DIGITAL DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20120019447A1
• Filed: 10/02/2009
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hanes, David H.
• Application Number:
  US13/260,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20120019447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method for configuring a digital display device including determining whether a user is viewing the digital display device with a sensor, identifying an amount of ambient light around the digital display device with the sensor, and configuring one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to whether the user is viewing the digital display device and the amount of ambient light identified.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a digital display device comprising:

determining whether a user is viewing the digital display device with a sensor;

identifying an amount of ambient light around the digital display device with the sensor; and

configuring one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to whether the user is viewing the digital display device and the amount of ambient light identified.

2. The method for configuring a digital display device of claim 1 further comprising utilizing facial detection technology when determining whether a user is currently viewing the digital display device.

3. The method for configuring a digital display device of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the user is authorized to view or configure the digital display device.

4. The method for configuring a digital display device of claim 3 further comprising utilizing facial recognition technology to determine whether the user is authorized to view or configure the digital display device.

5. The method for configuring a digital display device of claim 1 wherein configuring one or more of the display settings of the digital display device includes modifying at least one from the group consisting of a brightness level, a contrast level, a back light level, a saturation level, a sharpness level, a color temperature value, and a power consumption level.

6. The method for configuring a digital display device of claim 5 further comprising decreasing the power consumption level when the user is not viewing the digital display device or is not authorized to view the digital display device.

7. A machine comprising:

a processor;

a digital display device;

one or more sensors configured to determine whether a user is viewing the digital display device and to identify an amount of ambient light around the digital display device; and

a display application stored on computer readable memory and executed by the processor to configure one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to whether the user is viewing the digital display device and the amount of ambient light.

8. The machine of claim 7 wherein one or more sensors include a camera configured to determine whether the user is viewing the digital display device by identifying a head position of the user and a viewing location of the user.

9. The machine of claim 7 wherein one or more sensors include an infra red device configured to determine whether the user is viewing the digital display device by identifying a location of the user'"'"'s eyes and a viewing location of the user.

10. The machine of claim 7 wherein one or more sensors are configured to detect and capture one or more hand movements and one or more finger movements from the user.

11. The machine of claim 10 wherein the display device is configured to display one or more interfaces for the user to interact with.

12. The machine of claim 10 wherein the display application is additionally configured to adjust one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to one or more of the captured hand movements and one or more of the captured finger movements.

13. A computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium comprising:

a display application configured to determine whether a user is viewing a digital display device and identify an amount of ambient light around the digital display device; and

wherein the display application is additionally configured to adjust one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to whether the user is viewing the digital display device and the amount of ambient light identified.

14. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 13 wherein the display application is further configured to adjust one or more display settings in response to one or more inputs entered by the user and captured by a sensor.

15. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the display application is additionally configured to instruct a display device to display a keyboard for the user to interact with when entering one or more of the inputs.