Screen Color Calibration via Per-Channel Grayscale Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

User terminals with large screens face challenges in maintaining clear display content in bright lighting conditions, as automatic luminance adjustments can lead to color distortion, negatively impacting user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method for color calibration that calculates self-luminous energies and grayscale values for red, green, and blue channels, compensating colors based on external light intensity to prevent distortion and improve visibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the screen luminance is automatically adjusted according to external light intensity, then the visibility of displayed content is improved, but color distortion of the displayed content occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescreen luminanceVSAvoidcolor accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter adjustment approach from global luminance adjustment to per-channel grayscale value adjustment. By independently adjusting the grayscale values of red, green, and blue channels based on their respective emission energies and self-luminous energies, the system maintains color accuracy while adapting to external light conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different adjustment strategies to different color channels based on their specific characteristics. Each channel's grayscale values are adjusted independently according to its emission energy and self-luminous energy, allowing localized optimization of color representation rather than uniform global adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Illumination intensity

If the luminance is over-adjusted in intense external light, then the visibility is improved, but color distortion worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescreen luminanceVSAvoidcolor accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms by measuring the actual emission energies of each color channel and comparing them with the self-luminous energies. This feedback loop enables dynamic adjustment of grayscale values to maintain color accuracy while preventing over-adjustment that would cause distortion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes the grayscale values of each color channel based on real-time measurements of emission energy and self-luminous energy. This parameter adjustment prevents over-adjustment by grounding the luminance changes in actual physical measurements rather than assumptions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9501841B2Method for color calibration and user terminal
Publication Date: 2016.11.22 HUAWEI DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for color calibration and a user terminal, which relate to the field of terminal display and are capable of compensating the colors of the displayed content on a screen according to the external light intensity, preventing content color distortion, and improving user experience. The embodiments of the present invention are used by a mobile terminal to calibrate screen colors according to external light.