Patent Publication Number: US-11652558-B2

Title: Signal processing system and terminal device

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This application is a Bypass Continuation-in-part Application of PCT/CN2020/071683, filed on Jan. 13, 2020, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201910072933.4 filed on Jan. 25, 2019, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. 
    
    
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a signal processing system and a terminal device. 
     BACKGROUND 
     With the rapid development of communications technologies, terminal devices such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer are increasingly used. 
     SUMMARY 
     Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal processing system and a terminal device. 
     According to a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signaling processing system, applied to a terminal device and including: 
     an interference source; and 
     a band-stop filter, where a first terminal of the band-stop filter is electrically connected to the interference source, a second terminal of the band-stop filter is grounded, and the band-stop filter is configured to filter a baseband signal output by the interference source; where 
     the interference source includes a first main board, or the interference source includes a target module and a metal frame used for fastening the target module, and the target module is a display module or a camera module. 
     According to another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a terminal device, including the foregoing signal processing system. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
       To describe the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the following briefly describes the accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings. 
         FIG.  1    is a principle diagram of radiation interference; 
         FIG.  2    is a schematic structural diagram  1  of a signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; 
         FIG.  3    is a schematic structural diagram  2  of a signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; 
         FIG.  4    is a schematic structural diagram  3  of a signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; and 
         FIG.  5    is a schematic structural diagram  4  of a signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS 
     The following clearly describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the described embodiments are some rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. 
     A signal processing system provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure is described below first. 
     It should be noted that the signal processing system provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure is applied to a terminal device. Optionally, the terminal device may be a computer, a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile internet device (MID), a wearable device, or the like. 
     As shown in  FIG.  1   , there are often some interference sources in the terminal device. Interference signals generated by these interference sources may reach an interfered body along a transmission path through conduction or radiation, affecting the interfered body, for example, interfering with a radio frequency signal of a local device or interfering with normal running of another device. 
     For an interference problem, a solution commonly used in a related technology is to add a shielding device to the interference source, for example, attaching conductive cloth or a copper sheet. However, as use time increases, conduction effects of the conductive cloth and the copper sheet become worse, and the interference signals cannot be effectively shielded. Therefore, an effect of the solution is relatively poor. 
       FIG.  2    to  FIG.  5    are schematic structural diagrams of a signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in  FIG.  2    to  FIG.  5   , the signal processing system includes an interference source  1  and a band-stop filter  3 . 
     A first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to the interference source  1 , a second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is grounded, and the band-stop filter  3  filters a baseband signal output by the interference source  1 . 
     As shown in  FIG.  2   , the interference source  1  includes a first main board; or as shown in  FIG.  4   , the interference source  1  includes a target module  11  and a metal frame  13  used for fastening the target module  11 , and the target module  11  is a display module or a camera module. 
     Herein, the metal frame  13  may be made of a raw material of iron. The display screen module may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) module, and a display in the display screen module may be a thin film transistor (TFT) display. 
     Optionally, the baseband signal is an original electrical signal that is sent from a signal source and that is not modulated (in other words, spectrum shifting and conversion are not performed). Based on different types of the interference source  1 , types of output baseband signals are also different. For clear layout, a type of the baseband signal output by the interference source  1  is described later separately for two cases: The interference source  1  includes the first main board, and the interference source  1  includes the target module  11  and the metal frame  13 . 
     It should be noted that there is usually an interference signal in the baseband signal output by the interference source  1 . The interference source  1  may also be referred to as a noise source, the interference signal may also be referred to as noise, and an interfered body  4  in  FIG.  3    and  FIG.  5    may also be referred to as a noise acceptor. 
