CN112506456A - Electronic price tag data refreshing system and method - Google Patents

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CN112506456A
CN112506456A CN202011360504.6A CN202011360504A CN112506456A CN 112506456 A CN112506456 A CN 112506456A CN 202011360504 A CN202011360504 A CN 202011360504A CN 112506456 A CN112506456 A CN 112506456A
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Abstract

The invention provides an electronic price tag data refreshing system and method, which are used for refreshing the display content of an electronic price tag and are characterized in that: the electronic price tag comprises a price tag server and an electronic price tag, wherein a picture difference calculation module of the price tag server compares a new display picture of the electronic price tag with an original display picture to produce a picture difference object, and sends a refresh data request to the electronic price tag; in addition, the price tag server can be provided with a split screen display template as required, and the electronic price tag is divided into a plurality of display areas, so that a plurality of groups of commodity information can be displayed in different display areas in the same electronic price tag electronic screen, and the utilization rate of the electronic price tag is improved.

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Electronic price tag data refreshing system and method
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of retail intelligent electronic equipment, in particular to a system and a method for refreshing local signing data of electronic prices.
Background
The electronic price tag is used as a substitute product of the traditional paper price tag, and one important characteristic is that displayed contents can be conveniently and flexibly modified, and the electronic price tag is updated only by binding corresponding information again when commodity information changes, so that the labor cost of complex disassembly and assembly operation of the paper price tag is saved. Due to the limitations of size, cost and the like, the conventional electronic price tag usually adopts low-power consumption operation, the data receiving rate is low, if the whole electronic screen display picture is sent when the display content is refreshed each time, the communication data volume is greatly increased, the electronic price tag occupies a communication channel for a long time, meanwhile, the data processing time of the electronic price tag is also increased, the power consumption is increased, and the battery endurance of the electronic price tag is not facilitated; in addition, the traditional electronic price tag can only display one commodity information, when the same electronic price tag needs to display a plurality of commodity information, the requirement can not be met, and the pain point of the traditional merchant which exceeds the same price tag and displays the plurality of commodity information can be solved by utilizing the split screen display technology.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a split-screen display and refreshing method of an electronic price tag aiming at the defects of the prior art.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: an electronic price tag data refreshing system for refreshing electronic price tag display content, comprising a price tag server and an electronic price tag, wherein:
the price tag server is used for processing and updating the display content of the electronic price tag and sending an electronic price tag refreshing data request;
and the electronic price tag is provided with an electronic screen and used for displaying commodity information, receiving a refreshing data request sent by the price tag server, analyzing and generating refreshing content and refreshing the display content of the electronic screen.
Preferably, the price tag server comprises a picture difference calculating module, which is used for calculating the difference between the new picture and the old picture displayed in the electronic price tag to be refreshed, and setting the difference part as a picture difference object.
Preferably, the electronic price tag comprises an analysis picture difference module, which is used for analyzing the picture difference object sent by the price tag server and refreshing the display content of the electronic screen.
Preferably, in the price tag server, the electronic price tag is divided into a plurality of display areas by setting a split-screen display template, so that a plurality of groups of commodity information are displayed in different display areas in the same electronic price tag electronic screen.
An electronic price tag local data refreshing method comprises the following steps:
step 1, newly building an electronic screen display template on the price tag server;
step 2, editing the content on the display template of the electronic screen and generating a display picture to be refreshed;
step 3, after receiving a display picture to be refreshed, a picture difference calculation module of the price tag server compares the display picture with an original display picture of the electronic screen to obtain a picture difference object, wherein the picture difference object comprises different areas, positioning coordinates and contents;
step 4, the price tag server sends a data refreshing request to the electronic price tag and simultaneously sends a picture difference object;
step 5, after the electronic price tag receives the data refreshing request, receiving a picture difference object, analyzing the received picture difference object through an analysis picture difference module, and calculating the difference area, the positioning coordinate and the content;
and 6, refreshing the electronic screen by the electronic price tag according to the analyzed content.
Preferably, the refresh data request includes: the method comprises the steps of refreshing the address of the electronic price tag to be refreshed, the positioning coordinate of the area to be refreshed, the size of the area to be refreshed and the picture content of the area to be refreshed.
