Driving device of intelligent power supply and spliced display system thereof
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a tiled display, and more particularly, to a driving device for an intelligent power supply of a tiled display and a tiled display system thereof, which achieve an intelligent power saving effect.
Background
In recent years, tiled displays have become quite popular, such as: the spliced display is formed by splicing a plurality of display units such as a liquid crystal panel or a light emitting diode … and the like according to the name, and the liquid crystal panel or the light emitting diode display panel can be used as a display independently according to different use requirements, can be spliced into an oversized display for use, and can also be used for straight-line, horizontal-line or random spliced combination display.
Referring to fig. 1, a tiled display 1 is connected to a power supply unit 3 and a control unit 2, and the control unit 2 is also connected to the power supply unit 3, and referring to fig. 2, the tiled display 1 is provided with a plurality of display units 10, each display unit 10 includes a light emitting array unit 100 and an array connection device 101, and each light emitting array unit 100 is formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements (e.g. LEDs, IC-LEDs, mini LEDs, micro LEDs) in an array, each array connection device 101 is respectively provided with a power receiving unit 1010 and a display data receiving unit 1012, wherein the power receiving unit 1010 includes a first electrode portion 10100 and a second electrode portion 10101, all the first electrode portions 10100 are connected together, all the second electrode portions 10101 are connected together, and then each display data receiving unit 1012 is connected to the control unit 2, so that the power supply of each array connection device 101 is continuously maintained by the power supply unit 3, and the display data required by each display data receiving unit 1012 is provided by the control unit 2.
However, tiled displays have some problems, such as: the power supply unit 3 and the control unit 2 need to occupy a relatively large installation space, and in addition, even if any one or more led arrays are not required to display any picture, the power supply unit 3 needs to keep supplying power to the respective array connection devices 10, resulting in unnecessary power loss. Although the power supply unit 3 and the control unit 2 occupy a relatively large installation space, the power supply unit 3 and the control unit 2 are necessary and indispensable, so the problem to be solved primarily at present is to reduce unnecessary power loss, thereby achieving the purposes of energy saving and carbon reduction.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the problems of the prior art, the present invention is directed to changing the manner in which the power supply unit provides each array connection device and the manner in which the control unit transmits the power to the array connection device, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing power consumption.
According to the present invention, there is provided a driving apparatus including a decoder, a power controller, a data selector and a data buffer, wherein the decoder is connected to the power controller and the data selector, and the decoder receives a data packet signal from the control unit, parses selection data and display data from the data packet signal, and transmits the selection data to the power controller and the data selector, the power controller is provided with a plurality of power channels, the power controller turns on one or more power channels required to output a display screen according to the selection data, the data selector is connected to the data buffer, the data buffer is provided with a plurality of final data outputs, the data selector determines one or more final data outputs to turn on the data buffer according to the selection data, and transmits the display data to the data buffer first, and after the data buffer performs signal enhancement, the display data is transmitted to the turned on final data outputs.
The driving device further comprises a first power input end and a driving grounding end, wherein the first power input end and the driving grounding end are connected with the power supply unit and used for receiving power required by the power supply unit to provide the operation of the decoder, the power controller, the data selector and the data buffer.
Wherein the decoder further comprises a data receiving terminal, a selection data output terminal and a display data output terminal, wherein the data receiving terminal receives the data packet signal, the selection data output terminal outputs the selection data, and the display data output terminal outputs the display data.
The power supply controller further comprises a second power input end and a first selection data input end, wherein the second power input end is connected with the power supply unit and used for receiving power supplied by the power supply unit, and the first selection data input end is connected with the selection data output end so that the power supply controller can start a power channel for outputting a display picture according to selection data.
The data selector further comprises a second selection data input end, a first display data receiving end and a first display data output end, wherein the second selection data input end is connected with the selection data output end, so that the data selector starts the data buffer and the data output end which needs to output the display picture according to the selection data. The first display data receiving terminal is provided to receive the display data, and the first display data output terminal is provided to transmit the display data to the data buffer so that the data buffer outputs the display data from the final data output terminal which is turned on.
