METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA

• US 20080084502A1
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: UM, Jin-sub, LEE, Sang-jin, LEE, Chang-woo
• Application Number:
  US11/851,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20080084502A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/465
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/088 the inserted signal being digital
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/64 Circuits for processing colour signals H04N9/77 takes precedence; camera processing pipelines for processing colour signals H04N23/84

Abstract

A data transmitting/receiving apparatus and method in which color gamut information is added to a teletext signal in a blanking interval so that a display device can recognize whether a color gamut has been extended, are provided. The apparatus includes a control unit which determines whether an image signal is a wide color gamut signal. A signal processing unit encodes color gamut information of the wide color gamut signal and allocates the color gamut information to a data region of a teletext interval if it is determined that the image signal is the wide color gamut signal. The signal processing unit transmits an image signal including a teletext packet in which the color gamut information is recorded.

Claims

1. A data transmitting method comprising:

determining whether a first image signal is a wide color gamut signal;

detecting a teletext interval from lines of the first image signal if it is determined that the first image signal is the wide color gamut signal;

encoding color gamut information based on the wide color gamut signal, and allocating the encoded color gamut information to a data region of the teletext interval; and

transmitting an second image signal including a teletext packet in which the encoded color gamut information is allocated.

2. The data transmitting method of claim 1, wherein the encoding the color gamut information comprises allocating the color gamut information to control bits of the teletext interval.

3. The data transmitting method of claim 1, wherein the encoding the color gamut information comprises allocating the color gamut information to data bits of the teletext interval.

4. The data transmitting method of claim 1, wherein the color gamut information comprises a color gamut type and a primary coordinate value of a color channel.

5. The data transmitting method of claim 4, wherein the color gamut type is encoded using error correction coding.

6. The data transmitting method of claim 4, wherein the primary coordinate value of the color channel is parity-coded.

7. The data transmitting method of claim 1, wherein an address of the teletext packet, in which the encoded color gamut information is allocated, is inserted in a header of the teletext packet.

8. A data transmitting method comprising:

determining whether a first image signal is a wide color gamut signal;

detecting a blanking interval from lines of the first image signal if it is determined that the first image signal is the wide color gamut signal;

encoding color gamut information based on the wide color gamut signal and allocating the encoded color gamut information to a data region of the blanking interval; and

transmitting an image signal including a packet in which the encoded color gamut information is allocated.

9. The data transmitting method of claim 8, wherein the encoding of the color gamut information comprises allocating the color gamut information to data bits of a teletext signal in the blanking interval.

10. A data receiving method comprising:

receiving an image signal including a teletext signal in a blanking interval to which coded color gamut information is added;

detecting the blanking interval from the received image signal to extract the teletext signal from the image signal;

extracting data from the teletext signal;

decoding the coded color gamut information from the extracted data; and

controlling a color gamut of a display device according to the decoded color gamut information.

11. The data receiving method of claim 10, wherein the decoding the color gamut information comprises decoding a color gamut type and a primary coordinate value of a color channel by referring to an address inserted in a header of a teletext packet.

12. The data receiving method of claim 11, wherein the controlling the color gamut of the display device comprises performing wide color gamut mapping by referring to the decoded color gamut type and the decoded primary coordinate value of the color channel.

13. A data transmitting/receiving method comprising:

encoding color gamut information if it is determined that an image signal is a wide color gamut signal, allocating the encoded color gamut information to a teletext data region, and transmitting an image signal including a teletext packet in which the encoded color gamut information is allocated; and

detecting a blanking interval from the transmitted image signal to extract teletext data from the transmitted image signal, decoding color gamut information from the extracted teletext data, and controlling a color gamut of a display device according to a coordinate value of a color channel of a color gamut indicated by the color gamut information.

14. A data transmitting device comprising:

an image signal input unit which receives a first image signal.

a control unit which checks the first image signal received by the image signal input unit to determine whether the received input image signal is a wide color gamut signal; and

a signal processing unit which encodes and allocates color gamut information to a teletext data region if the control unit determines that the image signal is a wide color gamut signal, and transmits a second image signal including a teletext interval in which the color gamut information is encoded.

15. The data transmitting device of claim 14, wherein the signal processing unit encodes the color gamut information with a color gamut type and a primary coordinate value of a color channel of the color gamut and includes the encoded color gamut information in a teletext packet in the teletext data region.

16. A data receiving device which decodes wide color gamut information from a teletext signal received from a data transmitting device to which the color gamut information is added, the data receiving device comprising:

a decoder unit which detects a teletext interval included in a received image signal and decodes color gamut information from a data region of the teletext interval;

a control unit which detects color gamut type information from the color gamut information from the data region of the teletext interval detected by the decoder unit; and

a signal processing unit which performs wide color gamut mapping using a primary coordinate value of a color channel included in the color gamut information decoded by the decoder unit, according to the color gamut type information detected by the control unit.

17. The data transmitting device of claim 16, wherein the decoder unit decodes the color gamut type information and the primary coordinate value of the color channel by referring to an address of the color gamut information that is inserted in a header of a teletext packet.