Display Apparatus Power Sharing for Peak Brightness

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge is to create a lightweight large display apparatus composed of multiple modules while achieving high peak brightness, which is typically hindered by the need for a large power supply capacity, leading to increased manufacturing costs and heat generation.

Innovation Solution

The solution involves a display apparatus that implements power sharing among multiple display modules, allowing each module to receive power from multiple driving modules, thereby reducing the power capacity required for each driving module and enhancing peak brightness efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the power capacity of the power supply is increased to achieve high peak brightness, then the peak brightness is improved, but the weight of the display apparatus increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeak brightnessVSAvoidweight of display apparatus
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSWeight of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The power supply system is segmented into multiple driving modules, each with a smaller individual power capacity. These modules work in parallel to collectively provide the required peak brightness, avoiding the need for a single large heavy power supply.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple driving modules are merged to function together as a unified power delivery system. The combined output of multiple smaller modules achieves the same peak brightness as a single large module would provide, but with reduced individual weight and heat generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Illumination intensity

If the power capacity of the power supply is increased to achieve high peak brightness, then the peak brightness is improved, but the manufacturing cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeak brightnessVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The power supply is divided into multiple standardised driving modules with smaller power capacities. This segmentation allows for more economical manufacturing compared to producing a single large-capacity power supply, as smaller modules can be mass-produced more efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of using a single power supply with high power capacity, the system changes the parameter of power distribution by using multiple modules with lower individual capacity. This parameter change enables cost-effective manufacturing while maintaining the required overall power output.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Illumination intensity

If the power capacity of the power supply is increased to achieve high peak brightness, then the peak brightness is improved, but heat generation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeak brightnessVSAvoidheat generation
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The heat generation problem is addressed by segmenting the power supply into multiple driving modules. Each module generates less heat individually, and the heat is distributed across multiple locations rather than concentrated in a single large power supply, improving thermal management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple driving modules are combined to share the heat generation burden. The distributed architecture allows heat to be dissipated across multiple smaller units rather than from a single large unit, reducing the heat generation problem while maintaining peak brightness capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Illumination intensity

If the power capacity of the power supply is increased to achieve high peak brightness, then the peak brightness is improved, but the complexity of making the display light-weight increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeak brightnessVSAvoidcomplexity of making display light-weight
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The power supply system is segmented into multiple driving modules that can be independently managed. This segmentation simplifies the overall system design by breaking down the complex task of providing high power into multiple simpler, standardized units, making the display easier to make light-weight.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3644176B1Display apparatus and controlling method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.06.11 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display including a first display module and a second display module, a first driving module comprising driving circuitry connected to the first display module, a second driving module comprising driving circuitry connected to the second display module, a processor configured to: obtain total power consumption of the first display module and second display module based on brightness of an input image, obtain supply power of each of the first driving module and second driving module based on the obtained total power consumption, and control the first driving module and the second driving module based on the obtained supply power, and the processor may control the display apparatus so that a part of supply power of the first driving module is provided to the second display module based on power consumption of the first display module.