     In the signal processing system provided in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to the interference source  1 , and the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is grounded. The interference source  1  includes the first main board, or the interference source  1  includes the target module  11  and the metal frame  13 . It should be noted that the band-stop filter  3  (which is opposite to a concept of a band-pass filter) is a filter that can attenuate frequency components in some ranges to an extremely low level by using most frequency components. In this way, when the band-stop filter  3  filters the baseband signal output by the interference source  1 , the band-stop filter  3  can attenuate the interference signal in the baseband signal output by the interference source  1  to an extremely low level (for an attenuation effect, refer to comparison between two waveforms in any one of  FIG.  2    to  FIG.  5   ), to effectively weaken interference caused by the interference source  1  to the interfered body  4 . It can be learned that, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the band-stop filter  3  is disposed, so that an interference problem caused by the first main board used as the interference source  1  can be resolved, or an interference problem caused by the interference source  1  including the target module  11  and the metal frame  13  can be resolved. In addition, even when use time increases, the band-stop filter  3  can also maintain a good filtering effect. Therefore, compared with a solution in a related technology of attaching conductive cloth or a copper sheet, this embodiment of the present disclosure can resolve the interference problem more effectively. 
     Optionally, as shown in  FIG.  2   , in a case where the interference source  1  includes the first main board, the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to an electronic element interface  5  of the first main board, and the band-stop filter  3  filters a clock (CLK) signal output by the electronic element interface  5 . 
     It is easy to learn that the interference source  1  of the main board outputs a baseband signal of a type such as the CLK signal. Herein, the first main board may be a printed circuit board (PCB) main board. 
     Optionally, the electronic element interface  5  may be electrically connected to a corresponding electronic element (not shown in the figure) by using a connection cable  7 , and the first main board may provide a clock signal to the electronic element by using the connection cable  7 , to ensure normal running of the electronic element. Optionally, the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  may be connected to the connection cable  7 . 
     Optionally, the electronic element interface  5  may be a secure digital (SD) card interface. Certainly, a type of the electronic element interface  5  is not limited to an SD card interface. Correspondingly, an electronic element to which the electronic element interface  5  is electrically connected by using the connection cable  7  is not limited to an SD card. The electronic element interface  5  may be alternatively electrically connected, by using the connection cable  7 , to another electronic component that is in a terminal device and for which the first main board needs to provide the CLK signal. 
     It should be noted that there is usually a low-frequency harmonic component (for example, a third harmonic component or a fifth harmonic component) in the CLK signal output by the first main board through the electronic element interface  5 . If the low-frequency harmonic component is not processed, the low-frequency harmonic component is used as noise to cause radiation interference to another device around the terminal device, and the terminal device cannot pass electro magnetic compatibility (EMC) authentication of the European Union standard and a radiated emission (RE) test in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authentication. 
     In view of this, in this embodiment, the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  may be electrically connected to the electronic element interface  5  of the first main board, and the band-stop filter  3  can attenuate the low-frequency harmonic component that is in the CLK signal and that is used as the noise to an extremely low level, thereby effectively weakening the radiation interference caused by the noise to the another device around the terminal device, to ensure that the terminal device passes the RE test as far as possible. 
     Optionally, the band-stop filter  3  is a notch filter. 
     It may be understood that the notch filter is a filter that can rapidly attenuate an input signal at a frequency point to prevent a signal at this frequency from passing through. The notch filter is a band-stop filter of a possible type, and a band of the notch filter is very narrow. 
     With reference to  FIG.  2   , the electronic element interface  5  is electrically connected to the electronic element by using the connection cable  7 , and the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is connected to the connection cable  7 . To ensure normal running of the electronic element, remaining components in the CLK signal except the low-frequency harmonic component used as the noise need to be normally transmitted to the electronic element through the connection cable  7 . In this case, it is required to ensure as far as possible that the remaining components in the CLK signal are not affected by the band-stop filter  3 . 
     In view of this, in this embodiment, a notch filter may be selected as the band-stop filter  3 . In this way, the band-stop filter  3  can act only on the low-frequency harmonic component used as the noise, but not as the remaining component in the CLK signal. In this way, an electronic device can normally run based on a signal received through the connection cable  7 . 
     Optionally, as shown in  FIG.  2    and  FIG.  3   , the band-stop filter  3  includes a first inductor  31  and a first capacitor  33 . A first terminal (an upper terminal shown in  FIG.  2    and  FIG.  3   ) of the first inductor  31  is electrically connected to the electronic element interface  5 , a first terminal d (an upper terminal shown in  FIG.  2    and  FIG.  3   ) of the first capacitor  33  is electrically connected to a second terminal (a lower terminal shown in  FIG.  2    and  FIG.  3   ) of the first inductor  31 , and a second terminal (a lower terminal shown in  FIG.  2    and  FIG.  3   ) of the first capacitor  33  is grounded (ground herein may be represented by GND). 
     It can be easily learned that the first inductor  31  and the first capacitor  33  are connected in series, an upper terminal of the first inductor  31  is used as the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3 , and a lower terminal of the first capacitor  33  is used as the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3 . 
     Optionally, cut-off frequency of the band-stop filter  3  may be calculated by using the following formula: 
     
