Content Display Background Selection by Dominant Color Transparency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for filling the background of digital content on electronic devices do not adequately consider the composition and characteristics of the content, leading to suboptimal background application.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device determines a dominant color in a fourth area corresponding to the content, calculates its transparency, divides it into sections based on reference values, and applies a background image accordingly to enhance visibility and consistency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a semi-transparent background is applied to fill empty margins of digital content, then the background can be uniformly applied to all content, but the background does not appropriately fill according to the composition and characteristics of the content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebackground adaptation to content characteristicsVSAvoidbackground determination process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different background handling strategies to different areas of the display based on content characteristics. By determining the dominant color in a fourth area (which includes the third area corresponding to content) and using that to determine transparency, the system creates locally optimized backgrounds that adapt to specific content regions rather than applying a uniform background to the entire display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the content by determining the dominant color in advance (in the fourth area before final background application). This preliminary color extraction and transparency determination allows the background to be pre-calculated and optimized before the actual display, enabling adaptive background filling without increasing runtime complexity during content rendering.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the dominant color transparency is used to determine background image, then the visibility and consistency of digital content is improved, but the processing time and computational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent visibility and consistencyVSAvoidbackground processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The dominant color determination is performed in advance in the fourth area (which includes the third area corresponding to content) before the final background application. This preliminary color extraction allows the transparency value to be pre-calculated and stored, eliminating the need for repeated computational analysis during content rendering and thus reducing real-time processing time while maintaining consistent and reliable content visibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260029976A1Method for displaying content and electronic device supporting the same
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device includes a display; memory storing instructions; and at least one processor comprising a processing circuit, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: determine a content to be displayed on the display and a first area allocated to the content, determine a second area included in the first area, determine a dominant color in a fourth area including a third area corresponding to the content, determine an amount of transparency of the dominant color, determine a section including the amount of transparency among a plurality of sections distinguished by a plurality of reference values related to the amount of transparency, determine a background image to be applied to the second area according to the determined section, combine the content and the background image and display the combined content and background image on the display.