Television system including glare detection and remedial action system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
A television system includes a housing including a television screen, a glare detector arranged in the housing and configured and disposed to detect an origination point of a glare on one of a television screen and a viewer, and a glare remediation system operatively coupled to the glare detector and one or more window covering devices. The glare remediation system is configured and disposed to close the one of the one or more window covering devices at the origination point upon detecting the glare at the one of the television screen and the viewer.
Claims11
A television system comprising:
- a housing including a television screen;
- a glare detector arranged in the housing and configured and disposed to detect an origination point of a glare on one of a television screen and a viewer, the glare detector including a computer readable storage medium having stored therein a look-up table including solar position and orientation information based on geographic location, time of year, and time of day;
- a camera arranged at the housing, the camera being configured and disposed to capture images of one or more viewers;
- an object recognition algorithm operatively associated with the glare detector and the camera, the glare detector being configured and disposed to detect the origination point of the glare based on one or more images of the viewer captured by the camera;
- and
- a glare remediation system operatively coupled to the glare detector and one or more window covering devices, the glare remediation system being configured and disposed to automatically close the one of the one or more window covering devices at the origination point upon detecting the glare at the one of the television screen and the viewer.
A computer-implemented method of detecting and eliminating glare at a television system comprising:
- detecting a glare on one of a television screen and a viewer of the television at the television system;
- determining an original point of the glare including accessing a computer readable storage medium having stored therein a look-up table including solar position and orientation information based on geographic location, time of year, and time of day;
- capturing an image of a viewer through a camera operatively associated with the television system;
- evaluating one or more images of the viewer captured by the camera to detect the glare;
- and
- automatically closing a window covering device associated with the origination point.
A computer program product for detecting and mitigating glare at one of a television system and a viewer, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
- detecting a glare on one of a television screen and a viewer of the television at the television system;
- determining an original point of the glare including accessing a computer readable storage medium having stored therein a look-up table including solar position and orientation information based on geographic location, time of year, and time of day;
- capturing an image of a viewer through a camera operatively associated with the television system;
- evaluating one or more images of the viewer captured by the camera to detect the glare;
- and
- automatically closing a window covering device associated with the origination point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.