes dummy images with the number of pixels K−1 times as large as that of the first to N-th images, to the first to N-th images, respectively, and
• plane-sequentially multiplexes the first to N-th images to which the dummy images have been multiplexed.