WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DISPLAY INTEGRATION

• US 20200135140A1
• Filed: 12/28/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Binboga, Evrim, Paranjape, Vivek, Sinha, Vishal Ravindra, Parikh, Kunjal S.
• Granted Patent: US 11,276,365 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/10 Use of a protocol of communication by packets in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• 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: H01Q 1/2258 used with computer equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/245 with means for shaping the antenna pattern, e.g. in order to protect user against rf exposure
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/061 Two dimensional planar arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00

Abstract

A display comprising a display substrate comprising a front side; a plurality of pixels located on the front side of the display substrate, the plurality of pixels defining a display area; and an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas located on the front side of the display substrate and within the display area.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a display substrate comprising a front side;

a plurality of pixels located on the front side of the display substrate, the plurality of pixels defining a display area; and

an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas located on the front side of the display substrate and within the display area.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of an antenna of the plurality of antennas is located between a plurality of display elements of a first pixel and a plurality of display elements of a second pixel, wherein the first pixel is directly adjacent to the second pixel.

3. The display of claim 1, wherein adjacent antennas of a first set of three or more antennas of the plurality of antennas are separated by a common pitch in a particular direction.

4. The display of claim 3, wherein the common pitch is a multiple of a pitch length between directly adjacent pixels of the plurality of pixels.

5. The display of claim 1, the display further comprising circuitry to selectively activate a subset of the plurality of antennas based on a selected antenna configuration.

6. The display of claim 5, wherein the selected antenna configuration is based on a plurality of detected touches of the display.

7. The display of claim 5, wherein the selected antenna configuration is based on an orientation of the display.

8. The display of claim 5, wherein the selected antenna configuration is based on one or more of a battery charge level and a thermal condition.

9. The display of claim 5, wherein the selected antenna configuration is based on data sensed by one or more specific absorption rate sensors of the display.

10. The display of claim 1 wherein the display further comprises one or more media processing components on the display substrate and within the display area, the one or more media processing components to decode a video stream received wirelessly via the antenna array and to provide the decoded video stream to a display driver for display within the display area.

11. The display of claim 10, wherein the one or more media processing components within the display area are to demultiplex an audio stream and the video stream from a multimedia stream comprising the video stream prior to decoding the video stream.

12. The display of claim 1, wherein the display is to comprise an interface to communicate data received wirelessly via the antenna to a processor coupled to the display, and wherein the processor is to request offloading to the display of playback of video data received wirelessly via the antenna such that the processor does not process the video data received wirelessly via the antenna.

13. A method comprising:

receiving a wireless communication via an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas located on a front side of a display substrate and within a display area, wherein the display area is defined by a plurality of pixels located on the front side of the display substrate.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising activating a subset of the plurality of antennas and deactivating the remainder of the plurality of antennas based on a selected antenna configuration.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

decoding, by one or more media processing components located on the display substrate and within the display area, a video stream received wirelessly via the antenna array; and

providing the decoded video stream to a display driver for display within the display area.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising demultiplexing, by the one or more media processing components located on the display substrate, an audio stream and the video stream from a multimedia stream comprising the video stream prior to decoding the video stream.

17. A system comprising:

a display comprising;

a display substrate comprising a front side;

a plurality of pixels located on the front side of the display substrate, the plurality of pixels defining a display area; and

an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas located on the front side of the display substrate and within the display area; and

a processor to communicatively couple to the display.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is to:

detect an identifier of a multimedia stream to be communicated over the antenna array; and

responsive to the detection of the identifier, instruct the display to decode the multimedia stream at the display.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is to:

determine an antenna configuration based on sensor data from one or more sensors, the antenna configuration specifying activation of a subset of the plurality of antennas and deactivation of the remainder of the plurality of antennas; and

communicate the antenna configuration to the display.

20. The system of claim 18, the display further comprising one or more media processing components located on the display substrate and within the display area, the one or more media processing components to decode a video stream of the multimedia.