CN115598868A

CN115598868A - Image display system

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Publication number: CN115598868A
Application number: CN202110781603.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴进营; 曾晞; 王文哲; 吴灏; 陈宇; 林惠君
Original assignee: Fuzhou Sifei Information Technology Co ltd; Guangzhou OED Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Fuzhou Sifei Information Technology Co ltd; Guangzhou OED Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-09
Filing date: 2021-07-09
Publication date: 2023-01-13

Abstract

The invention discloses an image display system, which can repeatedly carry out image display excitation under the influence of an image display excitation source, can display an image every time of image display excitation, and maintains the image display state under the action of the image display excitation source after the image display excitation source is cancelled. The system comprises image display carriers and image display activation means independent of each other, one image display activation means being able to perform image display activation of at least one image display carrier and one image display carrier being able to match at least one image display activation means. The image display carrier comprises a plurality of coloring units for displaying images, the image display excitation device comprises a plurality of control parts for controlling the excitation state of at least one coloring unit, and the excitation state of the coloring unit comprises changing the self color and/or changing the self spatial position. The colored cells each have an excited steady-state display characteristic.

Description

Image display system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of display, in particular to an image display system.

Background

As is well known, paper is used as a printing carrier, and images and characters are printed objects, and both of them constitute an image display system, and until today, the technology is developed at a high speed, so that the image display system cannot be separated. Although the printer can print on both sides of a sheet and thus save paper consumption, the contents printed on the sheet cannot be rewritten, that is, a sheet cannot be reused. Therefore, the huge consumption of paper remains a problem to be solved urgently.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the century difficult problem that paper cannot be reused, and provides an image display system for realizing the century difficult problem, which can repeatedly carry out image display excitation under the influence of an image display excitation source, can display one image every time of image display excitation, and maintains the image display state under the action of the image display excitation source after the image display excitation source is cancelled.

An image display system provided by the present invention includes: the image display and excitation device comprises independent image display carriers and image display and excitation devices, wherein one image display and excitation device can perform image display and excitation on at least one image display carrier, one image display carrier can be matched with at least one image display and excitation device, and the image display and excitation is a process that the image display carriers display images under the action of an image display excitation source which is provided by the image display and excitation device and carries image information;

the image display carrier comprises a plurality of coloring units for displaying images, the image display excitation device comprises a plurality of control parts for controlling the excitation state of at least one coloring unit, and the excitation state of the coloring unit comprises changing the self color and/or changing the self spatial position;

the coloring unit can be in a first excitation state under the action of a first image display excitation source, maintain the first excitation state after the action of the first image display excitation source is cancelled, be in a second excitation state under the action of a second image display excitation source, and maintain the second excitation state after the action of the second image display excitation source is cancelled, wherein the first image display excitation source and the second image display excitation source are provided by the same image display excitation device or different image display excitation devices.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

the coloring unit includes at least one of photochromic particles, electrochromic particles, two-color spin spheres, cholesteric liquid crystals, pigment particles, and toner.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

the image display excitation source comprises at least one of temperature, sound, light, electricity, and magnetism.

In the alternative,

the control part comprises conductive substrates arranged according to a preset rule.

In the alternative,

the conductive substrate arranged regularly comprises a thin film transistor.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

the image display carrier comprises a conductive material layer and a display material layer, wherein the conductive material layer and the display material layer are tightly attached, and the coloring unit is arranged in the display material.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

the image display carrier comprises a substrate layer to which a conductive material layer is attached.

In the alternative,

the image display carrier includes a medium extending over the coloring unit for maintaining a spatial position of the coloring unit in a stationary state; the coloring unit in a stationary state is a coloring unit stationary with respect to the image display carrier;

the image display carrier includes a plurality of moving spaces, and at least one of the coloring units is movable in an inner medium of the moving spaces.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

the image display carrier is wrapped by a water vapor barrier material.

In the alternative,

the image display carrier comprises an ID which is matched with one image information in a plurality of image information provided by the image display excitation device; the image display activation device includes a reading unit that reads the ID and an acquisition unit that acquires image information that the ID matches.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

the display system comprises an image display carrier and an image display activation device which are independent of each other, wherein the image display carrier comprises a plurality of coloring units for displaying images, the image display activation device comprises a plurality of control parts for controlling the activation state of at least one coloring unit, and the activation state of the coloring unit comprises changing the color and/or the spatial position of the coloring unit; the coloring unit can be in a first excitation state under the action of a first image display excitation source, maintain the first excitation state after the action of the first image display excitation source is cancelled, be in a second excitation state under the action of a carrying second image display excitation source, and maintain the second excitation state after the action of the second image display excitation source is cancelled. The image display carrier with the plurality of coloring units displays a first image under the action of a first image display excitation source carrying first image information, and maintains the display state of the first image after the action of the first image display excitation source is cancelled; and in the state of displaying the first image, displaying the second image under the action of a second image display excitation source carrying second image information, and after the action of the second image display excitation source is cancelled, maintaining the display state of the second image. The image display carrier realizes the function of image repeated refreshing under the action of the image display exciting device. The image display excitation device can carry out image display excitation on at least one image display carrier, one image display carrier can be matched with the at least one image display excitation device, and the image display excitation is a process that the image display carrier displays the image under the action of an image display excitation source which is provided by the image display excitation device and carries image information; the first image display excitation source and the second image display excitation source are provided by the same image display excitation device or by different image display excitation devices. Thereby releasing the limitation that one image display activating device can only correspond to one image display carrier.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an image display carrier in a second embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of an image display carrier in a fourth embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the structure of an image display activation device in a fifth embodiment and a sixth embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an image display excitation device in a seventh embodiment and an eighth embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the description is illustrative only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Moreover, in the following description, descriptions of well-known structures and techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the concepts of the present disclosure.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure. The words "a", "an" and "the" and the like as used herein are also intended to include the meanings of "a plurality" and "the" unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and the like, as used herein, specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, or components.

All terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. It is noted that the terms used herein should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with the context of this specification and should not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense.

First, the invention will be explained. The image display system comprises an image display carrier and an image display exciting device which are independent from each other, and the image display carrier and the image display exciting device are not in physical connection. The image display excitation device can carry out image display excitation on at least one image display carrier, one image display carrier can be matched with the at least one image display excitation device, and the image display excitation is a process that the image display carrier displays the image under the action of an image display excitation source which is provided by the image display excitation device and carries image information; it will be appreciated that similar to a printer, a printer may print multiple sheets of paper, and that each sheet of paper may be adapted for a different type of printer. The image display carrier comprises a plurality of coloring units for displaying images, the image display activation device comprises a plurality of control parts for controlling the activation state of at least one coloring unit, and the activation state of the coloring unit comprises changing the self color and/or changing the self spatial position. The coloring units are core components of the image display carrier, the image display carrier can be understood as a sheet-shaped, thin and solid structure, thousands of coloring units or more are arranged in the image display carrier, the image display carrier presents images through the spatial arrangement and the colors of the coloring units, and when the colors or the spatial positions of the coloring units are changed, the images are changed.

The coloring unit can be in a first excitation state under the action of a first image display excitation source, maintain the first excitation state after the action of the first image display excitation source is cancelled, be in a second excitation state under the action of a second image display excitation source, and maintain the second excitation state after the action of the second image display excitation source is cancelled. The above-mentioned characteristic of the coloring unit is also the core of the present invention, and the image display carrier can be reused, and the excited steady-state display of the coloring unit plays a decisive role. Since the first image display excitation source and the second image display excitation source are provided by the same image display excitation device or different image display excitation devices, one image display carrier can be matched with a plurality of image display excitation devices. The image display carrier realizes the function of image repeated refreshing under the action of the image display exciting device.

The current display technology mainly comprises a CRT, an LCD and an LED, wherein a CRT display mainly comprises an electron gun, a deflection coil, a shadow mask, a fluorescent powder layer, glass and the like, and electrons are emitted by the electron gun to excite the fluorescent powder; the LCD controls each liquid crystal particle to rotate to a surface with different colors through the TFT, so that different colors and images are combined; the LED displays an image by controlling a display mode of the semiconductor light emitting diode. The common feature of these displays is that the excitation means and the display means must be in one-to-one correspondence and not separable. The image display system of the present invention is essentially different from the existing display in that the image display carrier and the image display activation means are separable from each other. The image display excitation device can carry out image display excitation on at least one image display carrier, one image display carrier can be matched with the at least one image display excitation device, and the image display excitation is a process that the image display carrier displays the image under the action of an image display excitation source which is provided by the image display excitation device and carries image information; the first image display excitation source and the second image display excitation source are provided by the same image display excitation device or by different image display excitation devices. Thereby releasing the limitation that one image display activating device can only correspond to one image display carrier.

It should be noted that the first image information and the second image information may be interpreted as two pieces of image information in a temporal sense, and the contents of the image information may be the same or different. In the first image display excitation source carrying the first image information and the second image display excitation source carrying the second image information, the carrying can be interpreted as that the image information and the image display excitation source have a corresponding relation, and the image in the image information can be displayed under the action of the image display excitation source. The first image display stimulus source and the second image display stimulus source may be two image display stimulus sources in terms of time, and may be the same or different from each other with respect to the image display stimulus sources. Specific image display excitation sources may include temperature, acoustic, optical, electrical, and magnetic.

In practical applications, the image display support may be used as a shelf label. Shelf labels are generally installed near goods corresponding to shelves and used for marking prices of the goods and other information of the goods, and paper labels are mostly adopted in the market at present. Under the condition of using paper, when commodity information is frequently changed, a large amount of human resources and time resources are consumed, and the error rate is high. According to statistics, at least two minutes is needed for manually replacing one price tag, the tag loss rate is 2%, and the error rate is one ten thousandth to five ten thousandth. Paper price tags also involve labor costs for paper, ink, printing, and the like. In addition, in the case of paper price tags, the price change efficiency leads to price "fraud" caused by the price tag of the goods and the price of the cash register system not being uniform. Electronic Shelf labels (ESL, electronic Shelf Label System) are used as an Electronic image display carrier for replacing traditional paper price labels, each Electronic Shelf Label is connected with a computer database in a shopping mall through a wired or wireless network, and latest commodity prices are displayed through a screen on the Electronic Shelf labels. The electronic shelf label brings the shelf into a computer program, so that the condition of manually replacing the price label is avoided, and the price consistency between the cashier desk and the shelf is realized. The electronic shelf label system is quick and timely in price change, can finish price change of tens of thousands of price tags in a short time, simultaneously finishes butt joint with a cash register system, can increase the frequency of price change sales promotion, increases 3% of sales volume after replacing the electronic price tags according to statistics, and has a price change error rate of 0.00001%. However, there are still many problems with most electronic shelf labels on the market: first, these electronic shelf labels require batteries to supply power, and when the batteries are exhausted, they need to be manually replaced, thereby increasing costs. If the replacement is not performed in time, the electronic tag is corroded by the outflow of the battery liquid, and the discarded battery causes environmental pollution if not properly disposed. Secondly, base stations are needed, which are limited by the coverage distance of the base stations, and are installed every 5 or 6 meters, and the base stations also need to be maintained, which further increases the cost. Moreover, easily receive electromagnetic interference, today of the high-speed development of science and technology, electromagnetic environment is complicated, and the 2.4GHz frequency channel is easily caused by signal interference such as WIFI to lose the antithetical couplet, and then the condition that the label content lost or can't in time update takes place easily. Finally, the debugging takes a long time, the system needs about one week for installation and debugging, and the base station, the tag and the system need long-term tracking and maintenance, which increases the labor cost. The above problems are urgently needed to be solved.

