Encryption transmission system

• US 7,359,511 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2001
• Issued: 04/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Video, LLC
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hidekazu, Tatebayashi, Makoto, Nishio, Toshiro, Matsuzaki, Natsume
• Primary Examiner(s): Barron, Jr.; Gilberto
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERRING, VIRGIL A
• Application Number:
  US10/203,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20030145336A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,310 Days
• Field of Search: 380/212, 348/435.1
• US Class Current: 380/212
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/167 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a CRT details suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/006, specific for a flat panel G09G3/2096
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2368 Multiplexing of audio and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4341 Demultiplexing of audio and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4408 involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/083 with signal insertion during the vertical and the horizontal blanking interval , e.g. MAC data signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/167 Systems rendering the television signal unintelligible and subsequently intelligible

Abstract

A video signal and an audio signal are time division multiplexed, encrypted, and transmitted. A transmission side time-compresses the audio signal, multiplexes, encrypts, and transmits the time-compressed audio signal in a blanking period of the video signal. Control is performed using an audio signal data enable signal ADE, and an audio signal/video signal switch signal.

Claims

1. A transmission system comprising:

a video transmission device operable to encrypt and transmit frame information that includes digital video information while providing one or more blanking intervals during the frame information; and

a video display device operable to receive and decrypt the encrypted frame information, extract the digital video information from the decrypted frame information, and display the extracted video information, wherein

the video transmission device is operable to multiplex digital audio information with the frame information in the one or more blanking intervals, encrypt the multiplexed frame information with which the digital audio information has been multiplexed, and transmit the encrypted frame information,

the video display device is operable to receive the encrypted frame information, decrypt the received encrypted frame information to generate frame information, extract the digital audio information from the one or more blanking intervals provided in the generated frame information, and convert the extracted digital audio information to an audio signal,

the digital video information includes a plurality of pieces of line video information that correspond respectively to lines in a frame, and the digital audio information includes a plurality of pieces of line audio information that correspond respectively to the lines in the frame,

the video transmission device, for each line in the frame, is operable to set an initial value for audio, encrypt a corresponding piece of line audio information using the set initial value for audio with an encryption method, then set an initial value for video to have a same value as the initial value for audio, and encrypt a corresponding piece of line video information using the set initial value for video with the encryption method, and

the video display device, for each line in the frame is operable to set an initial value for audio, decrypt a corresponding piece of line audio information using the set initial value for audio with a decryption method, then set an initial value for video to have a same value as the initial value for audio, and decrypt a corresponding piece of line video information using the set initial value for video with the decryption method.

2. A video transmission device for transmitting and encrypting frame information that includes digital video information, while providing one or more blanking intervals during the digital video information, the video transmission device comprising:

multiplex means for multiplexing digital audio information with the frame information during the one or more blanking intervals;

encryption means for encrypting the frame information with which the digital audio information has been multiplexed; and

transmission means for transmitting the encrypted frame information, wherein

the digital video information includes a plurality of pieces of line video information that correspond respectively to lines in a frame, and the digital audio information includes a plurality of pieces of line audio information that correspond respectively to the lines in the frame,

the encryption means, for each line in the frame, is operable to set an initial value for audio, encrypt a corresponding piece of line audio information using the set initial value for audio, with an encryption method, then set an initial value for video to have a same value as the initial value for audio, and encrypt a corresponding piece of line video information using the set initial value for video with the encryption method.

3. The video transmission device of claim 2, wherein

the frame information includes, after a vertical blanking interval, a predetermined number of pieces of line video information after each of which a horizontal blanking interval is provided, and

the multiplex means is operable to multiplex the pieces of line audio information during the vertical blanking interval and/or the horizontal blanking intervals.

4. The video transmission device of claim 3,

wherein the encryption means includes:

a frame key generation unit for generating a frame key that corresponds to the frame information, to be used as an encryption key; and

a frame encryption unit for encrypting, using the frame key generated corresponding to the frame information, the digital audio information and the digital video information included in the frame information.

5. The video transmission device of claim 4,

wherein the frame encryption unit includes:

a line encryption sub-unit for encrypting, using the frame key, one of the pieces of line audio information and one of the pieces of line video information included in the frame information;

a key updating sub-unit for updating the frame key; and

a repeat control sub-unit for controlling, until encryption of all of the pieces of line audio information and all of the pieces of line video information has finished, the line encryption sub-unit to encrypt a next piece of line audio information and a next piece of line video information using the updated frame key, and controlling the key updating sub-unit to update the updated frame key again.

