CN201081781Y - Digital photo frame device capable of synchronously updating data with remote server - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a digital photo frame device capable of updating data synchronously with a remote server, which is characterized in that the device comprises a storage module, a network communication module and a data synchronization module, wherein the network communication module is connected to a server through a network in a wired or wireless manner, and the data synchronization module is used for updating the digital data stored in the storage module and the server synchronously. Therefore, the digital photo frame device of the present invention can be connected to a tribe grid server, and display a tribe grid web page data, and can be updated synchronously with the tribe grid server at any time to display the latest tribe grid data, thereby improving the convenience of the digital photo frame device.

Description

A digital photo frame device that can synchronize data updates with a remote server

technical field

The utility model relates to a digital photo frame device, in particular to a technical field that allows the digital photo frame and a remote server to perform data synchronous update.

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 file to convert it into data that can be received by the display driver module, and display the digital image on the display. In this way, users can save the burden of printing images.

Web log, also known as blog (Blog), is a very popular personal data record webpage. Users can set up a blog on a server and upload text data, digital image data or audio-visual data to the server Online, share with friends to watch and express your thoughts through the blog. Verified friends can also upload information to the user's blog to respond to the user.

Some users wish to display their own blogs or friends' blogs on the digital photo frame, so that the digital photo frame can not only be used for decoration, but also display personal characteristics. However, to display blog data on a traditional digital photo frame, the user must first download the blog data from the server through the host computer, and then connect the computer device to the digital photo frame to transmit the downloaded blog data to the digital photo frame to display. In this way, the user needs to perform multiple steps to allow the digital photo frame to display the blog information. Furthermore, if a friend uploads text or image data to the blog to respond to the user, or the user updates his blog on the Internet text data or image data, you must use the computer device again to update the data displayed on the digital photo frame.

In view of the various problems of the conventional technology, in order to solve them, the author proposes a digital photo frame device that can update data synchronously with a remote server based on many years of research and development and practical experience, as a way to improve the above shortcomings implementation method and basis.

Utility model content

In view of this, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a digital photo frame device that can update data synchronously with a remote server, so as to improve the convenience of displaying network data by the digital photo frame device.

According to the purpose of this utility model, a digital photo frame device that can update data synchronously with a remote server is proposed, which includes at least one connection port of a transmission interface, a power supply, a signal processing controller, a display, a Display drive module, a storage module, a network communication module and a data synchronization 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 storage module is used for storing at least one first digital data, and the network communication module is used for connecting a server through a network, which stores at least one second digital data. The data synchronization module is used to upload the newly added and updated first digital data in the storage module to the server, and download the newly added and updated second digital data in the server to the storage module, so that the storage module Synchronize with digital data on the server. The signal processing controller is used to process the input digital data and control its playback mode. The display is used to display digital images, and the display driver module is used to display the digital data processed by the signal processing controller on the display.

Wherein, the storage module can store a first data change record of the first digital data, and the server stores a second data change record of the second digital data, and the data synchronization module can store the first data change record and the second data change record 2. Data change records to synchronously update the digital data stored in the storage module and the server. These data change records include at least the data identification code, name, brief description, data size, installation date, modification date, version information, latest synchronization time or download date, etc. of the changed digital data.

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 connection port of the above-mentioned transmission interface include at least RS232 interface, USB2.0 interface, USBOTG interface, IEE1394 interface, and 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 which can update data synchronously with a remote server is provided, and the user can directly connect to the Internet to synchronously update the digital data stored in the digital photo frame and the website server , to simplify the operation of updating data, which greatly improves the convenience of use.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a digital photo frame device capable of updating data synchronously with a remote server of the present invention; and

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a digital photo frame device capable of updating data synchronously with a remote server of the present invention.

Description of figure number:

1: Digital photo frame device; 10: Data synchronization module;

11: Connecting port; 12: Power supply device;

13: Signal processing controller; 14: Display;

15: display driver module; 16: storage module;

161: first digital data; 17: network communication module;

171: Network; 18: Server;

181: second digital data; 19: 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 connection port;

222: IEEE1394 port; 223: Video input port;

224: USB OTG port; 24: Wireless network

25: LCD display; 26: LCD driver module;

27: flash memory;

271: Information on the first blog web page;

272: Data synchronization program

28: Wi-Fi standard compatible module;

29: blog server; and

291: Information on the second blog page.

