JP2009303054A - Video transmission system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video transmission system capable of reducing power consumption while preventing wraparound of a video signal from one transmission line to another transmission line. <P>SOLUTION: Both of the impedance viewing a video-signal reception part 12 from each transmission line Ls and the impedance viewing each transmission line Ls from an amplifier 18a become a combined resistance value of two resistors Ri. The impedances are equal to the characteristic impedance of each transmission line Ls at a transmission frequency band of the video signal, thereby matching the impedances with the impedance of each transmission line Ls during transmission and reception. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently transmit the video signal by preventing the occurrence of a state that the video signal transmitted via one transmission line Ls is not transmitted to a demodulation part 13 but subjected to wraparound to another transmission line Ls, and it is also possible to reduce power consumption by alternatively operating an inverting amplifier and the amplifier 18a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention includes a plurality of terminals that transmit video signals via a transmission line, and a master unit that receives the video signals transmitted from each terminal and displays the video, each of which is connected to a terminal. The present invention also relates to a video transmission system in which a plurality of transmission lines are connected to a master unit.

  As this type of video transmission system, for example, a door phone with a camera installed outside a dwelling unit and an interphone master unit with a monitor installed inside the dwelling unit (hereinafter referred to as “master unit”) are balanced. A TV intercom system that is connected via a two-wire transmission line, and that the image captured by the camera of the door phone slave unit is transmitted to the master unit via the transmission line, and is displayed on a monitor provided in the master unit. Is provided (for example, refer to Patent Document 1). In the conventional example described in Patent Document 1, not only a door phone slave device having a call function but also a terminal device (camera device) having no call function can be connected to the master unit via a transmission line. And a plurality of terminals including a camera device are connected to the base unit via a transmission line. However, in a wiring configuration in which a plurality of terminals are connected by transmission lines, a CSMA (Carrier Detection Multiple Access) system or a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) system is employed so that video signals transmitted from individual terminals do not collide. Data transmission methods such as these are adopted.

  By the way, when connecting multiple terminals to the main unit, not only the wiring form to send and connect to the common transmission line as described above, but also connect the multiple terminals to the main unit via different transmission lines There is a wiring form to be used. In the latter wiring configuration, a plurality of connection terminals each connected to a transmission line, and a demodulation circuit that is commonly connected to the plurality of connection terminals and demodulates a video signal transmitted from each terminal unit Provided. Here, in order to efficiently transmit the video signal from the terminal unit to the master unit, the impedance (input impedance of the master unit) viewed from the transmission line through the connection terminal of the master unit is determined by the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. It is necessary to make the impedance sufficiently higher than the characteristic impedance. However, a plurality of video signal transmission paths from a plurality of connection terminals to the demodulation circuit are connected in the middle, and the input impedance of the above-mentioned base unit is shared on the common video signal transmission path from the connection point to the demodulation circuit. When the impedance signal is provided as an impedance element, the video signal wraps around the other connection terminal before reaching the common impedance element from one of the connection terminals. There is a possibility that the image quality of the video displayed by the display means is deteriorated.

  On the other hand, the present applicant has already proposed a video transmission system that prevents a video signal from wrapping around from one transmission line to another (see Patent Document 2).

  As shown in FIG. 3, a video transmission system (TV intersystem) described in Patent Document 2 includes a plurality of terminals (doorphone slave units or camera devices with cameras) 2 installed outside a dwelling unit, and a plurality of these terminals. Connected to the terminal unit 2 via a balanced two-wire transmission line Ls and installed in the dwelling unit, and a balanced two-wire transmission line installed in the dwelling unit. 1 to a plurality of secondary master units 3 connected to the master unit 1 via Ls.

  The terminal device 2 includes a camera unit 20 having an optical system such as an individual imaging device and a lens, and converts a video signal output from the camera unit 20 into a digital signal and converts the digital video signal into frequency shift keying, phase shift keying, and the like. A modulation unit 21 that modulates by a modulation method, a video signal transmission unit 22 that transmits a modulated video signal (hereinafter simply referred to as “video signal”) to the base unit 1 via the transmission line Ls, and a transmission line Ls. And a control signal receiving unit 23 that receives a control signal (described later) transmitted from the base unit 1 via the network, and a control unit 24 that performs transmission processing based on the control signal with the CPU as a main component. However, when the terminal device 2 is a door phone slave unit with a camera, a microphone, a speaker, voice signal transmission / reception means, call signal transmission means for realizing interphone communication with the parent device 1 via the transmission line Ls. However, since the door phone with a camera having such a configuration is well known in the art, illustration and description regarding the detailed configuration are omitted.

