Electronic Device Shaped Display Scene Evaluation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional camera sensors in electronic devices rely on a single low-resolution preview image for auto-white balance, auto-exposure, and auto-focus, limiting image quality, and are restricted to rigid, planar, and rectangular displays, preventing the creation of flexible, non-planar, and non-rectangular displays.
Innovation Solution
Implementing multiple image sensors and advanced image processing circuitry that analyze the surrounding environment to determine optimal imaging settings and support shaped displays by calibrating warping engines and sensing touch inputs, while simultaneously capturing images with different aspect ratios.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single low-resolution preview image is used for auto-white balance, auto-exposure, and auto-focus, then the device complexity is reduced, but the image quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the imaging system into multiple camera sensors instead of using a single sensor. Each sensor captures images simultaneously, allowing the system to segment the imaging task across multiple components. This segmentation enables better image quality through multi-image processing while distributing the complexity across separate sensor units rather than requiring one overly complex single sensor.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple camera sensors into a unified imaging system that processes images simultaneously. By merging the capabilities of multiple sensors and combining their output through image processing, the system achieves superior image quality that exceeds what a single sensor could provide, while managing complexity through integrated processing.
2Manufacturing precision
If traditional rigid, planar, and rectangular displays are used, then the manufacturing precision is maintained, but the adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a warping engine that dynamically adjusts display geometry through software control. The display transitions from a static, rigid structure to a dynamic one where the imaging surface can be virtually warped and transformed. This allows the display to adapt to various shapes and formats while maintaining the physical integrity of the actual display hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual dimension to the display system through software-based warping and transformation. By adding this computational layer, the display can呈现出 various shapes and orientations without physically changing the display panel itself. This dimensional transformation enables flexible, non-rectangular, and non-planar display appearances while keeping the physical display structure simple and manufacturable.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device may have one or more imaging sensors. The imaging sensors may be used in combination with an optional mechanical gesture to analyze the lighting conditions of the environment around the electronic device. The electronic device may set auto-exposure, auto-white balance, and auto-focus settings based on the analysis. The electronic device may include a shaped display. The imaging sensors may be used in calibration of a projector for the shaped display and may be used in sending touch inputs associated with the shaped display. The electronic device may be able to capture a photograph during video capture. The electronic device may generate a display screen that identifies which portions of the scene being imaged correspond to the video and which portions correspond to the photograph.