Image signal processing device, and image signal transmission system
An image signal processing device receives image signals from source devices and outputs image signals via a plurality of communication paths. The image signal processing device includes a plurality of compression circuits, a transmission circuit and a path/compression-rate setting circuit. The plurality of compression circuits compress image signals to be transmitted via the plurality of communication paths. The transmission circuit outputs the image signals compressed. The path/compression-rate setting circuit, based on each data amount of the image signals received, determines a communication path for transmitting a part or the whole of each of the image signal, and sets a common compression rate for all of the plurality of compression circuits. The path/compression-rate setting circuit divides an image signal having a relatively large data amount, and assigns a part of the divided image signal to a communication path for transmitting an image signal having a relatively small data amount.
1. An image signal transmission system comprising:
an image signal processing device configured to receive image signals from a plurality of source devices and output image signals via a plurality of communication paths, the image signal processing device comprising:
a plurality of compression circuits configured to compress image signals to be transmitted via the plurality of communication paths;
a transmission circuit configured to output the image signals compressed by the plurality of compression circuits via the plurality of communication paths corresponding to the plurality of compression circuits; and
a path/compression-rate setting circuit configured to, based on each data amount of the image signals received from the plurality of source devices, determine a communication path for transmitting a part or a whole of each of the image signals, of the plurality of communication paths, and set a common compression rate for all of the plurality of compression circuits,
wherein the path/compression-rate setting circuit divides an image signal having a relatively large data amount out of the image signals, and assigns a part of the divided image signal to a communication path for transmitting an image signal having a relatively small data amount out of the image signals, of the plurality of communication paths; and
a receiving device configured to receive the image signals from the image signal processing device via a network, generate a combined image based on the received image signals, and transmit an image signal indicating the combined image to a display device,
wherein the receiving device includes:
a receiving circuit configured to receive the image signals from the transmission circuit of the image signal processing device via the plurality of communication paths;
decompression circuits configured to decompress the received image signals; and
an image combining circuit configured to combine images indicated by the decompressed image signals, and
wherein, when the decompressed image signals include parts of the image signal divided by the path/compression-rate setting circuit, the image combining circuit combines the parts back to the image signal, and combines the images using the combined image signal.
2. The image signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the path/compression-rate setting circuit
assigns a part of an image signal having a largest data amount, of the image signals received from the plurality of source devices, to one communication path of the plurality of communication paths, and
further divides a remaining part other than the part of the image signal having the largest data amount into one or more portions, and assigns the one or more portions to one or more other communication paths of the plurality of communication paths.
3. The image signal transmission system according to claim 2 , wherein
the path/compression-rate setting circuit divides the image signal having the largest data amount so that a data amount transmitted via the one communication path is substantially equal to a data amount transmitted via each of the one or more other communication paths.
4. The image signal transmission system according to claim 2 , wherein
when the image signals include an image signal to be divided to be transmitted, the path/compression-rate setting circuit sets the common compression rate to be lower than a compression rate set when the image signals does not include any image signal to be divided to be transmitted.
5. The image signal transmission system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, to the receiving circuit, the transmission circuit transmits:
the image signals compressed by the plurality of compression circuits;
information indicating an decompression condition for decompressing the compressed image signals;
assignment information indicating an assignment of the image signals to the plurality of communication paths; and
information indicating a combining condition for combining the images indicated by the decompressed image signals, and
wherein, when the decompressed image signals include the parts of the image signal divided, the image combining circuit combines the parts back to the image signal based on the assignment information, and combines the images using the combined image signal based on the combining condition.
6. The image signal transmission system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a control device configured to supply a control signal to the image signal processing device, the control signal specifying positions and overlapping of the images indicated by the image signals in the combined image.
7. The image signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the receiving device includes a storage device configured to store the communication path set by the path/compression-rate setting circuit and the common compression rate.
8. The image signal transmission system according to claim 1 , wherein
the image signals include at least one of moving image data and still image data.