JP2010072352A - Image display system, transmitter and receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image display system which has simple constitution and transmits image signals wirelessly. <P>SOLUTION: The image display system includes one transmitter 1, a plurality of receivers 2 for receiving an image signal from one transmitter 1, and a plurality of image supply devices 4, 5 and 6 receiving the image signal received by the receivers 2. The transmitter 1 includes an input part for receiving a plurality of types of image signals as input from the plurality of image supply devices 4, 5 and 6, an image signal processing part for processing the input image signal into a transmission image signal of predetermined specifications, and a wireless communication interface part for converting an image signal processed by the image signal processing part into a radio signal to transmit it. Image signals are simultaneously distributed from one transmitter 1 to the plurality of receivers 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an image display system using a plurality of image display devices such as a liquid crystal projector, and more particularly to an image display system that wirelessly transmits an image from an image supply device.

  Conventionally, in a general projector, an image supply device such as a television, a personal computer, or a video device is connected to an input terminal with a cable. Also, when the projector is actually installed, the projector position tends to be a place away from the image supply device due to the position of the screen, but with a cable according to the distance between the projector and the image supply device. Was connected. For this reason, when the input image signal is an analog image signal, the longer the cable, the more the image signal is attenuated and the image quality may be deteriorated. Further, when the input image signal is a digital image signal such as HDMI, there is a limit to the distance that can be transmitted without image deterioration, and the current technology has a limit of about 10 m. Further, in terms of installation, since it is a wired connection, when the cable wiring from the image supply apparatus to the projector becomes long, there is a problem that the appearance is deteriorated and the cost is also increased.

  As a solution to such a problem, there is a wireless connection between a liquid crystal projector and an image supply device. As an example, the image transmission / reception apparatus described in Patent Document 1 can be listed. This image transmission / reception apparatus attaches an image transmission apparatus to a personal computer, which is an information processing apparatus (image supply apparatus) that generates drawing data, and attaches a reception apparatus to an inlet terminal of a liquid crystal projector, which is an image display apparatus. Image information is wirelessly transmitted to the projector.

Thus, in an image display system using an image display device such as a liquid crystal projector, when an image from the image supply device is wirelessly transmitted to an image display device such as a liquid crystal projector, a transmitter is attached to each image supply device, In general, it is distributed in a so-called unicast mode performed by a pair of receivers to one transmitter.
JP 2004-13795 A

  However, for display of analog image signals and the like that do not require content protection, image display by a plurality of projectors is required. Such a place can include a large conference hall. If an image is to be transmitted wirelessly in such a case, for example, an image display system as shown in FIG. 5 is obtained. As shown in this figure, a plurality of transmitters 103 are connected to one image supply apparatus 101 via a signal distributor 102. Then, an image signal is wirelessly transmitted from each transmitter 103 to one receiver 104. The image signal received by each receiver 104 is input to an image display device 105 such as a single liquid crystal projector connected to each receiver. As described above, when the image signals are wirelessly transmitted to the plurality of image display devices 105, the same number of transmitters 103 as the plurality of image display devices 105 are required, and these transmitters 103 are connected to the signal distributor 102. Therefore, complicated wiring is necessary. Furthermore, when a plurality of types of image supply apparatuses 101 are connected, the system as described above is constructed for each image supply apparatus, and thus there is a problem that the number of transmitters is further increased and the process becomes extremely complicated. .

  The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems existing in the prior art, and an object thereof is to provide an image display system having a simple configuration for wirelessly transmitting an image signal.

  In order to achieve the above object, an image display system of the present invention includes an input unit that selectively inputs a plurality of types of image signals from a plurality of image supply devices, and the input image signal is a transmission image signal having a certain specification. One transmitter having an image signal processing unit and a wireless communication interface unit that converts the image signal processed by the image signal processing unit into a wireless signal and transmits the image signal, and an image signal transmitted from the transmitter An image display system comprising a plurality of receivers to be received and a plurality of image display devices connected to each receiver so as to input image signals received by each receiver as input signals. An image signal can be simultaneously distributed from a transmitter to a plurality of receivers.

