Method and system for testing video

Claim 1

A video signal testing system for connecting with a data bus of an expansion slot of a unit under test for two way data transmissions for receiving IOR, IOW, AEN, and address signals therefrom, and for receiving video signals from a video connector, wherein the system comprises: tri-state buffer means connecting with the data bus of the expansion slot of the unit under test for two-way data transmissions under control of input ENABLE and DIRECTION signals; control logic means for receiving data signals from the tri-state buffer means, the IOR, IOW, AEN and address signals from the expansion slot of the unit under test, and for supplying horizontal and vertical sync signals, the ENABLE signal and DIRECTION signal to the tri-state buffer, and supplying a start-up signal and read-out signals; an oscillator set for supplying clock signals corresponding to the testing video signals; a frame beginning-end circuit for detecting the completion of the video signals of a full-frame in response to the horizontal sync and vertical sync signals, the start-up signal, the read-out signals, and video signals, and for supplying the detection signal to the tri-state buffer; clock synchronization circuit for generating a sync clock which is synchronous in frequency and phase with the video signals of said unit under test in response to the clock signals from the oscillator set and the clock enable signal from the frame beginning-end circuit; delay circuit connected to receive video signals from the video connector and supply the video signals, after being delayed for a specific amount of time; and cyclic redundancy check circuit for receiving the start-up signal from the control logic means, video signals from the delay circuit and the sync clock from the clock synchronization circuit, wherein the video signals and sync clock enter the cyclic redundancy check circuit substantially at the same time causing one sync clock to sample one video signal, and wherein a fixed value is supplied to the tri-state buffer under the control of the read-out signals.

Claim 3

A method for testing video comprising: supplying the video signals of the frame to be tested to a testing video signals connector; supplying a start-up signal to a cyclic redundancy check circuit to initialize it; using the cyclic redundancy check circuit to input all discrete video signals of the frame to be tested and generating a fixed value corresponding to the frame; and comparing the fixed value with a stored value.

Claim 4

A method for testing video comprising: supplying the video signals of the frame to be tested to a testing video signals connector; supplying a start-up signal to a cyclic redundancy check circuit to initialize it; using the cyclic redundancy check circuit to input all discrete video signals of the frame to be tested and generating a fixed value corresponding to the frame; and comparing the fixed value with a stored value.