Adaptor device for source device and control method of adaptor device for source device
View Patent ↗An object of the present invention is to provide an adaptor device for a source device that can reduce a connection time to a switching destination in the case where a connection destination is switched. For this, an adaptor device for a source device ( 104 ) includes a storage unit ( 206 ) that stores format information that is information indicating the format of the video signal; a dummy signal generating unit ( 204 ) that generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having the same format as that specified by the format information obtained from the storage unit ( 206 ); a control unit ( 203 ) that causes the dummy signal generating unit ( 204 ) to generate the dummy signal when the video signal is not obtained from the source device; and a wireless transmitting and receiving unit ( 202 ) that selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal.
1. An adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, said adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device and comprising:
a memory which stores video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
a processor which generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained from said memory; and
a wireless transmitting and receiving unit which selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal and causes said wireless transmitting and receiving unit to transmit the generated dummy signal in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by said wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device, and
wherein said processor stores a history regarding the video signal format information for specifying the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device and an other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format of an other video signal obtained from an other source device different from the source device for a predetermined period of time, and stores historical video signal format information most frequently obtained in the history in said memory.
2. The adaptor device according to claim 1 ,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal
during a period from a time when said processor starts a processing of switching the source device, from which the video signal is obtained, from the source device to the other source device different from the source device
to a time when the other video signal output from the other source device is obtained.
3. The adaptor device according to claim 1 ,
wherein said processor stores the video signal format information for specifying the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device in said memory.
4. An adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, said adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device and comprising:
a memory which stores video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
a processor which generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained from said memory; and
a wireless transmitting and receiving unit which selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal and causes said wireless transmitting and receiving unit to transmit the generated dummy signal in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by said wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device, and
wherein said processor stores, in said memory, other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format corresponding to an other video signal format of a video with a highest quality of a plurality of other video signal formats that can be displayed on a display unit that displays the video signal wirelessly transmitted from said wireless transmitting and receiving unit.
5. A method for controlling an adaptor device, the adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, the adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device, said method comprising:
storing, in a memory, video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
generating a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained in the storing;
selectively wirelessly transmitting the video signal and the generated dummy signal using a wireless transmitting and receiving unit;
controlling the generation of the dummy signal in said dummy signal generating and the transmission of the generated dummy signal in said wirelessly transmitting in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by the wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device; and
storing a history regarding the video signal format information for specifying the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device and an other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format of an other video signal obtained from an other source device different from the source device for a predetermined period of time, and storing historical video signal format information most frequently obtained in the history in the memory.
6. The method for controlling an adaptor device according to claim 5 ,
wherein in said controlling,
the dummy signal is generated in said dummy signal generating
during a period from a time when a processing of switching the source device, from which the video signal is obtained, from the source device to the other source device different from the source device is started
to a time when the other video signal obtained from the other source device is obtained.
7. The method for controlling an adaptor device according to claim 5 , the method further comprising:
converting the video signal format of the video signal,
wherein in said controlling, the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device is converted, in said converting, to an additional video signal format specified by the video signal format information stored in said storing if the video signal format and the additional video signal format are not the same.
8. A wireless transmission system in which a video signal is wirelessly transmitted, said system comprising:
a source device to output a video signal;
a memory which stores video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
a processor which generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained from said memory; and
a wireless transmitting and receiving unit which selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal and causes said wireless transmitting and receiving unit to transmit the generated dummy signal in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by said wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from said source device, and
wherein said processor stores a history regarding the video signal format information for specifying the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device and an other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format of an other video signal obtained from an other source device different from the source device for a predetermined period of time, and stores historical video signal format information most frequently obtained in the history in said memory.
9. An adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, said adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device and comprising:
a memory which stores video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
a processor which generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained from said memory; and
a wireless transmitting and receiving unit which selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal and causes said wireless transmitting and receiving unit to transmit the generated dummy signal in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by said wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device,
wherein said processor converts the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device to an additional video signal format specified by the video signal format information stored in said memory if the video signal format and the additional video signal format are not the same, and
wherein said processor stores a history regarding the video signal format information for specifying the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device and an other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format of an other video signal obtained from an other source device different from the source device for a predetermined period of time, and stores historical video signal format information most frequently obtained in the history in said memory.
10. An adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, said adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device and comprising:
a memory which stores video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
a processor which generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained from said memory; and
a wireless transmitting and receiving unit which selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal,
wherein said processor generates the dummy signal and causes said wireless transmitting and receiving unit to transmit the generated dummy signal in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by said wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device,
wherein said processor converts the video signal format of the video signal obtained from the source device to an additional video signal format specified by the video signal format information stored in said memory if the video signal format and the additional video signal format are not the same, and
wherein said processor stores, in said memory, other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format corresponding to an other video signal format of a video with a highest quality of a plurality of other video signal formats that can be displayed on a display unit that displays the video signal wirelessly transmitted from said wireless transmitting and receiving unit.
11. A method for controlling an adaptor device for, the adaptor device wire-connected to a source device that outputs a video signal, the adaptor device wirelessly transmitting the video signal obtained from the source device, said method comprising:
storing video signal format information that is information indicating a video signal format of the video signal;
generating a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having a same format as the video signal format specified by the video signal format information obtained in the storing;
selectively wirelessly transmitting the video signal and the generated dummy signal using a wireless transmitting and receiving unit;
controlling the generation of the dummy signal in said dummy signal generating and the transmission of the generated dummy signal in said wirelessly transmitting in order to maintain the wireless transmission performed by the wireless transmitting and receiving unit when the video signal is not obtained from the source device; and
storing other video signal format information for specifying an other video signal format corresponding to an other video signal format of a video with a highest quality of a plurality of other video signal formats that can be displayed on a display unit that displays the video signal wirelessly transmitted from the wireless transmitting and receiving unit.