Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to overcome above-mentioned deficiency, a kind of control method and control device that is used for the gradient divisional colour change of liquid crystal sunglasses is provided, this control method and control device can make liquid crystal lens that the transmitance of light and the distribution of light and shade transformation region are changed with the angle of incident light and the variation of ambient light automatically, and can realize the gradient type transition of transmittance between dark space and the area pellucida, and it is simple, simple in structure to have control mode, the advantage that volume is little.
For addressing the above problem, the inventive method comprises following content:
A, with liquid crystal lens be divided into some vertical distributions, the level that is parallel to each other is to the liquid crystal stick, all electrodes that some liquid crystal sticks are positioned at the same side are electrically connected as public electrode, this public electrode extremely is electrically connected with the controller common electrical, the electrode that some liquid crystal sticks are positioned at opposite side is respectively as control electrode independently, be electrically connected with the corresponding control output end of controller respectively, control the transmittance of corresponding liquid crystal stick by the output voltage of this control output end;
B, import the transducing signal of extraneous average light illumination to controller, controller is according to this average light illumination transducing signal output one average control voltage, be applied on all liquid crystal sticks, control the average light transmitance of whole liquid crystal lens, average light illumination is strong more, the average control voltage of output is high more, otherwise just low more;
C, measure intense light source and the relative incident angle of human eye line on liquid crystal lens, according to the liquid crystal stick of the selected intense light source of this incident angle, as center shading stick with human eye line and liquid crystal lens intersection point place with angular transducer;
D, controller make this center shading stick become the black area by improving the control voltage to center shading strip piece;
E, selected one or several liquid crystal stick adjacent with center shading stick are as transition shading stick, and apply the control voltage that relative center shading stick reduces one by one to these transition shading sticks, the light transmission rate of transition shading stick is increased to the area pellucida one by one by the black area, form the gradient type light and shade zone of transition between shading black area and the area pellucida.
The further scheme of the inventive method comprises following content:
The selected intense light source of controller with the liquid crystal stick at human eye line and liquid crystal lens intersection point place and one or several liquid crystal stick of being adjacent jointly as center shading stick, and, make these shading sticks become the black area by improving control voltage to these center shading sticks.
The further another scheme of the inventive method is: the described control voltage that is added on the liquid crystal stick is the alternating voltage that frequency is identical, dutycycle is identical, regulates the effective value of control voltage by regulating its dutycycle or amplitude or phase shift.
The further again scheme of the inventive method comprises following content:
The control voltage of controller output is: it is identical to apply a frequency respectively to all liquid crystal stick control electrodes and public electrode, the alternating voltage that dutycycle is identical, the phase differential that is added in alternating voltage on two electrodes by adjusting is regulated the size that is added in interchange voltage effective value on the liquid crystal stick, after controller is chosen the center shading stick of needs blackening according to extraneous high light angle, the alternating voltage that applies to this center shading stick control electrode is produced with respect to the phase shift that is added in alternating voltage on the public electrode, this phase shift improves the effective voltage value that is added on the center shading stick, form the shading black area, the alternating signal that applies to transition shading stick is also produced one by one with respect to the phase shift that is added in alternating voltage on the public electrode, these phase shifts that change one by one should make the relative center shading of the effective voltage value stick that is added on the transition shading stick reduce one by one, the light transmission rate of transition shading stick is increased to the area pellucida one by one by the black area, form the gradient type light and shade zone of transition between shading black area and the area pellucida.
Apparatus of the present invention are (referring to embodiment Fig. 1): be provided with controller and liquid crystal lens, described liquid crystal lens two sides is respectively with one deck conduction light-transmissive film, wherein, the conduction light-transmissive film that one side is arranged is some conduction light-transmissive film sticks that parallel longitudinal distributes, constitute the independent control electrode of some liquid crystal sticks respectively, the control output pin that the control electrode of each liquid crystal stick is corresponding with controller respectively is electrically connected, covered the whole zone of this liquid crystal lens attached to the conduction light-transmissive film of another side, constitute the public electrode of some liquid crystal sticks, and be connected on the public electrode pin of controller, described controller input end is connected to optical sensor and optic angle degree sensor.
