Circuit arrangement for actuating a display
AssigneeDiehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
InventorHenry Fluhrer
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Abstract
There is proposed a circuit arrangement for the actuation of a VFD, LED or LCD display, which has at least two control blocks for producing control signals for the various kinds of display, wherein the control signals of the control blocks are processed by a common driver component and the driver component transmits suitable actuation signals to the terminals of the VFD, LED or LCD display.
Claims8
A circuit arrangement (1) for actuating a VFD, LED or LCD display (2), comprising
- a data receiver (3) which receives from a central unit (4) the data necessary for actuation of the display (2),
- a control logic (5) which checks the data received from the data receiver (3) and extracts therefrom display data,
- at least one storage element (6) in which the respectively current display data are stored,
- at least two control blocks (7, 8) which are in data communication with the at least one storage element (6), for production of the control signals necessary for the display in dependence on the display data stored in the at least one storage element (6),
- wherein the first control block (7) is such that it supplies the control signals necessary for an LCD display, and the second control block (8) is such that it supplies the control signals necessary for a VFD display or an LED display or both for a VFD display and also for an LED display, and
- a common driver component (11) to which the control signals of the control blocks (7) and (8) are fed and which produces from those control signals suitable actuation signals for the VFD, LED and/or LCD displays and transmits same to the corresponding display (2).
A circuit arrangement according to one of the preceding claims characterised in that the control logic (5), the at least one storage element (6) and the control blocks (7, 8) are digital in operation while the driver component (11) is analog in operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.