DIGITAL SURFACE RENDERING

• US 20170337727A1
• Filed: 08/09/2017
• Published: 11/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dash, Samir K.
• Application Number:
  US15/672,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20170337727A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 10/02 changing colors F21S10/002 - F21S10/007, F21S10/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 9/40 with provision for controlling spectral properties, e.g. colour, or intensity
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/04 Texture mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/301 flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED

Abstract

A method for digital surface rendering. The method includes providing a programmable display covering a portion of a surface of an object. The method further includes receiving a set of desired features for an appearance of the object. The method further includes generating an image of the portion of the surface of the object incorporating the set of desired features and displaying the image on the programmable display, thereby causing the object to appear to have the desired features.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing, by one or more computer processors, a programmable display covering a portion of a surface of an object, wherein the programmable display is an e-ink display that does not include a backlight, and wherein the programmable display includes a flexible rendering layer that flexes to match the contours and edges of the portion of the surface of the object;

receiving, by one or more computer processors, a set of desired features for an appearance of the object from a user using a user interface, wherein a desired feature of the set of desired features is to conceal the object;

capturing, by one or more computer processors, an image of a view behind the object;

generating, by one or more computer processors, an image of the portion of the surface of the object incorporating the set of desired features, wherein the captured image of the view behind the object is used in generating the image of the portion of the surface of the object;

modifying, by one or more computer processors, the generated image based, at least in part, on a determined location of the object;

displaying, by one or more computer processors, the generated image on the programmable display, thereby causing the object to appear to have the desired features;

continuously monitoring, by one or more computer processors, the view behind the object to determine one or more changes between the captured image of the view behind the object and the view behind the object; and

upon determining one or more changes between the captured image of the view behind the object and the view behind the object, updating the generated image displayed on the programmable display based on the one or more changes between the captured image of the view behind the object and the view behind the object.