  The transmission line Ls is connected to a pair of connection terminals 25, and the video signal transmission unit 22 and the control signal reception unit 23 are connected to the connection terminal 25 via a coupling transformer 26 for balanced-unbalanced conversion. Or the some terminal device 2 is sent and connected to the transmission line Ls. Further, the input end of the control signal receiving unit 23 is connected to the coupling transformer 26 via a DC cut capacitor C2 and an amplifier Amp.

  The video signal transmission unit 22 includes an amplifier 22a that amplifies the video signal, an npn-type bipolar transistor 22b having a base connected to the output terminal of the amplifier 22a and a collector grounded via a resistor R1, and the transistor An inductor L1 inserted between the collector of 22b and the control power supply Vcc is provided, and the collector of the transistor 22b is connected to the coupling transformer 26 via a DC cut capacitor C1. Here, the impedance of the inductor L1 in the transmission frequency band of the video signal is set to a value sufficiently higher than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls, and the output impedance of the video signal transmission unit 22 viewed from the transmission line Ls is that of the transmission line Ls. Since the impedance is sufficiently higher than the characteristic impedance, even if a plurality of terminals 2 are sent and connected to one transmission line Ls as described above, transmission loss of the video signal can be suppressed, so that video transmission can be performed with almost no deterioration in image quality. Become.

  In addition, a terminal portion 27 is connected to the connection terminal 25 via a switch SW. The terminating portion 27 has an impedance equal to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls. When the own device is present at the end of the transmission line Ls, the terminal SW 27 is closed to terminate the transmission line Ls. This prevents the reflection of the video signal at the end. However, the terminal device 2 does not necessarily have to include the termination portion 27, and a termination device configured separately from the terminal device 2 may be connected to the transmission line Ls and terminated.

  The base unit 1 includes a control unit 10 having a CPU as a main component, a control signal transmission unit 11 that transmits a control signal to the terminal device 2 via the transmission line Ls based on control data provided from the control unit 10, and a transmission A video signal receiving unit 12 that receives a video signal transmitted via the line Ls, a demodulating unit 13 that demodulates the video signal received by the video signal receiving unit 12, and a video signal demodulated by the demodulating unit 13 The monitor unit 14 to display, the video signal transmission unit 15 that transmits (relays) the video signal received by the video signal reception unit 12 to the sub-master unit 3 via the transmission line Ls, and 1 to each via the transmission line Ls. Or a plurality of pairs (two pairs in the illustrated example) of connection terminals 16 and 16 to which a plurality of terminals 2 are connected, and transmission line Ls, control signal transmission unit 11, and video signal reception unit 12 are balanced. -Perform unbalanced conversion The number (in the illustrated example two) and a coupling transformer 17, 17. However, a microphone, a speaker, a voice signal transmission / reception unit, a calling signal reception unit, etc. for performing interphone communication with the terminal unit 2 including the door phone slave unit with camera and the sub-base unit 3 are well known in the art. Therefore, illustration and description are omitted.

  The output terminal of the control signal transmitter 11 is connected to the input terminal of the amplifier 18a, and the output terminal of the amplifier 18a is connected to the coupling transformers 17 and 17 via the resistors R2 and R3, respectively. Here, the resistance values of the resistors R <b> 2 and R <b> 3 are set to be equal to the equivalent impedance values of the transmission line Ls and the plurality of terminals 2 viewed from the connection terminal 16. Further, the video signal receiving unit 12 is connected to the coupling transformers 17 and 17 in parallel with the control signal transmitting unit 11. By the way, in this conventional example, a plurality of terminals 2 are sent and connected to the transmission line Ls, and a time division multiplex transmission system is adopted in order to avoid collision of video signals transmitted from each terminal 2. A plurality of terminal devices 2 are individually assigned to a plurality of time slots defined by control signals (synchronization signals) transmitted from the device 1 via the transmission line Ls, and each terminal device 2 is assigned to its own device. Is sending video signals. Accordingly, the base unit 1 can receive video signals from a plurality of terminals 2 in parallel, and simultaneously displays a plurality of videos transmitted from the plurality of terminals 2 on the monitor unit 14 by dividing the screen. Can be made. However, the details of the time division multiplex transmission are well known in the art and will not be described.

