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Samsung patents display settings that adjust image edges for low vision users

This patent describes a display device that modifies images to help people with low vision see them better. It works by letting users choose a specific intensity level, which then adjusts the thickness of object edges and changes image quality settings like brightness and sharpness.

Why it mattersThis is interesting because it offers a customizable way to make screens easier to read for people with visual impairments, rather than just offering a single fixed accessibility mode.

In the filing’s own words

The disclosure discloses an image processing method. The image processing method according to the disclosure may comprise: identifying preferred intensity information indicating a first preferred intensity among a plurality of preferred intensities associated with image processing based on a low vision mode, based on an input, obtaining edge thickness setting information corresponding to the first preferred intensity from the memory and perform edge thickness adjustment processing on an input image based on the obtained edge thickness setting information, obtaining image quality adjustment setting information corresponding to the first preferred intensity from the memory and performing image quality adjustment processing on the image on which the edge thickness adjustment processing is performed based on the obtained image quality adjustment setting information.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A display device, comprising: memory storing a program including at least one instruction; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, connected to the memory and configured to execute the at least one instruction of the program stored in the memory, wherein at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, is configured to: identify preferred intensity information indicating a first preferred intensity among a plurality of preferred intensities associated with image processing based on a low vision mode, based on an input; perform edge thickness adjustment processing on an input image based on edge thickness setting information corresponding to the first preferred intensity; perform image quality adjustment processing on the image on which the edge thickness adjustment processing is performed, based on image quality adjustment setting information corresponding to the first preferred intensity; and adjust a sharpness for the image by increasing brightness by applying overshoot to pixels belonging to a first area among pixels adjacent to the edge and by decreasing brightness by applying undershoot to pixels belonging to a second area different from the first area, based on setting information for adjusting the sharpness according to the first preferred intensity included in the obtained image quality adjustment setting information, wherein the first area corresponds to an inner area of an object associated with the edge, and the second area corresponds to an outer area of the object, wherein the memory includes edge thickness setting information corresponding to each of the plurality of preferred intensities and image quality adjustment setting information corresponding to each of the plurality of preferred intensities, and wherein each image quality adjustment setting information includes setting information for adjusting at least one of a brightness, a dynamic contrast ratio, a sharpness, or a color for the image according to a corresponding preferred intensity.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
Display device for supporting image adjustment and control method thereof
Patent number
US12743758B2
Application number
18601165
Filed
Mar 11, 2024
Granted
Sep 22, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

G06T 5/92 Physics & computingG06T 5/60 Physics & computingG06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10024 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20192 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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