Multimedia panel
By incorporating integrated circuit boards and sensing elements into the internal structure of electrical accessories, and designing multimedia panels, the problems of complex device operation and network burden in smart home systems are solved, achieving device compactness and stability, and improving user experience and system performance.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202423241131.7
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-12-27
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-09
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-12-27
AI Technical Summary
In smart home systems, as the number and types of devices increase, the complexity of operation increases, the installation and network configuration of sensor devices become complicated, occupy space and cause power consumption waste, increase network burden, and cause serious data waste.
Design a multimedia panel that compactly integrates integrated circuit boards, sensing elements, and processors within the internal structure of electrical accessories, employs touch-sensitive input sensing and display modules, achieves stable electrical connections and signal transmission, and adds a coprocessor to improve processing performance.
It achieves compactness and stability of the device, saves space, avoids electrical contact problems, improves user experience and system stability, and reduces network burden and data waste.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model mainly relates to a kind of intelligent multimedia panel equipment based on electrical accessory product form transformation. BACKGROUND
[0002] In the current intelligent home system, users can control home devices through the operation interface provided by the application program by corresponding software / firmware provided by each intelligent device service provider, and with the increase of the number and types of devices, the control becomes more and more complicated, significantly reducing user experience and system stability. Some sensors are included in the smart home devices, similar to the function of a trigger to activate other home devices, but the home user needs to constantly purchase new sensor devices and face the problem of installation wiring, which occupies space and causes greater power consumption and waste. At the same time, such after-installed sensors are scattered and need to be connected to power or batteries, and complex network configurations are required, and the configuration interface becomes complex as the number of devices increases.
[0003] Currently, with the continuous development of network technology, cloud application terminals are also continuously upgraded, so with the increasing number of home devices, it will cause network burden and some unnecessary event type reporting, causing data waste and network bandwidth occupation. Therefore, the designer believes that it is necessary to improve the integration property and local deployment capability of home devices. SUMMARY
[0004] The utility model intends to solve the above problems, and designs a multimedia panel, which is installed in a building body to connect various building electrical devices or is made into a desktop type intelligent operation device with an insulating outer surface, to realize as compact a structure design of functional components as possible in the limited internal structure of electrical and electrical accessories. To this end, the technical solution provided by the utility model is: a multimedia panel, comprising a base (7) that can be at least partially installed in a building body, and a plurality of cover plates (2) assembled on the base (7), the cover plates (2) and the base (7) are clamped and packaged to form an inner cavity (70), for installing circuit boards stacked with each other and electrically connecting at least one circuit board to the AC power line laid in the building body, the cover plate (2) or the base (7) is provided with a plurality of openings for outputting audio / video signals or receiving touch-sensitive signals from users, wherein the cover plate (2) uses a capacitive film with a touch-sensitive element layer to provide touch-sensitive input sensing, wherein the circuit board comprises: a power board (6) for electrically connecting the AC power line, which is physically isolated and packaged in the inner cavity (70); a function board (5) plugged into the power board (6), which additionally provides one or more signal interfaces (54) to plug one or more sub-boards or sensing elements to receive and process signal content.
[0005] As an improved solution of the multimedia panel, the central area of the cover plate (2) is enclosed with a display module (1), the rear end of the display module (1) is plugged into the functional plate (5) to transmit signals. For example, the cover plate (2) can be a plurality of parts spliced into a square profile, and the parts can form a gap for inlaying the display module (1) in the center of the square or near any edge after splicing. The effect is to realize the uniqueness and beauty of the panel modeling, and the user can intuitively operate without blocking the display screen.
[0006] Preferably, in order to synchronize the identification of the logical signals output by the sub-plate or the sensing elements, some of the sensing elements are soldered on the functional plate (5) to achieve stable communication coupling and positioning, and the edge of the functional plate (5) abuts against the side wall (71) of the inner cavity (70). When selecting the sensing elements, the sensing elements are laid according to the set height of the side wall (71) to achieve a compact design.
[0007] In the internal structure of the multimedia panel, the sensing elements include acoustic devices (53) attached to the inner wall of the sound hole (73) on the side wall (71) of the base (7). More preferably, when multiple sensing elements are provided, the front surface of the functional plate (5) is stacked with a sub-plate (4) fixedly connected to the rear surface of the functional plate (5) by an electrical connector, and the sub-plate (4) is also fixedly installed in a suspended manner by a plurality of bosses on the inner wall of the cover plate (2) or the inner cavity (70).
[0008] The sub-plate (4) obtains operating power from the functional plate (5) or independently from one or more interfaces on the power supply plate (61).
[0009] On this basis, a coprocessor is provided on the sub-plate (4) in communication coupling with a processor (51) soldered on the functional plate (5), and the coprocessor includes one or a combination of a graphics processing unit, an algorithm driving unit, and an acoustic sensing chip.
[0010] Further, the front surface of the sub-plate (4) is covered with a backing plate (3) for assembling with the cover plate (2) or as a mounting rack of the cover plate (2), which is fixed by edge fitting at the flush height position of the front surface of the inner cavity (70), and a plurality of openings (30) are provided on the backing plate (3) to expose the electronic key (33) or the light emitting element (42) provided on the sub-plate (4).