Liquid crystal mirror of the present invention be divided into some levels that are parallel to each other to the stick district, the transmittance in each stick district is by the voltage decision that is added on public electrode and this stick control electrode, put on adopted sunglasses of the present invention after, human eye and eyeglass have just been set up geostationary coordinate, after angular transducer is measured the visual angle of intense light source to human eye, can improve the control voltage of one or several liquid crystal stick at relative this visual angle on the eyeglass, reduce its light transmission rate, automatically form blocking to this visual angle intense light source, simultaneously by to and center antiglare module adjacent lcd stick apply one by one the control voltage that reduces and form gradient type light and shade zone of transition between shading black area and the area pellucida, the appropriateness that makes intense light source inferior highlights on every side also obtain the variation of light and shade gradient type is blocked, the transmittance of whole eyeglass is then controlled according to the average control voltage that is added on all liquid crystal sticks by detected extraneous average light: the environment average light is according to little, the average control voltage that is added on all sticks is just low, the light transmission rate of whole liquid crystal lens is just high, the environment average light is according to high, the average control voltage that is added on all sticks is just high, and the light transmission rate of whole liquid crystal lens just reduces relatively.
The present invention is divided into liquid crystal mirror the form of " bar battle array ", so only need to detect the intense light source different visual angles of relative eyeglass in vertical direction with angular transducer, can by the eyeglass position automatically generation level corresponding with this visual angle to the secret note district and intense light source is effectively blocked, the average control voltage that whole eyeglass is applied in addition, make liquid crystal lens integral body to the distribution of the transmitance of light and light and shade transformation region automatically with ambient light and trunk offering shooting angle variation change, the present invention simultaneously can realize the gradient type transition of transmittance between shading dark space and the area pellucida, not only can improve the comfort level of vision, and can do blocking of appropriateness the inferior high light around the high light.The present invention also has simple in structure, and the advantage that volume is little, cost is low is for condition has been created in the commercialization of product.
Embodiment
Referring to this routine structural representation of Fig. 1.
Liquid crystal lens is provided with level that some upward and downwards distribute, are parallel to each other to the liquid crystal stick;
Controller adopts the digital integrated cpu chip of microprocessor MSP430F2234 model, and this chips welding is electrically connected with other parts by printed circuit board (PCB) on printed circuit board (PCB).
The cpu chip input end is connected to optic angle degree sensor and optical sensor, its a plurality of outputs control pins are electrically connected with the control electrode of each liquid crystal stick on the liquid crystal lens respectively, its public electrode pin is electrically connected with the public electrode of each liquid crystal stick, and solar cell is powered to described cpu chip, optic angle degree sensor and optical sensor by printed circuit board (PCB).
This microprocessor contains two operational amplifiers, the direct electric current of photodiode in the measuring light angular transducer, thereby the size of dwindling circuit board.Also have the microprocessor of other kind to can be used as suitable substitute, use operational amplifier unessential.
For will be from optic angle degree sensor the illuminance measured of photodiode inform analog to digital converter with suitable numerical range, consider that light source is to change in this application in a dynamic range, so need select the feedback resistor of decision operational amplifier gain for use, this resistor can be constant, also can be adjustable by pot.
Battery should be able to provide enough voltage to start microcontroller and LCDs, and this example has adopted solar cell, subsidiary or subsidiary pressure regulator all can, the electric energy that also can utilize the conversion of optical sensor or optic angle degree sensor photoelectric to produce replaces.
Liquid crystal lens, its transmitance is the function of the voltage that applies, the minute surface of this routine eyeglass is a planar shaped, eyeglass adopts positivity TN-liquid crystal, be attached with the connector that is provided with a plurality of pins on the liquid crystal lens, all there is one deck conduction light-transmissive film the glass sheet inboard separately on described eyeglass two sides, wherein, there is conduction light-transmissive film simultaneously to cover the whole zone of eyeglass, constitute public electrode, and be electrically connected on the common pin of connector, the conduction light-transmissive film of another side is divided into many horizontal sticks, closely is arranged as a vertically combination, extend transverse to the same or approaching width of this liquid crystal lens, constitute the control electrode of corresponding liquid crystal stick respectively, the control electrode of each liquid crystal stick is connected to an independent pin on the described connector, and the electrode of each liquid crystal stick is electrically connected with controller by the connector pin.
