52 results about "Visual Discomfort" patented technology

Visual discomfort from depth jumps in 3D video content is reduced or avoided by detecting the occurrence of a depth jump and by Input video changing the disparity of a group of received image frames including the frames at the depth jump in order to adjust the perceived depth in a smooth transition across the group of image frames from a first disparity value to a second disparity value. Depth jumps may be detected, for instance, when content is switched from one 3D shot to another 3D shot.

The invention discloses a method for dynamically adjusting backlight brightness based on the image content. The method can dynamically adjust a backlight and adjust the image contrast effectively. The method includes the following steps: (1) calculating the gray level histogram of an image to be used for calculating the highest degree of distortion and the largest gain coefficient of the image; (2) limiting the maximum value of the gain coefficient to reduce the influences that the display effect is weakened and a user feels uncomfortable in vision, wherein the influences are caused by sudden change of the backlight; (3) according to the ambient brightness, determining the minimum value of the current brightness of a mobile phone to determine the current maximum distortion so that the situation that the user is unable to recognize the content on a screen because the environment is too bright will not happen; (4) introducing an image similarity algorithm of a historical frame and a current frame to reduce the number of times of calculation of the gain coefficient. The method dynamically adjusts the backlight according to the display content on the screen, reduces calculation amount to the greatest extent under the condition that the effect of the calculation amount on the performance of the mobile phone is taken into consideration, compensates for the caused image distortion, and ensures that the visual experience of the user will not be affected by the design of low power consumption.

An image display (A) comprises a display unit (1) such as a liquid crystal panel, a light source (3) such as a backlight, a light source control section (5), a video signal processing section (7) for outputting a signal to control the display unit in accordance with an input signal (S1), and a control section (11) for controlling the whole including light source control and video image control. The control section (11) has a video-image analyzing block (15) for analyzing a video image on the basis of the input signal (S1), a target value setting block (17) for setting a target value of an amount of light generated by the light source upon receiving an analysis result (S2), and a controlled-amount determining block (21) for, upon receiving a target value (S3), determining a speed at which the light source is controlled, and for outputting a compensation parameter (S4) to the video signal processing section (7) while notifying the light source control section of a set luminance (S5). On receiving the set luminance value (S5), the light source control section (5) outputs a light amount control signal (S6) to the light source. Thereby, a technique which is capable of reducing power consumption in image display without causing any visual discomfort can be provided.

A vehicle-periphery image generating apparatus and a method of correcting distortion of vehicle-periphery image corrects distortion of the obstacle image appearing in the vehicle-periphery image after viewpoint conversion, so that visual discomfort experienced by the driver is reduced. Images around the vehicle are captured by a plurality of cameras, and an obstacle around the vehicle is detected by an ultrasonic sensor. When the obstacle is detected, a width of an image in the region positioned on the far side of the obstacle is compressed in the center direction of the images to generate the vehicle-periphery image. As a result, when a three-dimensional obstacle around the vehicle appears in an camera image, the camera image is viewpoint-converted so that enlargement or stretching of the obstacle image can be prevented.

Visual discomfort from depth jumps in 3D video content is reduced or avoided by detecting the occurrence of a depth jump and by changing the disparity of a group of received image frames including the frames at the depth jump in order to adjust the perceived depth in a smooth transition across the group of image frames from a first disparity value to a second disparity value. Depth jumps may be detected, for instance, when content is switched from one 3D shot to another 3D shot.

The invention discloses a method for controlling color gradient of an LED (light emitting diode) lamp. The method includes: dividing the color gradient process of the LED lamp into a plurality of main processes, each main process comprises a plurality of branch processes, and the initial state and the final state of each branch process have at least an identical primary color; equally dividing the color components of each primary color into a plurality of changing components according to the change from the darkest to the brightest; in each of the branch processes, gradually increasing or reducing the color component of at least one primary color according to the proportion of one changing component at a time, wherein the change of the color component is controlled by a current of a corresponding LED lamp set, and the current of the LED lamp set is controlled by a pulse width modulation signal output by a singlechip of the LED lamp; and cycling the plurality of main processes in sequence. The method can control the LED lamp sets with different primary colors in the LED lamp to change gradually according to the changing components and maintain at least one identical primary in the initial state and the final state of each change, thereby achieving the color gradient and avoiding the visual discomfort caused by skipping changes.

In a computer-based graphics imaging system, binocular tone mapping is employed with an optimization-based framework to generate a binocular single vision image with more visual richness than a single tone-mapped image, the binocular tone mapping being guided by a binocular viewing comfort predictor (BVCP) metric in order to assure stable formation of binocularly tone-mapped image pairs, so that visual information content of the image pair can be maximized without triggering visual discomfort.