Preferably, in the step 1), the method further includes a step 11) of splitting the electronic price tag, and in the price tag server, the newly created electronic screen display template is divided into a plurality of display areas, and the multi-screen display transmission is mapped to the electronic screen of the electronic price tag.
Preferably, before the step 1), the method further comprises the step of displaying the electronic price tag in a split screen mode:
step 1, newly building an electronic screen integral display template on the price tag server, and cutting the electronic screen integral display template into a plurality of sub-screen templates according to requirements;
step 2, editing each sub-screen template and generating each sub-screen positioning coordinate;
step 3, inputting commodity information of each sub-screen in the price tag server, synthesizing each sub-screen content and generating an electronic screen display object;
step 4, the price tag server sends a request for refreshing the electronic screen and a display object of the electronic screen to the electronic price tag;
step 5, after the electronic price tag receives a request for refreshing the electronic screen, receiving a display object of the electronic screen;
step 6, the electronic price tag analyzes the electronic screen display object to obtain positioning coordinates and display contents of each sub-screen;
and 7, refreshing the electronic screen according to the positioning coordinates and the display content of the sub-screen.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the price tag server carries out difference calculation comparison on the electronic price tag to-be-refreshed picture and the original display picture, produces a picture difference object, and only contains the information and the content of the area to be refreshed, so that the data transmission quantity and the communication channel occupancy rate are greatly reduced, and the electronic price tag refreshing speed is accelerated;
(2) the price tag server divides the electronic screen of the electronic price tag into a plurality of display areas by arranging the split screen display template, so that a plurality of groups of commodity information can be displayed in different display areas in the same electronic price tag electronic screen, and the utilization rate of a single electronic price tag is improved.
(3) The price tag server manages the display content of the electronic price tag electronic screen through the display template, simplifies the operation of editing the display content of the electronic screen, and reduces the file size of the produced display picture.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating steps of an electronic price tag data refreshing method according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the split-screen display steps of an electronic price tag data refreshing system according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a comparison of picture differences for an electronic price tag data refreshing system according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of an electronic screen split of an electronic price tag data refreshing system according to the present invention.
In the figure, 1 is a price tag server, 11 is a picture difference calculation module, 2 is an electronic price tag, 21 is a resolution picture difference module, and 22 is an electronic screen.
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The technical solution of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1, the electronic price tag data refreshing system provided by the present invention is used for refreshing the display content of an electronic price tag 2, and includes a price tag server 1 and an electronic price tag 2, wherein: the price tag server 1 is used for processing and updating the display content of the electronic price tag 2 and sending an electronic price tag refreshing data request;
and the electronic price tag 2 is provided with an electronic screen 22 and used for displaying commodity information, receiving a refreshing data request sent by the price tag server 1, analyzing and generating refreshing content and refreshing the display content of the electronic screen 22.
The price tag server 1 comprises a picture difference calculating module 11, which is used for calculating the difference between the new picture and the old picture displayed in the electronic price tag 1 to be refreshed, and setting the difference part as a picture difference object, wherein the picture difference object comprises: the difference region positioning coordinates, the difference region size and the difference region picture content.
Referring to fig. 2, the electronic price tag 2 includes an analysis picture difference module 21 for analyzing the picture difference object sent by the price tag server 1, refreshing the display content of the electronic screen 22, and analyzing the picture difference object into the refresh area location coordinate, the refresh area size and the refresh area picture content.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, in the price tag server 1, the electronic price tag 2 is divided into a plurality of display areas by setting a split-screen display template, so that a plurality of sets of commodity information are displayed in different display areas in the electronic screen 22 of the same electronic price tag 2.
Referring to fig. 1 and 3, an electronic price tag partial data refreshing method includes the steps of:
step 1, building an electronic screen display template on the price tag server 1, and if the existing display template is used, skipping the step; the electronic price tag 1 usually has relatively fixed display contents, editing operation can be simplified by setting a display template, and commodity information such as price, types, production date, effective date, manufacturers and the like of commodities can be displayed on the electronic screen display template.