This routine liquid crystal lens stick is vertically closely arranged, and vertical width of its underpart stick is much larger than vertical width of top stick.The size of the vertical width of liquid crystal stick can influence the resolution of angle, vertically width is more little, angular resolution is high more, otherwise it is low more, and usually the position that need block of liquid crystal lens up, so the width of top stick is little, bottom wideer, can reduce the required quantity that output pin is set of controller like this, also reduce unnecessary operand.
Each horizontal liquid crystal stick is relevant with the control voltage on being added in control electrode to the transmitance of sunshine on this eyeglass: when control voltage is lower than the eyeglass operating voltage threshold value of setting, constant in the transmitance of space each point with respect to the subregion of this horizontal stick; When control voltage was higher than the eyeglass operating voltage threshold value of setting, the transmitance of this subregion descended.When alternating voltage is added on the stick, and voltage then by the influence of light-electro ultrafiltration, can occur the striped of a level greatly to can the primer fluid crystal display screen on the LCDs.When same voltage is added on other stick, the striped that has at one time more than is activated.
The liquid crystal mirror that this example is used is STN-Huang/green type, and other is suitable for too as TN type, STN-ash type, FSTN type, and the structure of these LCDs and manufacturing are well-known.
Referring to Fig. 6, optic angle degree sensor that this is routine and illuminance sensor are to have adopted a combined light inductor that comprises optic angle degree detector and illuminance sensor, this photoelectric transducer element is provided with a photoelectric tube PA and PB respectively in conplane top and the bottom, be provided with a shadow shield vertical in the middle of two photoelectric tubes with this plane, constitute two photometric measurers, the photocurrent output terminal of two photometric measurers is electrically connected with the cpu chip input end by printed circuit board (PCB).
After this photoelectric transducer element is contained on the sunglasses, its normal overlaps with the normal of liquid crystal lens, when incident light impinges perpendicularly on this photoelectric sensing unit, the photosensitive area of two photoelectric tubes is identical, the photocurrent Ia that detects equates with Ib, when incident light with normal θ incident at an angle the time, under the influence of shadow shield, effective photosensitive area of two photoelectric tubes is unequal, photocurrent Ia, Ib is also unequal, the amount that this sensor forms (Ia-Ib)/(Ia+Ib) is directly proportional with incident angle θ, so constitute the angle sensor signal, cpu chip calculates this amount can try to achieve incident angle of light θ, and value (Ia+Ib) then is proportional to the illumination of sunshine, constitutes the illumination transducing signal; Cpu chip calculates this amount can obtain average light illumination.The maximum detection angles of this sensor is positive and negative 50 degree.
The Part No. that this example adopts Hamamatsu Photonics company to provide is that the S6560 product is as above-mentioned optic angle degree sensor and illuminance sensor.
The alternative means of the sensor can be: the combination of any other photodetector, if can sense intensity of illumination and incident angle, also can be used as angle probe and illuminance inductor, can respond to visible light and ultraviolet photodiode for two, its combination can be used as the substitute of S6560 detector.Detector to the position sensor sensitivity can substitute two photodiodes in angle probe and the illuminance sensor.Operational amplifier can be converted to voltage signal with each current signal, and the analog to digital converter in the microcontroller is a digital signal with all analog signal conversion, and therefore the direction of light source and the intensity of illumination are calculated.Another selection is, the voltage by each photodiode can directly measure, and do not need the conversion of such electric current and voltage.Angle probe also can be substituted by manual adjustments control device such as pot.
Select the synoptic diagram of the liquid crystal stick that needs shading according to incident angle θ referring to Fig. 5
Above-mentioned angle and optical sensor and liquid crystal lens are contained on the sunglasses, the sensor normal is overlapped with the lens normal, after human eye is put on this sunglasses, just form geostationary coordinate between human eye and liquid crystal lens and the sensor, at this moment an immobile liquid crystal bar piece on all corresponding eyeglass of each visual angle line of human eye.Cpu chip calculates intense light source and human eye line behind the incident angle θ with respect to normal on the eyeglass according to the value of sensor signal (Ia-Ib)/(Ia+Ib), can select the liquid crystal stick n corresponding with this θ angle sight line.