  According to the image display system of the present invention having such a structural feature, an image can be transmitted from a single transmitter to a plurality of image display devices via respective receivers. For this reason, the transmitter can be installed near the image supply device, and the image display device can be installed at an optimal position within the transmittable range regardless of the position of the image supply device. Further, even when a plurality of image signals are supplied from a plurality of image supply devices, they are supplied from various image supply devices because they are wirelessly transmitted after being processed into a wireless signal of a certain specification by one transmitter. The image signal to be transmitted can be wirelessly transmitted from one transmitter to a plurality of image display devices via the receiver. Thus, according to the present invention, an image display system having a simple configuration can be provided.

  Moreover, it is preferable that the receiver is configured to be able to arbitrarily receive an image signal simultaneously distributed from the transmitter by recording the ID of the transmitter and designating the recorded ID. . If comprised in this way, the image signal delivered simultaneously from a transmitter can be selectively received by the receiver side.

  In addition, the input image signal from the image supply device determines whether or not digital content protection is necessary in the transmitter, and the image signal that does not need to be protected is simultaneously distributed from one transmitter to a plurality of receivers. It is preferable that the image signal that needs to be protected has a plurality of operation modes in which the image signal is distributed from one transmitter to only one receiver. This configuration is convenient because image signals that do not require digital content protection are simultaneously distributed to a plurality of receivers. On the other hand, since an image signal that needs to be protected by digital content is transmitted only to a specific receiver, digital content protection is reliably performed.

  Further, the image display system of the present invention has a plurality of transmitters and receivers, and each transmitter is combined with these receivers to form the image display system, and each of the plurality of transmitters. Can simultaneously select the transmitter and receive the image signal by specifying the ID of the transmitter that distributes the image signal to be displayed. It can also be configured to do so. If comprised in this way, a various image signal can be provided with respect to a receiver with a several transmitter, and the image signal required on the receiver side can be selected and received.

  The transmission from the transmitter to the receiver is preferably performed by an RF system that supports MIMO using a 5 GHz band. With this configuration, since the transmission speed can be increased, a moving image digital image signal can be distributed.

  Further, the transmitter according to the present invention includes an input unit that selectively inputs a plurality of types of image signals from a plurality of image supply devices, an image signal processing unit that uses the input image signals as transmission image signals of a certain specification, and The image processing apparatus includes a wireless communication interface unit that converts the image signal processed by the image signal processing unit into a wireless signal and transmits the wireless signal. According to such a transmitter, a plurality of types of image signals are selectively input from a plurality of image supply devices, and the input image signals are transmitted as transmission image signals of a certain specification. Image signals from a plurality of image supply devices can be stably distributed. Therefore, by using such a transmitter, an image display system having a simple configuration is constructed by combining a plurality of receivers and a plurality of image display devices configured to input image signals from these receivers. can do.

  A receiver according to the present invention is a receiver configured as a unit that is detachably attached to an image display device, and is a wireless communication interface unit for receiving an image signal wirelessly transmitted from a transmitter. An image signal processing unit that removes noise from the received image signal, is operated by the operation unit of the image display device while being attached to the image display device, and is further controlled by the control unit of the image display device It is comprised as follows. According to such a receiver, since the constituent devices of the image display device are used, an inexpensive receiver for the image display device can be configured. In addition, since it is detachably attached to the image display device, no wiring is required between the receiver and the image display device, and an inexpensive image display system can be constructed.

  According to the present invention, the transmitter can be installed near the image supply device, and the image display device can be installed at an optimal position within the transmittable range regardless of the position of the image supply device. In addition, since the image signal from various image supply devices can be wirelessly transmitted to the image supply device with one transmitter, an image display system having a simple configuration can be provided. Further, since the receiver is detachably attached to the image display device, wiring by a cable is not necessary between the receiver and the image display device, and an inexpensive image display system can be constructed.

  First, the overall schematic configuration of the image display system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the image display system of this embodiment includes a plurality of transmitters 1, a plurality of receivers 2 that receive image signals from the respective transmitters 1, and images received by the receiver 2. A plurality of image display devices 3 connected to each receiver 2 so as to input signals are provided. In this embodiment, the number of transmitters 1 is two. Each transmitter 1 includes an image supply device 4 such as a television that supplies an image signal as an HDMI signal, an image supply device 5 such as a personal computer that supplies an image signal as a DVI signal, and a video device that supplies an image signal as a component signal. An image supply device 6 is connected. The image signal supplied from the image supply device 4 requires digital content protection, and the image signal supplied from the image supply device 5 and the image supply device 6 does not need digital content protection.

