Method and apparatus for real-time image data transmission

Abstract

The invention discloses a data transmission method used in the image transmission system and a device, comprising: a device for real-time receiving the image data, wherein the device divides the received image data into a plurality of image blocks to real-time transmit to the host computer through a USB interface, also comprises a buffer area with the capacity MAXP, a buffer, an image compression controller and an image compressor. The image compression controller performs the computation according to the size of the residual capacity of the buffer, and controls the compression format algorism based on the computed result. The device and the method has the advantages of better image quality, high compression SNR, good vision subjective effect and high availability of the USB bandwidth.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an image data transmission method and device, in particular to a real-time data transmission method and device for preventing data buffer overflow during real-time transmission of USB interface image data. Background technique [0002] Now, the USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface has been widely used in peripheral devices, such as mouse, keyboard, storage device, etc., and the data transmission and communication between the device and the host are carried out through the USB interface device, and it is also applied to the video image of the camera. Data transfer in progress. [0003] figure 1 Shown is a system structure diagram of a conventional camera with a USB interface. Among them, the sensor in the camera captures the video image in real time and transmits it to the image processor through the sensor interface. Since the captured image data is usually large, it is necessary to compress the image data when using the USB ...

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[0004] It is known that the communication rate of the USB interface can generally reach 12Mb / s in Full Speed ​​mode and 480Mb / s in High Speed ​​mode, which is completely sufficient in some data transmission applications, but in for example figure 1 When the real-time video image data of the USB camera shown is transmitted, the real-time compressed image data bit rate sometimes becomes very large, which will cause USB buffer overflow, resulting in image data loss, which is reflected on the host. Incorrect image data, dropped frames, etc., resulting in significant degradation of image and video quality

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