Signal communication apparatus and signal communication system

• US 7,924,861 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2005
• Issued: 04/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Kazuhiro, Yamada, Hidenori, Sakai, Kazuhiro, Funada, Masao, Okada, Junji, Ozeki, Shinobu, Mori, Hisayoshi, Baba, Tomo, Niitsu, Takehiro, Kyozuka, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah; Chirag G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rivas; Salvador E
• Application Number:
  US11/272,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,974 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/419
• 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 2370/047 using display data channel standard [DDC] communication
• 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

Abstract

A signal communication apparatus includes a transmission component, a reception component and an identification information storage component. The transmission component is connectable to an information processing device and a signal propagation medium, and transmits an inputted image signal through the connected signal propagation medium. The reception component is connectable with an image display device and the signal propagation medium, receives the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and outputs the image signal to the connected image display device. The identification information storage component is removably attached to the transmission component, and stores identification information for identifying the image display device. The information processing device acquires the identification information from the identification information storage component connected to the connected transmission component, and outputs the image signal to the connected transmission component in accordance with at least a portion of the acquired identification information.

Claims

1. A signal communication apparatus comprising:

a transmission component connected with an information processing device via a first cable, the transmission component being outside and separate from the information processing device, the transmission component also being connected with a signal propagation medium, and the transmission component transmitting an image signal inputted via the first cable through the connected signal propagation medium;

a reception component connected with an image display device via a second cable, the image display device having a plurality of resolution modes, the reception component being connected with the signal propagation medium to receive the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and the reception component outputting the image signal to the connected image display device via the second cable; and

an extended display identification data information storage component which is removably attached to the transmission component, the extended display identification data information storage component storing extended display identification data information for identifying a particular model name and particular setting values of the image display device,

wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is located outside of the image display device, and

the information processing device acquires the extended display identification data information from the extended display identification data information storage component connected to the transmission component, via the first cable, and the information processing device outputs the image signal via the first cable to the connected transmission component in a format corresponding to one of the resolution modes of the image display device, in accordance with at least a portion of the acquired extended display identification data information.

2. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information is the same as information provided at the connected image display device.

3. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is replaced with another of the extended display identification data information storage component, at which information the same as information provided at the connected image display device is stored, such that the extended display identification data information is the same as the information provided at the connected image display device.

4. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the extended display identification data information storage component is rewritable and

the extended display identification data information stored at the extended display identification data information storage component is rewritten so as to be the same as information provided at the connected image display device.

5. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is removably attached at an exterior portion of the transmission component.

6. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is removably attached at an interior portion of the transmission component.

7. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the signal propagation medium includes an optical fiber cable,

the transmission component converts an electronic signal, which is the inputted image signal, to an optical signal and transmits the optical signal, and

the reception component receives the optical signal transmitted from the transmission component, converts the optical signal to an electronic signal, and outputs the electronic signal to the image display device to serve as the image signal.

8. The signal communication apparatus of claim 7, wherein a length of the optical fiber cable is 100 meters or more.

17. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmission component includes a first connector that is exposed outside.

18. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component includes:

a read-only memory in which extended display identification data information has been stored in advance, and

a second connector that is exposed outside.

19. The signal communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component can be attached and detached from the transmission component by connecting or disconnecting the first and second connectors, so that the extended display identification data information storage component can be replaced with another extended display identification data information storage component when the extended display identification data information that has been stored in the extended display identification data storage component and information for identifying the image display device that has been stored in the image display device do not match.

9. A signal communication system comprising:

an information processing device, which outputs an image signal;

an image display device, which displays an image based on the image signal; and

a signal communication apparatus,

wherein the signal communication apparatus includes;

a transmission component connected with the information processing device via a first cable, the transmission component being outside and separate from the information processing device and receiving the output image signal via the first cable, the transmission component also being connected with a signal propagation medium, the transmission component transmitting the image signal through the connected signal propagation medium;

a reception component connected with the image display device via a second cable, the image display device having a plurality of resolution modes, the reception component being connected with the signal propagation medium to receive the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and the reception component outputting the image signal to the connected image display device via the second cable; and

an extended display identification data information storage component which is removably attached to the transmission component, the extended display identification data information storage component storing extended display identification data information for identifying a particular model name and particular setting values of the image display device,

wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is located outside of the image display device, and

the information processing device acquires the extended display identification data information from the extended display identification data information storage component connected to the transmission component, via the first cable, and the information processing device outputs the image signal via the first cable to the connected transmission component in a format corresponding to one of the resolution modes of the image display device, in accordance with at least a portion of the acquired extended display identification data information.

10. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein the extended display identification data information is the same as information provided at the connected image display device.

11. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein

the image display device can be substituted, and

the extended display identification data information storage component is replaced with another of the extended display identification data information storage component at which information the same as information provided at the substitute image display device is stored, such that the extended display identification data information is the same as the information provided at the substitute image display device.

12. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein

the image display device can be substituted,

the extended display identification data information storage component is rewritable and

the extended display identification data information stored at the extended display identification data information storage component is rewritten so as to be the same as information provided at the substitute image display device.

13. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is removably attached at an exterior portion of the transmission component.

14. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein the extended display identification data information storage component is removably attached at an interior portion of the transmission component.

15. The signal communication system of claim 9, wherein

the signal propagation medium includes an optical fiber cable,

the transmission component converts an electronic signal, which is the inputted image signal, to an optical signal and transmits the optical signal, and

the reception component receives the optical signal transmitted from the transmission component, converts the optical signal to an electronic signal, and outputs the electronic signal to the image display device to serve as the image signal.

16. The signal communication system of claim 15, wherein a length of the optical fiber cable is 100 meters or more.