Image Display Method for Soft Screens with Similar Color Regions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Soft screens with poor performance display images with similar colors as a single color, leading to unnatural transitions and sharp color changes, as they struggle to accurately render gradual color changes in images.

Innovation Solution

An image displaying method that identifies regions with similar colors and adjusts color values using a preset scheme to generate a target image, ensuring smooth transitions and avoiding sharp color changes, even on low-performance soft screens.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If soft screens display images with similar colors using standard display technology, then the display process is simple and fast, but sharp color changes occur and color transitions look unnatural

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor transition smoothnessVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by processing the image before display to identify regions with similar colors and pre-calculate optimal color values. This advance preparation ensures that when the image is displayed on a soft screen, the color transitions are smooth and natural, avoiding the sharp color changes that would otherwise occur. The processing includes determining image regions, identifying monochrome regions within those regions, and calculating target color values based on adjacent region relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If soft screens display images with similar colors as single color regions, then the display speed is fast, but the image quality deteriorates with unnatural color transitions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor display precisionVSAvoidimage processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by treating different regions of the image differently based on their color characteristics. Specifically, it identifies image regions containing similar colors and further identifies monochrome regions within them. For these specific local areas, the patent calculates target color values by considering relationships with adjacent monochrome regions, while other regions are displayed without special processing. This localized approach improves color display precision where needed without unnecessarily increasing processing time for the entire image.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3118847B1Image displaying method, image displaying device, computer program and recording medium
Publication Date: 2023.11.08 XIAOMI INC
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AI summary

The invention is related to an image displaying method, an image displaying device, a computer program and a recording medium. The method comprises: acquiring (S11) a designated image upon receipt of an instruction for displaying the designated image; determining (S12) an image region composed of at least three adjoining monochrome regions in the designated image; when a difference in color value between each two adjacent ones of the adjoining monochrome regions in the image region is less than a threshold value, determining (S13) a target color value according to a preset scheme by using color values of the monochrome regions in the image region; and changing (S14) color values of the image region in the designated image into the target color value to generate a target image; displaying (S15) the target image.