CN201079197Y - Digital photo frame device with multiple display functions - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions, wherein the display of the digital photo frame device can display a plurality of partial screens, such as picture-in-picture or split screens, and the display driving module of the digital photo frame device displays the processed plurality of digital data on the plurality of partial screens respectively, so as to achieve the effect of improving the browsing screen diversity of the digital image of the digital photo frame device.

Description

Digital photo frame device with multiple display functions

technical field

The utility model relates to a digital photo frame device, in particular to the technical field of allowing the digital photo frame to have a picture-in-picture function or a divided picture function.

Background technique

With the increasing popularity of digital imaging devices, more and more users use digital cameras or scanners to digitize various images for convenient mass storage. In addition, users can also share digital images with relatives and friends through file transfer or network download without being limited by distance, which is much more convenient than photos or pictures in traditional media. The digital photo frame is an electronic device that can display digital images. The traditional digital photo frame can read the digital image files in the memory card, or connect to electronic devices that store or provide digital image files, such as computers, scanners or digital cameras. Camera, and process the digital image files to convert them into data that can be received by the display driver module, and display the digital images on the display, and even use the internal software settings for dynamic switching or cyclic playback, so that the digital image files The utilization can be simpler and more diverse.

Due to the progress of the digital age, in order for users to watch TV programs on two channels at the same time, in the conventional art, there are Picture In Picture (Picture In Picture) function and split screen function, which can display the TV picture and video input at the same time , realizing the dialing of two TV programs. However, the digital images displayed by the digital photo frame belong to a single screen. At present, there is no dual-screen or picture-in-picture technology applied to the digital photo frame. It can be viewed side by side in the same window, and the data needs to be uploaded to the computer to operate, so the convenience performance is not enough to meet the needs of users.

In view of the various problems of the known technology, in order to solve them, the author proposes a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions based on many years of research and development and practical experience, as a way and basis for improving the above shortcomings .

Utility model content

In view of this, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions, so as to increase the variety of images that the digital photo frame device can display.

According to the purpose of this utility model, a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions is proposed, which includes at least one connection port of a transmission interface, a power supply, a signal processing controller, a display and a display driver module. The power supply is used for providing a power. The connection port of the transmission interface is used to connect an electronic device capable of storing or supplying digital image data. The signal processing controller is used for processing a plurality of input digital image data, and controls the play mode of these digital image data, and the display is used for displaying digital images. The display is used to display a plurality of partial images, and the display driver module is used to display the plurality of digital data processed by the signal processing controller on the partial images respectively. These partial pictures are displayed in the form of a mother-child picture or a split picture.

The aforementioned display at least includes a cathode ray tube (CathodeRay Tube, CRT) screen, a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), an OLED display, and a plasma display (Plasma Display Panel, PDP). The interfaces supported by the connecting port of the above-mentioned transmission interface include at least RS232 interface, USB2.0 interface, USB OTG interface, IEEE1394 interface, PCMCIA interface. The above-mentioned electronic device at least includes a personal computer, a digital camera, a digital video camera, a scanner, a VCD/DVD player and a removable hard disk.

The beneficial effects of the utility model are: a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions is provided, and the display screen becomes more diversified and its browsing modes are richer, which greatly improves the visual enjoyment of users.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the block diagram of the digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present utility model;

Fig. 2 is the block diagram of the preferred embodiment of the digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present utility model;

3A is a schematic diagram of the parent-child display mode of the digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present invention; and

3B is a schematic diagram of a split display mode of the digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present invention.

Description of figure number:

1: Digital photo frame device; 11: Connecting port;

12: Power supply device; 13: Signal processing controller;

14: Display; 141: The first part of the screen;

142: The second part of the screen; 15: Display driver module;

16: Electronic device; 2: Digital photo frame device;

211: CF card slot; 212: PCMCIA card slot;

213: SD card slot; 214: MS card slot;

215: SM card slot; 216: MM card slot;

221: RS232 port; 222: IEEE1394 port;

223: Video input port; 224: USB OTG port;

25: liquid crystal display; 251: sub-picture;

252: Mother screen; 253: First split screen;

254: Second split screen; 26: LCD driver module.

Detailed ways

In the following, the digital photo frame device according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the relevant figures. For ease of understanding, the same components in the following embodiments are described with the same symbols.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a block diagram of a digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present invention. In the figure, the basic components of the digital photo frame device 1 include at least one connection port 11 of at least one transmission interface, a power supply 12 , a signal processing controller 13 , a display 14 and a display driver module 15 . The power supply 12 provides a power. The connection port 11 of the transmission interface is used to connect an electronic device 17 capable of storing or supplying digital data. Among them, the interfaces supported by the connection port 11 of the transmission interface include at least computer image transmission line interface, AV terminal, RS232 interface, USB2.0 interface, USB OTG interface, IEEE1394 interface and PCMCIA interface, computer image transmission line interface, AV terminal and RS232 Most of the interfaces are used to connect to personal computers or VCRs, while USB2.0, USB OTG, IEEE1394 and PCMCIA interfaces are mostly used to connect to personal computers, digital cameras, digital video cameras, scanners, external hard drives, etc.

