Multi-Path Image Data Transmission with Time Code Rearrangement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image data transmitting systems using a single transmission path cannot efficiently transmit moving image data with resolutions higher than 1920×1080, such as 4096×2160, 4096×1080, or 2048×1080, and lack a method to correctly rearrange image data across multiple transmission paths.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing multiple transmission paths with a moving image data generating unit, time code information generation, and determination units to transmit and receive image data across multiple paths, ensuring correct ordering and rearrangement of frames based on time code information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single transmission path is used, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but it cannot transmit high-resolution moving image data (larger than 1920×1080)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the transmission of high-resolution moving image data into multiple segments by using multiple transmission paths. Each path transmits a portion of the image data (e.g., different color channels or data streams), enabling the transmission of high-resolution data that exceeds the capacity of a single path while maintaining system manageability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple transmission paths are provided, then high-resolution moving image data can be transmitted, but it becomes necessary to determine methods for transmitting and rearranging image data across paths
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by embedding identification information and time code information into the image data before transmission. This pre-processing enables the receiving apparatus to automatically and accurately rearrange the data from multiple paths without requiring complex real-time processing, thus reducing transmission complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces identification information and time code information as intermediary elements that facilitate the coordination and rearrangement of data across multiple transmission paths. These intermediaries carry essential metadata that enables the receiving apparatus to reconstruct the original high-resolution image data correctly.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple transmission paths are used, then high-resolution data transmission is enabled, but data loss or duplication may occur without proper frame ordering mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through time code information and identification data that are transmitted with each image data segment. These feedback elements enable the receiving apparatus to verify data integrity, detect duplicates, and correctly order frames, thereby ensuring reliable reconstruction of high-resolution moving image data from multiple transmission paths.
Data Source
AI summary
A transmitting apparatus generates moving image data including first image data and second image data, and generates first time code information corresponding to the first image data and second time code information corresponding to the second image data. The transmitting apparatus transmits, to an external apparatus, the first image data included in the moving image data and the first time code information corresponding to the first image data, and transmits, to the external apparatus, the second image data included in the moving image data and the second time code information corresponding to the second image data. The transmitting apparatus determines, in accordance with a first condition, the first image data from a plurality of image data included in the moving image data, and determines the second image data, in accordance with a second condition, from the plurality of image data included in the moving image data.