  Here, in the wiring configuration in which a plurality of terminals 2 are connected to the main unit 1 via different transmission lines Ls, a plurality of connection terminals 16 and 16 to which the transmission lines Ls are connected respectively, The base unit 1 is provided with a demodulator 13 that is commonly connected to the connection terminals 16 and 16 and demodulates the video signal transmitted from each terminal unit 2, and efficiently transmits the video signal from the terminal unit 2 to the base unit 1. Therefore, the impedance of the video signal receiving unit 12 needs to be sufficiently higher than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. On the other hand, when the impedance of the demodulator 13 viewed from the connection terminals 16 and 16 (the input impedance of the demodulator 13) is higher than the input impedance of the base unit 1, the video signal that has passed through one of the connection terminals 16 is transmitted to the demodulator 13. There is a possibility that the other connection terminal 16 may be spilled without being connected.

  Therefore, in the base unit 1 of the conventional example described in Patent Document 2, one end is connected to the transmission line Ls different from each other, and has an impedance sufficiently higher than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. A plurality of (two in the illustrated example) impedance elements (resistors) R4 and R5 and the other end of the plurality of resistors R4 and R5 are connected to the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal is grounded to the ground. An adder circuit composed of an amplifier (an operational amplifier OP and a feedback resistor RF) is used as the video signal receiving unit 12. However, since the video signals from each terminal 2 are time-division multiplexed, the video signals from different terminals 2 are not added in the video signal receiver 12.

Thus, since the impedance (resistance values of the resistors R4 and R5) seen from each transmission line Ls of the video signal receiving unit 12 is higher than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. Signals can be transmitted efficiently. In addition, since the video signal receiving unit 12 of the base unit 1 is composed of an adding circuit, the input impedance from the resistors R4 and R5 to the inverting amplifier is lower than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls. The video signal transmitted through the network is prevented from being transmitted to the other transmission line Ls without being transmitted to the demodulator 13, and as a result, the image quality of the video displayed on the monitor unit 14 of the base unit 1 can be prevented from deteriorating. It is.
Japanese Patent No. 3246353 JP 2008-28567 A

  However, the conventional example described in Patent Document 2 has a problem that power consumption increases because the output impedance of the amplifier 18a needs to be kept low by always operating the amplifier 18a.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a video transmission system capable of reducing power consumption while preventing a video signal from wrapping around from one transmission line to another. There is to do.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a plurality of terminals that transmit video signals via a transmission line, and a master unit that receives the video signals transmitted from each terminal and displays the video. A video transmission system in which a plurality of transmission lines each connected to a terminal are connected to a master unit, the terminal including an imaging unit and a modulation unit that modulates an image captured by the imaging unit And transmitting means for transmitting the video signal modulated by the modulating means via the transmission line, and receiving means for receiving another control signal different from the video signal transmitted from the master unit via the transmission line. The master unit includes a receiving unit that receives a video signal transmitted through a plurality of transmission lines, a demodulating unit that demodulates the video signal received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the demodulated video, Send another signal over the transmission line Transmitting means, receiving means, and control means for controlling the transmitting means. The receiving means of the master unit is connected to different transmission lines at one end and has a characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. And a plurality of impedance elements, and an inverting amplifier in which the other ends of the plurality of impedance elements are connected in parallel to the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal is grounded to the ground. The transmission means of the master unit is configured such that the output terminal is connected to the connection point between the inverting input terminal of the inverting amplifier and the plurality of impedance elements, and the control unit of the master unit outputs the other signal. When transmitting, operate the amplifier of the transmitting means and stop the inverting amplifier of the receiving means, and when receiving the video signal, the receiving means And wherein the stopping the amplifier of the transmission means with operating the inverting amplifier.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the amplifier of the transmission means is stopped when the video signal is received. Therefore, an impedance element having an impedance equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal is seen from the transmission line. It can function as input impedance to match impedance, and the inverting amplifier of the receiving means stops when another signal is transmitted, so that the impedance element can function as output impedance of the transmitting means to match impedance. it can. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the wraparound of the video signal from one transmission line to another transmission line, and to reduce power consumption by operating the inverting amplifier of the receiving means and the amplifier of the transmitting means alternatively. it can.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the master unit has a coupling transformer for balanced-unbalanced conversion inserted between a plurality of transmission lines and an inverting amplifier. The impedance element is inserted between the lines.

  According to the invention of claim 2, the circuit scale can be reduced by sharing the coupling transformer for the plurality of transmission lines.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, the base unit includes a demultiplexing unit that frequency-multiplexes and separates the video signal and the other signal between the coupling transformer, the inverting amplifier, and the amplifier. In addition, the impedance of the demultiplexing unit is set to be lower than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal.

