Signal transmission method, signal transmission apparatus and display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11508278-B2
Application number	US-201916651740-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2019
Priority date	Mar 26, 2019
Publication date	Nov 22, 2022
Grant date	Nov 22, 2022

Abstract

A signal transmission method, a signal transmission apparatus and a display device are provided which belonging to the field of display technology. The signal transmission method is applied to a signal sender, the signal sender includes a first interface, a point-to-point connection is established between the first interface and a second interface of a signal receiver, the signal transmission method includes: sending a non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface in an interval of transmission of pixel data. EMI generated during data transmission is reduced by using a technical solution of the present disclosure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal transmission method applied to a signal sender, the signal sender comprising a first interface, a point-to-point connection being established between a second interface of a signal receiver and the first interface, the signal transmission method comprising:
sending a non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface in an interval of transmission of pixel data,
wherein the non-periodic training signal comprises a plurality of training sub-signals, and sending the non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface comprises:
selecting a training sub-signal for transmission from a pre-stored training signal set according to a random code outputted by the signal sender and a previous training sub-signal sent at a same interval,
wherein the training signal set comprises the plurality of training sub-signals, and a combination of any two training sub-signals among the plurality of training sub-signals is a non-periodic signal.

2. The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein before sending the non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface, the signal transmission method further comprises:
setting a signal transmission mode as an Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) reduction mode.

3. The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the signal sender is a timing controller.

4. The signal transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the training signal set comprises a first training sub-signal, a second training sub-signal, a third training sub-signal and a fourth training sub-signal, selecting the training sub-signal for transmission from the pre-stored training signal set, according to the random code outputted by the signal sender and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval comprises:
sending the third training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the first training sub-signal;
sending the first training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the first training sub-signal;
sending the fourth training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the second training sub-signal;
sending the second training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the second training sub-signal;
sending the fourth training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the third training sub-signal;
sending the second training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the third training sub-signal;
sending the third training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the fourth training sub-signal;
sending the first training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the fourth training sub-signal.

5. The signal transmission method according to claim 4 , wherein the first training sub-signal is 1000000000, the second training sub-signal is 0111111111, the third training sub-signal is 1001111111, and the fourth training sub-signal is 0110000000.

6. A signal transmission apparatus applied to a signal sender, the signal sender comprising a first interface, a point-to-point connection being established between a second interface of a signal receiver and the first interface, the signal transmission apparatus comprising:
a sending circuit, configured to send a non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface in an interval of transmission of pixel data,
the non-periodic training signal comprises a plurality of training sub-signals,
the sending circuit is configured to select a training sub-signal for transmission from a pre-stored training signal set according to a random code outputted by the signal sender and a previous training sub-signal sent at a same interval, wherein the training signal set comprises the plurality of training sub-signals, and a combination of any two training sub-signals among the plurality of training sub-signals is a non-periodic signal.

7. The signal transmission apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a setting circuit, configured to set a signal transmission mode as an Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) reduction mode before sending the non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface.

8. The signal transmission apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the signal sender is a timing controller.

9. The signal transmission apparatus according to claim claim 6 , wherein the training signal set comprises a first training sub-signal, a second training sub-signal, a third training sub-signal and a fourth training sub-signal, the sending circuit is specifically configured to:
send the third training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the first training sub-signal;
send the first training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the first training sub-signal;
send the fourth training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the second training sub-signal;
send the second training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the second training sub-signal;
send the fourth training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the third training sub-signal;
send the second training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the third training sub-signal;
send the third training sub-signal when the random code is 1 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the fourth training sub-signal;
send the first training sub-signal when the random code is 0 and the previous training sub-signal sent at the same interval is the fourth training sub-signal.

10. The signal transmission apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first training sub-signal is 1000000000, the second training sub-signal is 0111111111, the third training sub-signal is 1001111111, and the fourth training sub-signal is 0110000000.

11. A display device, comprising:
the signal transmission apparatus according to claim 6 ; and
a signal receiver comprising a second interface and a receiving circuit,
wherein a point-to-point connection is established between the first interface of the signal transmission apparatus and the second interface, and
the receiving circuit is configured to receive, via the second interface in an interval of transmission of pixel data, a non-periodic training signal sent by the first interface.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein, the signal receiver is a source driving circuit.

13. A signal transmission method applied to a signal sender, the signal sender comprising a first interface, a point-to-point connection being established between a second interface of a signal receiver and the first interface, the signal transmission method comprising:
sending a non-periodic training signal to the second interface via the first interface in an interval of transmission of pixel data,
wherein the non-periodic training signal comprises a plurality of

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Zhang Shaoru
• Sun Wei
• Zhang Jian
• Chen Yang
• Kong Di
• Ma Qingqing
• Wang Wei

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04B7/0456

  Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting · CPC title

• H04B3/238

  using initial training sequence · CPC title

• G09G2370/08

  Details of image data interface between the display device controller and the data line driver circuit · CPC title

• G09G3/20 Primary

  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title