An image transmission device and methods a transmitting device and method,
a receiving device and method, and robot apparatus are capable of
effectively transmitting the image data of multiple channels by using the
existing systems which are formed on the premise of transmitting and
receiving of the image data through single transmission line. At a
transmitting side, the image data of multiple channels to be input is
multiplexed with switching the channels by frame, and prescribed image
information is added to each of the multiplexed image data of each frame.
At a receiving side, the image information added to each of the image
data for each frame respectively transmitted from the transmitting device
are analyzed, and dividing device for dividing for each frame and
outputting the multiplexed image data transmitted from the transmitting
device to the corresponding channels is provided based on the analysis
result.