Image Processing Device Reducing Blue Light via Color Temperature Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Prolonged exposure to blue light emitted by smart device screens can cause eye fatigue and potential irreversible eye damage, with existing anti-blue-light solutions like glasses and software either increasing costs or affecting user experience.

Innovation Solution

An image processing method that adjusts the color temperature of images by determining a target color temperature and performing a transformation operation on the gray-scale values of red, green, and blue components, reducing blue light emission while maintaining a good visual effect.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If blue light is reduced through hardware filters or anti-blue-light coatings, then blue light radiation is reduced, but device cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveblue light radiationVSAvoiddevice cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adjusts the color temperature parameter of the display screen through software control to shift the spectral distribution of emitted light. By dynamically changing color temperature parameters (e.g., from 6504K to lower values), the system reduces blue light content without requiring physical filters or coatings, thereby avoiding additional manufacturing costs while achieving eye protection functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-affected harmful factors

If blue light is reduced through hardware filters or coatings, then blue light radiation is reduced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveblue light radiationVSAvoiddevice structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces physical hardware solutions (filters, coatings, or additional optical components) with a software-based color temperature adjustment mechanism. By using image processing algorithms to modify pixel output values and adjust color temperature parameters, the system achieves blue light reduction without adding mechanical or optical components, thus maintaining device structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If color temperature is adjusted to reduce blue light, then blue light radiation is reduced, but image quality may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveblue light radiationVSAvoidimage quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic color temperature adjustment that adapts to different usage scenarios, times of day, and content types. The system can switch between different color temperature modes (e.g., warm mode for nighttime, standard mode for daytime) and dynamically balance between blue light reduction and image quality preservation, allowing users to select appropriate modes based on their needs while maintaining overall image fidelity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11917343B2Image processing method, image processing device, display device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.02.27 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides an image processing method, an image processing device, a display device, and a storage medium. The image processing method is suitable for processing an image to be processed to obtain a target image, image data of the image to be processed includes a gray-scale value corresponding to each basic color component of a plurality of basic color components. The image processing method includes: determining a target color temperature; determining a target value of each basic color component corresponding to the target color temperature; determining a transformation parameter of each basic color component according to the target value of each basic color component; and based on the transformation parameter of each basic color component, performing a transformation operation on the gray-scale value, corresponding to each basic color component, in the image data of the image to be processed to obtain image data of the target image.