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US 11,451,876 B2Granted
Apparatus, systems and methods for video output brightness adjustment
AssigneeDISH Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsJeremy Mickelsen, Adam Schafer
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Abstract
Systems and methods are operable to increase brightness output from a display. An exemplary embodiment detects a predefined user action of a remote control, and then increases brightness of a currently presented image that is being presented on the display in response to detecting the predefined user action so that an ambient lighting level in the vicinity of the display is increased.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processing devices comprising one or more processors;
- and
- memory communicatively coupled with the one or more processors and having stored therein processor-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
- communicating at least part of a media content event to facilitate presentation of the at least part of the media content event on a display that is communicatively coupled to the one or more processing devices;
- communicating with the display to obtain device identification information and using the device identification information to determine a type of the display;
- comparing the determined type of display with a listing of display types, wherein each of the listed display types is associated with at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- detecting a light level using a light detector of the one or more processing devices, the light level in a vicinity of the one or more processing devices and the display;
- comparing the detected light level with a threshold lighting level to determine a difference between the detected light level and the threshold lighting level;
- and
- based at least in part on the comparing, causing one or more display adjustments to adjust direct lighting directed from the display by adjusting image characteristics affecting how subsequent portions of the media content event are presented on the display at least partially by:
- increasing brightness of a plurality of subsequent images based at least in part on one or more characteristics of a previous image presented on the display and the at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- and
- continuing to communicate additional portions of the media content event to the display with the increased brightness.
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A method comprising:
- communicating at least part of a media content event from a media device to facilitate presentation of the at least part of the media content event on a display that is communicatively coupled to the media device;
- communicating with the display to obtain device identification information and using the device identification information to determine a type of the display;
- comparing the determined type of display with a listing of display types, wherein each of the listed display types is associated with at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- detecting a light level using a light detector of the media device, the light level in a vicinity of the media device and the display;
- comparing the detected light level with a threshold lighting level to determine a difference between the detected light level and the threshold lighting level;
- and
- based at least in part on the comparing, causing one or more display adjustments to adjust direct lighting directed from the display by adjusting image characteristics affecting how subsequent portions of the media content event are presented on the display at least partially by:
- increasing brightness of a plurality of subsequent images based at least in part on one or more characteristics of a previous image presented on the display and the at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- and
- continuing to communicate additional portions of the media content event to the display with the increased brightness.
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One or more non-transitory, machine-readable media storing machine-executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
- communicating at least part of a media content event to facilitate presentation of the at least part of the media content event on a display that is communicatively coupled to the one or more processing devices;
- communicating with the display to obtain device identification information and using the device identification information to determine a type of the display;
- comparing the determined type of display with a listing of display types, wherein each of the listed display types is associated with at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- detecting a light level using a light detector of the one or more processing devices, the light level in a vicinity of the one or more processing devices and the display;
- comparing the detected light level with a threshold lighting level to determine a difference between the detected light level and the threshold lighting level;
- and
- based at least in part on the comparing, causing one or more display adjustments to adjust direct lighting directed from the display by adjusting image characteristics affecting how subsequent portions of the media content event are presented on the display at least partially by:
- increasing brightness of a plurality of subsequent images based at least in part on one or more characteristics of a previous image presented on the display and the at least one characteristic that defines brightness of an image when the image is presented by the determined type of display;
- and
- continuing to communicate additional portions of the media content event to the display with the increased brightness.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.