Display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12424189-B2
Application number	US-202418763713-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2024
Priority date	Sep 27, 2023
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

A display device includes a button, a first data transmission port, a second data transmission port, a first image transmission port, a second image transmission port, and a microcontroller. The first data transmission port is coupled to a first electronic device. The second data transmission port is coupled to a second electronic device. The first image transmission port is coupled to the first electronic device. The second image transmission port is coupled to the second electronic device. The microcontroller selects the first image transmission port, the second image transmission port, or both to generate a video signal. When the button is pressed, if the microcontroller selects the first image transmission port, the microcontroller switches the first data transmission port to the second data transmission port, and receives image-transmission-port information stored in the second electronic device through the second data transmission port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device, comprising:
a button;
a first data transmission port, configured to be coupled to a first electronic device;
a second data transmission port, configured to be coupled to a second electronic device;
a first image transmission port, configured to be coupled to the first electronic device;
a second image transmission port, configured to be coupled to the second electronic device;
a microcontroller, configured to select the first image transmission port, the second image transmission port, or both to generate a video signal; and
a display module, configured to present an image according to the video signal,
wherein when the button is pressed, if the microcontroller selects the first image transmission port, the microcontroller switches from the first data transmission port to the second data transmission port, and receives image-transmission-port information stored in the second electronic device through the second data transmission port.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the image-transmission-port information corresponds to the second image transmission port, records that the second data transmission port corresponds to the second image transmission port, and is stored in a pairing table of the microcontroller; wherein the microcontroller selects the second image transmission port.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the image-transmission-port information corresponds to the second image transmission port, records that the second data transmission port corresponds to the second image transmission port, and is stored in a pairing table of the microcontroller; wherein the microcontroller switches the second data transmission port to the first data transmission port.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a peripheral connection port, configured to be electrically connected to the first data transmission port or the second data transmission port.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a first application installed on the first electronic device stores the image-transmission-port information from the first electronic device; and a second application installed on the second electronic device stores the image-transmission-port information from the second electronic device.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when the button is pressed for a period longer than or equal to a preset period, the image-transmission-port information corresponds to the second image transmission port, records that the second data transmission port corresponds to the second image transmission port, and is stored in a pairing table of the microcontroller; wherein the microcontroller switches the second data transmission port to the first data transmission port.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the preset period is 3 seconds.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first data transmission port and the first image transmission port are coupled to the first electronic device through the same transmission line.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein when the button is pressed for a period shorter than the preset period, the microcontroller switches the first data transmission port to the second data transmission port and switches the first image transmission port to the second image transmission port according to the pairing table and the first image transmission port which is currently selected.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein when the pairing table has recorded that the first data transmission port corresponds to the first image transmission port and the button is pressed for a period shorter than the preset period, the microcontroller switches the second data transmission port to the first data transmission port and switches the second image transmission port to the first image transmission port according to the pairing table and the second image transmission port which is currently selected.

Assignees

• Giga Byte Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chang Kuei-Shan
• Chou Shih-Chieh
• Yang Bo
• Ding Shengchun
• Li Lin

Classifications

• G09G2370/24

  Keyboard-Video-Mouse [KVM] switch · CPC title

• G06F13/38

  Information transfer, e.g. on bus (G06F13/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F13/14

  Handling requests for interconnection or transfer · CPC title

• G09G2370/22

  Detection of presence or absence of input display information or of connection or disconnection of a corresponding information source · CPC title

• G09G2370/20

  Details of the management of multiple sources of image data · CPC title