Compared with the existing electronic shelf label, the invention has the following advantages: because the image display carrier of the system cancels a battery in an electronic paper shelf label and a wireless module matched with necessary equipment such as a base station, a repeater and the like in the prior art, the system has the advantages of environmental protection and time resource saving. Because the link of matching and networking with the base station is cancelled, the system is not interfered by electromagnetism, and the technical problem that the existing system is difficult to maintain is solved. Furthermore, the image display carrier eliminates a chip and a glass substrate or a control component of a TFT, so that the image display carrier can be matched with a pair of image display excitation devices, and one image display excitation device can also be matched with a plurality of image display carriers. The electronic shelf label is free from the limitation that one electronic shelf label must correspond to one control component, and compared with the existing electronic shelf label, the cost is greatly reduced. The invention can be applied to the field of electronic shelf labels, and can also be applied to scenes such as conference table boards, doorplates, chest cards, factory information boards, traffic signboards, advertising display boards and the like.

The inventive concept of the present invention is described above in its entirety. The following will explain the components of the present system.

The coloring units in the present invention include, but are not limited to, the following: electrophoretic pigment particles, photochromic particles, electrochromic particles, two-color rotating spheres, cholesteric liquid crystals, and toner.

(1) Electrophoretic pigment particles

One structure of the electrophoretic pigment particle comprises a core and a shell, wherein the core is a pigment particle, and the shell comprises a high molecular polymer and a coupling agent for coupling the high molecular polymer and the pigment particle. The pigment particles comprise positive pigment particles, negative pigment particles or neutral pigment particles, and are specifically one or a combination of more than two of carbon black, copper chromium black, copper iron manganese black, iron black, titanium dioxide, zinc white, barium sulfate, iron oxide red, iron oxide yellow, ultramarine, chrome yellow, cadmium red, manganese violet, chrome green, iron blue and cobalt blue. The coupling agent is one or the combination of more than two of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (KH 550), gamma- (2, 3-epoxypropoxy) propyltrimethoxysilane (KH 560), gamma- (methacryloyloxy) propyltrimethoxysilane (KH 570), gamma-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (KH 580), N-beta- (aminoethyl) -gamma-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (KH 792), vinylbenzylaminoethylaminopropyltrimethoxysilane (VAPMS) and isopropyltrioleate acyloxy titanate. In order to ensure that the average particle size of the electrophoretic pigment particles meets the requirement, the applicant needs to carry out micron treatment on the electrophoretic pigment particles, and the method can be implemented by grinding, crushing, ultrasonic or solvent dispersion and the like in practical application, and relevant equipment can comprise a colloid mill, a ball mill, a freezing crusher, an ultrasonic machine and the like. The particle size distribution, surface morphology, zeta potential, optical properties and chemical properties of the electrophoretic pigment particles are all related to the display of images.

(2) Cholesterol liquid crystal

The cholesteric Liquid Crystal (cholesteric Liquid Crystal) in the present invention includes a cholesteric Liquid Crystal and a nematic Liquid Crystal to which a polarizer is added or a nematic Liquid Crystal to which cholesteric Liquid Crystal molecules are added. In order to rapidly prepare cholesteric liquid crystals with different display wavelengths and different photoelectric characteristics according to requirements, a hybrid system of adding a light rotator to nematic liquid crystals is generally used as a main component. After the nematic liquid crystal is added with the optical rotation agent, the liquid crystal material generates a helical structure. When the cholesterol liquid crystal is arranged in two horizontal substrates, the cholesterol liquid crystal tends to be arranged in a plane spiral type under the condition of not applying electric field alignment, and under the condition of reflecting according with specific light wavelength, colored light can be reflected or a transparent state is presented.

Two methods for achieving the bistable effect of the cholesteric liquid crystal are provided, one is surface stabilized dielectric stability (SSCT), the other is polymer stabilized dielectric stability (PSCT), and the PSCT technology utilizes a method of adding a small number of polymer monomers to achieve the effect of stabilizing the state of a planar spiral type or a vertical spiral type. In the aspect of material selection, a monofunctional group or bifunctional group acrylic or epoxy group high polymer monomer is adopted, or a high polymer monomer which simultaneously has a bifunctional group and a liquid crystal phase is used; or a polymeric monomer having a liquid crystalline phase.

