Patent ID: 7206025

Claim:
A device for converting a format of a video signal comprising: a memory; a video signal receiving part for receiving a compressed digital TV broadcasting signal and an external video signal via a common input, and storing the received video signal in the memory; a video decoder for decoding the received video signal stored in the memory if the received signal is the compressed signal; a format detecting part for receiving the digital TV broadcasting signal and the external video signal from the memory, and detecting format information from the received digital TV broadcasting signal or extracting the format information from the synchronizing signal of the external video signal; a format converting part for converting on a single chip all of a spatial resolution, a frame rate, a scanning method, an aspect ratio, a color space, a chroma format, and a gamma correction of the received signal, using the format information from the format detecting part, according to output information transmitted by a user; and a video signal forwarder for forwarding the format converted video signal if there is a received signal, and the predetermined video signal if there is no received signal, wherein the format converted video signal is one of a digital TV broadcasting bitstream, an analog TV broadcasting video signal, a computer signal, and an analog/digital type signal, wherein the video signal receiving part has an output connected to the memory for storing the received video signal in the memory and an output connected to the format detecting part for sending a non-compressed received video signal directly to the format detecting part to thereby detect a format of the video signal, wherein the video decoder has an input connected to the memory for receiving a stored compressed video signal to thereby decode the compressed video signal and has an output connected to the detecting part to send the decoded video signal to the detecting part to thereby detect a format of the video signal, and wherein the format detecting part has a first input for receiving an input video format from a user, a second input for receiving the non-compressed video signal from the video signal receiving part, a third input for receiving the decoded video signal from the decoder and an output connected to the format converting part for sending a detected format of the corresponding video signal to the format converting part such that the format converting part can convert on the single chip all of the spatial resolution, the frame rate, the scanning method, the aspect ratio, the color space, the chroma format, and the gamma correction of the received signal using the format information from the format detecting part, according to output information transmitted by the user.