       
         
           
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     F is the cut-off frequency of the band-stop filter  3 , L is a inductance value of the first inductor  31 , and C is a capacitance value of the first capacitor  33 . 
     Therefore, by selecting the first inductor  31  with a proper inductance value and the first capacitor  33  with a proper capacitance value, the band-stop filter  3  can effectively act on the low-frequency harmonic component that is in the CLK signal and that is used as the noise. Optionally, the inductance value of the first inductor  31  may be greater than or equal to 1 nH and less than or equal to 200 nH, and the capacitance value of the first capacitor  33  may be greater than or equal to 0.1 pF and less than or equal to 100 pF. 
     The inductance value of the first inductor  31  may be 1 nH, 50 nH, 100 nH, 150 nH, or 200 nH, and the capacitance value of the first capacitor  33  is 0.1 pF, 1 pF, 10 pF, 50 pF, or 100 pF. Certainly, the inductance value of the first inductor  31  and the capacitance value of the first capacitor  33  are not limited to the foregoing enumerated cases. The inductance value of the first inductor  31  and the capacitance value of the first capacitor  33  may be properly selected based on an actual requirement. It is only required to ensure that the band-stop filter  3  can effectively act on the low-frequency harmonic component that is in the CLK signal and that is used as the nose. Cases are not listed one by one herein. 
     Optionally, there are three ideas to resolve a radiation interference problem: Idea 1: Clear the noise at the interference source. For example, as mentioned in the background, a shielding apparatus is added at the interference source. Idea 2: Cut off a transmission path. For example, a grounding point is added on an output path, and the noise is introduced into another reference ground plane or is absorbed. Idea 3: Add a shielding apparatus to the interfered body. For example, a shielding cover is added for protection. However, a transmission path of the noise varies, and the interfered body cannot be shielded in some cases. For example, the noise may interfere with an antenna, and the antenna is a radiator and cannot be shielded. Therefore, it is an optimal solution to clear the noise at the interference source. 
     In this embodiment, for the baseband signal such as the CLK signal, the band-stop filter  3  is added, so that most noise (to be specific, the low-frequency harmonic component in the CLK signal) can be evacuated to the GND. In this way, radiation interference can be greatly reduced from the interference source  1 , thereby effectively resolving the interference problem. In addition, a structure of the band-stop filter  3  is very simple, costs are very low, and it is very convenient to install the band-stop filter  3 . 
     Optionally, as shown in  FIG.  4   , in a case where the interference source  1  includes the target module  11  and the metal frame  13 , the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to the metal frame  13 , and the band-stop filter  3  filters a display signal or a camera signal output by the metal frame  13 . 
     It can be easily learned that, the interference source  1  including the target module  11  and the metal frame  13  outputs a baseband signal of a type such as the display signal or the camera signal. 
     It should be noted that, in many cases, a display signal (or a camera signal) that is used as noise is generated on the target module  11 . After the noise is conducted by using the metal frame  13 , the noise may very likely cause interference to a radio frequency signal of the terminal device, thereby deteriorating performance of the radio frequency signal. 
     In view of this, in this embodiment, the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3  may be electrically connected to the metal frame  13 , and the band-stop filter  3  can attenuate the noise to an extremely low level, thereby effectively resolving an interference problem caused by the interference source  1  to the radio frequency signal of the terminal device. In addition, because the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is grounded, this embodiment can further effectively avoid a reliability problem on the target module  11 , for example, an electro-static discharge (ESD) problem. 
     Optionally, as shown in  FIG.  4   , the signal processing system further includes a second main board  9 , and the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to a grounded member  10  on the second main board  9 . 
     Optionally, the grounded member may be a grounded spring. Certainly, the grounded member may be alternatively in other structural forms, which are not listed one by one herein. 
     It should be noted that the second main board  9  and the first main board above may be a same main board in the terminal device. 
     In this embodiment, the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected to the grounded member on the second main board  9 , which is equivalent to implementing grounding of the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3  by using the grounded member on the second main board  9 . Because the band-stop filter  3  is electrically connected between the metal frame  13  and the grounded member on the second main board  9 , even if the target module  11  outputs, by using a conductive action of the metal frame  13 , the display signal (or the camera signal) used as the noise, the noise is greatly weakened, and it is difficult for the noise to cause interference to the radio frequency signal on the second main board  9 . The radio frequency signal on the second main board  9  may include a global positioning system (GPS) signal. 
     It can be learned that, in this embodiment, interference caused by the interference source  1  to the second main board  9  can be effectively avoided. 
     Optionally, as shown in  FIG.  4    and  FIG.  5   , the band-stop filter  3  includes a second capacitor  35  and a second inductor  37 . A first terminal (an upper terminal d shown in  FIG.  4   ) of the second capacitor  35  is electrically connected to the metal frame  13 , and a second terminal (a lower terminal shown in  FIG.  4   ) of the second capacitor  35  is electrically connected to the grounded member  10 . The second inductor  37  is connected in parallel to the second capacitor  35 . 
     It can be easily learned from  FIG.  4    that an upper terminal of the second capacitor  35  and an upper terminal of the second inductor  37  jointly constitute the first terminal of the band-stop filter  3 , and a lower terminal of the second capacitor  35  and a lower terminal of the second inductor  37  jointly constitute the second terminal of the band-stop filter  3 . 
     Optionally, cut-off frequency of the band-stop filter  3  may be calculated by using the following formula: 
     
