Screen Widget Brightness Control via Local Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing screen widget brightness control technologies cannot adjust the brightness of a small screen window in real-time and automatically, leading to unclear content and dazzling issues when the screen brightness is increased for the full screen.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that automatically determine the widget area based on display data and adjust its brightness to a target level, allowing for partial brightness adjustment of the display screen while maintaining the original brightness of other areas, using ambient light information or user input signals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the screen brightness is increased for the full screen to improve widget visibility, then the widget content becomes clear, but other screen areas become dazzling and uncomfortable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewidget area brightnessVSAvoidglare in other screen areas
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the display screen into multiple independent brightness control zones, specifically separating the widget area from the rest of the screen. The processing component identifies widget area coordinates from display data and applies brightness adjustment independently to this segmented region, allowing the widget to be bright and visible while keeping other screen areas at comfortable brightness levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local brightness quality control by adjusting only the specific widget area's brightness parameters while maintaining different brightness characteristics in other screen regions. The processing component modifies display data to apply targeted brightness enhancement to the widget coordinates, creating localized high brightness where needed without affecting the overall screen comfort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If automatic brightness adjustment is implemented for real-time widget visibility, then user experience improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic brightness controlVSAvoidbrightness control system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service automatic brightness control where the processing component automatically identifies widget areas from display data and adjusts brightness without requiring manual user intervention. The system monitors display content, determines widget coordinates, and autonomously applies appropriate brightness adjustments, making the complexity transparent to the user while providing seamless automatic control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent establishes a feedback loop where the processing component continuously monitors display data to identify widget areas, adjusts brightness based on this identification, and repeats the process in real-time. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables automatic adaptation to changing widget positions and content while maintaining manageable system complexity through iterative adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11538440B2Method and apparatus for controlling brightness of screen widget, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.12.27 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling brightness of a screen widget, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining display data; determining a widget area of the screen widget based on the display data, in which the screen widget is configured to display multimedia information in a form of a small window on the display screen; and controlling a brightness of the widget area to be adjusted to a target brightness.