CN216956934U

CN216956934U - Portable device for expanding equipment processing capacity

Info

Publication number: CN216956934U
Application number: CN202122870529.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈时钦; 江正梁
Original assignee: Rockchip Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Rockchip Electronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-11-22
Filing date: 2021-11-22
Publication date: 2022-07-12
Anticipated expiration: 2031-11-22

Abstract

The utility model discloses a portable device for expanding equipment processing capacity, which comprises an AI chip, a data interface and an expansion board; the data interface and the AI chip are arranged on the expansion board; the AI chip is electrically connected with the data interface; the data interface comprises a USB interface or a PCIE interface; the data interface is used for being connected with old equipment through a virtual network card; through being provided with data interface and AI chip on the expansion board, establish virtual network card at data interface when being connected AI chip and data interface for data transmission between AI chip and the old equipment can be realized through the mode of programming after data interface directly links with old equipment, improve data transmission's reliability, the mode that adopts data interface directly to link simultaneously not only can realize the plug-and-play's of device effect, and the influence of network to the old equipment that needs to obtain AI throughput has been reduced, thereby improve old equipment's AI throughput with the mode of grafting extension device.

Description

Portable device for expanding equipment processing capacity

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of information processing technologies, and in particular, to a portable device for expanding the processing capability of a device.

Background

With the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, more and more new devices have corresponding AI processing capabilities. However, most devices have AI processing capability before the rise of AI technology. Therefore, most old equipment on the market today is not configured with corresponding AI processing capabilities.

With the development of society and the advancement of technology, AI processing capability has become one of the indispensable capabilities of intelligent devices. Therefore, in order to meet the requirements of society and technology development, old equipment which is installed already needs to be dismantled, and new equipment needs to be replaced to meet the use requirements of users. However, the old equipment is dismantled, which causes a lot of waste of labor cost and equipment cost. Meanwhile, some old devices can also be connected to the AI server by paying by using a network, so as to acquire the corresponding AI processing capacity. However, in the practical use process, the problems of network instability, high bandwidth requirement and the like are faced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is as follows: a portable device for expanding the processing capacity of equipment is provided, and the processing capacity of old equipment is improved by means of device expansion.

In order to solve the technical problems, the utility model adopts the technical scheme that:

a portable device for expanding equipment processing capacity comprises an AI chip, a data interface and an expansion board;

the data interface and the AI chip are arranged on the expansion board;

the AI chip is electrically connected with the data interface;

the data interface comprises a USB interface or a PCIE interface;

the data interface is used for being connected with old equipment and transmitting data through the virtual network card after connection.

Further, the system also comprises an expansion interface;

the expansion interface is arranged on the expansion board and used for connecting expansion equipment;

the expansion equipment comprises a camera and a sound card.

Further, the model of the AI chip is RK 1808;

the expansion board is also provided with a peripheral circuit corresponding to the AI chip;

the AI chip and the peripheral circuit form an AI processing system for processing various types of data;

the AI processing system is respectively connected with the data interface and the expansion interface.

Further, the AI processing system comprises a voice processing module, an image processing module and a communication module;

the expansion interface comprises a voice expansion interface and an image expansion interface;

the voice processing module is connected with the voice expansion interface;

the image processing module is connected with the image expansion interface;

the communication module is connected with the data interface.

Further, the communication module is a SOCKET communication module;

and establishing network connection with old equipment through the SOCKET communication module and the virtual network card.

Furthermore, the expansion board further comprises a network port, an I2C interface and a UART serial port.

Further, the USB interface includes a USB2.0 interface or a USB3.0 interface.

The utility model has the beneficial effects that: through being provided with data interface and AI chip on the expansion board, establish virtual network card at data interface when being connected AI chip and data interface for data transmission between AI chip and the old equipment can be realized through the mode of programming after data interface directly links with old equipment, improve data transmission's reliability, the mode that adopts data interface directly to link simultaneously not only can realize the plug-and-play's of device effect, and the influence of network to the old equipment that needs to obtain AI throughput has been reduced, thereby improve old equipment's AI throughput with the mode of grafting extension device.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a portable apparatus for expanding processing capability of a device according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a portable apparatus for expanding the processing power of a device in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 3 is another schematic diagram of a portable apparatus for expanding the processing power of a device according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a portable device for expanding the processing power of the apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of a portable device for expanding the processing capability of the apparatus according to the present invention;

description of the reference symbols:

1. a housing; 2. a support body; 3. a shell cover; 4. a front cover plate; 5. a rear cover plate; 6. a chute.

