Abstract: A system and method allows a high-bandwidth serial or parallel digital video broadcast data signal to be monitored on a low-cost digital display device such as a computer monitor. The system includes means for extracting horizontal and vertical synchronization information and clock from the digital video broadcast data signal, and a transmitter converting the digital video data signal and the horizontal and vertical synchronization information and the clock into a Digital Visual Interface (DVI)-compliant digital video data signal.

Abstract: A system and method allows a high-bandwidth serial or parallel digital video broadcast data signal to be monitored on a low-cost digital display device such as a computer monitor. The system includes means for extracting horizontal and vertical synchronization information and clock from the digital video broadcast data signal, and a transmitter converting the digital video data signal and the horizontal and vertical synchronization information and the clock into a Digital Visual Interface (DVI)-compliant digital video data signal.

Abstract: A method of generating a color wheel index signal for use in a display system (10) that uses a spatial light modulator (14) and a color wheel (15). The index signal is compared to a reference signal associated with an input image signal so that the color wheel and the data being displayed can be synchronized (FIG. 2). The index signal is generated by placing a color-sensitive photodetector (14a) in close proximity to the spatial light modulator (14). Light filtered through the color wheel (15) illuminates both the spatial light modulator (14) and the photodetector (14a). The photodetector (14a) responds to color transitions in the filtered light, generating a pulse in response to each transition to the color to which it is sensitive.

Abstract: A method of adjusting color temperature of images displayed by a display system (10) whose images are based on sequential pixel data and are filtered with a color wheel (15, 15', 15"). The relative display times for each color are adjusted to result in a corresponding adjustment of color temperature. In a first embodiment (FIG. 2), the size of the color wheel's segments are changed as well as the display times for data corresponding to each segment. In a second embodiment (FIG. 3), the display times for data corresponding to one or more segments are decreased with a black display time to fill in the difference.