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Selective reduction of blue light in a display frame

  • US 10,482,843 B2
  • Filed: 07/28/2017
  • Issued: 11/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) coupled to a display screen, comprising:

  • entering into a reduced blue light (RBL) mode;

    determining, while operating in accordance with the RBL mode, a degree of blue light reduction in at least a portion of a display frame to be output on the display screen using at least one RBL rule from a set of RBL rules, wherein one or more RBL rules of the set of RBL rules are based upon application-specific information of an application that is contributing image data to the portion of the display frame, wherein the application-specific information comprises information that identifies the specific application contributing the image data;

    wherein the one or more RBL rules of the set of RBL rules are based upon one or more of the application-specific information and content-specific information;

    wherein the content-specific information includes one or more of a type, priority and prominence of content in the at least a portion of the display frame;

    wherein the content-specific information indicates that the image data in the at least a portion of the display frame has a priority that is above a priority threshold,wherein the at least one RBL rule permits a level of blue light that is above a default blue light level defined by the RBL mode in the at least a portion of the display frame based on the priority determination;

    selectively reducing the blue light in the at least a portion of the display frame based on the determining; and

    sending the display frame with the selectively reduced blue light portion to the display screen for output.

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