Patent ID: 7940809

Claim:
A digital video interface system for communicating digital video data from a source device to a sink device, the digital video interface system comprising: one or more data channels configured to transmit digital video data from the source device to the sink device, the data channels configured to communicate in a plurality of first time slots and a plurality of second time slots different from the first time slots; a clock channel configured to operate in the first time slots and the second time slots; wherein the clock channel is further configured to transmit a clock signal from the source device to the sink device in the first time slots and configured to transmit additional data in a first direction from the source device to the sink device in the second time slots; and a processor connected to the data channels and the clock channel and configured to control the operation of the data channels and the clock channel; wherein the clock channel is configured to transmit no data signal during the first time slots and to transmit no clock signal during the second time slots.