Patent ID: 6137455
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
A computer keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor signal transmission arrangement comprising an encoder connected to a personal computer, a decoder connected to computer peripheral apparatus including a VGA monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, and a set of signal lines connected between said encoder and said decoder for signal transmission, said encoder enabling video horizontal synchronizing and vertical synchronizing signals, keyboard signals and mouse signals to be mixed into either two of the red, green and blue video signals and then transmitted with the mixed video signals through said signal lines to said decoder, said decoder decoding received signals, enabling decoded video horizontal synchronizing and vertical synchronizing signals, keyboard signals and mouse signals to be respectively transmitted to the VGA monitor, the keyboard and the mouse, said decoder transmitting signals from the VGA monitor, the keyboard and the mouse to the personal computer through said signal lines and said encoder, wherein:said signal lines include a red video signal line, a green video signal line, a blue video signal line, and a D signal transmission signal line;said encoder receives VGA monitor signals, keyboard signals and mouse signals from the personal computer, encodes received VGA monitor signals, keyboard signals and mouse signals, and then transmits encoded signals to said decoder through said red, green and blue video signal lines;said encoder receives VGA video ID signals, keyboard signals and mouse signals from said D signal transmission signal line, encodes received signals, and then transmits encoded signals to the personal computer through a VGA monitor signal port, a keyboard signal port and a mouse signal port;said encoder is comprised of a logic gate, a parallel/serial converter, a single chip microcomputer, and R.G.B video operational amplifiers, said logic gate having an input end for receiving horizontal synchronizing signal and vertical synchronizing signal from VGA monitor signals and an output end connected to an inverter terminal of one video operational amplifier and an input end of said parallel/serial converter;said parallel/serial converter receives output signal of the single-chip microcomputer of said encoder and complex signal from said logic gate, then outputs converted signal to inverter terminals of the other two video operational amplifiers that are not connected to said logic gate;said R.G.B video operational amplifiers have respective non-inverter terminals for receiving receive red, green and blue video signals, and respective output terminals respectively connected to said decoder through the red, green and blue signal lines for signal output to said decoder;the single chip microcomputer of said encoder receives keyboard signals and mouse signals from the personal computer through the keyboard signal port and the mouse signal port, and outputs processed signals to said parallel/serial converter;the single chip microcomputer of said encoder also receives signals from said decoder through said D signal transmission signal line, and then sends received signals to the personal computer through the VGA monitor signal port, the keyboard signal port and the mouse signal port;said decoder receives and decodes encoded complex signals from said encoder through said red video signal line, said green video signal line and said blue video signal line, then sends decoded signals to the VGA monitor, the keyboard and the mouse through a VGA video port, a keyboard port and a mouse port;said decoder receives ID signals from the VGA monitor through the VGA video port, keyboard signals from the keyboard through the keyboard port and mouse signals from the mouse through the mouse port, then synthesizes received signals into a complex signal, and then transmits the synthesized complex signal through said D signal transmission signal line to said encoder;said decoder is comprised of R.G.B comparators, a serial/parallel converter, a single chip microcomputer, R.G.B amplifiers, and a synchronizing separator circuit;the R.G.B comparators of said decoder receive video signals from said encoder through said red signal line, said green signal line and said blue signal line, then transmit processed output signals to said serial/parallel converter, and output horizontal synchronizing and vertical synchronizing contained signals to the respectively connected amplifiers and said synchronizing separator circuit;said serial/parallel converter receives and converts the output signals from the R.G.B comparators of said decoder, and outputs converted signals to the single chip microcomputer of said decoder;the single chip microcomputer of said decoder receives and encodes ID signals of VGA video signal, keyboard signals and mouse signals from the personal computer, then sends encoded signals through said D signal transmission signal line to the single chip microcomputer of said encoder, and receives parallel data from said serial/parallel converter, then sends received data to the keyboard and the mouse through the keyboard port and the mouse port;the R.G.B amplifiers of said decoder receive complex signals from said encoder through said red signal line, said green signal line and said blue signal line and horizontal synchronizing and vertical synchronizing contained signal from one comparator of said decoder, and outputs processed signals to the VGA monitor through the VGA video port;said synchronizing separator circuit receives and separates horizontal synchronizing signal and vertical synchronizing signal, then picks up separated signals, and then sends picked up signals to the VGA monitor through the VGA video port.