[0011] In an improvement of the above technical solution, the display module (1) is built-in with a pickup element (12), which is installed side by side with the display (11) in the body (10) of the display module (1).
[0012] The technical effect of the utility model is remarkable, through the reform of the inner cavity (70) of the product form of the wall switch panel, on one hand, as many circuit boards, sensing elements or processor modules as possible are installed through staggered and stacked design, stable electrical connection and signal transmission are realized through interface plug-in design, the compactness and stability of the product are realized. On the other hand, good electrical isolation is realized between the overall circuit structure formed, electrical contact problems do not occur due to compact installation, and the display module is inserted on the function mainboard in the form of vertical module, effectively saving the internal space and ensuring the minimum effective display area of the content. In addition, the base (7) adopts integrated forming design, and each circuit board is stacked through the suspension mode, and good fixation is realized in combination with the physical fixation mode of the plug-in interface. When different sensing elements are laid out, some sensing elements are directly welded on the function mainboard to realize the shortest path of signal transmission, and in order to synchronously process various data contents, a coprocessor is additionally arranged to improve the processing performance. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0013] Figure 1 It is the overall structure view of the preferred embodiment of the utility model multimedia panel.
[0014] Figure 2 It is Figure 1 the explosion view of the internal main body structure of the multimedia panel of the embodiment shown. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0015] The preferred embodiment shown in the utility model drawings is a kind of multimedia panel provided based on the product form design of electrical appliance accessory, which can be designed into Figure 1 , 2 Such a complete wall-mounted product (for example Figure 1 As shown) or desktop product to overcome the above problems. In general, this multimedia panel has the size setting of electrical accessory wall-mounted panel, is arranged in local hub device connectable to remote cloud controller or is used as a separate running device, wherein the multimedia panel device has at least a part of base 7 capable of being installed in wall / ornamental surface, and has cover plate 2, which can adopt the same appearance as wall-mounted switch panel to maintain the operation habit of user.
[0016] Cover plate 2 and base 7 are buckled and packaged to form inner cavity 70 for installing sensing, control, power module (which can adopt conventional switching power supply design, Figure 2 As shown schematically) and the like to connect AC power line from wall. Thus, power board 6 can be physically isolated and packaged in inner cavity 70 to avoid equipment electric shock. Cover plate 2 is provided with opening for outputting audio / video signal outward or receiving touch-sensitive signal from user.
[0017] The front surface of the base 7 is used to assemble one or more cover plates 2, Figure 2 The shown embodiment describes the improved structure in more detail in the form of an exploded view. The cover plate 2 preferably uses a capacitive thin film with a layer of touch-sensitive elements to provide touch-sensitive input sensing. The central region of the cover plate 2 is provided with a display module 1 rear side setting function plate 5, and the display module 1 and the function plate 5 realize signal transmission through a plurality of interfaces 56 (such as a wire coding interface or an electrical connector). Meanwhile, the function plate 5 can additionally provide one or more signal interfaces 54 for plugging in a plurality of additional function plates or sensor elements. In order to synchronously identify the logic electrical signals output by these function plates / sensor elements, some of the sensors can also be directly soldered to the function plate 5 to realize stable communication coupling and positioning (because the volume of some sensors can be large), which is considered according to the space design needs in the cover plate 2. Moreover, according to an embodiment of the present patent, the number and size of the sensors can also be considered according to the internal volume (such as thickness value, etc.) of the cover plate 2 or the side wall 71 extending out of the wall, whether it needs to be designed in a stacked form and as close as possible to the external environment or a suitable radiation angle, and without causing electric shock and poor lead contact. Sometimes, the side wall 71 is used as a touchable structure mounted on the wall to define the overall external shape of the current multimedia panel, for example, an acoustic sensor can be fixedly plugged in through the interface 55, and an acoustic device 53 (such as an integrated frequency division power amplifier module) is attached to the inner wall of the sound hole 73 on the side wall of the cover plate 2.
[0018] In addition, when a plurality of sensor devices are provided, the function plate 5 can be stacked with a sub-plate 4 in the thickness direction of the inner cavity 70, which can be fixedly connected to the surface of the function plate 5 through an electrical connector (such as a pin header), and can also be fixed in a suspended manner by a plurality of bosses added to the inner wall of the cover plate 2 to set the installation height. On the sub-plate 4, a coprocessor (such as a graphics processing unit GPU, an algorithm driving unit, an acoustic sensing chip, etc.) can be provided for communication coupling with the processor 51. Preferably, the sub-plate 4 can obtain operating power from the function plate 5, and can also independently obtain power from the interface 62 on the power board 61 built in the base 7.