As shown in Figure 5: human eye is L to the distance of eyeglass, and the width of stick is W on the eyeglass, a shared N stick on the eyeglass, the angle of n stick and normal direction is θ, so cpu chip can calculate n according to angle θ, this stick is exactly should be by the liquid crystal stick of light shading.
Fig. 7 is the angle of light characteristic curve of liquid crystal lens: by this curve, can calculate high light incident angle θ according to angle sensor signal value (Ia-Ib)/(Ia+Ib).
Cpu chip promptly applies the control voltage that can make its blank screen to this stick after having selected and need having carried out liquid crystal stick n that light blocks.
Add DC voltage to LCDs and can cause ion to move, lower the life-span of LCDs, so this example is an AC controling signal to each liquid crystal stick loading.
Alternation control voltage on the liquid crystal stick also can be realized by transferring methods such as dutycycle, amplitude modulation.
To be this routine cpu chip apply the oscillogram of control voltage to each liquid crystal stick to Fig. 3, is carried in voltage signal on each electrode and is frequency, dutycycle, square-wave voltage that the spoke value is identical, and this figure has showed and is carried in the signal sequence on the single electrode in the eyeglass.
Waveform a is the signal waveform that is carried on the shared public pole of all liquid crystal sticks.
The stick that loads the b waveform does not have phase shift with respect to waveform a, and voltage on its control electrode and the voltage on the public pole do not have difference, so effective voltage value is 0, thereby this stick can not present weakening of transmitance.
The stick that loads the c waveform has produced less phase shift with respect to waveform a,, the effective control voltage that is added on the liquid crystal stick is slightly increased, reduced its light transmission rate.
The stick of the d waveform that loads has produced big phase shift with respect to waveform a,, it is more that the effective control voltage that is added on the liquid crystal stick is increased, and reduced the light transmission rate of stick more.
The stick that loads the e waveform exists maximum to differ with respect to waveform a, voltage on its control electrode and the voltage on the public pole have 180 degree phase shifts, so it is maximum that effective voltage value reaches, to exchange control voltage enough big when this, can make the liquid crystal stick that loads this voltage become the black area, reach the effect that light blocks.
So in 0-180 degree scope, change the signal phase be added in liquid crystal stick control electrode, but just light transmission rate of this stick of stepless control.
As a same reason, when controller applies described average control voltage to all liquid crystal sticks, change the effective voltage value that is added on all liquid crystal stick two electrodes by the phase place in-migration that makes alternating voltage on the alternating voltage that all liquid crystal stick control electrodes apply produces with respect to public electrode, when average light illumination raises, the phase shift that produces increases, and effective voltage value is improved, when average light illumination reduces, the phase shift that produces reduces, and effective voltage value is reduced.
Add DC voltage to LCDs and can cause ion to move, lower the life-span of LCDs, so this example is an AC controling signal to each liquid crystal stick loading.
Above-mentioned only is to have enumerated a kind of driven waveform, and this square-wave signal is easy to produce by " opening " " pass " control to direct current signal, also can adopt the driving voltage of other form that can produce same control effect certainly.
Fig. 2 is the operating process synoptic diagram of this controller.
Controller detects incident angle of light θ transducing signal and intensity of illumination transducing signal by angular transducer and optical sensor.
Under the normal conditions, cpu chip is 0 to the signal difference voltage that each liquid crystal stick loads;
When cpu chip calculates environment average light illumination according to illuminance transducing signal (Ia+Ib), earlier Ia+Ib amount and the illuminance threshold value of setting are compared, if be lower than this threshold value, then do not produce average control voltage, if be higher than this threshold value, promptly the power generation one average control voltage according to this average light illumination is loaded on the control electrode of all liquid crystal sticks, control the average light transmitance of whole liquid crystal lens, environment average light illumination is strong more, average control voltage is high more, the average light transmitance of whole liquid crystal lens is just low more, otherwise just high more.
When cpu chip calculates intense light source and the human eye line incident angle θ with respect to normal on eyeglass according to the value of angle sensor signal (Ia-Ib)/(Ia+Ib), promptly calculating with above-cited method needs the liquid crystal of shading stick n, with it as center shading stick and it is applied enough big control voltage make it become shading black area (as described a waveform and e waveform before its public electrode and control electrode are loaded respectively).
