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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2000
Harumi Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Takada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus for use when a format which can be transmitted by a transmission device is not equal to a format which can be received by a reception device that makes it possible to correctly perform data transmission includes a controller for controlling transmission that determines a transmission format with reference to a transmittable format of a source device and a receivable format of a destination device and instructs the source device to perform data transmission in the determined transmission format. When the data format which can be transmitted by the source device cannot be received by the destination device, the controller determines a transmission data format with reference to a data format which can be converted by a format converter connected to a bus and having a data format converting function and instructs the source device to transmit data to the format converter. The format converter which receives the data transmits the data to the destination device.
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