Detailed ways

The digital photo frame device that can update data synchronously with a remote server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to relevant figures. For ease of understanding, the same components in the following embodiments are marked with the same symbols to illustrate.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a block diagram of a digital photo frame device capable of synchronizing data updates with a remote server of the present invention. In the figure, the basic components of the digital photo frame device 1 include at least one connecting port 11 of at least one transmission interface, a power supply 12, a signal processing controller 13, a display 14, a display driver module 15, a storage module Group 16 , a network communication module 17 and a data synchronization module 10 . The power supply 12 provides a power. The connection port 11 of the transmission interface is used to connect an electronic device 19 capable of storing or supplying digital data, and the input data can be stored in the storage module 16 . 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 The interface is mostly used to connect to a personal computer or video recorder, while the USB2.0 interface, USBOTG interface, IEEE1394 interface and PCMCIA interface are mostly used to connect to a personal computer, digital camera, digital video camera, scanner, external hard disk, etc. The storage module 16 at least includes a hard disk drive device (HDD), a flash memory or a storage memory (storage memory).

The signal processing controller 13 is used to process the first digital data 161 or the digital data input from the electronic device 19, which can identify whether the input digital data is a displayable image file format, such as BMP file, GIF file, JPG file, PNG files or TIF files, etc., 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 display driver models. Group 15 can process the signal and display it on display 14 . And the signal processing controller 13 can also control the playing mode of the digital data. For example, if the signal processing controller 13 recognizes that the number of files in the data source device is more than one, the display driver module 16 can display the data according to a preset time interval. Dynamically switch images, for example, switch the displayed digital image file to another selected digital image file every half hour. Wherein, the display 14 at least includes a cathode ray tube (Cathode Ray Tube, CRT) screen, a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), an OLED display or a plasma display (Plasma Display Panel, PDP).

The main feature of the digital photo frame device disclosed in the present invention is that it includes a data synchronization module 10 and a network communication module 17 . The network communication module 17 is connected to a server 18 through a network 171, and the server stores at least one second digital data 181. Therefore, the digital photo frame device 1 can upload digital data through the network communication module 17 Digital data is downloaded to or from the server 18 . The server 18 can be a website server, a blog server or a database server. The data synchronization module 10 is used to upload the newly added and updated first digital data 161 in the storage module 16 to the server 18, and download the newly added and updated second digital data 181 in the server 18 to the storage module 16, so that the digital data in the storage module 16 and the server 18 are synchronized. Please note that here, the first digital data 161 and the second digital data 181 are only represented as digital data stored in the storage module 16 and the server 18, and are represented by "first" and "th" to avoid confusion. difference, but it does not mean that the first digital data 161 and the second digital data 181 are different digital data.

Wherein, the data synchronization module 10 can be a data synchronization program, which is stored in the storage module, read and executed by the signal processing controller 13, to realize the digital data synchronization in the storage module 16 and the server 18 function. The data synchronization module 10 can be set to synchronize the digital data in the storage module 16 and the server 18 at a preset time interval, or the digital photo frame device can be provided with a trigger button, when the trigger button is pressed by the user , the data synchronization module 10 is triggered to synchronize the digital data in the storage module 16 and the server 18 .

The storage module 16 can store a first data transaction record of the first digital data 161 as required, and the server 18 can store a second data transaction record of the second digital data 181 as required, so that the data synchronization module 10 can be based on the first data transaction record. A data change record and a second data change record are used to synchronize the digital data stored in the storage module 16 and the server 18 . The data change record includes at least the data identification code, name, brief description, data size, installation date, modification date, version information, latest synchronization time or download date of the changed digital data.

In addition, when the storage module 16 and the server 18 perform data synchronization, only the data in a specific directory or the data in a specific file format can be set to be updated synchronously. For example, the user can set to only update the data in the blog page image data instead of updating text data.