The PSCT technology comprises two modes, one is a normal mode, and the other is an inversion mode. The common mode is to keep the vertical spiral line state stably under 0V, and in the manufacturing method, the liquid crystal, the optical rotation agent, the light initiator and the high molecular monomer are mixed according to a specific proportion, and the ITO substrate without surface treatment is used, and after the ITO substrate is filled, the electric field is applied to maintain the vertical arrangement state, and then the ultraviolet light is used for irradiation, and the effect of stabilizing the liquid crystal is achieved by utilizing the acting force between the high molecular monomer and the liquid crystal. The inversion mode is similar to the normal mode, except that polyimide (polyimide) is additionally added on the substrate, rubbing alignment is required, and then ultraviolet light is directly used under the condition of not applying an electric field, the intensity of the ultraviolet light must be weaker than that of the normal mode, and the irradiation time must be prolonged. As for SSCT surface-mounted liquid crystal, the purpose of improving the display quality and effect is achieved mainly by changing the surface characteristics of the display panel. Because the bistable effect will be lost when the pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystal is too long, the vertical helical liquid crystal molecular structure generally applied to the cholesteric liquid crystal has too high activation energy to maintain the bistable state without applying an electric field, and therefore, the purpose of providing the stable state of the liquid crystal is achieved by changing the processing flow of the substrate surface on the premise of not changing the liquid crystal components. In this regard, the substrate process includes rough surface (RoughSurface), vertical alignment (hometropic alignment surface), and weak horizontal alignment (weak hometropic alignment surface). The proper vertical alignment technology is matched, so that the visual angle of the display can be improved. This is mainly due to the fact that the vertical alignment causes the liquid crystal alignment direction to be tilted, so that the incident light from the outside can be reflected to more different angles, thereby producing a wide viewing angle effect. Despite this advantage, the alignment technique also results in reduced reflectivity. If the alignment force is too large, the liquid crystal plane helical state will disappear, and therefore the bistable effect cannot be achieved, while if the proper horizontal alignment is matched, the reflectivity can be increased, but similarly, if the horizontal alignment force is too large, the vertical helical state of the liquid crystal will disappear, and the stable effect cannot be maintained. Materials commonly used in horizontal alignment include: polyimide (Polyimide), polyvinyl alcohol (polyvinyl alcohol), silicon oxide (silicon oxide), microgrooves (microgrooves), and linear photopolymeization (linear photopolymeization). Materials used for homeotropic alignment are: polyimide, polytetrafluoroethylene, lecithin, ammonium salts (QuatemaryAmmonium), silicon derivatives, HTAB or chromium complexes (Cr-complexes), etc., depending on the use of the final product, in addition to the physical properties of the relevant materials.

(3) Double-color rotary ball

The two halves of the sphere are painted in different colors, such as white or black, and the direction of the sphere is controlled by the electric field, and the white and black of the sphere display the image. Two-color spherical particles are uniformly coated on a support with a silicone rubber resin as a binder, and cavities around the particles are filled with a specific liquid, and the white hemisphere on the surface of the spherical particles is negative, and the black hemisphere is positive, and different charges are present between the two colors to form a dipole. If a negative charge pattern is applied to the surface of the sheet, the particles rotate, the black hemisphere faces upward, if a positive charge is applied to the surface of the sheet, and the white hemisphere faces upward, so that an image can be displayed.

(4) Dichromatic dye liquid crystal

A bichromal dye is permeated into recordable liquid crystal molecules to form peritectic crystals, and voltage is applied to the liquid crystal to change the arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules and the absorption of the dye to form an image. On the ITO transparent electrode, a mixed solution of liquid crystal, two-color dye and resin was applied as a 6 micrometer (μm) thick coating, with the dye initially being irregularly oriented and gray. However, when the ion current is written into the image, the dye is oriented to produce a white image. If the medium is heated to 60 deg.C or higher, it returns to the original gray state, so that the image can be erased. Alternatively, the image may be formed by corona discharge, which is performed by a thermal head to thermally write a white color.

(5) Toner powder

Black particles and white particles are filled between two glass plates with ITO transparent electrodes, and the particles move between the electrodes under the action of an external voltage, so that black and white can be displayed. The black particles are conductive toner particles, and the white particles are fluorinated carbon particles that slide easily. A charge transport layer is coated on the ITO electrode, which acts to inject positive charge into the toner through the electrode. The black particles contacting the lower electrode are charged with positive charges by charge injection from the charge transport layer, and move toward the upper electrode by coulomb attraction with the negative charges of the upper electrode, and at this time, the white particles move in the electrode layer. The black particles reaching the upper electrode are bonded to the charge transport layer as an insulating layer by coulomb force.

The functional characteristics of the shading units are exemplified previously. The description of the respective components of the image display carrier will be continued. The coloring unit having the property of exciting a steady-state display is associated with a medium extending over its surroundings for maintaining the spatial position of the coloring unit in a static state, where the static state is a relative concept and the static state of the coloring unit is static with respect to the image display carrier. The medium is not particularly limited herein. It is understood that the medium provides a resistance during the movement of the coloring unit, and provides a resistance against the gravity of the coloring unit after the coloring unit stops moving, and the medium is not particularly limited herein. It will be appreciated that the medium provides resistance during movement of the coloring unit and resistance to the weight of the coloring unit after the coloring unit has stopped moving, leaving the coloring unit in a relatively static state. In the case of electrophoretic particles, a dispersant, a thickener, a surface tension controlling agent and a charge controlling agent are distributed around the electrophoretic pigment particles. Wherein the dispersing agent comprises various non-polar and/or low-polar organic solvents and mixtures thereof, and the lower dispersing solvent comprises but is not limited to various aromatic hydrocarbons such as toluene, benzene, xylene, and halogenated hydrocarbons such as but not limited to chloroform, tetrachloroethylene, and the like; the non-polar dispersion solvent includes, but is not limited to, linear, branched and cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbons such as n-hexane, nonane, decane, synthetic isoparaffin (Isopar), synthetic paraffin (Norpar), synthetic cycloalkane (Nappar), synthetic alkane (Varsol/Naphtha), cyclohexane and halogenated hydrocarbons such as carbon tetrachloride; the thickener can be nonpolar macromolecule, including but not limited to polymethyl methacrylate, polyethylene, polypropylene, rubber such as polyisoprene, polyisobutylene, etc., wherein polymethyl methacrylate, polyisoprene, polyisobutylene are the best choice; in addition, the surface tension control agent can be selected from one or the combination of more than two of glycerin monostearate, ethyl distearyl hydroxyethyl methyl ammonium methyl sulfate, ethyl tristearyl hydroxyethyl methyl ammonium methyl sulfate, span20, span40, span60, span80, tween85 and alkyl tertiary amine salt; the charge control agent may be an organic sulfate, sulfonate, metal soap, organic amide, organic phosphate or phosphate, and may also be a polymer and a block or graft copolymer and their monomers. Polyisobutylene succinimide, metal soaps and lecithin poly or isobutylene and organosilicon derivatives may be selected as charge control agents.

