WRITING SYSTEM

• US 20110080398A1
• Filed: 06/19/2009
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawakami, Yasuhiro, Koike, Sadamitsu
• Application Number:
  US12/996,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20110080398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3215 using a plurality of channels network architectures or network communication protocols using different networks H04L63/18

Abstract

In a writing device, a controller controls an authentication communication unit so as to transmit authentication data to a display device, prior to writing main data into the display device, in order to specify the display device into which the main data is to be written. After carrying out the authentication, the controller controls a main communication unit so as to transmit the main data stored in a memory to the display device into which the main data is to be written, by wireless communication. In the display device, a controller controls an authentication communication unit so as to receive the authentication data from the writing device. The controller controls a main communication unit so as to receive the main data from the writing device by wireless communication after the completion of the authentication. Therefore, when the main data is written into the display device from the writing device, it is possible to avoid wiring problems, and provide the display device with an improved appearance.

Claims

1. A writing system, comprising:

at least one display device used to monitor and direct an operation of equipment; and

a writing device used when main data to define an operation of the display device is written into the display device,

wherein the writing device includes;

a storage unit that preliminarily stores the main data;

a writing-side main communication unit that transmits the main data to the display device by a wireless communication;

a writing-side authentication communication unit that transmits authentication data to the display device, the authentication data specifying the display device into which the main data is to be written; and

a writing-side control unit that controls the writing-side main communication unit and the writing-side authentication communication unit,

the display device includes;

a display-side main communication unit that receives the main data from the writing device by the wireless communication;

a display-side authentication communication unit that receives the authentication data from the writing device; and

a display-side control unit that controls the display-side main communication unit and the display-side authentication communication unit,

the writing-side control unit controls the writing-side authentication communication unit so as to transmit the authentication data to the display device, prior to writing the main data into the display device, in order to specify the display device into which the main data is to be written, and controls the writing-side main communication unit so as to transmit the main data to the display device after authenticating the display device into which the main data is to be written, and

the display-side control unit controls the display-side authentication communication unit so as to receive the authentication data from the writing device, and controls the display-side main communication unit so as to receive the main data from the writing device after the authentication of the display device.

2. The writing system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the display-side control unit and the writing-side control unit maintains at least one of the display-side main communication unit and the writing-side main communication unit in an off state until the authentication is carried out, and shifts the at least one of the display-side main communication unit and the writing-side main communication unit from the off state to an on state after carrying out the authentication.

3. The writing system according to claim 1, wherein the writing-side authentication communication unit transmits the authentication data to the display-side authentication communication unit by a contactless communication.

4. The writing system according to claim 1,

wherein the writing device is attached to a human body, and

the writing-side authentication communication unit and the display-side authentication communication unit communicate with each other via a transmission path including the human body.

5. The writing system according to claim 1, wherein the writing device includes an input unit to input authentication information of the display device into which the main data is to be written.

6. The writing system according to claim 5, wherein the writing device includes a display unit to display the authentication information that is input by the input unit.

7. The writing system according to claim 1, wherein the writing device includes an internal power supply to drive at least the writing-side main communication unit.

8. The writing system according to claim 1,

wherein the writing device includes a writing-side communication unit including a first transmission mode, as the writing-side main communication unit, that transmits the main data by a wireless communication using a wireless signal with a first electrical intensity level, and including a second transmission mode, as the writing-side authentication communication unit, that transmits the authentication data by a second wireless communication using a wireless signal with a second electrical intensity level, and

the display device includes a display-side communication unit including a first receiving mode, as the display-side main communication unit, that receives the main data by the wireless communication, and including a second receiving mode, as the display-side authentication communication unit, that receives the authentication data by the second wireless communication.

9. The writing system according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the writing device and the display device includes a second storage unit,

the writing-side main communication unit and the display-side main communication unit are capable of switching a plurality of frequency channels,

the second storage unit stores communication history including the frequency channels and communication quality, the frequency channels being switched by the writing-side main communication unit and the display-side main communication unit, and

the writing-side control unit and the display-side control unit control frequency-channel switching performed by the writing-side main communication unit and the display-side main communication unit, by use of the communication history stored in the second storage unit.

10. The writing system according to claim 1,

wherein the writing device includes a detection unit that detects an electrical intensity level of a wireless signal to be transmitted from the writing-side main communication unit,

the writing-side main communication unit functions to change the electrical intensity level of the wireless signal, and

the writing-side control unit adjusts the detected electrical intensity level of the wireless signal transmitted from the writing-side main communication unit depending on the electrical intensity level detected by the detection unit.