       
         
           
             F 
             = 
             
               
                 1 
                 
                   2 
                   ⁢ 
                   π 
                   ⁢ 
                   
                     LC 
                   
                 
               
               . 
             
           
         
       
     
     F is the cut-off frequency of the band-stop filter  3 , L is an inductance value of the second inductor  37 , and C is a capacitance value of the second capacitor  35 . 
     Therefore, by selecting the second inductor  37  with a proper inductance value and the second capacitor  35  with a proper capacitance value, the band-stop filter  3  can effectively act on the display signal or the camera signal that is used as the noise. In specific implementation, the inductance value of the second inductor  37  is greater than or equal to 1 nH and less than or equal to 200 nH, and the capacitance value of the second capacitor  35  is greater than or equal to 0.1 pF and less than or equal to 100 pF. 
     The inductance value of the second inductor  37  may be 1 nH, 50 nH, 100 nH, 150 nH, or 200 nH, and the capacitance value of the second capacitor  35  is 0.1 pF, 1 pF, 10 pF, 50 pF, or 100 pF. Certainly, the inductance value of the second inductor  37  and the capacitance value of the second capacitor  35  are not limited to the foregoing enumerated cases. The inductance value of the second inductor  37  and the capacitance value of the second capacitor  35  may be properly selected based on an actual requirement. It is only required to ensure that the band-stop filter  3  can effectively act on the display signal or the camera signal that is used as the noise. Cases are not listed one by one herein. 
     It can be learned that, in this embodiment, for the baseband signal such as the display signal or the camera signal, the band-stop filter  3  is added, so that the noise can be effectively prevented from being conducted to the interfered body  4  through conduction, thereby effectively weakening interference to the interfered body  4 , and effectively ensuring normal running of the interfered body  4 . 
     In summary, compared with a related technology, this embodiment can effectively resolve an interference problem. 
     A terminal device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below. 
     An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a terminal device, and the terminal device includes the foregoing signal processing system. For a specific implementation process of the signal processing system, refer to the foregoing descriptions. This is not limited in this embodiment of the present disclosure. 
     Because the signal processing system has the foregoing technical effect, the terminal device that has the signal processing system also has a corresponding technical effect, and details are not described herein again. 
     The embodiments of the present disclosure are described with reference to the accompanying drawings above. However, the present disclosure is not limited to the foregoing specific implementations. The foregoing specific implementations are merely exemplary, but are not limiting. A person of ordinary skill in the art may make many forms without departing from the objective and the scope of the claims of the present disclosure.