The image display carrier comprises a plurality of moving spaces, and at least one coloring unit can move in the inner medium of the moving spaces. The electrophoretic liquid and the electrophoretic pigment particles dispersed in the electrophoretic liquid are wrapped in the moving space, so that the agglomeration of the electrophoretic pigment particles is effectively inhibited, and the stability and the service life of the image display carrier are improved. The moving space is provided with at least one of microcapsules and microcups. The microcapsule comprises the electrophoretic solution, electrophoretic pigment particles dispersed in the electrophoretic solution and at least one layer of capsule wall, wherein the capsule wall is formed by adopting a complex coacervation method or an in-situ polymerization method. In-situ polymerization, also called interfacial polymerization, adopts urea-formaldehyde resin or modified urea-formaldehyde resin as microcapsule wall material; the complex coacervation method adopts gelatin and Arabic gum as microcapsule wall materials. The microcups comprise electrophoretic fluid, electrophoretic pigment particles dispersed in the electrophoretic fluid and microcups, and the microcups can be cylinders with small size, cavities and sealed upper and lower surfaces. The microcups are prepared by die-casting the microcups by a microcup roller and hardening and forming by using ultraviolet rays, and then encapsulating electrophoretic pigment particles in electrophoretic fluid in the microcups by a specific method.

The image display carrier comprises a conductive material layer and a display material layer, wherein the conductive material layer and the display material layer are tightly attached, and the coloring unit is arranged in the display material. The purpose of displaying the image is realized by changing the spatial position of the position coloring unit. The precise control of the movement of the shading units, such as the control of the initial point coordinates of the shading units in a fixed space system, can realize the effect of further precise display. One preparation method of the display material layer is to mix transparent adhesive, display units containing electrophoretic fluid, such as microcapsules or microcups, and other solvents according to a predetermined proportion, and coat the obtained mixed solution on a substrate after uniformly stirring. In actual processing, the mixed solution may be coated on a substrate by a slot extrusion coating process. The slot extrusion coating process can be that the coating material is extruded from an extrusion opening of a coating die head after being pressurized by a quantitative pump and coated on the surface of a substrate. The coating layer thickness can be determined according to the coating extrusion amount of the coating die and the running speed of the substrate. The applicant was able to preset the extrusion orifice gap and the extrusion orifice to back-roll spacing to achieve control of the process. And then curing, wherein the curing process can be realized at normal temperature, and in order to accelerate the curing speed, the rapid curing can be realized by heating, air bellow drying or photocuring and other conventional curing means. It is to be noted that instead of the slit extrusion coating process, coating methods such as a blade coating method, a casting coating method, a brush coating method, a roll coating method, a spray coating method, a powder coating method, and the like, and screen printing and inkjet printing processes may be employed. The adhesive mentioned in the embodiment comprises an aqueous polyurethane emulsion or a solvent type polyurethane emulsion, and specifically comprises but is not limited to one or more of polyester diol, polyether diol, polyethylene glycol, a small molecular chain extender and diisocyanate.

The structure of the image display carrier of the present invention includes, but is not limited to, a layer of display material containing a curing medium and an electrophoretic fluid distributed in the curing medium and at least one electrophoretic pigment particle dispersed in the electrophoretic fluid; the display material layer is connected with the conductive material layer through an adhesive.

The conductive material layer in the present invention may be ITO (Indium Tin Oxides), also called as a semiconductor transparent conductive film, and is obtained by forming a transparent Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) conductive film plating layer on a transparent organic film material, such as PET (Polyethylene terephthalate), PE (Polyethylene), PP (polypropylene), and the like, and performing a high temperature annealing process. The preparation method of the ITO transparent conductive film comprises but is not limited to evaporation, sputtering, reactive ion plating, chemical vapor deposition or pyrolytic spraying and other process methods. In practical application, the ITO transparent conductive film can be replaced by the conductive film such as graphene, silver powder or nano silver wires. Since graphene has extremely high advantages in conductivity and hardness, it is suitable for making conductive films. The preparation method of the graphene conductive film includes, but is not limited to, a chemical vapor deposition method and a redox method. The chemical vapor deposition can obtain large single-layer graphene with good quality, has performance advantages in light transmittance and surface resistance, and has the defects of complex process route, high cost, low yield, limited film area and the like. The redox method adopts a solution process, is convenient for realizing large-area continuous preparation by a roll-to-roll process, and has great advantage in cost. The silver powder conductive film takes silver conductor paste as a main material, wherein silver powder is taken as a conductive functional material, and the electrical conductivity and the thermal conductivity of the silver powder are mainly utilized. The silver powder can be divided into coarse silver powder and nano silver wires according to the particle size, wherein the nano silver wires are formed by the average particle size of less than 0.1 mu m; the silver powder is coarse silver powder with the particle size of 0.1 mu m to Dav to 10.0 mu m. The silver nanowires have excellent conductivity of silver, and also have excellent light transmittance and flexibility in bending resistance due to the dimensional advantages at the nanoscale, and thus can be used as a preferred material to replace ITO.