Above-mentioned network 171 comprises at least a local area network (Local AreaNetwork, LAN), a wide area network (Wide Area Network, WAN), an Internet, a telecommunications network or a cable TV network, and the network communication mode Group 17 can be a wireless network communication module, which at least includes a Bluetooth standard compliant module, a Wi-Fi standard compliant module, an 802.11x standard compliant module or a WiMAX standard compliant module .

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 this 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 a digital photo frame device capable of updating data synchronously with a remote server 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, a liquid crystal drive module 26, A flash memory 27 and a Wi-Fi standard compatible module 28 . The flash memory 27 is used to store the first blog web page data 271 and a data synchronization program 272, and the signal processing controller 13 can identify the format of the digital data 271, and process the first blog web page data 271, and convert the second A blog page data 271 is converted into a signal that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26 and displayed on the liquid crystal display 25 .

Alternatively, 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, The digital image file is processed, and the digital image file is converted into a signal that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26 and displayed on the liquid crystal display 25 .

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, The digital image file is processed, and the digital image file is converted into a signal that can be processed by the liquid crystal drive module 26 and displayed on the liquid crystal display 25 .

The Wi-Fi standard compatible module 28 can connect to a blog server 29 through a wireless network 24 according to a blog URL. And the signal processing controller 13 reads the data synchronization program 272 from the flash memory 27 and executes it, uploads the newly added and updated first blog web page data 271 in the flash memory 27 to the blog server 29, and uploads The newly added and updated second blog page data 291 in the blog server 29 is downloaded to the flash memory 27, so that the flash memory 27 and the web page data in the blog server 29 are synchronized. And the user can also configure multiple data storage areas in the flash memory 27, and only the data in a certain data storage area will be synchronized with the webpage data in the blog server 29, while other data storage areas can be used to store Digital data from memory cards or electronic devices. In addition, users can also set only the image data in the R0uter website data to be updated synchronously.

When the user wants to modify the blog URL or the first blog page data 271, he can connect a computer device to the port, and use the keyboard of the computer device to edit the data.

Therefore, due to the digital photo frame device of the present invention which can update data synchronously with the remote server, the user can directly connect to the Internet to update the digital data stored in the digital photo frame and the website server synchronously, so as to simplify updating data operation, which greatly improves the convenience of use.

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 (12)

1. A digital photo frame device capable of updating data synchronously with a remote server, characterized in that it comprises: A connection port of at least one transmission interface for connecting an input device or an electronic device capable of storing or supplying digital data; a power supply, providing a power supply; A storage module, storing at least one first digital data; A network communication module, connected to a server through a network, and the server stores at least one second digital data; a data synchronization module, used to upload the newly added and updated first digital data in the storage module to the server, and download the newly added and updated second digital data in the server to the storage module, to synchronize the digital data in the storage module and the server; A signal processing controller, used to process the input digital data and control the playback mode of the digital data; a display for displaying digital data; and A display driver module is used for displaying the digital data processed by the signal processing controller on the display. 2. The digital photo frame device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising at least one memory card slot for connecting a memory card to read digital data in the memory card. 3. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the display is a CRT screen, a liquid crystal display, an OLED display or a plasma display. 4. The digital photo frame device according to claim 2, wherein the memory card specifications supported by the memory card slot include SD card, CF card, MS card, SM card or MM card. 5. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the interface supported by the connection port of the transmission interface at least includes an RS232 interface, a USB2.0 interface, a USB OTG interface, an IEEE1394 interface or a PCMCIA interface interface. 6. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the interface supported by the connection port of the transmission interface at least includes a computer image transmission line interface or an AV terminal. 7. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the storage module comprises a hard disk drive device, a flash memory or a storage body memory. 8. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises a website server or a blog server. 9. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the network comprises a local area network, a wide area network, an Internet, a telecommunication network or a cable TV network. 10. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, wherein the network communication module is a wireless network communication module. 11. The digital photo frame device according to claim 12, wherein the wireless network communication module includes a Bluetooth standard compliant module, a Wi-Fi standard compliant module, and an 802.11x standard compliant module. module or a WiMAX standard compliant module. 12. The digital photo frame device according to claim 1, further comprising a trigger button, when the trigger button is pressed, the data synchronization module performs digital data storage in the storage module and the server. Synchronize.

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