According to the present invention, a tiled display system is provided, which comprises a tiled display control unit, a power supply unit and the driving device, wherein the tiled display comprises a plurality of array display units, each array display unit comprises a light emitting array unit and an array connection device, the light emitting array units of the same array display unit are connected with the array connection device, the driving device is connected with the tiled display, the control unit and the power supply unit, the control unit generates a data packet signal according to information of each array display unit needing to output a picture, the power supply unit is connected with the control unit and the driving device, the driving device analyzes display data and selection data from the data packet signal, so as to switch on the connection state of one or more array connection devices and the power supply unit of the picture according to the selection data, and transmit power to each array display unit needing to output the picture through one or more switched on array connection devices, and the driving device sends the display data to one or more array connection devices which are switched on. Thus, only the array display unit which needs to output the picture receives the power of the power supply unit, and the array display unit which does not need to output the picture does not receive the power of the power supply unit, thereby reducing the unnecessary power loss.
The power supply unit comprises a first grounding end, a second grounding end, a third grounding end, a first power supply end, a second power supply end and a third power supply end, and each array connecting device comprises a power receiving part and a final data receiving end respectively. Each power receiving part comprises a third power input end and a fourth grounding end. The first grounding end and the first power supply end are connected to the control unit, so that the power supply unit supplies power required by the control unit, the second grounding end and the second power supply end are connected to the driving device, so that the power supply unit supplies power required by functional components (a decoder, a power controller, a data selector and a data buffer) in the driving device, the third grounding end is connected with a fourth grounding end arranged on each array connecting device, each power output end is respectively connected with one of the third power input ends, the third power supply end is connected to the power controller in the driving device, and the power supply unit supplies power to each array connecting device by starting a power channel of each array connecting device requiring output pictures according to selection data.
The light emitting array unit is formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements in an array, wherein the light emitting elements can be Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), IC-LEDs, mini light emitting diodes (Mini LEDs) or Micro light emitting diodes (Micro LEDs).
In summary, the driving device is connected to each of the array connection devices, the control unit and the power supply unit, so that the driving device determines the channels between the array connection devices and the power supply unit to be opened according to the data packet signals of the control unit, and the channels between the array connection devices and the power supply unit which are not required to be opened are closed, thereby achieving the purpose of saving power.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional tiled display.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a conventional array connection device.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the driving device of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a tiled display system according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a tiled display, a power controller, and a power supply unit according to the present invention.
Symbol description
1: spliced display
10: display unit
100: light emitting array unit
101: array connecting device
1010: power receiving unit
1012: display data receiving unit
10100: a first electrode part
10101: a second electrode part
2: control unit
3: power supply unit
4: driving device
40: decoder
401: data packet signal receiving terminal
402: select data output terminal
403: display data output terminal
42: power supply controller
420: a second power input terminal
422: a first selection data input terminal
424: power supply output terminal
44: data selector
440: a second selection data input terminal
442: first display data receiving terminal
444: a first display data output terminal
46: data buffer
460: final data output terminal
462: data buffer input terminal
48: a first power input end
49: drive ground
5: spliced display
50: array display unit
500: light emitting array unit
502: array connecting device
52: power supply receiving part
520: third power input terminal
522: fourth grounding end
54: final data receiving terminal
6: control unit
60: data packet signal output terminal
7: power supply unit
71: first grounding end
72: second grounding end
73: third grounding end
74: a first power supply terminal
75: a second power supply terminal
76: third power supply terminal
The following detailed description will further illustrate the application in conjunction with the above-described figures.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and examples, in order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The present invention is a driving device, referring to FIG. 3, the driving device 4 includes a decoder 40, a power controller 42, a data selector 44 and a data buffer 46. The decoder 40 receives the data packet signal and parses the selected data and the display data from the data packet signal, the power controller 42 has a plurality of power outputs 424, the data selector 44 is connected to the data buffer 46, and the data buffer 46 has a plurality of final data outputs 460. The decoder 40 is connected to the power controller 42 and the data selector 44, and transmits the selected data to the power controller 42 and the data selector 44, and further transmits the display data to the data selector 44.
