Patent ID: 8817109

Claim:
A method for capturing and automatically formatting at least two different formats of video signals including digital video interface (DVI) video signals, comprising: providing a first real time capture module including at least three input channels for receiving video signals; providing a second real time capture module including at least three input channels for receiving the DVI video signals, and a corresponding number of color-specific memories, the at least three input channels of the second real time capture module being different than the at least three input channels of the first real time capture module; enabling, using at least one video generating module, video signals to be generated and the generated video signals to be output via a first plurality of output channels; and enabling DVI video signals to be generated and the generated DVI video signals to be output via a second plurality of output channels different than the first plurality of output channels by detecting presence of a DVI signal by using a vertical sync pulse to trigger a timed pulse indicative of vertical sync presence; storing captured DVI data relating to the video signals in separate ones of the color-specific memories; automatically measuring parameters of the DVI signal including duration of an active image area on a video line, a total pixels per line, a total line time, a frame time, and a pixel clock frequency; and directing the parameters into data registers to enable retrieval and subsequent formatting of the DVI video signals.