Detailed Description

In order to explain technical contents, achieved objects, and effects of the present invention in detail, the following description is made with reference to the accompanying drawings in combination with the embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, a portable apparatus for expanding a processing capability of a device includes an AI chip, a data interface, and an expansion board;

the data interface and the AI chip are arranged on the expansion board;

the AI chip is electrically connected with the data interface;

the data interface comprises a USB interface or a PCIE interface;

From the above description, the beneficial effects of the present invention are: through being provided with data interface and AI chip on the expansion board, establish virtual network card at data interface when being connected AI chip and data interface for data transmission between AI chip and the old equipment can be realized through the mode of programming after data interface directly links with old equipment, improve data transmission's reliability, the mode that adopts data interface directly to link simultaneously not only can realize the plug-and-play's of device effect, and the influence of network to the old equipment that needs to obtain AI throughput has been reduced, thereby improve old equipment's AI throughput with the mode of grafting extension device.

Further, the system also comprises an expansion interface;

the expansion equipment comprises a camera and a sound card.

According to the description, the camera and the sound card are arranged on the expansion board, so that the device has the functions of image acquisition and audio acquisition, the AI processing capacity of old equipment can be realized, the old equipment can also acquire image information and audio information, the adaptability of the device is improved, and the performance of the old equipment is improved.

Further, the model of the AI chip is RK 1808;

As can be seen from the above description, the peripheral circuit corresponding to the AI chip is disposed on the expansion board, and the peripheral circuit and the AI chip form an AI processing system, so that the device can process multiple sets of data, improve the processing capability of the device on different data, and further provide richer data processing capability for old equipment.

the voice processing module is connected with the voice expansion interface;

the image processing module is connected with the image expansion interface;

the communication module is connected with the data interface.

As can be seen from the above description, the voice processing module is connected to the voice expansion interface, the image processing module is connected to the image expansion interface, and the communication module is connected to the data interface, so as to provide the device with the processing capability for audio data, image data, and communication data, and the communication module is used to connect to the old device, so as to provide the old device with the corresponding audio and video processing capability.

Further, the communication module is a SOCKET communication module;

According to the description, the SOCKET communication is adopted and the virtual USB network card is combined, so that the communication between the device and old equipment is realized, a convenient environment is provided for writing programs, and the data transmission is more reliable through direct connection of USB hardware.

It can be known from the above description that the network port, the I2C interface, the UART serial port, etc. are arranged on the expansion board, which facilitates the connection between the device and other electronic devices such as a display screen and a sensor, thereby increasing the function of the device and providing more functional services for old devices.

Further, the USB interface includes a USB2.0 interface or a USB3.0 interface.

As can be seen from the above description, the USB2.0 interface can enable data transmission to reach 480Mbps, while the USB3.0 interface can enable data transmission to reach 5Gbps, so as to meet the requirement of large data volume transmission of the device and improve the interactivity between the device and old equipment.

The portable device for expanding the processing capability of the device in this embodiment may be applied to devices having a USB interface, a network interface, and a PCIE interface, and particularly to devices with insufficient computing power, such as a cash register, an old-fashioned desktop computer, a notebook computer, and the like, which have interfaces such as USB or PCIE; the following is illustrated by way of specific embodiments:

example one

Referring to fig. 1, a portable apparatus for expanding a processing capability of a device includes an AI chip, a data interface, and an expansion board; the model of the AI chip is RK 1808;

the data interface and the AI chip are arranged on the expansion board; the AI chip is electrically connected with the data interface; the data interface comprises a USB interface or a PCIE interface; the data interface is used for being connected with old equipment and transmitting data through a virtual network card after connection; the communication module is a SOCKET communication module, and network connection with old equipment is established through the SOCKET communication module and the virtual network card; the USB interface comprises a USB2.0 interface or a USB3.0 interface; the SOCKET communication module carries out operations such as transceiving, unpacking and the like through messages defined by the SOCKET communication module;

the specific working principle is shown in fig. 2:

connecting a device with an RK1808 chip with old equipment through a USB interface (or a PCIE interface); after connection, a USB virtual network card is established, so that both the old equipment and the RK1808 end acquire an IP and can perform communication interaction through the corresponding IP;

during communication interaction, old equipment sends data (such as camera data) to an RK1808 end after programming through a virtual network card and SOCKET; the RK1808 end receives corresponding data and carries out AI processing, and then the processed data are transmitted back to old equipment through a virtual network card; after the old equipment receives the data, processing the data according to actual requirements;