6. The video transmission device of claim 4, wherein

the transmission means is operable to transmit the encrypted frame information to a video display device, and

the encryption means is operable to authenticate the video display device with a common calculation module, in generating the frame key, and in encrypting the frame information.

7. The video transmission device of claim 3, wherein

the multiplex means is operable to generate (a) a video enable signal that indicates transmission of the digital video information, in a period in which the digital video information is included in the frame information, and (b) an audio enable signal that indicates transmission of the digital audio information, in the one or more blanking intervals, and

the transmission means is further operable to transmit the generated video enable signal and the generated audio enable signal.

8. The video transmission device of claims 7,

wherein the multiplex means is operable to generate the audio enable signal in the vertical blanking interval and/or the horizontal blanking intervals during which the digital audio information is multiplexed.

9. The video transmission device of claim 2, wherein

the multiplex means is operable to generate the frame information using a multiplex control signal that identifies transmission of the digital audio information and the digital video information, and

the transmission means is operable to transmit the multiplex control signal.

10. The video transmission device of claim 2,

wherein the multiplex means is operable to generate the frame information while providing a non-signal period between the digital audio information and the digital video information.

11. A video display device for receiving the encrypted frame information from the video transmission device of claim 2, decrypting the received frame information, extracting the digital video information from the decrypted frame information, and displaying the extracted digital video information, the video display device comprising:

reception means for receiving the encrypted frame information;

decryption means for decrypting the encrypted frame information;

extraction means for extracting the decrypted digital audio information from the one or more blanking intervals provided during the frame information, and extracting the digital video information from a period other than the one or more blanking intervals; and

output means for displaying the extracted digital video information, and converting the extracted digital audio information to audio, wherein

the digital video information includes a plurality of pieces of line video information that correspond respectively to lines in a frame, and the digital audio information includes a plurality of pieces of line audio information that correspond respectively to the lines in the frame,

the decryption means, for each line in the frame, is operable to set an initial value for audio, decrypt a corresponding piece of line audio information using the set initial value for audio with a decryption method, then set an initial value for video to have a same value as the initial value for audio, and decrypt a corresponding piece of line video information using the set initial value for video with the decryption method.

12. The video display device of claim 11, wherein

the frame information includes, after a vertical blanking interval, a predetermined number of pieces of line video information after each of which a horizontal blanking interval is provided,

the plurality of pieces of line audio information are multiplexed in the vertical blanking interval and/or the horizontal blanking intervals, and

the extraction means is operable to extract the pieces of line audio information from the vertical blanking interval and/or the horizontal blanking intervals.

13. The video display device of claim 12,

wherein the decryption means includes:

a frame key generation unit for generating a frame key that corresponds to the frame information, to be used as an decryption key; and

a frame decryption unit for decrypting, using the frame key generated corresponding to the frame information, the digital audio information and the digital video information included in the frame information.

14. The video display device of claim 13,

wherein the frame decryption unit includes:

a line decryption sub-unit for decrypting, using the frame key, one of the pieces of line audio information and one of the pieces of line video information included in the frame information;

a key updating sub-unit for updating the frame key; and

a repeat control sub-unit for controlling, until decryption of all of the pieces of line audio information and all of the pieces of line video information has finished, the line decryption sub-unit to decrypt a next piece of line audio information and a next piece of line video information using the updated frame key, and controlling the key updating sub-unit to update the updated frame key again.

15. The video display device of claims 13,

wherein the decryption means is operable to be authenticated by the video transmission device with a common calculation module, in generating the frame key, and in decrypting the frame information.

16. The video display device of claim 12, wherein

the reception means is further operable to receive a video enable signal that indicates transmission of the digital audio information, and an audio enable signal that indicates transmission of the digital audio information, and

the extraction means is further operable to extract the digital video information in a period shown by the video enable signal, and extract the digital audio information in a period shown by the audio enable signal.

17. The video display device of claim 11, wherein

the reception means is further operable to receive a multiplex control signal that identifies transmission of the digital audio information and the digital video information, and

the extraction means is operable to extract the digital audio information and the digital video information using the multiplex control signal.

18. The video display device of claim 11, wherein

the reception means is operable to receive encrypted frame information in which a non-signal period is provided between the digital audio information and the digital video information, and

the extraction means is operable to generate, using the non-signal period between the digital audio information and the digital video information, a multiplex control signal that identifies reception of the digital audio information and the digital video information, and extract the digital audio information and the digital video information using the generated multiplex control signal.