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

Claim 13:
14. A transmission apparatus according for transmitting data generated by an information source to a transmission path in units of frames including a plurality of blocks, comprising:
transmission circuitry configured to stop the transmission of data to the transmission path or to transmit 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 to be transmitted 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 scrambler that generates scrambled data obtained by scrambling data generated by the information source,
the scrambler includes
a shift register including a plurality of registers that sequentially shifts serial data corresponding to data generated by the information source, and
a logical arithmetic unit that generates the scrambled data by a predetermined logical operation between the data shifted by the shift register and the serial data to be input to the shift register, and

the transmission circuitry causes data to be transmitted to the transmission path to transit at a cycle corresponding to the number of stages of the plurality of registers in the shift register.