The components of the image display carrier of the present invention are explained above, and the components of the image display excitation means are explained below. The control part is an important component of the image display exciting device for exciting the image display carrier. The control part can be a conductive substrate arranged according to a preset rule, and specifically can be a TFT glass substrate, an FPC (flexible printed circuit) or a segment code glass substrate. A TFT glass substrate may be used when dot matrix display technology is used. Segment code glass substrates may be used when segment code display technology is employed.

The image display carrier of the present invention has an ID that matches one of the plurality of image information supplied from the image display excitation means; the image display activation device includes a reading unit that reads the ID and an acquisition unit that acquires image information matched with the ID. And the image display excitation device reads the ID, acquires the image information matched with the ID after traversing the locally stored image information, and provides an image display excitation source carrying the image information to excite the image display carrier. The DI is arranged in the image display carrier, so that the aim of automatically matching and displaying images by the image display carrier is further fulfilled.

A specific embodiment of the image display system of the present invention will be explained below. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a first embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention includes:

the image display carrier 100A and the image display activating device 200A are independent from each other.

The image display carrier 100A includes: display material layer 101A, conductive material layer 102A, substrate layer 103A, and conductive member 104A. The display material layer 101A is tightly connected to the conductive material layer 102A, and the substrate layer 103A is tightly connected to the conductive material layer 102A. The conductive member 104A penetrates the display material layer 101A, and has one end contacting the conductive material layer 102A and the other end exposing the display material layer 101A.

The conductive material layer 102A has conductivity. The base material layer 103A may have conductivity or not. When one side of the substrate layer 103A is used as a display surface, light needs to sequentially pass through the substrate layer 103A and the conductive material layer 102A to reach the display material layer 101A, in this case, the substrate layer 103A and the conductive material layer 102A need to be made of transparent materials. The display material layer 101A and the conductive material layer 102A may be physically or chemically bonded to each other, for example, by a transparent adhesive, physical adsorption, or chemical bonding. When the display surface is the side of the display material layer 101A, the conductive material layer 102A may be transparent or opaque, the substrate layer 103A may be transparent or opaque, a transparent adhesive or an opaque adhesive may be used between the conductive material layer 102A and the substrate layer 103A, or the above physical or chemical methods may be used to connect them together. It should be noted that the display material layer 101A may be provided with a through hole, and a conductive filler is poured into the through hole, and the conductive filler forms the conductive member 104A after being cured.

The image display activation device 200A in the present embodiment includes a cover plate 201A, a base plate 202A, and a power supply and chip (the power supply and chip are not shown in the figure) the cover plate 201A and the base plate 202A are hinged to each other. An electrode plate 203A having a plurality of control portions is disposed on one surface of the base plate 202A adjacent to the cover plate 201A.

In this embodiment, the image display support 100A is placed at the electrode plate 203A with the display material layer 101A facing the electrode plate 203A in a specific application. After the cover plate 201A is pressed down, the display carrier 100A is in close contact with the electrode plate 203A at this time. When the display material layer 101A is in close contact with the electrode plate 203A, the image display activating device 200A supplies power to the electrode plate 203A, and the conductive member 104A is in contact with the electrode plate 203A to conduct current to the conductive material layer 102A, so that an electric field is formed between the electrode plate 203A and the conductive material layer 102A, and the control portion activates the coloring unit. The principle of the control unit for exciting the coloring unit is described in the foregoing, and is not described herein again.

Note that the size of the electrode plate 203A can be matched to the image display carrier 100A. At least one limiting rib 204A, preferably 4 limiting ribs, may also be disposed on the bottom plate 202A to effectively fix the image display carrier 100A to be aligned with the electrode plate 203A, so as to achieve the best image information display effect.

The close contact between the display material layer 101A and the electrode plate 203A can affect the display effect of the subsequent image display carrier 100A. In order to further improve the display effect, the pressing force is further increased. In practical applications, the cover plate 201A may be provided with a protrusion 205A on a side adjacent to the electrode plate 203A.

As a variation of the present embodiment, pressing is an opposite concept, which can be interpreted as a cover plate being disposed above a bottom plate with respect to the bottom plate, with both pressing forces being applied in a vertical direction. The cover plate is arranged above the bottom plate relative to the bottom plate by changing the spatial position of the image display exciting device and changing the spatial position of the image display exciting device. The cover plate can be arranged at the front, back, left or right side of the bottom plate relative to the bottom plate by changing the spatial position of the image display exciting device, and the pressing force exerted by the cover plate and the bottom plate is horizontal. The essence of the above technical means of the variation does not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solution of the embodiment of the invention. The above variations are not described in further detail in the following embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1 to fig. 3, a second embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that the image display carrier 100A further includes: a first water vapor barrier layer 105A, a second water vapor barrier layer 106A, and a water vapor barrier material 107A. A first water vapor blocking layer and a second water vapor blocking layer; the first water vapor blocking layer 105A covers the substrate layer 103A, the second water vapor blocking layer 106A covers the display material layer 101A, and the side surfaces of the display material layer 101A, the conductive material layer 102A, and the substrate layer 103A are covered with a water vapor blocking material 107A. The conductive device 104A penetrates the display material layer 101A and the second moisture barrier layer 106A, and has one end contacting the conductive material layer 102A and the other end exposing the display material layer 101A.

