Patent ID: 7792152

Claim:
A system for transmitting video data over a single, serial communication channel of a fixed data rate, the video data selected from a group of various video formats, wherein at least one format in the group has a different pixel clock rate than the other, the system comprising: a transmitter unit adapted to receive the video data selected from a group of various video formats, the video data having a first pixel clock rate, to build a data packet including a subset of the video data, and to transmit the data packet over the single, serial communication channel at the fixed data rate, the transmitter unit not transmitting a pixel clock signal including the first pixel clock rate; and a receiver unit adapted to receive the data packet over the single, serial communication channel of the fixed data rate, to process the received data packet and to reconstruct the video data and the first pixel clock rate, and to output the video data at the first pixel clock rate.