Display Device Color Adaptation to Surrounding Environment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies fail to effectively match content colors with the surrounding environment, leading to a disjointed user experience, as they do not consider the space's characteristics when displaying content.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus and method that includes a signal receiver, processor, and camera to identify and allocate colors from the surrounding environment to the content, using color combination information and user inputs to ensure the content is displayed in harmonious colors fitting the space, by converting RGB values to HSV and arranging them by brightness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If content is displayed with original colors, then content quality is maintained, but visual harmony with surrounding space deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent qualityVSAvoidvisual harmony with space
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different color adjustment strategies to different regions of the display. The processor divides the display area into multiple regions and adjusts colors locally based on the surrounding environment of each region, rather than applying a uniform color transformation across the entire screen. This allows content quality to be preserved in certain areas while achieving visual harmony in others.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes color parameters (hue, saturation, brightness) of the displayed content based on the detected surrounding environment. The processor analyzes the colors in the surrounding space and adjusts the content's color parameters to match or complement the environment, thereby achieving visual harmony while maintaining content integrity through controlled parameter modifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If color conversion algorithm is applied to fit content to space, then visual harmony improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual harmonyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies color conversion only to specific regions or elements of the content rather than the entire display. The processor selectively adjusts colors in areas where visual harmony is most needed, leaving other areas unchanged. This partial application reduces processing complexity while still achieving the desired visual harmony effect in critical regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer between the content source and the display output. The processor acts as a mediator that receives both the content data and the surrounding environment information, then synthesizes a final display output that balances content fidelity with environmental harmony. This intermediary approach manages complexity by centralizing the color conversion logic in a dedicated processing unit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If existing color extraction methods are used, then space characteristics are captured, but user preferences are not reflected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespace color extractionVSAvoiduser preference adaptation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the color adjustment system dynamic by incorporating user feedback and preferences. The processor continuously monitors user interactions and adjusts the color conversion parameters accordingly. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to evolve from a static space-matching algorithm to an adaptive system that responds to both environmental characteristics and user preferences in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where user responses to displayed content are used to refine future color adjustments. The processor analyzes user behavior patterns and preferences, then uses this feedback to optimize the color conversion algorithm. This feedback loop ensures that the system not only matches the surrounding space but also adapts to individual user preferences, enhancing overall user satisfaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11436965B2Display device and control method of same
Publication Date: 2022.09.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The display apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal of content; a display; and a processor configured to obtain a video photographing a surrounding of the display apparatus, identify a first color representing the obtained video and at least one second color related to the first color, and allocate the identified first color or second color to at least some area of the content or display the allocated first color or second color on the display. Thereby, it is possible to display content in a color fitting a space well.