Method of automatically setting image quality

• US 7,209,183 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2004
• Issued: 04/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hyun-joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESIR, JEAN WICEL
• Application Number:
  US10/880,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20050030431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 348/673, 348/678, 348/687, 348/625, 348/686, 348/252, 382/274, 382/254, 358/3.27, 358/532, 358/447, 345/690, 345/77, 345/63
• US Class Current: 348/678
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4318 by altering the content in the rendering process, e.g. blanking, blurring or masking an image region image enhancement or restoration in general G06T5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4854 for modifying image parameters, e.g. image brightness, contrast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/57 Control of contrast or brightness

Abstract

Provided is a method of automatically setting image quality, which maintains a brightness and a contrast of an image regardless of a status of an input signal. The method includes: (a) setting a variable range of brightness and a variable range of contrast; (b) converting a brightness signal included in an input video signal into a digital signal and recording the digital brightness signal in a plurality of registers according to brightness level; (c) changing a brightness value or a contrast value of an output video signal by comparing values of a first register, second register, third register, and fourth register among the registers to predetermined values; and (d) if the changed brightness value is in the variable range of the brightness and the contrast value is in the variable range of the contrast, determining that the compensation of image quality is complete, and returning to step (b).

Claims

1. A method of setting an image quality automatically comprising:

(a) setting a variable range of a brightness and a variable range of a contrast;

(b) converting a brightness signal included in an input video signal into a digital brightness signal and recording the digital brightness signal in a plurality of registers according to brightness level;

(c) changing a brightness value or a contrast value of an output video signal by comparing values of a first register, a second register, a third register, and a fourth register among the plurality of registers to predetermined values; and

(d) if the changed brightness value is in the variable range of the brightness and the contrast value is in the variable range of the contrast, determining that the setting of image quality is complete, and returning to step (b).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein if the values of a fifth register and a sixth register among the plurality of registers contain predetermined values, the image is determined to be a full-white or a full-black image and the image quality setting operation is skipped.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in step (c), if the values stored in the first, second, third, and fourth registers are not equal to the predetermined values, step (c) comprises:

(c-1) increasing the brightness value of the output video signal by one level, when the values of the first and second registers are a first predetermined value;

(c-2) decreasing the brightness value of the output video signal by one level, when the values of the first and second registers are a second predetermined value;

(c-3) decreasing the contrast value of the output video signal by one level, when the values of the third and fourth registers are a third predetermined value; and

(c-4) increasing the contrast value of the output video signal by one level, when the values of the third and fourth registers are a fourth predetermined value.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein if the changed brightness value is determined not to be in the variable range of the brightness, the changed brightness value is restored to an initial brightness value, and, if the changed contrast value is determined not to be in the variable range of the contrast, the changed contrast value is returned to an initial contrast value.