Transport stream structure including image data and apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving image data
First Claim
1. A transport stream structure used for a digital broadcast system, comprising:
- a header comprising an image characteristic parameter, the image characteristic comprising information indicating whether image data used in the digital broadcast system represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image; and
a payload comprising the image data.
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Abstract
An image transmitting apparatus and method and an image receiving apparatus and method, the image receiving apparatus including a decoder receiving and decoding an image signal including image data and an image characteristic parameter which contains information indicating whether the image data represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, an image characteristic parameter detector receiving the decoded image signal and extracting and interpreting the image characteristic parameter from the decoded image signal, and a display unit receiving the image characteristic parameter from the image characteristic parameter detector and displaying the image data received from the decoder according to the image characteristic parameter, to display a 2D image and a 3D image in various fields, such as a 3D image broadcast, etc., that can be shown on a digital broadcast standard system.
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34 Claims
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1. A transport stream structure used for a digital broadcast system, comprising:
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a header comprising an image characteristic parameter, the image characteristic comprising information indicating whether image data used in the digital broadcast system represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image; and
a payload comprising the image data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An image transmitting apparatus comprising:
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a storage unit which stores image data;
an image characteristic parameter generator which creates an image characteristic parameter indicating whether the image data represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image; and
an encoder which receives the image data and the image characteristic parameter and which encodes the image data and the image characteristic parameter so that the image data and the image characteristic parameter are included in a transport stream. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An image receiving apparatus comprising:
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a decoder which receives and decodes an image signal comprising image data and an image characteristic parameter, the image characteristic parameter comprising information indicating whether the image data represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image to generate a decoded image signal;
an image characteristic parameter detector which receives the decoded image signal and detects the image characteristic parameter; and
a display unit which displays the image data received from the decoder according to the image characteristic parameter received from the image characteristic parameter detector. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A image transmitting method comprising:
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(a) receiving image data;
(b) receiving an image characteristic parameter comprising information indicating whether the image data represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image;
(c) encoding the image data and the image characteristic parameter so that the image data and the image characteristic parameter are included in a transport stream. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33)
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26. An image receiving method comprising:
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(a) receiving and decoding an image signal comprising image data and an image characteristic parameter comprising information indicating whether the image data represents a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, to generate a decoded image signal;
(b) receiving the decoded image signal and detecting the image characteristic parameter;
(c) receiving the image characteristic parameter detected in operation (b); and
(d) displaying the image data decoded in operation (a) according to the image characteristic parameter received in operation (c). - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34)
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Specification