TUNNEL VIDEO SYSTEM ADAPTIVE TO TRAIN SPEED VARIATION

• US 20110035777A1
• Filed: 03/24/2009
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ledworks Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ledworks Company Limited
• Inventors: Lee, Chankil, Chae, Gyun
• Application Number:
  US12/937,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035777A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/75
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/12 using special optical effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/22 Advertising or display means on roads, walls or similar surfaces, e.g. illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2019/221 on tunnel walls for underground trains
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0252 Improving the response speed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/04 Synchronising for television systems using pulse code modulation H04N7/56

Abstract

As the advertisement market of a subway has emerged, a new subway advertisement system for displaying a video in a window of a moving train is suggested. The video quality in such a subway advertisement system is dependent on the accurate and rapid measurement of the speed of the train and achievement of the frame and horizontal pixel synchronization of the video to be represented. A sensor network of a cluster structure is provided that is effective to the subway advertisement system offering based on the network a high-speed/high precision speed measurement and the adaptive synchronization algorithm. Further, the video contents must be often renewed in the subway advertisement system and a speedy data downloading is essential. The tunnel video system suggests a method for improving the data speed through constructing a new structure of a data exclusive network in addition to the sensor network.

Claims

1. A tunnel video system comprising:

a main controller for operating and managing the system, the main controller being connected with exterior networks;

a plurality of display controllers connected with the main controller so as to receive data;

a plurality of LED modules driven by the plurality of display controllers; and

a plurality of sensors connected at least one of the plurality of display controllers so as to sense the speed of a moving object,

in which the plurality of display controllers are divided into a plurality of clusters comprising the display controllers connected with the sensors and the display controllers connected with the main controller, respectively,

one of the display controllers in each of the clusters is a cluster leader display controller which has the data transmitted to the display controllers included in the same cluster by a data network that comprises a first route connected with the main controller and a second route connected with the rest display controllers included in the same cluster, and

the display controllers connected with the sensors among the display controllers included in each of the clusters have sensor signals transmitted to the display controllers included in the same cluster by a sensor network that comprises a third route connected with the display controllers included in the same cluster.

2. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor network further comprises a fourth route for connecting the display controllers connected with the sensors with the display controllers included in other clusters and transmits the sensor signals to the display controllers included in the other clusters.

3. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor signals are in the form of square wave pulses to be transmitted to the display controllers.

4. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display controllers connected with the sensors transmit the sensor signals real time through the transmission of the square wave pulses of the signals.

5. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a local display controller connecting the main controller with the cluster leader display controllers,

in which the local display controller is connected with the cluster leader display controllers by at least one of a wired connection and a wireless connection, and

if wirelessly connected, the data is transmitted through WLAN cards installed on the cluster leader display controllers and an access point connected to the local display controller, and

if connected wired, the data is transmitted through the connections of Ethernet connectors installed on the cluster leader display controllers with the local display controller.

6. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main controller frames a video file, compresses the framed video file, and transmits the compressed video file to the display controller, and the display controllers restore the compressed data and store the restored data in image buffers included in the display controllers, respectively.

7. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main controller and the display controllers transmit and receive the data through a power line communication network.

8. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors comprise sensors attached on walls of a tunnel and reflective plates attached on the moving object through the tunnel.

12. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of LED modules comprises a plurality of LEDs that are arranged in one row, respectively, so as to represent one frame of an image.

13. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the sensor signals are in the form of square wave pulses to be transmitted to the display controllers.

14. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display controllers connected with the sensors transmit the sensor signals real time through the transmission of the square wave pulses of the signals.

9. A tunnel video system comprising:

a main controller;

a plurality of display controllers connected with the main controller so as to receive a data;

a plurality of LED modules driven by the plurality of display controllers; and

a plurality of sensors connected to at least one of the plurality of display controllers so as to sense the speed of a moving object,

in which at least one of the plurality of display controllers drives each of the LED modules according to first speed signals sensed by the sensors arranged in a first direction and second speed signals sensed by the sensors arranged in a second direction.

10. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the plurality of display controllers independently calculate the speed of the moving object according to the sensor signals, respectively.

11. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sensor signals are in the form of square waves.

15. The tunnel video system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the plurality of LED modules comprises a plurality of LEDs that are arranged in one row, respectively, so as to represent one frame of an image.