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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2000
Daisuke Nakano, Tenri, JP;
Takashi Nishimura, Tenri, JP;
Yuji Ichikawa, Tenri, JP;
Masafumi Takahashi, Tenri, JP;
Kazuyuki Sumi, Nara, JP;
Toru Ueda, Kyoto, JP;
Daisuke Nakano, Tenri, JP;
Takashi Nishimura, Tenri, JP;
Yuji Ichikawa, Tenri, JP;
Masafumi Takahashi, Tenri, JP;
Kazuyuki Sumi, Nara, JP;
Toru Ueda, Kyoto, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A transmission method uses multiple kinds of control codes to be exchanged on a serial transmission path between a sender side and a receiver side, and each of the multiple kinds of control codes has bits smaller in number than a predetermined fixed length. The transmission method includes the steps of inspecting the received bit string in groups of bits of the number of the control code, and thereby determining whether one of the multiple kinds of control codes is present in the serial signal received on the serial transmission path or not, selecting the control code to be sent based on a result of the determination in the determining step, sending, onto the serial transmission path, a bit string containing at least the control code to be sent based on the result of the determination in the determining step, and receiving the data code by inspecting the received bit string in groups of bits of the fixed length in response to the detection of the control code indicating the start of transmission of the data from the opposite side in the determining step.