Mobile display device, mobile display system and image signal reproducing method thereof

• US 7,411,577 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2004
• Issued: 08/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yi, Jong-jin, Lee, Yong-jai, Kim, Yong-jae
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe; Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yar; Mahmoud Fatahi
• Application Number:
  US10/897,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20050020319A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 345 21- 23, 345156-178
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• 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 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A mobile display device capable of communicating with a host computer depending upon whether it is coupled with a docking station. The mobile display device includes a wired module for receiving the wired input signal applied from the docking station and converting the wired input signal into a first video signal; a wireless module for converting the wired or wireless input signal applied from the host computer into a second video signal; a display panel for reproducing the first video signal and the second video signal; and a display controller for converting the first and second video signals applied to the display panel from the wired module and the wireless module depending upon whether the mobile display device is coupled with the docking station, and applying to the display panel a control signal for turning on and off images reproduced from the display panel upon the above-described conversions.

Claims

1. A mobile display device for communicating with a host computer in wired and wireless manners depending upon whether the mobile display device is coupled with a docking station that is supplied with one of a wired input signal and a wireless input signal from the host computer, comprising:

a wired module that receives the one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal, applied from the docking station and converting the one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal into a first video signal when the mobile display device is coupled with the docking station;

a wireless module that converts the one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal, applied from the host computer into a second video signal when the mobile display device is released from the docking station;

a display panel that reproduces the first video signal and the second video signal; and

a display controller that converts, within a predetermined time margin, the first and second video signals applied to the display panel from the wired module and the wireless module, depending upon whether the mobile display device is coupled with the docking station, and applying to the display panel a control signal for turning on and off images reproduced from the display panel at the time of the conversions.

2. The mobile display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display controller comprises:

a control signal generator that generates in predefined patterns the control signal for turning the mobile display device on and off; and

a timing controller that controls the control signal generator to apply the control signal to the mobile display device, depending upon whether the docking station is coupled to the mobile display device, and turning the control signal generator on and off considering a time point at which either of the first and second video signals is applied to the display panel.

3. The mobile display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile display device further comprises a touch panel for producing a signal corresponding to external pressure.

4. The mobile display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the wireless module applies the signal of the touch panel to the host computer.

5. A mobile display system, comprising:

a host computer that enables wired and wireless communications;

a docking station provided with a wired module for receiving one of a wired input signal and a wireless input signal from the host computer and converting the one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal into a first video signal; and

a mobile display device that converts, within a predetermined time margin, said one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal applied from the host computer into a second video signal, and reproducing either of the first and second video signal depending upon whether the mobile display device is coupled with the docking station,

wherein the mobile display device comprises;

a display panel that reproduces the first and second video signals;

coupling connectors that couple the mobile display device with the docking station;

a wireless module that converts said one of the wired input signal and the wireless input signal into the second video signal;

a switching part that selects and applies either of the first and second video signals to the display panel; and

a display controller that controls the switching part depending upon the coupled state of the coupling connectors, and applies either of the first and second video signals to the display panel.

6. The mobile display system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the docking station further includes a power supply for rectifying and supplying a normal voltage to the wired module.

7. The mobile display system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the display controller includes:

a control signal generator that generates in predefined patterns a control signal for turning the display panel on and off; and

a timing controller that controls the control signal generator to apply the control signal to the display panel depending upon the coupled state of the coupling connectors, and turning the control signal generator on and off in consideration of a time point at which either of the first and second video signals are applied to the display panel.

8. An image signal reproducing method of a mobile display device for communicating with a host computer in wired and wireless manners depending upon whether the mobile display device is coupled with a docking station supplied with one of a wired input signal and a wireless input signal from the host computer, the method comprising the steps of:

selectively performing one of a wired communication and a wireless communication depending on whether the mobile display device is coupled with the docking station; and

converting the wired communication to the wireless communication, and vice versa, within a predetermined time margin, according to a docking state of the mobile display device to the docking station,

wherein, when the wired communication is converted to the wireless communication, and vice versa, a video signal based on one of a wired communication state and wireless communication state prior to said conversion is received and reproduced for a predetermined time.