[0019] The sub-plate 4 is depicted in the figure with its front surface covered by a backing plate 3 which is used to assemble with the plurality of cover plates 2 or as a mounting rack for these cover plates when they are designed to be thin or transparent / semi-transparent elements. The mounting rack is additionally fixed in the height position flush with the outermost surface by a plurality of hook-and-slot fittings on the outer rim and the backing plate 3 is provided with a plurality of openings 30 for exposing a plurality of electronic elements 33, 42 soldered on the sub-plate 4, such as electronic key switches 33 or LED light emitting elements 42, when electronic key switches 33 are used, the cover plates 2 are fixed in the lateral position by the elastic catches 33 and have a movable and recoverable stroke in the thickness direction. And in order to generate the movable stroke, one or more movable slots 32 are provided to position the movable freedom of the cover plates 2. In Figure 2 In the embodiment shown, the display module 1 is designed as an assembly structure which can be inserted on any functional circuit board provided at the back side. In one option, the corresponding electrical connections 61 can be provided on the power supply board 61 to be plugged through to ensure constant voltage / current power supply to the display module 1, and in another option, the plug-in end 13 of the display module 1 penetrates the openings 31 in the backing plate 3, the sub-plate 4 (the openings in the corresponding positions of the sub-plate 4 overlap in shape and are therefore not depicted) to be plugged into the wire interface 54 on the functional board 5 to be directly connected to the processor 51 (and its co-processor) to achieve fast response. In addition, the processor 51 is also connected to a memory 52, because it is necessary to store the elements or templates for providing any graphical unit of the display module 1 locally, and in addition, it is necessary to provide storage for large-scale data when training the speech model locally. The power supply assembly 60 can be designed as a separate power supply circuit to provide different levels of operating power to the display module 1 and the functional board 5, respectively.
[0020] Preferably, in order to more reasonably utilize the design space of the inner cavity 70, the display module 1 is built-in with a pickup element (array) 12 which can be installed side by side with the display 11 in the body 10 of the display module 1, so that the pickup element 12 and the acoustic device 53 (such as a loudspeaker) can also be arranged orthogonally to avoid acoustic disturbance. Therefore, the cover plate 2 can be provided with a relief gap 22 to embed the display module 1, so that after assembly, the overall surface is formed Figure 1 In use, the processor 51 is configured to change the different contents of the touch-sensitive display elements 15 presented on the display 11 according to the electric control signals generated by the electronic switch 41 triggered by the touch of the cover plate 2 to enhance the control experience.
Claims
1. A multimedia panel installed in a building to communicate various building electric appliances, characterized in that Comprising: a base (7) which can be installed at least partially in a building, and a plurality of cover plates (2) assembled on the base (7), the cover plates (2) being fastened to the base (7) to form an inner cavity (70) for mounting circuit boards stacked on each other and electrically connecting at least one of the circuit boards to an alternating current power line laid in the building, the cover plates (2) or the base (7) being provided with a plurality of openings for outputting audio / video signals or receiving touch-sensitive signals from a user, wherein the cover plates (2) are provided with a capacitive film with a touch-sensitive element layer for touch-sensitive input sensing, and wherein the circuit boards comprise: a power board (6) for electrically connecting the alternating current power line, which is physically isolated and encapsulated in the inner cavity (70); a function board (5) plugged into the power board (6), which additionally provides one or more signal interfaces (54) for plugging one or more sub-boards or sensing elements to receive and process signal content.
2. The multimedia panel of claim 1, wherein: A central area of the cover plate (2) is enclosed by a display module (1), the rear end of which is plugged into the function board (5) to transmit signals.
3. The multimedia panel of claim 1, wherein: In order to synchronize the logic signals output by the sub-boards or sensing elements, some of the sensing elements are soldered on the function board (5) to achieve stable communication coupling and positioning, and the edges of the function board (5) are abutted against the side wall (71) of the inner cavity (70).
4. The multimedia panel of claim 3, wherein: The sensing elements include acoustic devices (53) attached to the inner wall of the sound hole (73) on the side wall (71) of the base (7).
5. The multimedia panel of claim 1, wherein: When multiple sensing elements are provided, a sub-board (4) is stacked on the front surface of the function board (5), which is fixedly connected to the surface of the function board (5) by an electrical connector, and is also fixedly installed in a suspended manner at a height by a plurality of bosses on the inner wall of the cover plate (2) or the inner cavity (70).
6. The multimedia panel according to claim 1 or 5, characterized in that: The sub-board (4) obtains operating power from the function board (5), or independently from one or more interfaces on the power board (6).
7. The multimedia panel of claim 6, wherein the first and second layers are formed of a material selected from the group consisting of: glass, ceramic, and plastic. A coprocessor is provided on the sub-board (4) for communication coupling with a processor (51) soldered on the function board (5), wherein the coprocessor includes one or a combination of a graphics processing unit, an algorithm driving unit, and an acoustic sensing chip.
8. The multimedia panel of claim 1, wherein: The front surface of the sub-board (4) is covered with a backing plate (3) for assembling with the cover plate (2) or as a mounting bracket of the cover plate (2), which is fixed by an outer edge fit at a flush height position on the front surface of the inner cavity (70), and the backing plate (3) is provided with a plurality of openings (30) for exposing electronic keypads (33) or light emitting elements (42) provided on the sub-board (4).
9. The multimedia panel of claim 2, wherein: The display module (1) is built-in with a pickup element (12), which is installed side by side with a display (11) in a body (10) of the display module (1).