Visible Light Communication Grayscale Adjustment for Display Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing visible light communication technologies face issues with image distortion and decoding failures due to large grayscale amplitudes and inability to recognize small grayscale values, leading to inefficient information transmission.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that adjust grayscale values of image frames based on binary code streams, creating distinct first and second image frames with opposite grayscale variations to enhance visible light communication efficiency and user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If large grayscale amplitudes are used for visible light communication, then information transmission capability is improved, but image distortion increases and decoding reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission capabilityVSAvoiddecoding reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting grayscale compensation values based on ambient light conditions. The system changes the grayscale parameters from fixed large amplitudes to adaptive values that optimize both information transmission and decoding reliability under different lighting environments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the display device adjusts grayscale compensation based on detected ambient light levels. This feedback loop ensures that information transmission maintains optimal performance while preventing image distortion and decoding failures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If large grayscale amplitudes are used for visible light communication, then information transmission capability is improved, but image distortion increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission capabilityVSAvoidimage distortion
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes grayscale parameters from fixed large amplitudes to adaptive values that optimize both information transmission and image quality. By adjusting compensation values based on ambient light, the system maintains accurate image representation while enabling effective visible light communication

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If grayscale values are adjusted for visible light communication, then information transmission is enabled, but user viewing experience deteriorates due to perceptible grayscale differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmissionVSAvoiduser viewing experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making grayscale adjustments targeted at specific regions or pixels that do not affect overall image perception. The compensation is applied locally to enable communication while maintaining global image quality that users perceive as normal

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes grayscale parameters adaptively based on ambient light conditions, ensuring that adjustments are imperceptible to users while effective for communication. The parameter changes are optimized to fall below human visual detection thresholds

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Productivity

If grayscale compensation is applied for visible light communication, then transmission efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission efficiencyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by enabling the display device to automatically adjust grayscale compensation values based on its own ambient light detection capabilities. The system serves itself by using existing sensors and processing resources without requiring additional complex hardware

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11069322B2Display method and display device, visible light communication transmission method and device
Publication Date: 2021.07.20 BEIJING BOE TECH DEV CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure is directed to a display method and a display device, a visible light communication transmission method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The display method includes: acquiring an image frame to be displayed and a corresponding binary code stream; adjusting a grayscale value of a corresponding pixel point in the image frame to be displayed based on a grayscale adjustment information set corresponding to each code element in the binary code stream, to obtain a first image frame and a second image frame that are different from the image frame to be displayed; and displaying the first image frame and the second image frame.