  Next, the transmitter 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the transmitter 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the transmitter 1 includes an input unit 11 including an HDMI signal input unit 11a, a DVI signal input unit 11b, and a component signal input unit 11c. The user can select an input image signal while viewing a display displayed on the display 13 by an input switching button (not shown) provided on the operation unit 12 of the transmitter 1. It is configured. When the selected image signal is an HDMI signal or a DVI signal, the TMDS signal is received, converted into a predetermined video signal, and input to the image signal processing unit. On the other hand, when the selected image signal is a component signal, it is input to the image signal processing unit 15 via the A / D conversion unit 14.

  The image signal input to the image signal processing unit 15 is subjected to processing such as color space change and synchronization signal processing in the image signal processing unit 15 so as to be a transmission image signal of a certain specification. Further, the image signal processing unit 15 performs input signal determination for determining whether or not content protection is necessary for the image signal selected by the operation unit 12. This is determined by the type of the selected input image signal. When the selected input image signal is an HDMI signal, content protection is necessary, and thus the image signal is encrypted by the image signal processing unit 15 according to the AES256 standard.

  The image signal processed in this way is input to the wireless communication interface unit 16, converted into a wireless signal based on the IEEE802.11a standard by the wireless communication interface unit 16, and converted to MIMO using the 5 GHz band via the antenna 17. Transmitted by the corresponding RF system.

  In the above configuration, the input unit 11, the display device 13, the A / D conversion unit 14, the image signal processing unit 15, and the wireless communication interface unit 16 are controlled by the control unit 18. Further, the transmitter 1 is configured so that the operation unit 12 can select a simultaneous delivery mode as a transmission method, that is, a broadcast mode or a unicast mode transmitted from one transmitter to one receiver. Yes. When the broadcast mode is selected in the operation unit 12, the HDMI signal cannot be selected as the image signal input by the input switching button, and the wireless communication interface unit 16 is configured to detect an empty channel. ing. The above is the configuration of the transmitter 1.

  Next, the receiver 2 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the receiver 2 and the image display device. The receiver 2 is configured as a unit that is detachably attached to the image display device 3 from the outside. In addition, the receiver 2 removes noise of the image signal received by the wireless communication interface unit 21 and the wireless communication interface unit 21 for receiving the image signal transmitted from the transmitter 1 by radio waves, An image signal processing unit 22 is provided for decrypting an encrypted image signal when it is received. This decryption process is performed only when reception in the unicast mode is selected in the receiver 2. When the receiver 2 is used with being attached to the image display device 3, power is supplied from the image display device 3, and the receiver 2 is operated by the operation unit 39 of the image display device 3, and further the image display device. 3 is controlled by the control unit 38. Note that an antenna 23 is attached to the wireless communication interface unit 21 described above.

  On the other hand, the image display device 3 is a so-called three-plate type liquid crystal projector using a liquid crystal panel as a light modulation element, and an image signal input unit 31 and an image signal input unit 31 to which image information received by the receiver 2 is input. The image signal processing unit 32 performs general image signal processing such as scaling processing, trapezoidal distortion correction, and color unevenness correction on the image information input to. The image display device 3 includes a liquid crystal panel driving unit 34 that drives the liquid crystal panel 33, a lamp driving unit 36 that drives the light source lamp 35, a liquid crystal panel 33, a projection lens system 37, and the like.

  The image display device 3 includes a control unit 38 that controls the entire image display device and the entire receiver that is detachably attached to the image display device 3, and an operation unit 39 that operates the image display device 3 and the receiver 2. Etc. The operation unit 39 selects whether to receive the image signal transmitted from the transmitter 1 in the broadcast mode or the unicast mode in the receiver 2, and the other party that the receiver 2 receives. The operation of designating the ID of the transmitter 1 is performed. The image display device 3 can be used as a normal liquid crystal projector when the receiver 2 is not attached.

In the image display system configured as described above, an image signal is transmitted to the image display device 3 as follows.
In each transmitter 1, the user selects whether the transmission method is wireless transmission in the broadcast mode or wireless transmission in the unicast mode. In addition, when the wireless transmission method is selected in the unicast mode, the ID of the receiver 2 is designated. Next, an image change switch (not shown) is operated by the user to select an image signal received from the image supply devices 4, 5, and 6. At this time, when a transmission method for wireless transmission in the broadcast mode is selected, an HDMI signal that requires content protection cannot be selected as an input image signal.

