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US 11,636,792 B2Granted
Reconfigurable user device screen compensating problematic sources of reflection
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsHarry Cronin, Christopher Wright, Phil Catton, William Schnabel
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program are described to determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device, identify potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around a user device based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, and compensate for the potentially problematic sources of reflection.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, identify one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around the user device that cause one or more potentially problematic reflection areas of the reconfigurable screen;
- determine a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- and
- compensate for the one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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A user device comprising a reconfigurable screen and an apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- determine a configuration of the reconfigurable screen of the user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, identify one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around the user device that cause one or more potentially problematic reflection areas of the reconfigurable screen;
- determine a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- and
- compensate for the one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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A method comprising:
- determining a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, identifying one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around the user device that cause one or more potentially problematic reflection areas of the reconfigurable screen;
- determining a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- and
- compensating for the one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus to perform at least the following:
- determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, identify one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around the user;
- device that cause one or more potentially problematic reflection areas of the reconfigurable screen;
- determine a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- and
- compensate for the one or more potentially problematic sources of reflection by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, identify one or more sources of reflection from a scene around the user device that cause one or more Potentially problematic reflection areas of the reconfigurable screen;
- determine a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- determine a gaze direction of a viewer of the screen of the user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined gaze direction of the viewer, determine a compensation for the one or more sources of reflection;
- and
- perform the determined compensation for the one or more sources of reflection by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device;
- based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, determine or retrieve geometric distortion information indicative of an angle from which a light source is reflected towards a viewer of the screen of the user device, from a scene around the user device;
- determine a distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas based on the determined configuration of the screen;
- and
- compensate for the light source by applying a compensation pattern that selectively adjusts one or more display characteristics of portions of the screen based on the determined distorted shape of the one or more potentially problematic reflection areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.