  According to the invention of claim 3, the circuit scale can be reduced by sharing the demultiplexing unit for a plurality of transmission lines.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, in the video transmission system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the receiving means of the master unit is connected to the transmission line at one end instead of the adder circuit and is video. An impedance element having an impedance equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the signal transmission frequency band, and a base in which the other end of the impedance element is connected to the emitter of the bipolar transistor and the base of the bipolar transistor is grounded And a grounding type amplifier circuit.

  According to the invention of claim 4, since the input impedance of the base-grounded amplifier circuit is very low, an impedance element having an impedance equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal is seen from the transmission line. The impedance can be matched by functioning as an input impedance. Therefore, the wraparound of the video signal from one transmission line to another transmission line can be prevented, and the power consumption can be reduced by stopping the amplifier of the transmission means when receiving the video signal.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the wraparound of the video signal from one transmission line to another transmission line, and to reduce the power consumption by operating the inverting amplifier of the receiving means and the amplifier of the transmitting means alternatively. Can be reduced.

  In the following, an embodiment in which the technical idea of the present invention is applied to a television intercom system as in the conventional example shown in FIG. 3 will be described. However, since the basic configuration of the present embodiment is the same as that of the conventional example shown in FIG. 3, the same reference numerals are given to the same components as those of the conventional example, and illustration and description thereof are omitted as appropriate.

(Embodiment 1)
In the base unit 1 according to the present embodiment, a plurality of pairs (two pairs in the illustrated example) of connection terminals 16 and 16 are connected in parallel to both ends of one winding of the coupling transformer 17 via resistors Ri as impedance elements. One end of the other winding of the coupling transformer 17 is grounded, and the other end of the other winding is connected in parallel to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier OP and the output terminal of the amplifier 18a via the demultiplexing unit F. The video signal receiving unit 12 is configured by an inverting amplifier including an operational amplifier OP and a feedback resistor RF and a plurality (four in the illustrated example) of resistors Ri. The resistance value of the resistor Ri is equal to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal when the combined resistance of the two resistors Ri connected to the pair of connection terminals 16 and 16 is used. Set to a value.

  The demultiplexing unit F is composed of a series resonance circuit of an inductor L and a capacitor C, and constants (inductance values and capacitances) of the inductor L and the capacitor C so that the resonance frequency matches the transmission frequency band of the video signal. Value) is set.

  Next, the transmission / reception operation of base unit 1 in the present embodiment will be described.

  When transmitting the control signal from the control signal transmission unit 11, the control unit 10 of the base unit 1 operates the transmission-side amplifier 18a and stops the reception-side inverting amplifier. At this time, since the output impedance of the amplifier 18a is low, the pair of resistors Ri can function as the output impedance of the amplifier 18a to achieve impedance matching with the transmission line Ls. On the other hand, when receiving a video signal transmitted via the transmission line Ls, the control unit 10 of the base unit 1 operates the receiving-side inverting amplifier and stops the transmitting-side amplifier 18a. At this time, since the input impedance of the inverting amplifier is low, the pair of resistors Ri can function as the input impedance of the video signal receiving unit 12 to achieve impedance matching with the transmission line Ls.

  Thus, the impedance of the video signal receiving unit 12 viewed from each transmission line Ls and the impedance of the amplifier 18a viewed from the transmission line Ls are both combined resistance values of the two resistors Ri, and the impedance is the video signal. Since this is equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band, it is possible to match the impedance with the transmission line Ls both during transmission and during reception. Therefore, the video signal transmitted through one transmission line Ls can be efficiently transmitted by preventing the video signal from being transmitted to the other transmission line Ls without being transmitted to the demodulator 13, and the inverting amplifier and the amplifier 18a. Therefore, the power consumption can be reduced as compared with the conventional example shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, since the coupling transformer 17 and the demultiplexing unit F are shared by the plurality of transmission lines Ls, the circuit scale is compared with the conventional example in which the coupling transformer 17 is provided for each transmission line Ls. There is an advantage that downsizing can be achieved. Furthermore, since the impedance when the coupling transformer 17 is viewed from the resistor Ri is relatively low, signal level fluctuations and impedance mismatches due to the number of terminals 2 connected to the transmission line Ls do not occur, and thus stable. There is also an advantage that signal transmission becomes possible.

