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Digital visual interface

US7230460B1 · kind B1 · utility

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18Claims
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Filing dateAug 26, 2004
Grant dateJun 12, 2007
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Expiry dateOct 27, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L7/0008
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques or designs of circuits to correct distortions in signals transported over a high-speed digital connection between a video source (e.g., a PC or a DVD player) and a digital monitors (such as LCDs) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a distorted signal is corrected by an interface circuit that oversamples the incoming signal with clock pulses or signals generated using a phase lock loop (PLL) from a clock seed signal. These clock signals possess different phases that are shifted from each other. In order to support a wide range of data rate, a programmable DPLL is used to produce a number of different ranges of clock frequency (e.g., 4 ranges). In addition, to avoid data phase shift, a delay locked loop (DLL) is used to compensate for the phase shift. A phase detection logic is also used to extract phase information from the over-sampled data. The phase information is fed back to the DLL.

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