Select liquid crystal stick n+1, the liquid crystal stick n+2 adjacent, liquid crystal stick n-1, liquid crystal stick n-2 as transition shading stick simultaneously with center shading stick n, and relatively the center antiglare module applies the control voltage that reduces one by one to them and (loads foregoing d waveform as feeding crystal bar piece n ± 1, feeding crystal bar piece n ± 2 load foregoing c waveform), form the zone of transition that the light and shade gradient type changes.
Fig. 4 is the control program FB(flow block) of microprocessor cpu chip,
Step 1
Initialization: to the distance L of this cpu chip input human eye to described eyeglass, vertical width of described all subregion is W, and this W value is all identical to all subregions, and in order to reflect the input voltage threshold value of illuminance critical value, whether this critical value decision cpu chip starts
Set: the normal direction the when people is at eye level overlaps with the normal direction of eyeglass, described normal is as the X-axis of coordinate axis, the intersection point of this normal and eyeglass is a true origin, to do vertical line from described true origin in the eyeglass, this vertical line is the Y-axis of coordinate axis, and the subregion at this true origin place is numbered, it is numbered zero, be positioned at the above and following subregion of described X-axis and be marked with positive sign and negative sign respectively, distinguish serial number again
Step 2
When illuminance is lower than its critical value, when photocurrent Ia+Ib was lower than the work threshold value that described cpu chip sets, this cpu chip did not start, and all electrodes of described eyeglass do not have any control voltage signal input;
Step 3
The illuminance critical value that is higher than setting when the illuminance of sunshine, during work threshold value that photocurrent Ia+Ib sets greater than described cpu chip, this cpu chip starts, to square wave voltage signal that frequency, dutycycle are all set of public electrode output of described liquid crystal lens, execution in step 4 simultaneously;
Step 4,
Cpu chip judges whether photocurrent Ia equals photocurrent Ib:
If: Ia=Ib, what then described sensor received is the incident light of vertical incidence, incident angle is zero, this cpu chip make each control electrode on the described liquid crystal lens import respectively one be added in described public electrode on the identical control signal of square waveform voltage, this control signal and square wave voltage signal phase differential 180 degree of transporting on the described public electrode, and amplitude-frequency is all identical with dutycycle, makes that transmitance is identical on the liquid crystal lens all subregion, thereby the transmittance of each horizontal stick distributes the same;
If: Ia ≠ Ib, this cpu chip is the sequence number n of that sub regions of θ with respect to incident angle, described θ angle be line between the human eye and the sun with respect to the angle of described X-axis, described sequence number n is exactly the numbering of that subregion at the intersection point place of this line and liquid crystal lens
Tan θ=nW/L, and θ ∝ (Ia-Ib)/(Ia+Ib), and be that subregion of n applies the control voltage signal to sequence number, there is the maximal phase potential difference in described control voltage signal with respect to the square wave voltage signal that is added on the described public electrode, make the magnitude of voltage that is added on the described eyeglass n work song zone reach maximum, input voltage and light transmittance curve according to liquid crystal lens make the transmitance in this n work song zone drop to minimum, produce blank screen, block high light, also apply the voltage signal that relative n work song zone phase differential reduces to some extent simultaneously to n+1 work song zone adjacent and n-1 work song zone with n work song zone, apply relative n work song zone phase differential to n+2 work song zone and n-2 work song zone and reduce more voltage signal, even the control voltage that is carried on these transition sticks reduces one by one, form the light and shade zone of transition that the transmittance gradient type changes.
Reduce the width W of every liquid crystal stick, increase the quantity of liquid crystal lens level to the liquid crystal stick, can improve the resolution of control, but also reduced the width of blank screen liquid crystal stick, so after choosing the pairing liquid crystal stick in θ angle as the center antiglare module, also optional one or several liquid crystal stick that is adjacent is altogether as the center antiglare module, applying high voltage jointly makes them become shading region, to increase the width of shading black area, center, the above selects the liquid crystal stick adjacent with shading black area, center as transition shading stick for another example.
The above; it only is preferred embodiment of the present invention; be not that the present invention is done any pro forma restriction, every foundation technical spirit of the present invention all still belongs to the protection domain of technical solution of the present invention to any simple modification, equivalent variations and modification that above embodiment did.