(Embodiment 2)
The present embodiment is characterized in the configuration of the video signal receiving unit 12 ′ in the base unit 1, and the other configurations are the same as those in the conventional example shown in the first embodiment and FIG. Accordingly, common components are denoted by the same reference numerals, and illustration and description thereof are omitted as appropriate.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the video signal receiving unit 12 ′ in this embodiment includes an impedance element (resistor Ri) having an impedance equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal, and a coupling transformer 17. And a grounded base type amplifier circuit AP connected to the resistor Ri.

  The amplifier circuit AP includes a bipolar transistor Q grounded via a DC blocking capacitor C1, a collector resistor Rc inserted between the collector of the bipolar transistor Q and the control power source Vcc, and an emitter of the bipolar transistor Q. It has an emitter resistance (input resistance) Re inserted between the ground and bias resistors Rx and Rx inserted between the base and collector of the bipolar transistor Q and between the base and emitter, respectively.

  Thus, since the grounded base type transistor amplifier circuit has a feature that the input impedance is very low, the impedance of the video signal receiving unit 12 'viewed from each transmission line Ls becomes a combined resistance value of the two resistors Ri. Moreover, since the impedance is equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line Ls in the transmission frequency band of the video signal, the impedance with the transmission line Ls can be matched. Therefore, the video signal transmitted via the one transmission line Ls can be efficiently transmitted by preventing the video signal from being transmitted to the other transmission line Ls without being transmitted to the demodulator 13, and the base-grounded amplification. Power consumption can be reduced by selectively operating the circuit and the amplifier 18a. In addition, as compared with the configuration of the adder circuit using the operational amplifier OP of the first embodiment, there is an advantage that the video signal receiving circuit 12 ′ can be configured with discrete bipolar transistors, and the cost can be reduced.

1 is a partially omitted system configuration diagram illustrating Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is the system block diagram which abbreviate | omitted partially which shows Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a system configuration | structure figure which shows a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

1 Master 2 Terminal 10 Control unit (control means)
11 Control signal transmission unit (transmission means)
12 Video signal receiver (reception means)
13 Demodulator (Demodulator)
Ls transmission line

Claims (4)

A plurality of terminals each having a plurality of terminals that transmit video signals via a transmission line and a master unit that receives the video signals transmitted from each terminal and displays the video, each of which is connected to a terminal. A video transmission system in which a track is connected to a master unit,
The terminal device includes: an imaging unit; a modulation unit that modulates a video imaged by the imaging unit; a transmission unit that transmits a video signal modulated by the modulation unit via a transmission line; and a video signal transmitted from the master unit. Receiving means for receiving another different control signal via the transmission line,
The master unit includes a receiving unit that receives a video signal transmitted through a plurality of transmission lines, a demodulating unit that demodulates the video signal received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the demodulated video, A transmission means for transmitting the other signal via a transmission line; a control means for controlling the reception means and the transmission means;
The receiving means of the master unit includes a plurality of impedance elements each having one end connected to a transmission line different from each other and having an impedance equivalent to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal. It consists of an adder circuit comprising an inverting amplifier whose end is connected in parallel to the inverting input terminal and whose non-inverting input terminal is grounded,
The transmission means of the master unit has an output terminal connected to a connection point between the inverting input terminal of the inverting amplifier and the plurality of impedance elements.
The control unit of the master unit operates the amplifier of the transmitting unit and stops the inverting amplifier of the receiving unit when transmitting the other signal, and operates and transmits the inverting amplifier of the receiving unit when receiving the video signal. A video transmission system characterized in that the amplifier of the means is stopped.   The master unit has a coupling transformer for balanced-unbalanced conversion inserted between a plurality of transmission lines and an inverting amplifier, and the impedance element is inserted between the coupling transformer and each transmission line. The video transmission system according to claim 1.   The base unit includes a demultiplexing unit that frequency-multiplexes and separates the video signal and the other signal between the coupling transformer, the inverting amplifier, and the amplifier, and the impedance of the demultiplexing unit is the transmission frequency of the video signal. 3. The video transmission system according to claim 2, wherein the video transmission system is set lower than the characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the band.   4. The video transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit of the master unit has an impedance equivalent to a characteristic impedance of the transmission line in the transmission frequency band of the video signal, with one end connected to the transmission line instead of the adder circuit. And a grounded base type amplifier circuit in which the other end of the impedance element is connected to the emitter of the bipolar transistor and the base of the bipolar transistor is grounded to the ground. system.

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