Digital television

• US 8,200,068 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Maeda, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wendmagegn, Girumsew
• Application Number:
  US11/646,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20070147773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 386/83, 386/123, 386/291, 386/326, 386/E5.002
• US Class Current: 386/291
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

When recording image data inputted from a plurality of data ports and a clock port, for a data port at which the data value has not changed over a predetermined time period, the data value at that data port and a data item which indicates that this data value has continued unchanged are recorded. Furthermore, time instant information is recorded for such a data port at which the data value has ceased to change. Moreover, the value of the transfer rate of the clock signal is recorded. By doing this, the transfer rate is substantially enhanced, and it is possible to anticipate effective utilization of the storage capacity due to elimination of the recording of useless image data.

Claims

1. An image recording device, comprising:

a plurality of data ports which input streams of image data;

a clock port which inputs a clock signal;

a storage device for storing the image data and the clock signal;

replay means which replays the image data stored in the storage device;

clock signal recording means which records a frequency of the clock signal on the storage device;

steady data recording means which, for a data port of which the data value has not changed over a predetermined time period, records on the storage device;

the data value of the data port,

a data item which indicates the fact that this data value has continued unchanged, and

time instant information for the time point at which the changing of the data value stopped;

changing data recording means which, for a data port of which the data value changes within the predetermined time period, records on the storage device the data values of the timing of the clock signal; and

port designation means which designates, from among the plurality of data ports, data ports for which recording is to be performed and data ports for which recording is not to be performed,

wherein the steady data recording means and the changing data recording means perform recording only for data ports designated by the port designation means as being data ports for which recording is to be performed.