Patent ID: 8253859

Claim:
A transmission system, comprising: a source-side apparatus for transmitting data using a transmission scheme in which data is transmitted in units of 8 bits, the units corresponding to the clock periods of a pixel clock; and a sink-side apparatus; wherein the source-side apparatus includes: a video data generator configured to generate video data such that the number of bits representing any component of color data or luminance and color-difference data of any one pixel is a predetermined number that is not an integer multiple of 8 bits, a transmission data arrangement section configured to arrange the video data generated by the video data generator within the units of 8 bits of the transmission scheme by first inserting, between the bits representing a given pixel of a given component of the generated video data and the bits representing a next pixel of the given component of the generated video data, a respective number of bits of data differing from the generated video data such that a first integer multiple of a sum of the predetermined number of bits and the respective number bits equals a second integer multiple of 8, and then dividing the generated video data and the inserted data among the units of 8 bits, and a sending section configured to send the generated video data and the inserted data arranged in units of 8 bits each by the transmission data arrangement section over individual transmission lines for each component of the color data or the luminance and color-difference data in synchronization with the pixel clock; and wherein the sink-side apparatus includes: a receiver configured to detect the sent data sent by sending section over the transmission lines in units of 8 bits in synchronization with the pixel clock, and a data separator configured to separate the generated video data of the predetermined number of bits and the inserted data from the received data in units of 8 bits received by the receiver.