Self-adjusting Display Using Calibration Shift Profiles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern electronic displays experience shifts in performance characteristics over time due to aging and environmental changes, requiring frequent manual calibration, which is costly and time-consuming, especially in color-critical applications.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system that uses calibration event data from multiple displays to derive statistical data and create display characteristics shift profiles, allowing displays to self-adjust by calculating adjustment factors to compensate for predicted shifts in luminance and color, reducing the need for regular calibration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual calibration is performed frequently to maintain display performance, then display accuracy is improved, but time consumption and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay accuracyVSAvoidcalibration time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The display device performs self-calibration automatically without requiring manual intervention. The system monitors its own performance characteristics and adjusts parameters autonomously, eliminating the need for external calibration operations and reducing time loss while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-calculates adjustment factors based on predicted performance degradation patterns and applies corrections before actual drift occurs. This proactive approach maintains display accuracy without requiring frequent reactive calibration operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If manual calibration is performed frequently to maintain display performance, then display accuracy is improved, but cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay accuracyVSAvoidcalibration cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The automated self-calibration system eliminates the need for external calibration services and manual operations, reducing labor costs and operational expenses while maintaining display accuracy through autonomous performance monitoring and adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors display performance parameters and uses this feedback to automatically adjust calibration settings, maintaining accuracy without requiring external intervention or expensive periodic calibration services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Stability of the object's composition

If display parameters are adjusted frequently to compensate for aging, then performance stability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance stabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display device autonomously monitors its own performance degradation and automatically adjusts parameters without external control systems, maintaining stability through self-regulation while minimizing additional system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system adjusts display parameters such as luminance, contrast, and color balance based on detected performance drift, maintaining stability through dynamic parameter optimization without requiring complex hardware modifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Productivity

If self-adjustment is implemented using statistical data from multiple displays, then calibration frequency is reduced, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecalibration efficiencyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses universally applicable statistical models derived from aggregated data across multiple displays to predict and compensate for performance drift. This multi-functional approach allows a single processing framework to handle various display types and conditions, improving efficiency without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9881586B2Utilizing heuristics to enable self-adjusting displays
Publication Date: 2018.01.30 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for self-adjusting displays are provided. A self-adjusting display may receive a display characteristics shift profile, where the display characteristics shift profile can be generated based on calibration event data collected from a plurality of displays. The display characteristics shift profile can be utilized as an estimate or prediction of a shift in display characteristics the self-adjusting display may experience over time. The self-adjusting display may calculate adjustment factors or curves to compensate for the estimated/predicted shift in display characteristics to lessen or altogether eliminate the need for performing actual calibration on the self-adjusting display.