Image display device

• US 7,036,021 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2001
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Koguchi, Tatsushi, Hakuno, Kazuhiro, Usuda, Norihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Barron, Gilberto
• Assistant Examiner(s): SANDOVAL, KRISTIN D
• Application Number:
  US10/026,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20020138749A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,580 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 713/194
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42623 involving specific decryption arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4405 involving video stream decryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

An authentication/decryption unit authenticates and decrypts video signals received from a video signal output device. An open-condition detector detects the open condition of a cabinet. A memory stores therein one of a first flag indicating that an authentication operation of the authentication/decryption unit is enabled and a second flag indicating that an authentication operation of the authentication/decryption unit is disabled. A micro-controller controls whether the authentication operation of the authentication/decryption unit will be enabled or disabled according to the flag in the memory. When the open-condition detector detects that the cabinet is opened, the micro-controller writes the second flag into the memory.

Claims

1. An image display device that has an authentication/decryption unit for authenticating and decrypting encrypted video signals and a display for displaying video signals thereon, said image display device comprising:

open-condition detecting means for detecting whether a cabinet of said image display device is opened;

storing means for storing one of a first flag indicating that an authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit is enabled and a second flag indicating that the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit is disabled;

flag writing means for writing said second flag into said storing means when said open-condition detecting means detects that said cabinet is opened;

enabling/disabling control means for controlling enabling/disabling of the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit according to the flag stored in said storing means;

first display control means for putting said display in a first state by displaying the video signals decrypted from the encrypted video signals when the flag stored in said storing means is the first flag; and

second display control means for putting said display in a second state, which is different from the first state, when the flag stored in said storing means is the second flag.

2. The image display device according to claim 1, further comprising hidden command entering means for entering a hidden command for returning the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit to an enabled state by causing said flag writing means to write said first flag into said storing means in which said second flag is stored.

3. The image display device according to claim 1, further comprising an independent power that supplies power to said open-condition detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to allow said open-condition detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to continue operation even when power normally supplied to said image display device is turned off.

4. The image display device according to claim 2, further comprising an independent power that supplies power to said open-condition detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to allow said open-condition detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to continue operation even when power normally supplied to said image display device is turned off.

5. An image display device that has an authentication/decryption unit for authenticating and decrypting encrypted video signals and a display for displaying video signals thereon, said image display device comprising:

detecting means for detecting that there is a possibility that video signals, decrypted from the encrypted video signals by said authentication/decryption unit, will be taken out of said image display device;

storing means for storing one of a first flag indicating that an authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit is enabled and a second flag indicating that the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit is disabled;

flag writing means for writing said second flag into said storing means when said detecting means detects that there is a possibility that the video signals decrypted from the encrypted video signals will be taken out of said image display device;

enabling/disabling control means for controlling enabling/disabling of the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit according to the flag stored in said storing means;

first display control means for putting said display in a first state by displaying the video signals decrypted from the encrypted video signals when the flag stored in said storing means is the first flag; and

second display control means for putting said display in a second state, which is different from the first state, when the flag stored in said storing means is the second flag.

6. The image display device according to claim 5, further comprising hidden command entering means for entering a hidden command for returning the authentication operation of said authentication/decryption unit to an enabled state by causing said flag writing means to write said first flag into said storing means in which said second flag is stored.

7. The image display device according to claim 5, further comprising an independent power that supplies power to said detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to allow said detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to continue operation even when power normally supplied to said image display device is turned off.

8. The image display device according to claim 6, further comprising an independent power that supplies power to said detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to allow said detecting means, said storing means, and said flag writing means to continue operation even when power normally supplied to said image display device is turned off.