Wireless terminal and method for personalizing display colors of menu screen using color information of an image

• US 20070229531A1
• Filed: 12/11/2006
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Young-Min, Park, Jung-Hoon, Moon, Jae-Won, Cho, Sung-Dae, Oh, Yun-Je
• Application Number:
  US11/636,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20070229531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/76 for mixing of colour signals H04N9/75 takes precedence

Abstract

A wireless terminal for personalizing display colors of a menu screen using color information of an image, wherein the wireless terminal includes; a memory for storing the image captured by the camera module; an image processing unit for determining colors used to display the menu screen using color information of an image for personalizing the display colors of the menu screen, the image being selected from among images stored in the memory; a display unit for displaying the menu screen with the colors determined by the image processing unit; and a controller for controlling the image processing unit to convert a color model of the selected image to a Hue, Saturation, and Intensity (HSI) color model, extract color values, and map the extracted color values, assign priority to the colors by measuring distribution ratios of the mapped color values, combine the display colors of the menu screen based on the priority of the assigned colors, and finally determine the display colors of the menu screen by analyzing contrast of the combined colors.

Claims

1. A wireless terminal for personalizing display colors of a menu screen thereof using color information of an image, the wireless terminal comprising:

a camera module for capturing an image;

a memory for storing at least the image captured by the camera module;

an image processing unit for determining colors used to display the menu screen by using color information of an image for personalizing the display colors of the menu screen, said image being selected from at least one image stored in the memory;

a controller for controlling the image processing unit to personalize the display colors of the menus screen according to a contrast analysis of the color information of the selected image; and

a display unit for displaying the menu screen with the colors determined by the image processing unit.

2. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the image processing unit to perform the contrast analysis to

convert a color model of the selected image to a Hue, Saturation, and Intensity (HSI) color model,

extract color values, and map the extracted color values,

assign priority to the colors by measuring distribution ratios of the mapped color values,

combine the display colors of the menu screen based on the priority of the assigned colors, and

determine the final display colors of the menu screen by analyzing contrast of the combined colors.

3. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein the image processing unit comprises:

an image converter for converting a color model of the selected image to a Hue, Saturation, and Intensity (HSI) color model;

an image analyzer for extracting color values included in the image converted to the HSI color model by the image converter, mapping the extracted color values, assigning priority to the mapped color values by measuring distribution ratios of the mapped color values, and combining the display colors of the menu screen according to the assigned color priority; and

a color determiner for determining final colors with which to display the menu screen by analyzing contrast of the colors combined by the image analyzer.

4. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein the contrast analysis process of the combined colors is a process of contrasting the colors having higher priority, which are combined by the image analyzer, and measuring a contrast ratio of the contrasted colors.

5. The wireless terminal of claim 4, wherein if the contrast ratio of the combined colors is greater than 90% as a contrast analysis result of the combined colors, a final combination of colors is determined using a color having the second highest priority.

6. The wireless terminal of claim 4, wherein if a dominant color of a monochrome image occupies greater than 90% of the image as a contrast analysis result of the combined colors, a final combination of colors is determined by acquiring desired colors through adjustment of saturation and intensity values of the menu screen.

7. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein the menu screen comprises a text, a text background, and an overall background.

12. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein the images to personalize the display colors of the menu screen comprise images downloaded from a service provider, images captured by the camera module, and multimedia data images received using a DMB service.

8. A method of personalizing display colors of a menu screen of a wireless terminal using color information of an image, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting an image to be used to personalize the display colors of the menu screen from images stored in a memory of the wireless terminal;

converting a color model of the selected image to a Hue, Saturation, and Intensity (HSI) color model, extracting color values from the converted color model, and mapping the extracted color values according to a predetermined technique;

combining the display colors of the menu screen by measuring distribution ratios of dominant colors using the mapped color values and assigning priorities to the measured colors; and

personalizing the display colors of the menu screen by analyzing a contrast of the combined colors.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of selecting further comprises the step of when no image is stored in the wireless terminal performing the steps of:

displaying a message indicating that a currently stored image does not exist in the memory of the wireless terminal;

the user providing an image; and

storing the provided image in the memory.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the combining step further comprises the steps of:

assigning a priority to each of the measured colors by dividing the measured colors that form the image according to types;

measuring a ratio of each of the types of the divided colors; and

comparing the measured ratios to each other.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of personalizing further comprises the step of when a contrast ratio of the combined colors is greater than 90% as a contrast analysis result of the combined colors, in order to increase readability of text regardless of combined colors, selecting colors of a text, a text background, and an overall background having a higher color gradation.