  Further, the image signal input to the transmitter 1 is processed by the image signal processing unit 15 of the transmitter 1 so as to become a transmission image signal of a certain specification, and converted by the wireless communication interface unit 16 based on the IEEE802.11a standard. And transmitted by an RF system compatible with MIMO using the 5 GHz band. When the input image signal needs to be protected, it is transmitted as an image signal encrypted by the image signal processing unit 15.

  On the receiver 2 side, the user selects the broadcast mode or the unicast mode as the reception mode. This selection is performed by operating the operation unit 39 of the image display device 3.

  When the broadcast mode is selected on the transmitter 1 side, a favorite image signal can be received by designating the ID of the transmitter 1 on which the image to be displayed is recorded on the receiver 2 side. Therefore, when the plurality of receivers 2 all specify the same transmitter 1 ID, the image signals simultaneously distributed from the same transmitter 1 by each image display device 3 are displayed.

  When the unicast mode is selected on the transmitter 1 side, only the receiver 2 having the ID specified by the transmitter 1 can receive the image signal. The image signal cannot be received. In this case, when the unicast mode is selected by the receiver 2, bidirectional communication is performed between the transmitter 1 in which the ID of the receiver 2 is specified and the receiver 2 in which the ID is specified by the transmitter 1. ID information and encryption key information are automatically exchanged and set up. Furthermore, the optimum output power is selected for the distance between the transceivers, and the optimum carrier frequency without any obstacles is determined. Even if the receiver 2 that is not specified as the transmission destination in the unicast mode specifies the ID of the transmitter 1, the specification is invalid. Further, when some transmitters 1 transmit image signals in the broadcast mode and other transmitters 1 transmit image signals in the unicast mode as described above, there are two transmission modes as shown in FIG. Done in parallel.

According to the image display system according to the present embodiment configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained.
(1) The image display system according to the present embodiment can transmit an image from a single transmitter 1 to a plurality of image display devices 3 via the receiver 2. For this reason, the transmitter 1 is installed in the vicinity of the image supply devices 4, 5, 6, and the image display device 3 is set to an optimum position within the transmittable range regardless of the positions of the image supply devices 4, 5, 6. Can be installed.

  (2) Even when a plurality of image signals are supplied from a plurality of image supply devices 4, 5, 6, a single transmitter 1 performs wireless transmission after being processed into a fixed-specification wireless signal, Any one of the image signals supplied from the various image supply devices 4, 5, 6 by one transmitter 1 can be stably wirelessly transmitted to the plurality of image display devices 3 via the receiver 2. Thus, according to the present embodiment, an image display system having a simple configuration can be provided.

  (3) The receiver 2 is configured to be able to arbitrarily receive the image signal simultaneously distributed from the transmitter 1 by designating the recorded ID of the transmitter 1, so that the receiver 2 Thus, the image signal simultaneously distributed from the transmitter 1 can be selectively received.

  (4) Input image signals from the image supply devices 4, 5, and 6 are determined by the transmitter 1 as to whether or not digital content protection is necessary, and a plurality of image signals that need not be protected are transmitted from one transmitter 1. The image signals that are simultaneously distributed (transmitted in the broadcast mode) and need to be protected are distributed from only one transmitter 1 to only one receiver (transmitted in the unicast mode). Therefore, image signals that do not require digital content protection are convenient because they are simultaneously distributed to a plurality of receivers 2. On the other hand, since an image signal that needs to be protected by digital content is transmitted only to a specific receiver 2, digital content protection is reliably performed.

  (5) An image display system having a plurality of transmitters 1 and receivers 2, and the receiver 2 when image signals are simultaneously distributed (transmitted in broadcast mode) from each of the plurality of transmitters 1. By specifying the ID of the transmitter 1 that distributes the image signal to be displayed, the transmitter 1 can be freely selected to receive the image signal. Accordingly, various image signals can be provided to the receiver 2 by the plurality of transmitters 1, and the necessary image signals can be selected and received on the receiver 2 side.

