Splicing screen and control method and system thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11954394-B2
Application number	US-202217690447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2022
Priority date	Mar 31, 2021
Publication date	Apr 9, 2024
Grant date	Apr 9, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a splicing screen and a control method and system thereof. The splicing screen includes a display panel. A communication unit is configured to receive display data and receive a ready command sent by a slave splicing screen of the splicing screen; a control unit is configured to control, in response to determining that the splicing screen is ready and receiving the ready command, the communication unit to send a specified play command to the slave splicing screen, where the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment; and control the display panel to display the specified play frame at the specified play moment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A splicing screen, being a master splicing screen in a splicing screen system, wherein the splicing screen system comprises a control device, the master splicing screen, and a plurality of slave splicing screens, the control device directly communicating with each of the master splicing screen and the plurality of slave splicing screens, and the master splicing screen directly communicating with each of the plurality of slave splicing screens, the master splicing screen comprising:
a display panel;
a communication unit, configured to:
receive display data, wherein the display data is acquired by the control device by splitting data to-be-displayed based on a quantity of splicing screens in the splicing screen system and is sent by the control device to the master splicing screen; and
receive a ready command sent by the slave splicing screen of the master splicing screen; and

a control unit, configured to control, in response to determining that the master splicing screen is ready and receiving the ready command from each of the plurality of slave splicing screens, the communication unit to send a specified play command to each of the plurality of slave splicing screens, wherein the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment; and control the display panel to display the specified play frame at the specified play moment;
wherein the control unit comprises a first control unit and a second control unit; wherein
the first control unit is configured to send the display data received by the communication unit to the second control unit; control, in response to receiving a ready command sent by the second control unit and the ready command sent by each of the plurality of slave splicing screens, the communication unit to send the specified play command to each of the plurality of slave splicing screens; and send a display command to the second control unit at the specified play moment, wherein the display command instructs to display the specified play frame;
the second control unit is configured to control, based on the display command, the display panel to display the specified play frame;
the first control unit is further configured to control, in response to receiving a not-ready command sent by any of the slave splicing screens, the communication unit to send a play stop command to all the slave splicing screens and the second control unit;
the first control unit is further configured to control, at a predetermined time interval, the communication unit to send time calibration commands to the slave splicing screens, wherein the time calibration command is implemented in the form of a heartbeat packet and carrying a local time of the master splicing screen, and the time calibration command causes the slave splicing screen to: judge whether a difference between a local time of the slave splicing screen and the local time of the master splicing screen in the time calibration command exceeds a threshold; in the case that the difference exceeds the threshold, correct the local time of the slave splicing screen to the time in the time calibration command, and then return a time calibration completion information to the master splicing screen; and in the case that the difference does not exceed the threshold, directly return the time calibration completion information to the master splicing screen;
the first control unit is further configured to repeatedly send, upon receiving the time calibration completion information from the slave splicing screens, the specified play command at a predetermined time interval to the slave splicing screens by controlling the communication unit; and
the second control unit is further configured to mark a current playing frame and record a number of frames of the display data stored in the memory; determine, based on the display command and the marked current playing frame, a corresponding frame number of the specified play frame in the display data stored in the memory; and extract, based on the corresponding frame number, a corresponding frame from the memory for playing.

2. The splicing screen according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory configured to store the display data received by the second control unit; wherein
the second control unit is further configured to send a not-ready command to the first control unit in response to a data amount of the display data stored in the memory being less than a first threshold; and
the first control unit is further configured to control, in response to receiving the not-ready command, the communication unit to send a play stop command to the slave splicing screen.

3. The splicing screen according to claim 2 , wherein the second control unit is further configured to send, after sending the not-ready command to the first control unit, a ready command to the first control unit in response to the data amount of the display data stored in the memory being greater than a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

4. The splicing screen according to claim 3 , wherein the second control unit is further configured to send an overrun prompt to the first control unit in response to the data amount of the display data stored in the memory being larger than a third threshold, wherein the third threshold is larger than the second threshold;
the first control unit is configured to stop sending the display data to the second control unit in response to receiving the overrun prompt.

5. The splicing screen according to claim 4 , wherein the second control unit is further configured to send, after sending the overrun prompt to the first control unit, a recovery prompt to the first control unit in response to the data amount of the display data stored in the memory being less than a fourth threshold, wherein the fourth threshold is less than the second threshold, and the fourth threshold is larger than the first threshold;
the first control unit is configured to continue to send the display data to the second control unit in response to receiving the recovery prompt.

6. A method for controlling a splicing screen, applicable to control the splicing screen of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises:
receiving display data;
receiving, in response to determining that the splicing screen is ready, a ready command sent by a slave splicing screen of the splicing screen;
sending a specified play command to the slave splicing screen, wherein the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment; and
playing the specified play frame at the specified play moment.

7. A splicing screen, being a slave splicing screen in a splicing screen system, wherein the splicing screen system comprises a control device, a master splicing screen, and a plurality of slave splicing screens, the control device directly communicating with each of the master splicing screen and the plurality of slave splicing screens, and the master splicing screen directly communicating with each of the plurality of slave splicing screens, the slave splicing screen comprising:
a display panel;
a communication unit, configured to:
receive display data, wherein the display data is acquired by the control device by splitting data to-be-displayed based on a quantity of splicing screens contained in the splicing screen system and is sent by the control device to the slave splicing screen; and
receive a specified play command, wherein the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment and is sent by the master splicing screen to which the slave splicing screen belongs upon the master splicing screen determinin

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Duan Ran

Classifications

• G06F3/1407 Primary

  General aspects irrespective of display type, e.g. determination of decimal point position, display with fixed or driving decimal point, suppression of non-significant zeros · CPC title

• G06F3/0484

  for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range · CPC title

• G06F3/147

  using display panels · CPC title

• G06F2203/04803

  Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas · CPC title

• G06F3/1446 Primary

  display composed of modules, e.g. video walls · CPC title