Step 2, editing the content on the display template of the electronic screen and generating a display picture to be refreshed; integrating the information of the electronic price tag 1 in the webpage into a picture file;
step 3, after receiving the display picture to be refreshed, the picture difference calculation module 11 of the price tag server 1 compares the display picture with the original display picture of the electronic screen 22 to obtain a picture difference object, wherein the picture difference object comprises different areas, positioning coordinates and contents; the difference calculation module 11 compares the pixels of the picture to be refreshed and the picture displayed originally line by line, the corresponding coordinate of the upper left corner of the difference region is determined as the positioning coordinate of the difference region, the pixel values of the length and the width of the difference region are the size of the refresh region, and the content in the refresh region is the picture content of the difference region;
step 4, the price tag server 1 sends a data refreshing request to the electronic price tag 2 and simultaneously sends a picture difference object; the refresh data request includes: the address of the electronic price tag to be refreshed, the positioning coordinate of the area to be refreshed, the size of the area to be refreshed and the picture content of the area to be refreshed, data are wirelessly transmitted between the price tag server 1 and the electronic price tag 2, and the refreshing of the electronic price tag 2 is accelerated by low data volume;
step 5, after the electronic price tag 2 receives the refresh data request, firstly identifying the address of the electronic price tag 2 to be refreshed, if the address is not matched with the electronic price tag 2, ignoring the refresh data request, if the address is matched with the electronic price tag 2, receiving the picture difference object, analyzing the received picture difference object through the picture difference analyzing module 21, calculating the difference area, the positioning coordinate and the content, and analyzing the picture difference object by the picture difference analyzing module 21 as follows: the method comprises the steps that the location coordinates of the area to be refreshed, the size of the area to be refreshed and the picture content of the area to be refreshed are located, the electronic price tag 1 starts from the corresponding display memory position of the electronic screen 22 according to the upper left corner location coordinates of the difference picture, data of each pixel in one line are scanned one by one from the difference picture content according to the width of the difference rectangular area and are sequentially written into the corresponding memory area of the electronic screen, after scanning of one line is finished, the data of the pixel in the next line are located to the display memory position of the next line and written into the pixel data of the next line, and all lines are written into the difference rectangular area line by line according to the mode.
And 6, the electronic price tag 2 correspondingly positions the coordinate position on the electronic screen 22 according to the analyzed content, and refreshes the picture content of the area to be refreshed according to the size of the area to be refreshed.
The refresh data request includes: the address of the electronic price tag 1 to be refreshed, the location coordinate of the area to be refreshed, the size of the area to be refreshed and the picture content of the area to be refreshed.
Referring to fig. 2 and 4, in the step 1), a step 11) of splitting the electronic price tag 2 is further included, and in the price tag server 1, the newly created electronic screen 22 display template is divided into a plurality of display areas, and the multi-screen display transmission is mapped to the electronic screen 22 of the electronic price tag 2.
Preferably, before the step 1) of establishing the electronic screen display template, the method for refreshing the local data of the electronic price tag further comprises a step a of displaying the electronic price tag in a split screen mode:
step A1, newly building an electronic screen overall display template on the price tag server 1, cutting the electronic screen overall display template into a plurality of sub-screen templates as required according to how many groups of commodity information are to be displayed on each electronic price tag 2, wherein each sub-screen template is used for editing one group of commodity information;
step A2, editing each sub-screen template, generating each sub-screen positioning coordinate, wherein the upper left corner of each sub-screen is the sub-screen positioning coordinate, and meanwhile, the area size of each sub-screen is obtained;
step a3, inputting commodity information of each sub-screen in the price tag server 1, synthesizing each sub-screen content, and generating an electronic screen display object, wherein the electronic screen display object comprises: positioning coordinates of the sub-screen, the area size of the sub-screen and display contents of the sub-screen;
step A4, the price tag server 1 sends a request for refreshing the electronic screen and a display object of the electronic screen to the electronic price tag 2, wherein the request for refreshing the electronic screen comprises an address of the electronic price tag to be refreshed;
step A5, after the electronic price tag 1 receives a request for refreshing the electronic screen, firstly identifying the address of the electronic price tag 2 to be refreshed, if the address is not matched with the electronic price tag 2, ignoring the request for refreshing the electronic screen, and if the address is matched with the electronic price tag 2, receiving a display object of the electronic screen;
step A6, the electronic price tag 1 analyzes the electronic screen display object to obtain each sub-screen positioning coordinate and the sub-screen display content;
and step A7, refreshing the electronic screen 22 according to the positioning coordinates and the display content of the sub-screen.
