Ambient Sensor Display Adjustment for Visual Art

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital display technologies fail to dynamically adjust output settings based on the characteristics of the content being displayed, leading to a disconnect between environmental conditions and content quality, resulting in decreased authenticity and consistency.

Innovation Solution

A system that detects ambient conditions using environmental sensors, analyzes these conditions, and adjusts display settings such as brightness, contrast, and color correction to optimize the output display based on the content's characteristics, ensuring a more authentic and consistent viewing experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If general display characteristics are used, then device complexity is reduced, but manufacturing precision of display quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay adjustment mechanismVSAvoiddisplay quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display system automatically analyzes content characteristics and adjusts display parameters without user intervention. The processor autonomously determines optimal brightness, contrast, and color settings based on the displayed content, eliminating the need for manual user adjustments while maintaining high display quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes display parameters (brightness, contrast, color temperature) based on content analysis. Different content types trigger different parameter configurations, allowing the display to optimize quality for each specific content while maintaining simple user interaction through automatic adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If display settings are manually adjusted, then adaptability to user preference is improved, but productivity of automatic optimization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser preference adaptationVSAvoidautomatic optimization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback loop where display output is continuously monitored and automatically adjusted based on content characteristics. The processor analyzes displayed content in real-time and modifies display parameters accordingly, creating a self-optimizing system that adapts to content without requiring manual user input for each adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The display system performs self-adjustment based on content analysis, eliminating the need for continuous manual intervention. The automatic optimization routine runs independently, analyzing content and adjusting parameters without user involvement, thereby maintaining both adaptability and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If dynamic content-based adjustment is implemented, then manufacturing precision of display quality is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay quality consistencyVSAvoiddisplay adjustment system
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The processor serves multiple functions: it processes content data, analyzes characteristics, determines optimal display parameters, and controls display output. This multi-functionality consolidates what could be separate complex components into a single processing unit, achieving high display quality consistency without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system achieves high display quality through dynamic parameter adjustment based on content characteristics. By changing brightness, contrast, and color parameters automatically, the system maintains consistent quality across different content types without requiring complex hardware modifications, relying instead on software-based parameter optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10945018B2System and method for display adjustments based on content characteristics
Publication Date: 2021.03.09 NETGEAR INC
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AI summary

A system and method provides for adjusting an output display on a display device including receiving a plurality of images representing visual artworks from a networked data storage location and storing the plurality of images in a local memory device. In a stationary picture frame, the method and system includes detecting at least one ambient condition using an environmental sensor affixed to the stationary picture frame and analyzing the ambient condition to determine ambient condition factors. The method and system includes selecting one of the plurality of images from the local memory device, the selected image having content data and characteristic data and analyzing the characteristic data of the selected image. Thereby, the method and system provides for adjusting display settings on an output display of the stationary picture frame displaying the content data of the selected image on the output display.