Photodynamic energy electronic label, working method thereof, managing method and managing apparatus thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11467651-B2
Application number	US-201916499994-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2019
Priority date	May 30, 2018
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a photodynamic energy electronic label, a working method thereof, a managing method and a managing apparatus thereof. The photodynamic energy electronic label includes a photodynamic energy converter configured to convert light energy into electric energy, and a triggering circuit connected with the photodynamic energy converter and configured to send out a triggering signal to enable the photodynamic energy electronic label to be in a working state when an output of the photodynamic energy converter reaches a set condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A photodynamic energy electronic label, comprising:
a photodynamic energy converter, configured to convert light energy into electric energy; and
a triggering circuit, connected with the photodynamic energy converter and configured to send out a triggering signal to enable the photodynamic energy electronic label from being in a sleeping state consuming little energy to being in a working state when an output of the photodynamic energy converter reaches a set condition due to illumination on the photodynamic energy electronic label,
wherein the set condition is:
an absolute value of a change value of the output of the photodynamic energy converter is greater than or equal to a set value,
wherein the triggering circuit includes:
an analog-to-digital converting module, configured to convert a voltage signal output by the photodynamic energy converter into a digital signal;
a latch, configured to latch the digital signal output by the analog-to-digital converting module for a set period T;
a digital-to-analog converting module, configured to convert the digital signal output by the latch into an analog voltage signal;
a voltage dividing circuit, configured to carry out voltage division on the analog voltage signal output by the digital-to-analog converting module, to output a voltage-divided signal; and
a comparator, configured to compare the voltage-divided signal output by the voltage dividing circuit to a voltage signal output by the photodynamic energy converter, and when an absolute value of a difference between a voltage signal currently output by the photodynamic energy converter and a voltage signal output by the photodynamic energy converter in a previous period is greater than or equal to the set value, the comparator outputting the triggering signal.

2. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a processor, connected with the triggering circuit and configured to receive the triggering signal and proceed to a working state according to triggering of the triggering signal, so as to enable the photodynamic energy converter to be in the working state.

3. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a battery, configured to supply power to the photodynamic energy electronic label; and
a battery managing module, connected with the photodynamic energy converter, the battery and the processor, and configured to supply the electric energy provided by the photodynamic energy converter to the processor and the battery.

4. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is a Micro Control Unit, and the triggering signal is an Input/Output port interrupt triggering signal.

5. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 1 , wherein the working state of the photodynamic energy electronic label includes an updating state and a communicating state, and the processor is configured to trigger different modules to work or sleep in different working states.

6. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a wireless communicating module, configured to implement data transceiving of the photodynamic energy electronic label and the managing apparatus; and
a display screen driving circuit, configured to provide display contents to a display screen,
wherein in the communicating state, the processor triggers the wireless communicating module to work, and in the updating state, the processor enables the wireless communicating module to sleep, triggers the displaying screen driving circuit to work and updates the display contents.

7. The photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
after being triggered to proceed to the working state, if a signal sent by a managing apparatus is not received in a second set time, proceed to a sleeping state again; and
after receiving the signal sent by the managing apparatus, when no triggering signal or no any signal sent by the managing apparatus is received in a third set time, proceed to the sleeping state and enable the photodynamic energy electronic label to proceed to a sleeping state.

8. A managing method of the photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 1 , comprising:
after controlling light intensity to be changed, sending a querying signal to the photodynamic energy electronic label to query a state of the photodynamic energy electronic label; and
determining a photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to a working state as a to-be-processed label.

9. The managing method according to claim 8 , before the determining the photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to the working state as the to-be-processed label, further comprising:
under a condition that it is determined that there is a photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to the working state, controlling the light intensity to be changed again and sending the querying signal to the photodynamic energy electronic label to query the state of the photodynamic energy electronic label; and
repeating a step above at least one time.

10. The managing method according to claim 9 , wherein the determined that there is a photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to the working state includes:
under a condition that a responding signal of the photodynamic energy electronic label in response to the querying signal is not received, determining the photodynamic energy electronic label as the photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed the working state.

11. The managing method according to claim 8 , after the sending the querying signal to the photodynamic energy electronic label to query the state of the photodynamic energy electronic label, further comprising:
recording the photodynamic energy electronic label which is in the wakening and notifying the photodynamic energy electronic label that the wakening is normal wakening.

12. A managing apparatus of the photodynamic energy electronic label according to claim 1 , comprising:
a querying unit, configured to, after light intensity is controlled to be changed, send a querying signal to the photodynamic energy electronic label to query a state of the photodynamic energy electronic label and receive a responding signal which is sent by the photodynamic energy electronic label and responds to the querying signal; and
a determining unit, configured to determine a photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to a working state after the light intensity is controlled to be changed at least once as a to-be-processed label according to the responding signal.

13. The managing apparatus according to claim 12 , further comprising:
a communicating unit, connected to the querying unit and the determining unit, and configured to communicate with the photodynamic energy electronic label;
the determining unit being further configured to:
determine a photodynamic energy electronic label which does not send out the responding signal as the photodynamic energy electronic label which is not normally triggered to proceed to the working state.

14. The managing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the querying unit is further configured to:
after the querying signal is sent to the photodynamic energy electronic label to query the state of the photodynamic energy electronic label, record a photodynamic energ

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Beijing Boe Technology Dev Co Ltd

Inventors

• Pei Hongyan
• Deng Wei
• Yu Huawei
• Cao Shijie

Classifications

• H02J7/865

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• G06K19/0704 Primary

  the battery being rechargeable, e.g. solar batteries · CPC title

• G06F1/3215

  Monitoring of peripheral devices · CPC title

• G06K19/07716

  the record carrier comprising means for customization, e.g. being arranged for personalization in batch · CPC title

• G06F1/3287 Primary

  by switching off individual functional units in the computer system · CPC title