Display device and control method

• US 10,290,281 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2016
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ooi, Junji, Sakai, Yusuke, Tsurumi, Shingo, Gotoh, Tomohiko, Iida, Yuichi, Hayashi, Shinichi, Tsukamoto, Junichi, Tadenuma, Asako
• Primary Examiner(s): Barakat, Mohamed
• Application Number:
  US15/218,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20160335989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/63 Generation or supply of power specially adapted for television receivers

Abstract

Provided is a display device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range in an image display direction, a moving body detection unit that detects whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in the image display direction, an image analysis unit that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit to detect whether or not a face is present, and a power control unit that controls power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes that are set by combining whether or not the face detected by the image analysis unit is present and whether or not the moving body detected by the detection unit is present.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a circuit connected to a first sensor to receive a moving image captured by the first sensor in a predetermined range and connected to a second sensor to detect whether a moving body is present in the image display direction, the circuitry being configured to

analyze the moving image to detect whether or not a face is present, and

after power is turned on, start to control power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes when the face is present in the moving image or the moving body is present in the display direction,

wherein the different patterns include a first pattern in which power consumption is ramped down in at least two decreasing stages and ramped up in at least two increasing stages based on detection of the face and the moving body,

when power consumption is ramped down, a first of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the face and a second of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the moving body, and

when power consumption is ramped up, a first of the at least two increasing stages is reached based on detection of the moving body, the first of the at least to increasing stages being reached by increasing brightness, the power consumption remaining at the first of the at least two stages until detection of the face, the power consumption being increased from the first state to full power upon detection of the face.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the power consumption is controlled according to a second pattern based only on whether or not the face is present, and when the circuit does not detect the presence of the face during a predetermined time, power consumption decreases.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein power consumption is controlled according to a third pattern based on whether or not the face is present and whether or not the moving body is present, and when the circuit does not detect the face during a predetermined time and the second sensor does not detect the moving body during the predetermined time, power consumption decreases.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit controls power consumption by increasing or decreasing brightness of a display panel that displays an image.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit controls power consumption by increasing or decreasing a sound volume of a speaker that plays a voice.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit controls power consumption by controlling an operation of a circuit configured to increase an image quality of a display image.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit is further configured to notify that control of power consumption is stopped when the circuit stops control of power consumption.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit specifies an individual through analysis on the moving image, and the circuit automatically selects a mode corresponding to the individual specified.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit automatically selects a mode corresponding to details of content to be displayed.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the second sensor is further configured to determine a distance between the display device and the moving body.

11. The display device according to claim 10, wherein the circuit is configured to exclude a moving body as a detection target when the distance between the display device and the moving body as determined by the second sensor is more than a predetermined distance.

12. A display device, comprising:

a sensor configured to detect whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in an image display direction; and

circuitry configured to

analyze a moving image captured in a predetermined range in the image display direction, to detect whether or not a face is present, and

after power is turned on, start control power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes when the face is present in the moving image or the moving body is present in the predetermined range in the display direction,

wherein the different patterns include a first pattern in which power consumption is ramped down in at least two decreasing stages and ramped up in at least two increasing stages based on detection of the face and the moving body,

when power consumption is ramped down, a first of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the face and a second of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the moving body, and

when power consumption is ramped up, a first of the at least two increasing stages is reached based on detection of the moving body, the first of the at least two increasing stages being reached by increasing brightness, the power consumption remaining at the first of the at least two stages until detection of the face, the power consumption being increased from the first state to full power upon detection of the face.

13. A control method, comprising:

analyzing a moving image captured in a predetermined range in an image display direction by a first sensor to detect whether or not a face is present;

detecting, via a second sensor and separately from captured moving images, whether or not a moving body is present in the predetermined range in the image display direction; and

after power is turned on, starting control of power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes when the face is present in the moving image or when the moving body is present in the display direction,

wherein the different patterns include a first pattern in which power consumption is ramped down in at least two decreasing stages and ramped up in at least two increasing stages based on detection of the face and the moving body,

when power consumption is ramped down, a first of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the face and a second of the at least two decreasing stages is reached based on lack of detection of the moving body, and

when power consumption is ramped up, a first of the at least two increasing stages is reached based on detection of the moving body, the first of the at least two increasing stages being reached by increasing brightness, the power consumption remaining at the first of the at least two stages until detection of the face, the power consumption being increased from the first state to full power upon detection of the face.

14. The control method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining, by the second sensor, a distance between the second sensor and the moving body.

15. The control method of claim 14, further comprising:

excluding a moving body as a detection target when the second sensor determines the moving body to be more than a predetermined distance from the second sensor in the display direction.