Transparent Display Luminance Contrast Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Transparent displays face challenges in maintaining consistent luminance contrast due to varying background transmissive light luminance, affecting the visibility of display information, especially in changing environmental brightness conditions.

Innovation Solution

A transparent display system comprising a display panel, data acquisition module, and computation module that captures field and display information luminance, determining if the luminance contrast falls within a specific range, and performing optimization procedures such as adjusting display information luminance, size, location, or field luminance to enhance visibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the display information luminance remains unchanged, then the transparent display maintains its transparency and allows background visibility, but the luminance contrast of the display information changes with field brightness conditions, affecting readability

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovetransparencyVSAvoidreadability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic adjustment of display information luminance based on detected field luminance conditions. The system continuously monitors environmental brightness and automatically adjusts the luminance of displayed content to maintain optimal contrast ratios, transforming the static display into a dynamic adaptive system that responds to changing light conditions while preserving background transparency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs a feedback mechanism where the system detects field luminance (including foreground reflective light and background transmissive light), compares it against target contrast parameters, and adjusts display information luminance accordingly. This closed-loop control ensures that readability requirements are maintained across varying environmental conditions without compromising the transparent display's ability to show background scenes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the background transmissive light luminance varies with field brightness, then the transparent display adapts to environmental conditions, but the luminance contrast of display information becomes unpredictable and affects identification difficulty

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptationVSAvoidluminance contrast consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary detection of field luminance conditions (both reflective and transmissive components) before rendering display information. By pre-assessing the environmental lighting context and calculating the required luminance adjustments to achieve target contrast ratios, the system proactively compensates for varying background transmissive light conditions, ensuring consistent readability across different field brightness levels

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent dynamically changes the luminance parameter of display information based on detected field conditions. The system calculates appropriate luminance adjustments to maintain luminance contrast within a target range, transforming the display output parameters in real-time to compensate for variations in background transmissive light luminance caused by changing environmental brightness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10891917B2Transparent display system and operation method thereof
Publication Date: 2021.01.12 INTPROP INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

A transparent display system including a display panel, a data acquisition module and a computation module is provided. The data acquisition is adapted to capture a field luminance of a field where the display panel is located and a display information luminance of display information of the display panel. The computation module determines whether a luminance contrast of the display information falls within a range from a lower boundary to an upper boundary, wherein the luminance contrast of the display information equals to the field luminance plus the display information luminance and then divided by the field luminance. If it is determined that the luminance contrast of the display information does not fall within the range from the lower boundary to the upper boundary, a luminance contrast optimization procedure is performed. An operation method of the transparent display system is also provided.