Patent ID: 7319730

Claim:
A data communication method, comprising the steps of: encoding data of N bits (N being 2 or larger) to transmission data of M bits (M being 3 or larger) on a transmission side; generating a transmission signal in which transition takes place in at least one level of any of the transmission data synchronously with a transmission clock and transmitting the transmission signal to a transmission line on the transmission side; recognizing transition in the signal of said M bits received via said transmission line and detecting the reception data of said M bits corresponding to said transmission clock on a reception side; and decoding said M-bit reception data to said N-bit data on said reception side, wherein said transmission data is encoded so that at least one bit out of the M bits has one of binary logic values, and wherein the level of the transmission data having the one of the logic values in said M-bit transmission data in said transmission signal is shifted synchronously with the transmission clock, and the transmission data having the other logic value is maintained at the same level; said method further comprising the steps of: converting a plurality of pieces of transmission data to parallel data and encoding each of the plurality of pieces of transmission data to transmission data of said M bits on said transmission side; generating said transmission signal as serial data and transmitting said transmission signal synchronously with a transmission clock of a cycle corresponding to time shorter than time required for encoding on said transmission side; recognizing transition in a reception signal of said M bits received via said transmission line and detecting the reception data of said M bits corresponding to said transmission clock on said reception side; and converting the detected serial data into a plurality of pieces of parallel data and decoding the parallel data to said N-bit data on said reception side.