  (6) Since transmission from the transmitter 1 to the receiver 2 is performed by an RF system compatible with MIMO using the 5 GHz band, the transmission speed can be increased. Thereby, the digital image signal of a moving image can be distributed.

  (7) Since the transmitter 1 according to the present embodiment transmits a plurality of types of image signals as a transmission image signal having a certain specification from the plurality of image supply devices 4, 5, 6, the single transmitter 1 Image signals from the plurality of image supply devices 4, 5, 6 can be stably distributed. Further, by using such a transmitter 1, an image display system having a simple configuration can be constructed.

  (8) The receiver 2 is configured as a unit that is detachably attached to the image display device 3. The wireless communication interface unit 21 for receiving the image signal and the image signal processing unit 22 for removing the noise of the received image signal are provided, and operated by the operation unit 39 of the image display device 3. It is configured to be controlled by the control unit 38 of the image display device 3. As described above, the receiver 2 according to the present embodiment uses the components of the image display device 3 and does not require wiring between the receiver 2 and the image display device 3. The receiver 2 can be provided, and an inexpensive image display system can be constructed.

(Modification)
The above embodiment can be modified as follows.
The receiver 2 is configured as a unit that is detachably attached to the image display device 3, but can be manufactured by being integrated with the image display device 3.

In the above embodiment, the number of transmitters 1 is two, but can be one, or three or more.
In the above embodiment, a liquid crystal projector using a liquid crystal panel as a light modulation element is shown as an image display device. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as a projection projector having another image light generation system Also good. For example, the present invention can also be applied to a projector of a DLP (Digital Light Processing Texas Instruments (TI)) registered system.

  The image display system according to the present invention is useful as an image display system in exhibitions, gatherings and the like where many people gather.

1 is an overall schematic configuration diagram of an image display system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the transmitter in the image display system. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the receiver in the image display system. It is transmission mode explanatory drawing in the image display system. It is a schematic block diagram of the conventional image display system.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Transmitter, 2 ... Receiver, 3 ... Image display apparatus, 4, 5, 6 ... Image supply apparatus, 11 ... Input part, 15, 22, 32 ... Image signal processing part, 16, 21 ... Wireless communication interface part , 38 ... control unit, 39 ... operation unit.

Claims (7)

An input unit that selectively inputs a plurality of types of image signals from a plurality of image supply devices, an image signal processing unit that uses the input image signals as transmission image signals of a certain specification, and an image processed by the image signal processing unit One transmitter having a wireless communication interface unit that converts a signal into a radio signal and transmits the signal, a plurality of receivers that receive image signals transmitted from the transmitter, and images received by each receiver An image display system comprising a plurality of image display devices connected to each receiver so as to input signals as input signals, and capable of simultaneously distributing image signals from one transmitter to a plurality of receivers. An image display system characterized by the above.   The receiver is configured to be able to arbitrarily receive an image signal simultaneously distributed from the transmitter by recording the ID of the transmitter and specifying the recorded ID. The image display system according to claim 1.   The input image signal from the image supply device determines whether or not digital content protection is necessary in the transmitter, and the image signal that does not require protection is simultaneously distributed from one transmitter to a plurality of receivers, 3. The image display system according to claim 1, wherein the image signal that needs to be protected has a plurality of operation modes in which only one transmitter is delivered to only one receiver.   A plurality of transmitters and receivers, each of which is formed to construct the image display system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each transmitter is combined with these receivers. When each device is simultaneously distributing image signals, the receiver can select the transmitter freely and specify the image signal by specifying the ID of the transmitter that distributes the image signal to be displayed. An image display system configured to be able to perform   The image display system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein transmission from the transmitter to the receiver is performed by an RF system compatible with MIMO using a 5 GHz band.   An input unit that selectively inputs a plurality of types of image signals from a plurality of image supply devices, an image signal processing unit that uses the input image signals as transmission image signals of a certain specification, and an image processed by the image signal processing unit A transmitter comprising a wireless communication interface unit for converting a signal into a wireless signal and transmitting the signal.   A receiver configured as a unit that can be detachably attached to an image display device, a wireless communication interface unit for receiving an image signal wirelessly transmitted from the transmitter, and removing noise of the received image signal And an image signal processing unit configured to be controlled by the control unit of the image display device while being attached to the image display device, and further operated by the operation unit of the image display device. Receiver.

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