The present invention has been described in detail, and it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the preferred embodiment of the invention, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

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1. An electronic price tag data refreshing system is used for refreshing electronic price tag display contents, and is characterized in that: including price tag server and electron price tag, wherein:
the price tag server is used for processing and updating the display content of the electronic price tag and sending an electronic price tag refreshing data request;
and the electronic price tag is provided with an electronic screen and used for displaying commodity information, receiving a refreshing data request sent by the price tag server, analyzing and generating refreshing content and refreshing the display content of the electronic screen.
2. The electronic price tag data refresh system of claim 1, wherein: the price tag server comprises a picture difference calculating module which is used for calculating and comparing the difference between the new picture and the old picture displayed in the electronic price tag to be refreshed and setting the difference part as a picture difference object.
3. The electronic price tag data refresh system of claim 2, wherein: the electronic price tag comprises an analysis picture difference module which is used for analyzing the picture difference object sent by the price tag server and refreshing the display content of the electronic screen.
4. The electronic price tag data refresh system of claim 4, wherein: in the price tag server, the electronic price tag is divided into a plurality of display areas by setting a split screen display template, so that a plurality of groups of commodity information are displayed in different display areas in the same electronic price tag electronic screen.
5. A method for refreshing local data of an electronic price tag is characterized by comprising the following steps: the method comprises the following steps:
step 1, newly building an electronic screen display template on the price tag server;
step 2, editing the content on the display template of the electronic screen and generating a display picture to be refreshed;
step 3, after receiving a display picture to be refreshed, a picture difference calculation module of the price tag server compares the display picture with an original display picture of the electronic screen to obtain a picture difference object, wherein the picture difference object comprises different areas, positioning coordinates and contents;
step 4, the price tag server sends a data refreshing request to the electronic price tag and simultaneously sends a picture difference object;
step 5, after the electronic price tag receives the data refreshing request, receiving a picture difference object, analyzing the received picture difference object through an analysis picture difference module, and calculating the difference area, the positioning coordinate and the content;
and 6, refreshing the electronic screen by the electronic price tag according to the analyzed content.
6. The electronic price tag local data refresh method of claim 5, wherein: the refresh data request includes: the method comprises the steps of refreshing the address of the electronic price tag to be refreshed, the positioning coordinate of the area to be refreshed, the size of the area to be refreshed and the picture content of the area to be refreshed.
7. The electronic price tag local data refresh method of claim 5, wherein: in the step 1), the method further comprises a step 11) of splitting the electronic price tag, wherein in the price tag server, the newly-built electronic screen display template is divided into a plurality of display areas, and the multi-screen display transmission is mapped to the electronic screen of the electronic price tag.
8. The electronic price tag local data refresh method of claim 5, wherein: step A of displaying the electronic price tags in a split screen manner is further included before the step 1):
step A1, newly building an electronic screen integral display template on the price tag server, and cutting the electronic screen integral display template into a plurality of sub-screen templates according to requirements;
step A2, editing each sub-screen template and generating each sub-screen positioning coordinate;
step A3, inputting commodity information of each sub-screen in the price tag server, synthesizing each sub-screen content, and generating an electronic screen display object;
step A4, the price tag server sends a request for refreshing the electronic screen and a display object of the electronic screen to the electronic price tag;
a5, after the electronic price tag receives a request for refreshing the electronic screen, receiving a display object of the electronic screen;
step A6, analyzing the electronic screen display object by the electronic price tag to obtain the positioning coordinates and the display content of each sub-screen;
and step A7, refreshing the electronic screen according to the positioning coordinates and the display content of the sub-screen.
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