When the power controller 42 receives the selection data, the power controller 42 can turn on one or more power output terminals 424 of the display screen according to the selection data, and output power via one or more power output terminals 424. When the data selector 44 receives the selection data, the data selector 44 opens the data buffer 46 and at least one or more final data output terminals 460 for outputting the display frame according to the selection data, and transmits the display data to the data buffer 46 first, and after the signal enhancement of the data buffer 46, transmits the display data to the final data output terminals 460 for outputting the display frame, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption.
In the present invention, the driving device 4 further includes a first power input terminal 48 and a driving ground terminal 49, wherein the first power input terminal 48 and the driving ground terminal 49 are connected to the power supply unit 7 for receiving the power required by the power supply unit 7 for providing the power required by the decoder 40, the power controller 42, the data selector 44 and the data buffer 46, and it should be specifically noted that the power required by the power supply unit 7 for providing the power required by the decoder 40, the power controller 42, the data selector 44 and the data buffer 46 can be the same voltage and current, or different voltages and currents can be provided according to the requirements, as if the circuit designs of many electronic products have different voltages or currents.
In the present invention, the decoder 40 further comprises a data receiving terminal 401, a selection data output terminal 402 and a display data output terminal 403, wherein the data receiving terminal 401 receives the data packet signal from the control unit 6, the control unit 6 pre-processes the selection data and the display data to be combined into a data packet signal, the selection data output terminal 402 outputs the selection data analyzed from the data packet signal, and the display data output terminal 403 outputs the display data analyzed from the data packet signal.
In the present invention, the power controller 42 further includes a second power input 420 and a first selection data input 422, the second power input 420 is connected to the power supply unit 7 for receiving the power supplied by the power supply unit 7, in general, the power required for the external electronic components connected to the driving device 4 to operate may be ac or dc, the driving device 4 is usually dc, and the power of the two components may be different, so that the power controller 42 is divided into different power supply channels for connecting the driving device 4 and the external electronic components. The first selection data input 422 is connected to the selection data output 402, and the power controller 42 is enabled to output the power output 424 of the display screen according to the selection data.
Furthermore, the data selector 44 further includes a second selection data input 440, a first display data receiving 442 and a first display data output 444, wherein the second selection data input 440 is connected to the selection data output 402, so that the data selector 44 can receive the selection data, and further, the data buffer 46 is turned on according to the selection data and the final data output 460 for outputting the display frame, the first display data receiving 442 provides the received display data, and the first display data output 444 provides the transmission of the display data to the data buffer 46, so that the data buffer 46 transmits the display data from the turned on final data output 460 to an external device.
The data buffer 46 further includes a data buffer input 462, the data buffer input 462 is connected to the first display data output 444 for receiving display data, and the display data is transmitted to an external device through the turned-on final data output 460 after the signal is enhanced by the data buffer 46.
The invention relates to a tiled display system, please refer to fig. 4, which comprises a tiled display 5, a control unit 6, a power supply unit 7 and the driving device 4, wherein the tiled display 5 comprises a plurality of array display units 50, each array display unit 50 comprises a light emitting array unit 500 and an array connection device 502, the light emitting array units 500 of the same array display unit 50 are connected with the array connection device 502, the light emitting array unit 500 is formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements in an array, and the light emitting elements can be Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), IC-LEDs, mini light emitting diodes (Mini LEDs) or Micro light emitting diodes (Micro LEDs).
Furthermore, the driving device 4 is connected to each of the array connection devices 502, the control unit 6 and the power supply unit 7, the control unit 6 generates selection data according to information of one or more of the array display units 50 of the output frame, and generates data packet signals from the selection data and display data of each of the one or more of the array display units 50 of the output frame, the power supply unit 7 is connected to the control unit 6, the driving device 4 and each of the array connection devices 502, and the driving device 4 analyzes the display data and the selection data from the data packet signals, so that power of the power supply unit 7 is transmitted to the array connection device 502 corresponding to one or more of the array display units 50 of the output frame according to the selection data, and then to the connected light emitting array unit 500, and the display data is transmitted to the array connection device 502 corresponding to one or more of the array display units 50. Thus, only the array display units 50 that need to output pictures receive the power of the power supply unit 7, and the array display units 50 that do not need to output pictures do not receive the power of the power supply unit 7, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption.
