Electronic Device Color Mapping for Dark Theme Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices struggle to apply a dark color theme to content that can be expressed in an infinite color range, leading to inconsistent and user-unfriendly display options.
Innovation Solution
The electronic device converts individual custom colors to spatial values, compares them with a standard color chart, and standardizes them to optimal colors for display, enabling a dark theme even for content that typically doesn't support it.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a dark color theme is applied to content with individual custom colors, then the visual consistency and user experience are improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need for color conversion and standardization processing
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores a standard color chart with defined color values before the theme switching occurs. When a dark theme is activated, the pre-prepared standard color chart is immediately used for comparison and conversion, eliminating the need for real-time color standardization processing and reducing computational complexity during theme switching.
Solution Approach 2:
A standard color chart acts as an intermediary between the individual custom colors in content and the dark color theme requirements. The conversion process uses the standard color chart as a reference mediator to transform custom colors into theme-appropriate colors through spatial distance comparison, simplifying the overall conversion mechanism.
2Speed
If color inversion is performed based on pre-defined color tables, then the processing speed is improved, but the color accuracy and visual quality deteriorate for content with infinite color ranges
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter representation of colors from individual custom color values to spatial coordinates in a color space. By converting colors to spatial values and comparing distances in this transformed parameter space, the system achieves both efficient processing (through standardized calculations) and high color accuracy (through geometric distance metrics).
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical color inversion method (direct pixel manipulation based on predefined tables) with a geometric calculation approach. By using spatial distance comparison in color space, the system substitutes complex color theory calculations with simpler Euclidean distance computations, achieving both speed and accuracy.
3Device complexity
If a limited color table is used for theme application, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to content with infinite color ranges deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The standard color chart serves as a universal reference that can handle both limited color table content and infinite color range content. By converting all colors to spatial coordinates and using distance-based matching against the standard chart, the system provides a unified approach that adapts to any color input, making the theme system universally applicable across different content types.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device according to various embodiments includes a display, a processor, and a memory. Based on a determination that a theme of the electronic device is applied, the memory may store instructions that, when executed, control the processor to receive a content display request. Based on a determination that the content includes a first object stored with an individual custom color value, convert a color value of the individual custom color to a spatial value by comparing spatial distances between each color included in a standard color chart stored in the memory on the basis of the converted spatial value, standardize by a color value positioned at the smallest distance, and retrieve the first object of the individual custom color in the standardized color value to display the first object of the individual custom color on the display.