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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
May. 23, 2000
Seigo Fujiwara, Settsu, JP;
Hideki Otaka, Neyagawa, JP;
Takayasu Yoshida, Osaka, JP;
Yukio Nakagawa, Moriguchi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The receiver and transmitter/receiver in accordance with the present invention comprises a common input terminal for inputting digital data including uncompressed video data or compressed video data, a receiving circuit for carrying out serial-parallel conversion processing for the digital data from the above-mentioned common input terminal and for carrying output, an SDI decoder and an SDTI decoder for inputting data from the above-mentioned receiving circuit and for taking out the digital data including the uncompressed video data and compressed video data, respectively, a distinguishing circuit for distinguishing the transmission format of the input digital data and the presence or absence of the compression of the video data, and a selection switch for selecting data from the SDI decoder or the SDTI decoder on the basis of the result of the distinguishing of the distinguishing circuit.