Patent ID: 7702015

Claim:
A method of providing multiple images for transmission across an analog interface, comprising: receiving at least one digital image data input stream, said digital image data input stream containing digital image information; creating at least two digital image data streams from said at least one digital data input stream, each of said at least two digital image data streams comprising at least a portion of said digital image information; merging said at least two digital image data streams into a common digital image data output stream; converting said common digital image data output stream into an analog image output stream; and providing said analog output image stream for transmission across said analog interface; wherein said at least one analog interface is a video analog transmission interface; and wherein said step of creating at least two digital image data streams comprises at least one of the following steps performed prior to said step of merging said at least two digital image data streams: segmenting an image frame of said at least one digital image data input stream into multiple segments that each correspond to one of said at least two digital image data streams, and inserting alignment data into one or more of said multiple segments; or extracting at least one portion of an image frame of said at least one digital image data input stream to form a windowed partial image corresponding to one of said at least two digital image data streams, providing multiple possible available frame rates for each of said at least two digital image data streams, and adapting a frame rate of at least one of said at least two digital image data streams to one of said multiple possible available frame rates to match the bandwidth characteristics of said analog interface to allow the transmission of a desired amount of image information within the bandwidth of said analog interface; or a combination thereof.