The signal processing controller 13 is used to process the digital data input from the electronic device 17, which can identify whether the input digital data is in a displayable image file format, such as BMP file, GIF file, JPG file, PNG file or TIF file, etc. image formats, or animation video formats such as MPEG files, AVI files, WMV files, or ASF files, etc., and process them according to the characteristics of various files, and convert the input digital data into signals that can be processed by the display driver module 15 .

The main feature of the digital photo frame device disclosed in this utility model is that the display 14 can display a plurality of partial images, such as the first partial image 141 and the second partial image 142, and the display driver module 15 will process the signal The two digital data processed by the controller 13 are displayed on the first partial screen 141 and the second partial screen 142 respectively. For example, it is displayed as a parent-child screen or as a split screen. And the signal processing controller 13 can also control the playback mode of digital data, for example, it can control the display driver module 16 to dynamically switch the images in part of the screen according to a preset time interval, for example, the digital images being displayed will be displayed every half an hour The file is switched to another selected digital image file. The position of part of the picture can also be moved dynamically, for example, the sub-picture can move along the periphery of the main picture, increasing the variability of digital image display.

Wherein, the display 14 at least includes a cathode ray tube (CathodeRay Tube, CRT) screen, a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), an OLED display or a plasma display (Plasma Display Panel, PDP).

In addition, the digital photo frame device may optionally include at least one memory card slot for connecting a memory card to read digital data in the memory card. Among them, the memory card specifications supported by the memory card slot include at least SD card (Smart Digital Card), CF card (Compact FlashCard), MS card (Memory Strick), SM card (Smart Media Card) or MM card (Multi- Media Card).

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the digital photo frame device with multiple display functions of the present invention. In the figure, the digital photo frame device 2 includes a plurality of memory card slots 211-216, a plurality of connection ports 221-224, a power supply 12, a signal processing controller 13, a liquid crystal display 25, and a liquid crystal drive module 26 . The signal processing controller 13 can output setting data to the liquid crystal drive module 26, and a display mode and display parameters have been set, such as a picture-in-picture (as shown in FIG. 3A ) or a split screen (as shown in FIG. 3B ). display), and the coordinate data of the display area of each part of the screen, and whether the display position and the changing method of the part of the screen can be dynamically changed, etc.

The signal processing controller 13 can identify the format of the digital data 271, and according to the corresponding relationship set by the user, process the data set in the sub-screen area 273 by the digital data 271, and convert the digital data 271 into liquid crystal drive mode. The group 26 can process the signal and display it on the liquid crystal display 25 .

The user can insert a memory card storing digital image files into an appropriate memory card slot (one of the memory card slots 211-216), and the signal processing controller 13 can identify the file format in the memory card and convert at least The two digital image files are processed, and the two digital image files are converted into signals that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26, and are displayed on the sub-screen 251 and the main screen 252 of the liquid crystal display 25, as shown in FIG. 3A.

In addition, the user can also connect the electronic device that stores or provides the digital image file to an appropriate connection port (one of the connection ports 221-224), then the signal processing controller 13 can obtain the digital image file from the electronic device 17, At least two digital image files are processed, and the two digital image files are converted into signals that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26 and displayed on the sub-screen 251 and the main screen 252 of the liquid crystal display 25 respectively.

Furthermore, the user can also set which image sources are displayed on the sub-screen 251 and the main screen 252 respectively according to needs. For example, the user can set the sub-screen 251 to display the digital image files in the memory card, and the main screen 252 The screen 252 is to display the digital image files in the electronic device connected to the port.

The above description is an example of a picture-in-picture display mode. Similarly, it can also be applied to a split screen display mode. The signal processing controller 13 can convert two digital image files into signals that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26, and are respectively displayed on the first split screen 253 and the second split screen 254 of the liquid crystal display 25 , as shown in FIG. 3B .

For those skilled in this field, although the utility model is explained above with a preferred embodiment, it is not intended to limit the spirit of the utility model, and modifications and similar ones can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model. Arrangements shall be included in the scope of the claims of the utility model. Such scope should be consistent with the broadest interpretation covering all modifications and similar structures. Therefore, the description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention as above can be used to identify various changes without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Claims (9)

1. digital photo frame device with multiple display function is characterized in that it comprises:

The Port of at least a coffret is in order to connect the various equipment that store or supply the digital image data that have;

One power supply unit provides a power supply;

One signal processing controller is in order to handling this digital image data of a plurality of inputs, and controls the broadcast mode of those digital image data;

One display is in order to show a plurality of part pictures; And

One display driver module will be in order to being shown in respectively through those digital dates that this signal processing controller was handled on those part pictures of this display.

2. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, those part pictures are to show with the mode of mother and sons' picture or the mode of a divided frame.

3. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, more comprises at least one memory card slot, is in order to link a memory card, to read the digital date in this memory card.

4. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the memory card specification that this memory card slot is supported is to comprise SD card, CF card, MS card, SM card or MM card.

5. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the interface that the Port of this coffret is supported is to comprise a RS232 interface, a USB2.0 interface, a USB OTG interface, an IEEE1394 interface or a pcmcia interface at least.

6. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the interface that the Port of this coffret is supported is to comprise a computer image transmission line interface or an AV terminal at least.

7. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this signal processing controller has a dynamic function of switching digital image.

8. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this storage module is to comprise a hard disc drive unit, a fast flash memory bank or a storage body memory body.

9. digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this display is a cathode-ray tube screen, a LCD, an OLED display or a plasma display panel.

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