System and method for setting display brightness of display of electronic device

• US 10,503,250 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Martensson, Linus, Thorn, Ola, De Leon, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Pardo, Thuy N
• Application Number:
  US15/033,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20160266643A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,134 Days
• Field of Search: 345156, 345102, 345207, 345419, 345690, 345 8, 345174, 345175, 382103, 351204, 351210
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0041 characterised by display arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/063 for testing light sensitivity, i.e. adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04897 Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/193 Preprocessing; Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method of setting a display brightness of a display of an electronic device. One or more images of a user of the electronic device may be captured with a camera of the electronic device. A characteristic of an eye of the user may be detected in the one or more images. A light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye may be determined based on the detected characteristic. The display brightness of the display of the electronic device may be set in view of the determined light adaptation state.

Claims

1. A method of setting a display brightness of a display of an electronic device, comprising:

capturing one or more images of an eye of a user of the electronic device with a camera of the electronic device;

illuminating the display during the capturing of the one or more images of the user of the electronic device with the camera, wherein the illumination of the display comprises illuminating the display and displaying monochrome red light;

analyzing the one or more images of the eye of the user to detect a characteristic of the eye of the user;

determining a light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye based on the detected characteristic; and

setting the display brightness of the display of the electronic device based on the determined light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the illumination of the display comprises illuminating the display at a predetermined brightness suitable for use in a high light intensity environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a plurality of images are captured with the camera and the detected characteristic is a change in size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the illumination of the display comprises initially illuminating the display at a low brightness level and increasing the brightness of the display to a predetermined brightness suitable for use in a high light intensity environment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of images are captured with the camera of the electronic device and the detected characteristic is a change in size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the detected characteristic is a size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the camera is an infrared camera and one or more infrared images are captured of the user of the electronic device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the electronic device is presently located in a low light intensity environment; and

in response to the determination that that the electronic device is presently located in the low light intensity environment, performing the capturing of the one or more images of the user with the camera, the detecting of the characteristic of the eye of the user in the one or more images, the determining of the light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye based on the detected characteristic, and the setting of the display brightness of the display in view of the determined light adaptation state.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a camera;

a display; and

control circuitry that executes a display brightness function configured to control a brightness of the display by;

controlling the camera to capture one or more images of an eye of a user of the electronic device;

controlling the display to illuminate during the capturing of the one or more images of the user of the electronic device with the camera, wherein the illumination of the display comprises illuminating the display and displaying monochrome red light;

analyzing the one or more images of the eye of the user to detect a characteristic of the eye of the user;

determining a light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye based on the detected characteristic; and

setting the display brightness of the display in view of the determined light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the illumination of the display comprises illuminating the display at a predetermined brightness suitable for use in a high light intensity environment.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the display brightness function is configured to capture a plurality of images with the camera, and the detected characteristic is a change in size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

12. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the illumination of the display comprises initially illuminating the display at a low brightness level and increasing the brightness of the display to a predetermined brightness suitable for use in a high light intensity environment.

13. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the display brightness function is configured to capture a plurality of images with the camera, and the detected characteristic is a change in size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

14. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the detected characteristic is a size or dilation of a pupil of the user'"'"'s eye.

15. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the camera is an infrared camera and one or more infrared images are captured of the user of the electronic device.

16. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the display brightness function is further configured to:

determine that the electronic device is presently located in a low light intensity environment; and

in response to the determination that that the electronic device is presently located in the low light intensity environment, perform the controlling of the camera to capture the one or more images of the user of the electronic device, the detecting of the characteristic of the eye of the user in the one or more images, the determining of the light adaptation state of the user'"'"'s eye based on the detected characteristic, and the setting of the display brightness of the display in view of the determined light adaptation state.