In the present invention, the power supply unit 7 includes a first ground terminal 71, a second ground terminal 72, a third ground terminal 73, a first power supply terminal 74, a second power supply terminal 75, and a third power supply terminal 76. Each array connection device 502 includes a power receiving portion 52 and a final data receiving end 54. Each power receiving portion 52 includes a third power input terminal 520 and a fourth ground terminal 522 (shown in fig. 5).
It should be noted that, between the power supply unit 7 and the tiled display 50 in fig. 4, only one of the power output terminals 424 is connected to one of the power receiving portions 52 (further, the third power input terminal 520 of the power receiving portion 52) due to insufficient drawing space in fig. 4, and in addition, the connection of the final data receiving terminal 54 to the data buffer 46 and the connection of the power supply unit 7 to the power controller 42 are omitted for simplicity in fig. 5.
The first ground terminal 71 and the first power supply terminal 74 are connected to the control unit 6, so that the power supply unit 7 supplies power required by the control unit 6. The second ground terminal 72 is connected to the driving ground terminal 49, and the second power supply terminal 75 is connected to the first power input terminal 48 of the driving device 4 for providing power required by the driving device 4. The third ground 73 is connected to all the fourth grounds 522, the third power supply 76 is connected to the second power input 420, each power output 424 is connected to the third power input 520 of one of the power receiving units 52, and the third ground 424 is used to turn on the power output 424 of the picture to be output at the power controller 42, so that the power supply unit 7 supplies power to the third power input 520 of one or more of the array connection devices 502 of the picture to be output.
In the present invention, the control unit 6 is further provided with a data packet signal output terminal 60, wherein the data packet signal output terminal 60 is connected to the driving device 4 for outputting the data packet signal to the driving device 4, and further the data packet signal output terminal 60 is connected to the data receiving terminal 401 of the decoder 40 of the driving device 4 for outputting the data packet signal to the decoder 40.
For example, the array display unit 50 formed by the light emitting elements has 16 light emitting diode array modules arranged in a 4×4 array, that is, m=4, n=4, but the present invention is not limited to this, and m and n are positive integers, and not necessarily m=n, for example: m=4, n=6. The power controller 42 of this embodiment has sixteen power supply channels, the data buffer 46 has sixteen final data output terminals 460, and the control unit 6 outputs data packet signals 60 which are sixteen select signals plus twenty-four display data for forty combinations, assuming that the array display unit 50 of the second row (m=2, n=1) to (m=2, n=4) needs to output display frames, so the control unit 6 generates the select data of the output display frames of the second row, and combines the twenty-four display data to generate the data packet signals. When the decoder 40 receives the data packet signal, it decodes the data packet signal into the selection data and the display data, so that the power controller 42 turns on the power output end 424 between the array connection devices 502 corresponding to the second row of the display frames to be outputted, and the data selector 44 turns on the final data output end 460 between the array connection devices 502 corresponding to the second row of the display frames to be outputted, and outputs the display data to the data buffer 46 to enhance the signal strength, and then transmits the display data to the array connection devices 502 corresponding to the display frames to be outputted, so that the array display unit 50 of the second row (m=2, n=1) - (m=2, n=4) can receive the power and the display data from the array connection devices 502 connected thereto.
In summary, the driving device 4 is connected to each of the tiled display 5, the control unit 6 and the power supply unit 7, the data packet signals of the control unit 6 are transmitted to the driving device 4, and the power output terminals 424 and the final data output terminals 460 are required to be turned on according to the selection data of the data packet signals, so that the display data can be sequentially transmitted to the corresponding array connection device 502 from the turned-on final data output terminals 460 through the decoder 40, the data selector 44 and the data buffer 46, and the turned-off power output terminals 424 are not required to be turned on, thereby achieving the purpose of saving power.
The foregoing detailed description is directed to embodiments of the invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, but rather to cover all equivalent embodiments or modifications that may be included within the scope of the present invention without departing from the spirit of the invention.