# US 12,001,746 B2 · Electronic apparatus, and method for displaying image on display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,001,746 B2 - Document ID: US12001746B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/757,305 - Filed: 2021-05-25 - Published: 2023-01-12 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2020-06-16 - Assignees: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.; Peking University - Applicants: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.; Peking University - Inventors: Shuai Wang; Yadong Mu; Jie Feng; Yiming Bai; Xiangye Wei; Qiong Wu; Ge Ou; Nan Zhuang; Guoqiang Gong - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12001746B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/14: Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} - G09G 5/377: for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns (G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence) - G06T 3/4038: Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images - G06T 5/77: Retouching; Inpainting; Scratch removal - G06T 7/194: involving foreground-background segmentation - G06T 7/70: Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras (camera calibration G06T7/80) - G06V 10/25: Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI] - G06V 10/764: using classification, e.g. of video objects - G06V 40/103: {Static body considered as a whole, e.g. static pedestrian or occupant recognition} - G06V 40/174: {Facial expression recognition} - G06V 40/18: Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris - G06V 40/20: Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16) - G09G 3/035: {for flexible display surfaces} - H04N 7/18: Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast - H04N 21/431: Generation of visual interfaces {for content selection or interaction}; Content or additional data rendering - G02F 1/1333: Constructional arrangements; {Manufacturing methods}(G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence) - G06V 2201/07: Target detection - G09G 2310/04: Partial updating of the display screen - G09G 2330/022: in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time - G09G 2340/125: wherein one of the images is motion video - G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user - G09G 2380/02: Flexible displays - G09G 2380/06: Remotely controlled electronic signs other than labels - G09G 2380/10: Automotive applications - G09G 2380/12: Avionics applications - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS ## Abstract An electronic apparatus and a method for displaying an image on a display device are disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a display device; an image acquisition device configured to acquire a surrounding image of the display device; and a processor configured to: determine a background image of the display device according to the surrounding image; acquire a target range and a target object in the background image; determine a target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object; and control the display device to display the target image, wherein the target image excludes the target object. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic apparatus, comprising: a display device; an image acquisition device, wherein the image acquisition device is located on the back of the display device and is configured to acquire a surrounding image of the display device; and a processor configured to: determine a background image of the display device according to the surrounding image; acquire a target range and a target object in the background image; determine a target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object; and control the display device to display the target image, wherein the target image excludes the target object, and the processor is further configured to adjust an image acquisition frequency of the image acquisition device in response to a change in at least one of a moving range and a moving speed of a user. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises: a frame; a flexible display screen disposed on one side of the frame; and a control circuit disposed on the other side of the frame, wherein the flexible display screen is connected to the control circuit. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the flexible display screen comprises a curved display portion, and wherein the flexible display screen is connected to the control circuit comprises: the curved display portion is connected to the control circuit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein an angle between the curved display portion and a front surface of the display device is 90 degrees, and an optical axis of the image acquisition device is perpendicular to the front surface of the display device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the determining the target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object comprises: removing the target object from the background image to obtain a first image, wherein the first image includes a region from which the target object has been removed; performing image filling on the region after the target object has been removed to obtain a second image; and determining a part of the second image corresponding to the target range as the target image. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the performing image filling on the region after the target object has been removed to obtain the second image comprises: performing image filling on the region from which the target object has been removed according to image information of the background image to obtain the second image. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the determining the target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object comprises: detecting whether the target object is within the target range; in a case where at least a part of the target object is within the target range, removing the target object from the background image to obtain a first image, wherein the first image includes a region from which the target object has been removed; performing image filling on the region after the target object has been removed to obtain a second image; determining a part of the second image corresponding to the target range as the target image; and in a case where the target object is outside the target range, determining a part of the background image corresponding to the target range as the target image. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image acquisition device comprises a first image acquisition device and a second image acquisition device, wherein the first image acquisition device and the second image acquisition device are different types of image acquisition devices. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The electronic apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first image acquisition device is configured to acquire a non-wide-angle image and the second image acquisition device is configured to acquire a wide-angle image. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The electronic apparatus of claim 9, wherein the image acquisition device comprises at least two wide-angle image acquisition devices and/or at least two non-wide-angle image acquisition devices; the processor is further configured to obtain the background image by stitching images captured by the at least two wide-angle image acquisition devices and/or the at least two non-wide-angle image acquisition devices. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: control enabling one of the first image acquisition devices and the second image acquisition devices according to distance information; wherein the distance information indicates a distance between the image acquisition device and a background object included in the background image, and the distance information is obtained by the at least two wide-angle image acquisition devices or the at least two non- contact image acquisition devices. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controlling the enabling one of the first image acquisition devices and the second image acquisition devices according to the distance information comprises: the processor enables the wide-angle image acquisition devices in a case where the distance information indicates that the distance between the image acquisition device and the object included in the background image is less than a predetermined distance. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein acquiring the target object in the background image comprises: performing object detection on the background image to obtain a category of an object present in the background image; determining whether the present object belongs to a predetermined category; and determining the object belonging to the predetermined category as the target object. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein the object belonging to the predetermined category is a person. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein acquiring the target object in the background image comprises: determining that a moving object is present in the background image based on at least two surrounding images acquired by the image acquisition device at different times; and determining the moving object as the target object. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises an ambient sensor, the ambient sensor is configured to acquire information about the surrounding environment of the display device; and the processor is further configured to change the target object in response to a change in the surrounding information. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein acquiring the target range comprises: determining the target range based on a size of the display device. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein obtaining the target range comprises: determining a user position relative to the display device; determining the target range based on the user position. ### Claim 19 A method for displaying an image on a display device, wherein an image acquisition device is located on the back of the display device, the method comprises: acquiring, by the image acquisition device, a surrounding image of the display device; determining a background image of the display device according to the surrounding image; acquiring a target range and the target object in the background image; determining a target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object; and controlling the display device to display the target image; wherein the target image excludes the target object, and wherein an image acquisition frequency of the image acquisition device is adjusted in response to a change in at least one of a moving range and a moving speed of a user. ### Claim 20 An electronic apparatus, comprising: a display device; an image acquisition device, wherein the image acquisition device is located on the back of the display device and is configured to acquire a surrounding image of the display device; an ambient sensor configured to obtain information about surrounding environment of the display device; and a processor configured to: determine a background image of the display device according to the surrounding image; acquire a target range and a target object in the background image; determine a target image according to the background image, the target range and the target object in the background image; and control the display device to display the target image; wherein the target image contains the target object in the background image, properties of the target object in the target image are different from properties of the target object in the background image, and the properties of the target object in the target image change in response to a change in the information about the surrounding environment, and wherein an image acquisition frequency of the image acquisition device is adjusted in response to a change in at least one of a moving range and a moving speed of a user.