Modular Display System Interface Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information handling system displays lack integration with television components, leading to suboptimal convergence of display technologies, with previous solutions offering piecemeal convergence and user confusion due to separate components, and existing solutions result in lower quality signal conversion and high replacement costs.
Innovation Solution
A modular display system comprising a display module and a separate external interface module that translates various audiovisual interfaces into a common format, allowing configuration for either television or information handling system functions, enabling flexible and efficient integration with regional and time-to-market support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If television components are integrated into information handling system displays, then convergence of display technologies is improved, but device complexity increases and user confusion arises from interfacing separate components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines television tuning functionality and information handling system display functionality into a single integrated display device. The television tuner is integrated directly into the display module, eliminating the need for separate external components and reducing user confusion about how to interface multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The display device is designed to perform multiple functions: it can receive and display television signals through integrated tuners supporting various broadcast standards, while simultaneously functioning as an information handling system display. This multi-functional design achieves technology convergence without requiring separate dedicated devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate add-on modules are used to add television functionality, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases and ease of operation deteriorates due to user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using separate add-on modules that users must connect and configure, the patent integrates the television tuner directly into the display device. This unified design eliminates the operational complexity of interfacing multiple separate components, making the device easier to operate while maintaining adaptability to different broadcast standards.
3Adaptability or versatility
If signal conversion is performed through TV card, then television signal display is enabled, but signal quality deteriorates due to interference introduced in conversion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the signal conversion process from external TV cards and performs it directly within the integrated display device. By handling the television signal conversion internally through dedicated circuitry rather than through external card-based conversion, the system maintains higher signal quality and reduces interference.
4Manufacturing precision
If flat panel televisions are built with highly-integrated architectures, then display performance is improved, but adaptability deteriorates due to inability to adjust to developments in standards after release
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates multiple television tuners supporting different broadcast standards (analog, digital, various regional standards) into the display device. This dynamic capability allows the device to adapt to different standards and future developments without requiring replacement, while maintaining high display performance through integrated architecture.
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AI summary
A modular display system and method assembles an external interface module with a display module to support built-to-order display configurations. The display module has display panel, timing controller and speaker components assembled in a display module housing that accepts a single LVDS and a single audio interface. The external interface module couples to the display module housing to form an integral display system. Selective assembly of the display system from plural types of external interface modules allows selective configuration of the display system with various television and information handling system display functionalities, such as to fill a purchaser order in a build-to-order manufacturing process.