Optimizing electronic display resolution

• US 10,121,228 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2016
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abuelsaad, Tamer E., Boss, Gregory J., Moore, Jr., John E., Rendahl, Randy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Yu
• Application Number:
  US15/278,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20170140507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2350/00 Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

Systems and methods for optimizing resolution of an electronic display device are disclosed. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: detect the presence of at least one user; determine an identity of the at least one user; obtain, from a user data storage module, personalized optimal resolution data of the at least one user; and adjust the resolution of the electronic device display based on the personalized optimal resolution data.

Claims

1. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

detect the presence of at least one user relative to an electronic device display;

determine a location of the at least one user;

determine an identity of the at least one user;

select a personalized optimal resolution from a plurality of personalized optimal resolutions associated with respective test locations, wherein selecting the personalized optimal resolution is based on the personalized optimal resolution being associated with a select test location of the respective test locations that is closest to the location of the at least one user;

adjust a resolution of the electronic device display to the personalized optimal resolution;

initiate the display of an image viewing event on the electronic device display, wherein the image viewing event is accompanied by audio;

detect that the at least one user has moved beyond a predetermined distance from the electronic device display; and

cease the display of the image viewing event, while continuing the audio, based on the detecting that the at least one user has moved beyond the predetermined distance.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

implement a test sequence to determine optimal resolution of the electronic device display at the select test location including;

display an image to a user on the electronic device display at a first resolution;

display the image to the user on the electronic device display at a second resolution different from the first resolution;

gather user preference data regarding the first resolution and the second resolution to determine the personalized optimal resolution for the select test location; and

save said personalized optimal resolution in the user data storage module.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

repeat the steps of displaying the image to the user at additional resolutions; and

repeat the step of gathering user preference data for the additional resolutions to determine the personalized optimal resolution.

4. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

repeat the step of implementing the test sequence for additional test locations, such that user preference data is gathered for the additional test locations;

determine additional personalized optimal resolutions for each of the respective additional test locations; and

save user identification data and test location data for each of the test locations, wherein the user identification data and test location data is saved with the plurality of personalized optimal resolutions for each of the respective test locations.

5. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

determine a distance between the electronic device display and the user; and

determine the first display resolution based on the distance.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein:

when the presence of multiple users is detected, the instructions to obtain personalized optimal resolution data comprises instructions to obtain, from the user data storage module, personalized optimal resolution data of the multiple users, the personalize optimal resolution data including personalized optimal resolutions of each of the multiple users; and

wherein the instructions to adjust the resolution comprise instructions to adjust the resolution of the electronic device display to a highest personalized optimal resolution of the personalized optimal resolutions of each of the multiple users.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

determine that a first image frame has lost focus and is thus a lower priority than a second image frame; and

adjust an image displayed in the first image frame from the personalized optimal resolution to a second, lower resolution.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the second, lower resolution is zero.

11. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

detect that the at least one user has closed their eyes for a predetermined period of time; and

adjust the personalized optimal resolution of the electronic device display such that the image viewing event is displayed at a second, lower resolution, based on the detecting that the at least one user has closed their eyes for the predetermined period of time.

9. A system for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device, comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;

program instructions to determine a personalized optimal resolution of a user for a test location;

program instructions to store the personalized optimal resolution of the user in a data storage module with associated test location data, wherein the personalized optimal resolution is stored in the data storage module with a plurality of other personalized optimal resolutions associated with respective test location data for multiple test locations;

program instructions to detect the presence of the user;

program instructions to determine a location of the user;

program instructions to select the personalized optimal resolution from the data storage module based on the test location being closer than the multiple test locations to the location of the user;

program instructions to adjust a resolution of the electronic device display to the personalized optimal resolution of the user;

program instructions to initiate the display of an image viewing event on the electronic device display, wherein the image viewing event is accompanied by audio;

program instructions to detect that the at least one user has moved beyond a predetermined distance from the electronic device display; and

program instructions to cease the display of the image viewing event, while continuing the audio based on the detecting that the at least one user has moved beyond the predetermined distance from the electronic device display,

wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising program instructions to implement a test sequence to determine the plurality of other personalized optimal resolutions of the user at the respective multiple test locations at a distance from the electronic device display including:

gather the test location data for one of the multiple test locations;

display an image to the user on the electronic device display at a first resolution;

display the image to the user on the electronic device display at a second resolution different from the first resolution;

gather the user preference data regarding the first resolution and the second resolution to determine the personalized optimal resolution for the one of the multiple test locations;

repeat the test sequence steps for each of the remaining multiple test locations, such that user preference data is gathered for each of the multiple locations; and

save the personalized optimal resolution for each of the multiple test locations in the data storage module, wherein user identification data and the test location data is saved with the personalized optimal resolution for each of the multiple test locations.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

program instructions to detect the user has closed their eyes for a predetermined period of time; and

program instructions to adjust the personalized optimal resolution of the electronic device display such that the image viewing event is displayed at a second, lower resolution, based on the detecting that the user has closed their eyes for the predetermined period of time.

13. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

detect the presence of a user relative to an electronic device display;

determine a location of the user;

determine an identity of the user;

determine, by comparing the location of the user to a plurality of stored test locations, that the location of the user is not within a predetermined distance of any of a plurality of stored test locations for the user, wherein each of the plurality of stored test location is associated with a personalized optimal resolution;

adjust a resolution of the electronic device display to a predetermined default resolution based on the determining that the location of the user is not within the predetermined distance of any of the plurality of stored test locations;

initiate the display of an image viewing event on the electronic device display, wherein the image viewing event is accompanied by audio;

detect that the at least one user has moved beyond a predetermined distance from the electronic device display; and

cease the display of the image viewing event, while continuing the audio based on the detecting that the at least one user has moved beyond the predetermined distance from the electronic device display.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the predetermined default resolution is a resolution that is lower than a maximum resolution allowed by the electronic device display.