Display device with automatic power on-off switching

• US 20080238902A1
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (InnoLux Corporation), Innolux Display Corporation (InnoLux Corporation)
• Inventors: Huang, Shun-Ming
• Application Number:
  US12/080,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20080238902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/14 Detecting light within display terminals, e.g. using a single or a plurality of photosensors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An exemplary display device (200) includes a display module (230), a power supply circuit (240), a detecting circuit (210), and an anti-interfering circuit (250). The detecting circuit detects a predetermined type of radiation from an object near the display module. The anti-interfering circuit determines whether the radiation is from a potential user of the display device via identifying the frequency of the radiation and the time period that the radiation subsists. The power supply circuit provides power to the display module according to the identifying result.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a display module;

a power supply circuit;

a detecting circuit; and

an anti-interfering circuit;

wherein the detecting circuit detects a predetermined type of radiation from an object near the display module, the anti-interfering circuit determines whether the radiation is from a potential user of the display device via identifying the frequency of the radiation and the time period that the radiation subsists, and the power supply circuit provides power to the display module according to the identifying result.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power supply circuit stops providing power to the display module upon the condition that the identifying result indicates the frequency of radiation does not corresponds to a person'"'"'s body.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power supply circuit stops providing power to the display module upon the condition that the identifying result indicates the time period that the radiation subsist is within a predetermined time period.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the anti-interfering circuit comprises a band-pass filter, the band pass filter is configured to distinguish whether the signal is from a human body.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the anti-interfering circuit comprises a delay circuit, the delay circuit is configured to identify whether the time period that the radiation subsist is within a predetermined time period.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the delay circuit is an integrator circuit.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the integrator circuit comprises a first resistor and a first capacitor, an end of the first resistor serves as an input terminal of the integrator circuit, the other end of the first resistor serves as an output terminal of the integrator circuit, and is grounded via the first capacitor.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pass-band of the band pass filter circuit is in a range from 3×

10¹³ Hz to 3.3×

10¹³ Hz.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the band pass filter circuit comprises a high pass filter circuit and a low pass filter circuit.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the high pass filter circuit comprises a first operational amplifier, a second capacitor, a second resistor, and a third resistor, an end of the second capacitor serves as an input terminal of the high pass filter circuit, the other end of the second capacitor is electrically coupled to a non-inverting terminal of the first operational amplifier, and is grounded via the second resistor, an inverting terminal of the first operational amplifier is electrically coupled to an output terminal of the first operational amplifier via the third resistor.

11. The display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the low pass filter circuit comprises a second operational amplifier, a fourth resistor, a fifth resistor, and a third capacitor, an end of the fourth resistor serves as an input terminal of the low pass filter circuit, the other end of the fourth resistor is electrically coupled to a non-inverting terminal of the second operational amplifier, and is grounded via the third capacitor, an inverting terminal of the second operational amplifier is electrically coupled to an output terminal of the second operational amplifier via the fifth resistor.

12. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the anti-interfering circuit further comprises a comparing circuit, the comparing circuit is configured to compare the signal outputted by the low pass filter circuit with a reference signal.

13. The display device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the comparing circuit comprises a voltage comparator, an inverting terminal of the voltage comparator is configured for receiving a reference signal, and a non-inverting terminal of the voltage comparator is electrically coupled to the output terminal of the second operational amplifier

14. The display device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a control circuit, the control circuit is configured to control the power supply circuit to provide power according to the identifying result.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the control circuit comprises a micro control unit having an input port and an output port, the input port is electrically coupled to the anti-interfering circuit, and the output port is electrically coupled to the power supply circuit.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the micro control unit is a scaler.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detecting circuit comprises an infrared sensor, and the signal detected by the detecting circuit is infrared signal.

18. The display device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the infrared sensor is a selected one of a quantum type infrared sensor or a thermal type infrared sensor.

19. A display device, comprising:

a display module;

a power supply circuit;

a detecting circuit configured to receive a predetermined type of signal from an ambient environment of the display module; and

an anti-interfering circuit;

wherein the anti-interfering circuit distinguishes whether the signal is from a potential user of the display device via the time period that the signal subsists, and the power supply circuit provides power to the display module according to the distinguishing result of the anti-interfering circuit.

20. A display device, comprising:

a display module;

an identification element for identifying whether an object in an ambient environment of the display module is a potential user of the display device according to a time period that a predetermined type of radiation emitted from the object lasts; and

a control element for switching on or switching off the display module according to the identifying result received from the identification element.