Display Control Device Image Orientation Transformation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display systems face challenges in automatically transforming images from an undesirable orientation to a desirable one without requiring user intervention, especially when connectors are positioned below the image display area, leading to inverted image displays and increased manufacturing complexity.

Innovation Solution

A highly optimized compression system utilizing specialized array instructions and a modified display-end buffer arrangement that reorders tile and pixel data based on display order information, allowing for efficient image transformation without additional processing power on the host side.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If image data is input beneath the image display area to connect through the bottom of the display unit, then cable routing and manufacturing are simplified, but the image is displayed in an inverted orientation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecable routingVSAvoidimage orientation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of connector position and automatically applies the necessary image transformation (inversion or rotation) before display, so that the image is correctly oriented without requiring user intervention. This preliminary action resolves the contradiction by pre-correcting the orientation issue that would otherwise require user input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The display device autonomously detects its own connector position and self-corrects the image orientation through automatic transformation. The system serves itself by eliminating the need for external user configuration, thereby resolving the contradiction between simplified manufacturing and proper image display orientation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If software is provided at the host side to generate re-oriented display, then image orientation can be corrected, but user input is required which complicates operation for non-technical users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage orientation correctionVSAvoidsoftware configuration
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display device automatically detects connector position and performs image transformation without requiring any user input or software configuration. This self-service approach eliminates the complexity of host-side software while maintaining proper image orientation, directly resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The image transformation function is extracted from the host computer software and implemented directly in the display device hardware. This extraction eliminates the need for complex host software and user configuration, simplifying operation while maintaining orientation correction capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If image transformation is performed before compression on the host side, then display orientation is corrected, but processing power and storage are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage orientationVSAvoidprocessing power
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The image transformation function is extracted from the host computer and implemented in the display device. This shifts the processing burden from the host to the display device, eliminating the need for transformation before compression on the host side and reducing host processing power consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of transforming the image data before compression on the host, the system transmits the data in its original orientation and performs the transformation after compression in the display device. This reverse approach maintains compression efficiency while achieving the desired orientation correction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentEP2936428B8Image transformation
Publication Date: 2019.04.03 DISPLAYLINK (UK) LTD

AI summary

A method, at a display control device, for transforming image data, the method comprising receiving portions of image data from a host device, wherein the portions of image data are based on tiles of an image, wherein the image comprises tiles in a tile order, each tile comprising pixels in a pixel order, and receiving display order information provided by host device, wherein the display order information provides an order for providing the portions of image data to a display device and generating different image data having a different tile order based on the display order information, and a different pixel order and providing the different image data the display device for displaying a transformed image.