Patent ID: 11902162
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A communications system, comprising:
a master apparatus; and
a slave apparatus that transmits data generated by an information source to the master apparatus via a transmission path in units of frames including a plurality of blocks in accordance with an instruction from the master apparatus,
the slave apparatus including transmission circuitry configured to stop the transmission of data to the transmission path or transmits toggle data to the transmission path in a first block of the plurality of blocks in a corresponding one of the frames, where an amount of data generated by the information source is less than a transmission capacity of the transmission path, the toggle data having a cycle of transition of data that is longer than that of data in a second block of the plurality of blocks, wherein
the transmission circuitry includes a pseudo-random number device that generates a pseudo-random number signal, and a scrambler that generates the toggle data on a basis of the pseudo-random number signal.