It should be noted that the water vapor barrier material has a function of blocking water vapor. The first water vapor blocking layer and the second water vapor blocking layer may be formed of the same water vapor blocking material or formed of different water vapor blocking materials.

In this embodiment, the water vapor barrier material 107A has insulating properties and may be transparent or opaque. If use first steam barrier layer 105A one side as the display surface, light need pass first steam barrier layer 105A, substrate layer 103A, and conducting material layer 102A reachs display material layer 101A in proper order, and under this condition, first steam barrier layer 105A need be transparent material, can electrically conduct or not electrically conduct, and second steam barrier layer 106A needs electrically conduct, can be transparent or opaque. If one side of the second moisture barrier layer 106A is used as a display surface, the first moisture barrier layer 105A may be conductive or non-conductive, transparent or opaque, and the second moisture barrier layer 106A needs to be conductive and transparent. The above-mentioned water vapor barrier material preferably has a characteristic that the transverse conductivity is lower than the longitudinal conductivity, and the difference may be several orders of magnitude. Since in most cases the direction of movement of the coloring units is longitudinal, the property that the transverse conductivity is lower than the longitudinal conductivity helps to solve the technical problem of the horizontal offset of the coloring units.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, a third embodiment of an image display system according to the present invention includes:

the image display support 100B and the image display activation device 200B are independent of each other.

The image display carrier 100B includes: a display material layer 101B and a conductive substrate layer 102B, the display material layer 101B being tightly connected to the conductive substrate layer 102B.

Both the display material layer 101B and the conductive base material layer 102B have conductivity. When the side of the conductive substrate layer 102B is used as the display surface, light sequentially passes through the conductive substrate layer 102B to reach the display material layer 101B, in this case, the conductive substrate layer 102B needs to be made of a transparent material, and the display material layer 101B and the conductive substrate layer 102B can be connected together by a physical or chemical method, for example, by a transparent adhesive, physical adsorption or chemical bonding. When the display surface is the display material layer 101B side, the conductive substrate layer 102B may be transparent or opaque.

It should be noted that, based on the prior art means, the display material layer cannot independently constitute the image display carrier, and needs to be attached to the substrate layer, and if the display material layer can independently constitute the image display carrier with the advancement of the technical means, the conductive substrate layer can be eliminated, and the essence of the future technical means does not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention.

The image display activation device 200B in this embodiment includes a cover plate 201B, a base plate 202B, and a power supply and chip (the power supply and chip are not shown in the figure) the cover plate 201B and the base plate 202B are hinged to each other. A first electrode plate 203B having a plurality of control portions is disposed on one side of the base plate 202B adjacent to the cover plate 201B, and a second electrode plate 205B is disposed on one side of the cover plate 201B adjacent to the electrode plate 203B.

In a specific application of this embodiment, the image display carrier 100B is disposed at the first electrode plate 203B between the first electrode plate 203B and the second electrode plate 205B, such that the display material layer 101A faces the first electrode plate 203B. After the cover plate 201B is pressed down, the display carrier 100A is in close contact with the first electrode plate 203B and the second electrode plate 205B. At this time, image display exciting device 200A supplies power to first electrode plate 203B and second electrode plate 205B, and an electric field is formed therebetween, and the control section excites the coloring unit.

Note that the size of the first electrode plate 203B can be matched to the image display carrier 100B. At least one limiting rib 204B, preferably 4 limiting ribs, may also be disposed on the bottom plate 202B to effectively fix the image display carrier 100B to be aligned with the electrode plate 203A, so as to achieve the best image information display effect.

Referring to fig. 4-6, a fourth embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the third embodiment in that the image display carrier 100B further includes: a first water vapor barrier layer 105B, a second water vapor barrier layer 106B, and a water vapor barrier material 107B. The first water vapor blocking layer and the second water vapor blocking layer are arranged on the substrate; the first water vapor blocking layer 105B covers the conductive substrate layer 102B, the second water vapor blocking layer 106B covers the display material layer 101B, and the sides of the display material layer 101B and the conductive substrate layer 102B are covered by the water vapor blocking material 107B.

It should be noted that the water vapor barrier material has a function of blocking water vapor. The first water vapor blocking layer and the second water vapor blocking layer may be formed of the same water vapor blocking material or formed of different water vapor blocking materials. In this embodiment, the water vapor barrier material 107B needs to be non-conductive and may be transparent or opaque. If use first steam barrier layer 105B one side as the display surface, light need pass first steam barrier layer 105B in proper order, and electrically conductive substrate layer 102B arrives at display material layer 101B, and under this condition, first steam barrier layer 105B need be transparent material, can electrically conduct or not electrically conduct, and second steam barrier layer 106B needs electrically conduct, can be transparent or opaque. If one side of the second moisture barrier layer 106B is used as the display surface, the first moisture barrier layer 105B may be conductive or non-conductive, transparent or opaque, and the second moisture barrier layer 106B needs to be conductive and transparent.