when the old equipment is provided with a plurality of USB interfaces, a plurality of RK1808 devices can be accessed to add force for the old equipment; such as: each RK1808 device is interacted, and different works are distributed to each RK1808 device, so that each device performs different AI works (face detection, face recognition and the like), and finally, a calculation result is sent to a host;

or the data (such as data acquired by a camera) can be uniformly distributed to each RK1808 device, each RK1808 device performs the same work, and finally the calculation result is sent to the host end;

in another optional embodiment, a peripheral circuit corresponding to the AI chip is further disposed on the expansion board; the AI chip and the peripheral circuit form an AI processing system for processing various types of data, such as data processing of functions of face recognition, sound denoising and the like; the AI processing system is respectively connected with the data interface and the expansion interface;

the expansion board is provided with an expansion interface for connecting expansion equipment; the expansion equipment comprises a camera and a sound card; the camera and the sound card are connected with the expansion interface on the expansion board; the AI processing system comprises a voice processing module, an image processing module and a communication module; the expansion interface comprises a voice expansion interface and an image expansion interface; the voice processing module is connected with the voice expansion interface; the image processing module is connected with the image expansion interface; the communication module is connected with the data interface. The expansion board also comprises a network port, an I2C interface and a UART serial port;

the specific working principle is shown in fig. 3:

connecting a device with an RK1808 chip with main equipment through a USB interface; after connection, a USB virtual network card is established, so that the main equipment and the RK1808 end realize communication interaction; the RK1808 end creates an entity sound card and an entity camera according to actual peripheral equipment; the method comprises the steps that a virtual camera and a virtual sound card are created at a main equipment end, and a command is sent to an RK1808 end through a USB network card to control an entity sound card and the camera; the RK1808 performs AI processing on data corresponding to the entity sound card and the camera, and returns corresponding data to the main equipment end through the USB network card; the terminal of the main equipment acquires the data after AI processing and carries out final processing according to actual requirements;

if data processing such as face recognition, sound denoising and the like is carried out at the RK1808 end, then the data processed by the recognized character information, the clean sound and the like are transmitted to the main equipment;

the main control end virtualizes the sound card and the camera, the realization of the RK1808 end does not need attention, and only needs to send an originally defined command or receive data to the RK1808 end, so that the problem that a large amount of data is interacted between the main equipment and the RK1808 device is avoided, and the occupied bandwidth is reduced, thereby reducing the pressure of the main control end and lowering the requirement on the main control end;

referring to fig. 4 and 5, the device structure corresponding to the above embodiment includes a housing 1, a supporting body 2, a housing cover 3, a front cover plate 4, and a rear cover plate 5; the support body 2 is used for placing the AI chip, the data interface and the expansion board; the two sides of the support body 2 are provided with sliding grooves 6, and the surface area of the support body 2 is increased through the sliding grooves 6, so that the heat dissipation performance is improved; meanwhile, in order to improve the heat dissipation performance of the device, a slot can be arranged on the shell 1;

the size of the structure can be changed according to actual requirements; if the device is required to be used for connecting with peripheral equipment, the shell 1 and the supporting body 2 can be in plug fit through the sliding groove 6; when equipment such as a camera needs to be connected, the shell 1 can be taken down, so that the connection of peripheral equipment is facilitated, and the expansion of the functions of the device is realized.

The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent changes made by using the contents of the present specification and the drawings, or applied directly or indirectly to the related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A portable device for expanding equipment processing capacity is characterized by comprising an AI chip, a data interface and an expansion board;

the data interface and the AI chip are arranged on the expansion board;

the AI chip is electrically connected with the data interface;

the data interface comprises a USB interface or a PCIE interface;

2. The portable apparatus for expanding processing capacity of equipment according to claim 1, further comprising an expansion interface;

the expansion interface is arranged on the expansion board and is used for connecting expansion equipment;

the expansion equipment comprises a camera and a sound card.

3. The portable apparatus for expanding processing capability of equipment according to claim 2, wherein the AI chip has a model number RK 1808;

4. The portable apparatus for expanding processing power of equipments according to claim 3, wherein the AI processing system includes a voice processing module, an image processing module and a communication module;

the voice processing module is connected with the voice expansion interface;

the image processing module is connected with the image expansion interface;

the communication module is connected with the data interface.

5. The portable apparatus for expanding processing capability of equipment according to claim 4, wherein the communication module is a SOCKET communication module;

6. The portable apparatus for expanding processing capacity of devices according to claim 1, wherein the expansion board further comprises a network port, an I2C interface and a UART serial port.

7. The portable apparatus for expanding device processing capability of claim 1, wherein the USB interface comprises a USB2.0 interface or a USB3.0 interface.