Signal transmission systems of electronic display devices and transmission methods

• US 9,208,746 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2012
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation (Winbond Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation (Winbond Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Chao, Mu-Lin, Liang, Jang-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Flynn, Randy
• Application Number:
  US13/726,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/025 LAN communication management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/042 for monitor identification
• 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 2380/04 Electronic labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players

Abstract

A signal transmission system of electronic display devices includes a plurality of electronic display devices and a wireless signal transmission device. The wireless signal transmission device broadcasts a first packet data to the electronic display device. The first packet data comprises an access control address list, and the access control address list comprises the MAC address of a first group of electronic display device. When the wireless signal transmission device receives an acknowledgement (ACK) message from at least a first electronic display device of the first group of electronic display devices, the wireless signal transmission device changes the method of transmission from broadcast to unicast in order to transmit second packet data to the first electronic display device, wherein the second packet data comprises video packet data.

Claims

1. A signal transmission system of an electronic display device, comprising:

a plurality of electronic display devices;

a wireless signal transmission device, configured to transmit a first packet data to a first group of electronic display devices of the plurality of electronic display devices by broadcast, wherein the first packet data comprises an access control address list and the access control address list records an media access control address of the first group of electronic display devices; and

when the wireless signal transmission device receives an ACK message from at least one first electronic display device of the first group of electronic display devices, the wireless signal transmission device changes the method of transmission from broadcast to unicast for transmitting a second packet data to the first electronic display device;

a second wireless signal transmission device, configured to change the method of transmission from broadcast to unicast for transmitting the second packet data to the first electronic display device which has not been updated when the second wireless signal transmission device is in an idle mode,

wherein the second packet data comprises a video packet data, and when the access control address of the first group of electronic display devices is in the access control address list, the ACK message is transmitted to the wireless signal transmission device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless signal transmission device comprises a first processing unit and a first wireless communication module, and the first wireless communication module is configured to transmit the first packet data and the second packet data and receive the ACK message.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein when the first wireless communication module doesn'"'"'t receive the ACK message from at least one second electronic display device of the plurality of electronic display devices in a preset time, the first processing unit is configured to contrast the ACK message and the access control address list for determining if all electronic display devices of the access control address list are updated by the second packet data.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein when any one of the first group of electronic display devices is not updated by the second packet data, the first wireless communication module transmits the access control address list to the electronic display devices by continuous broadcast.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless signal transmission device comprises a first processing unit and a first wireless communication module, and when the first wireless communication module receives the ACK message from the first electronic display device, the first processing unit removes the access control address of the first electronic display device which has been updated by the second packet data from the access control address list.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the electronic display devices comprises a second processing unit and a second wireless communication module, and when the second wireless communication module receives the first packet data, the second wireless communication module transmits a signal to the second processing unit, and it makes the second processing unit wake up from a sleep mode.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein when the second processing unit determines the access control address is not in the access control address list, the second processing unit will enter sleep mode again.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein when the second processing unit determines the access control address is in the access control address list, the second wireless communication module transmits the ACK message to the wireless signal transmission device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the second packet data further comprises an audio packet data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic display device further comprise a power supply unit.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the power supply unit can be charged by a wireless transmission method.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the wireless transmission method comprises a radio frequency transmission method.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic display device comprises a display unit, the display unit is a MEMS display or Electrophoretic display.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic display device is an electronic shelf label.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein second wireless signal transmission device is configured to transmit a third packet data to a second group of electronic display devices of the plurality of electronic display devices by broadcast, wherein the third packet data comprises an access control address list and the access control address list records an media access control address of the second group of electronic display devices.

16. A transmission method, comprises:

transmitting a first packet data to a first group of electronic display devices of a plurality of electronic display devices in the way of broadcast by a wireless signal transmission device, wherein the first packet data comprises an access control address list and the access control address list records an access control address of the first group of electronic display devices; and

transmitting an ACK message to the wireless signal transmission device, when a MAC address of at least one first electronic display device is in the access control address list; and

changing the method of transmission of the wireless signal transmission device from broadcast to unicast for transmitting a second packet data to the first electronic display device, when the wireless signal transmission device receives the ACK message from the first electronic display device of the first group of electronic display devices;

changing the method of transmission of a second wireless signal transmission device from broadcast to unicast for transmitting the second packet data to the first electronic display device, which has not been updated when the second wireless signal transmission device is in an idle mode,

wherein the second packet data comprises a video packet data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the wireless signal transmission device comprises a first processing unit and a first wireless communication module, and the first wireless communication module is configured to transmit the first packet data and the second packet data and receive the ACK message.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein when the first wireless communication module doesn'"'"'t receive the ACK message from at least one second electronic display device of the first group of electronic display devices in a preset time, the first processing unit is configured to contrast the ACK message and the access control address list for determining if all electronic display devices of the access control address list are updated by the second packet data.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein when any one of the first group of electronic display devices is not updated by the second packet data, the first wireless communication module transmits the access control address list to the electronic display devices by continuous broadcast.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the wireless signal transmission device comprises a first processing unit and a first wireless communication module, and when the first group of electronic display devices receive the ACK message from the first electronic display device, the first processing unit removes the access control address of the first electronic display device which has been updated by the second packet data from the access control address list.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein each of the electronic display devices comprises a second processing unit and a second wireless communication module, and when the second wireless communication module receives the first packet data, the second wireless communication module transmits a signal to the second processing unit, and it makes the second processing unit wake up from a sleep mode.

22. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

transmitting, by the second wireless signal transmission device, a third packet data to a second group of electronic display devices of the plurality of electronic display devices by broadcast, wherein the third packet data comprises an access control address list and the access control address list records an media access control address of the second group of electronic display devices.