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Granted Patent B2
US 12,230,225 · App. 18/460,875 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Display apparatus and display control method

Inventors: Zhenhua Pang (Shandong, CN); Guangxue Liu (Shandong, CN); Yuxin Zhang (Shandong, CN); Caixia Zhao (Shandong, CN); Aichen Xu (Shandong, CN)
Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.
G09G3/342G09G2330/028
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Patent No.
US 12,230,225
App. No.
18/460,875
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display screen configured to display an image; at least one LED light bar configured to provide light to the display screen; and a power supply circuit configured to supply power to the display apparatus. The power supply circuit includes an LLC primary winding, a first secondary winding and a second LLC secondary winding, where the first LLC secondary winding is configured to convert a voltage of the LLC primary winding into a first voltage, the second LLC secondary winding is configured to convert the voltage of the LLC primary winding into a second voltage; and the power supply circuit is configured to adjust the first voltage output from the first LLC secondary winding into a third voltage, and supply power to the at least one LED light bar through a sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

Claims (35)

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display screen configured to display an image;

at least one Light Emitting Diode (LED) light bar configured to provide light to the display screen; and

a power supply circuit configured to supply power to the display apparatus;

wherein the power supply circuit comprises a resonant converter (LLC) primary winding, a first LLC secondary winding and a second LLC secondary winding, wherein the first LLC secondary winding is configured to convert a voltage of the LLC primary winding into a first voltage, the second LLC secondary winding is configured to convert the voltage of the LLC primary winding into a second voltage; and

the power supply circuit is configured to adjust the first voltage output from the first LLC secondary winding into a third voltage, and supply power to the at least one LED light bar through a sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one LED light bar comprises a plurality of LED light bars; and the power supply circuit further comprises: at least one voltage adjustment module and at least one voltage drive module;

an output terminal of the second LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the first LLC secondary winding, the input terminal and an output terminal of the first LLC secondary winding are respectively coupled with the at least one voltage adjustment module, and the at least one voltage adjustment module is coupled with the at least one voltage drive module;

the first LLC secondary winding is configured to output the first voltage, and the second LLC secondary winding is configured to output the second voltage;

the at least one voltage adjustment module is configured to adjust the first voltage into the third voltage, and send the sum of the third voltage and the second voltage to the at least one voltage drive module;

the at least one voltage drive module is configured to supply power to the plurality of LED light bars respectively according to the sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one voltage drive module is further configured to send a feedback signal to the at least one voltage adjustment module according to currents of the plurality of LED light bars;

the at least one voltage adjustment module is further configured to adjust the first voltage into the third voltage according to the feedback signal.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the power supply circuit further comprises:

an optocoupler, coupled with the at least one voltage drive module and the at least one voltage adjustment module respectively, and configured to perform opto-coupling isolation when the at least one voltage drive module sends the feedback signal to the at least one voltage adjustment module.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one LED light bar comprises a plurality of LED light bars; and the power supply circuit further includes: at least one voltage adjustment module and at least one voltage drive module;

an output terminal of the first LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the second LLC secondary winding through the at least one voltage adjustment module, and an output terminal of the second LLC secondary winding is coupled with the at least one voltage drive module;

the first LLC secondary winding is configured to output the first voltage, and the second LLC secondary winding is configured to output the second voltage;

the at least one voltage adjustment module is configured to adjust the first voltage into the third voltage and send the third voltage to the second LLC secondary winding, and the second LLC secondary winding is configured to send the sum of the third voltage and the second voltage to the voltage drive module;

the at least one voltage drive module is configured to supply power to the plurality of LED light bars respectively according to the sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the first voltage output from the first LLC secondary winding is less than the second voltage output from the second LLC secondary winding.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the power supply circuit further comprises: a plurality of voltage adjustment modules; and a first LED light bar among the at least one LED light bar is coupled with a first voltage adjustment module among the plurality of voltage adjustment modules;

an output terminal of the second LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the first LLC secondary winding, an output terminal of the first LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the first LED light bar among the at least one LED light bar respectively, an output terminal of the first LED light bar is coupled with an input terminal of the first voltage adjustment module, and an output terminal of the first voltage adjustment module is coupled with the input terminal of the first LLC secondary winding;

the first voltage adjustment module among the plurality of voltage adjustment modules is configured to adjust the first voltage into a third voltage, and supply power to a LED light bar coupled with the first voltage adjustment module according to a sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the first voltage output from the first LLC secondary winding is less than the second voltage output from the second LLC secondary winding.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the power supply circuit further comprises: a plurality of voltage adjustment modules; and the at least one LED light bar is respectively coupled with the second LLC secondary winding and a voltage adjustment module of the voltage adjustment modules;

for each of the at least one LED light bar, an output terminal of the first LLC secondary winding is coupled with an output terminal of the voltage adjustment module, an input terminal of the second LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the voltage adjustment module, and an output terminal of the second LLC secondary winding is coupled with an input terminal of the LED light bar;

a first voltage adjustment module among the plurality of voltage adjustment modules is configured to adjust the first voltage into a third voltage, and supply power to a LED light bar coupled with the first voltage adjustment module according to a sum of the third voltage and the second voltage.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an output voltage of the first LLC secondary winding is configured to supply power to a mainboard of the display apparatus.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first LLC secondary winding and the second LLC secondary winding are secondary windings of an LLC module in the power supply circuit; or

the first LLC secondary winding and the second LLC secondary winding are secondary windings of a flyback voltage conversion module in the power supply circuit.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a third LLC secondary winding, wherein the third LLC secondary winding is configured to output a fourth voltage to supply power to one or more loads of the display apparatus except the at least one LED light bar;

wherein the first voltage falls within a range from 0 to the fourth voltage, the third LLC secondary winding is multiplexed as the first LLC secondary winding.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one voltage adjustment module comprises a BUCK circuit.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one voltage adjustment module comprises a BOOST circuit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 5, 2023
From: PANG, ZHENHUA; LIU, GUANGXUE; ZHANG, YUXIN; ZHAO, CAIXIA; XU, AICHEN
To: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 064794/0448 →
Priority Claims (4)
CN 202010192086.8 · Mar 18, 2020 · national
CN 202110137510.3 · Feb 1, 2021 · national
CN 202110138504.X · Feb 1, 2021 · national
CN 202110177726.2 · Feb 7, 2021 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17660786 · Apr 26, 2022
Continuation PCTCN2021080257 · Mar 11, 2021
Related Publication 20230419916A1 · Dec 28, 2023
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