Referring to fig. 1-3 and fig. 7, a fifth embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that the image display activation device 200C includes: a power supply and chip (power supply and chip not shown in the figure), an electrode plate 201C, and a delivery device 202C, which is disposed in close proximity to the electrode plate 201C. The conveying device 202C is composed of a timing roller and a belt, and is used to convey the image display carrier 100A and bring the image display carrier 100A into close contact with the electrode plate 201C. The image display activating device 200C supplies power to the electrode plate 201C, and the conductive member 104A comes into contact with the electrode plate 203A to conduct current to the conductive material layer 102A, so that an electric field is formed between the electrode plate 203A and the conductive material layer 102A, and the control section activates the coloring unit.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3 and 7, a sixth embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the second embodiment in that the image display activation device 200C includes: a power supply and chip (power supply and chip not shown in the figure) electrode plate 201C and a delivery device 202C, which is disposed proximate to the electrode plate 201C. The conveying device 202C is composed of a timing roller and a belt, and is used to convey the image display carrier 100A and bring the image display carrier 100A into close contact with the electrode plate 201C. The image display activating device 200C supplies power to the electrode plate 201C, and the conductive member 104A comes into contact with the electrode plate 203A to conduct current to the conductive material layer 102A, so that an electric field is formed between the electrode plate 203A and the conductive material layer 102A, and the control section activates the coloring unit.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3 and 8, a seventh embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that the image display activation device 200D includes: the power supply, the chip (power supply and chip not shown), has an electrode plate 201D, a bottom frame 202D, a pressing plate 203D, a spring (not shown), and a connecting column 204D, wherein the electrode plate 201D passes through the bottom frame 202D and can be embedded into the bottom frame 202D. On the spring cup jointed spliced pole 204D, spring one end supported with pressing plate 203D, and the other end supported with bottom plate 202D, and the spring plays the reset action. One end of the connecting column 204D is connected to the electrode plate 201D, and the other end is connected to the pressing plate 203D.

In practical application of this embodiment, the image display carrier 100A is fixed, the bottom frame 202D is fastened to the image display carrier 100A, and the image display carrier 100A is brought into close contact with the electrode plate 201D by pressing the plate 203D. The image display activation device 200D supplies power to the electrode plate 201D, and at this time, the conductive member 104A comes into contact with the electrode plate 201D to conduct current to the conductive material layer 102A, so that an electric field is formed between the electrode plate 201D and the conductive material layer 102A, and the control portion activates the coloring unit. This is illustrated as an example of a practical application. The image display carrier 100A may be a shelf label. Compared with the existing electronic shelf label, the image display carrier in the embodiment cancels a battery in the electronic paper shelf label and a wireless module matched with necessary equipment such as a base station, a repeater and the like in the prior art, and has the advantages of environmental protection and time resource saving. Because the link of matching networking with the base station is cancelled, the system is not interfered by electromagnetism, and the technical problem that the existing system is difficult to maintain is solved. Furthermore, the image display carrier in this embodiment eliminates the control component of the chip and the glass substrate or the TFT, so that the image display carrier can be provided with one or more image display activation devices, and one image display activation device can also be matched with a plurality of image display carriers. The limitation that one electronic shelf label must correspond to one control component is eliminated, and compared with the conventional electronic shelf label, the cost is greatly reduced. Except applying in electronic goods shelves label field, this embodiment still further can be applied in scenes such as conference table tablet, house plate, chest card, factory information tablet, traffic sign and advertising display board.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3 and fig. 8, a seventh embodiment of the image display system of the present invention is different from the second embodiment in that the image display activation device 200D includes: the power supply, the chip (power supply and chip not shown), has an electrode plate 201D, a bottom frame 202D, a pressing plate 203D, a spring (not shown), and a connecting column 204D, wherein the electrode plate 201D passes through the bottom frame 202D and can be embedded into the bottom frame 202D. On the spring cup jointed spliced pole 204D, spring one end supported with pressing the pressing plate 203D, and the other end supported with bottom plate 202D, and the spring plays the reset action. One end of the connecting column 204D is connected to the electrode plate 201D, and the other end is connected to the pressing plate 203D.

In practical application of this embodiment, the image display carrier 100A is fixed, the bottom frame 202D is fastened to the image display carrier 100A, and the image display carrier 100A is brought into close contact with the electrode plate 201D by pressing the plate 203D. The image display activation device 200D supplies power to the electrode plate 201D, and at this time, the conductive member 104A comes into contact with the electrode plate 201D to conduct current to the conductive material layer 102A, so that an electric field is formed between the electrode plate 201D and the conductive material layer 102A, and the control portion activates the coloring unit.

Finally, it should be noted that: the embodiments of the present invention are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention, which are merely used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and are not limited thereto; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art; the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. An image display system, comprising:

the image display activating device comprises an image display carrier and an image display activating device which are independent of each other, wherein one image display activating device can carry out image display activation on at least one image display carrier, one image display carrier can be matched with at least one image display activating device, and the image display activation is a process that the image display carrier displays an image under the action of an image display activating source which is provided by the image display activating device and carries image information;

2. The color unit includes at least one of photochromic particles, electrochromic particles, two-color spin spheres, cholesteric liquid crystals, pigment particles, and toner.

3. The image display system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

4. The image display system according to claim 3, characterized in that:

5. The image display system according to claim 4, wherein:

the conductive substrate arranged regularly comprises a thin film transistor.

6. The image display system according to claim 3, characterized in that:

7. Image display system according to claim 6, characterized in that

8. The image display system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein:

9. The image display system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein:

the image display carrier is wrapped by a water vapor barrier material.

10. The image display system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein:

the image display carrier comprises an ID which is matched with one image information in a plurality of image information provided by the image display excitation device; the image display activation device includes a reading unit that reads the ID and an acquisition unit that acquires image information matched with the ID.