Optimizing electronic display resolution

• US 9,569,815 B1
• Filed: 11/13/2015
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abuelsaad, Tamer E., Boss, Gregory J., Moore, John E. Jr., Rendahl, Randy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Xiao
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Yu
• Application Number:
  US14/940,459
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2350/00 Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• 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

Abstract

Systems and methods for optimizing resolution of an electronic display device are disclosed. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: detect the presence of at least one user; determine an identity of the at least one user; obtain, from a user data storage module, personalized optimal resolution data of the at least one user; and adjust the resolution of the electronic device display based on the personalized optimal resolution data.

Claims

1. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

implement a test sequence to determine optimal resolution of an electronic device display at a test location including;

display an image to a user on the electronic device display at a first resolution;

display the image to the user on the electronic device display at a second resolution different from the first resolution;

gather user preference data regarding the first resolution and the second resolution to determine a personalized optimal resolution for the test location;

save said personalized optimal resolution in a user data storage module;

repeat the step of implementing the test sequence for additional test locations, such that user preference data is gathered for the additional test locations;

determine a personalized optimal resolution for each of the additional test locations; and

save user identification data and test location data for each of the test locations, wherein the user identification data and test location data is saved with the personalized optimal resolution for each of the respective test locations;

detect the presence of the user relative to the electronic device display;

determine an identity of the user;

obtain, from the user data storage module, personalized optimal resolution data of the user; and

adjust a resolution of the electronic device display to a desired resolution based on only the personalized optimal resolution data.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein implementing the test sequence further includes:

repeat the steps of displaying the image to the user at additional resolutions; and

repeat the step of gathering user preference data for the additional resolutions to determine the personalized optimal resolution.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein implementing the test sequence further includes:

determine a distance between the electronic device display and the user; and

determine the first display resolution based on the distance.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

detect the presence of multiple users; and

determine the personalized optimal resolutions of the respective multiple users;

wherein adjusting the resolution comprises adjusting the resolution of the electronic device display based on the highest personalized optimal resolution.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

determine that a first image frame has lost focus and is thus a lower priority than a second image frame; and

adjust an image displayed in the first image frame from the desired resolution to a second, lower resolution.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

detect that the user has moved beyond a predetermined distance from the electronic device display; and

adjust the desired resolution of the electronic device display to a second, lower resolution.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the second, lower resolution is zero.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

implementing a test sequence to determine optimal resolution of an electronic device display including;

displaying an image to a user on the electronic device display at a first resolution;

displaying the image to the user on the electronic device display at a second resolution different from the first resolution;

gathering user preference data regarding the first resolution and the second resolution to determine a personalized optimal resolution for a particular test location, where the particular test location is located at a distance from the electronic device display; and

storing the user preference data with test location data in a storage module,

wherein the step of implementing the test sequence is repeated for different test locations, such that user preference data is gathered for the different test locations, and user preference data is stored with test location data and user identification data in the storage module for each of the test locations.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the steps of displaying the image to the user are repeated with additional resolutions, and the step of gathering user preference data is repeated for the additional resolutions in order to determine the personalized optimal resolution.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting the presence of at least one user;

determining an identity of the at least one user; and

adjusting the resolution of the electronic device display to the personalized optimal resolution based on the user preference data associated with the identified at least one user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining the presence of at least one user comprises detecting the presence of multiple users, and the method further comprises:

determining the personalized optimal resolutions of the respective multiple users;

wherein adjusting the resolution comprises adjusting the resolution of the electronic device display based on the highest personalized optimal resolution.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining that a first image frame has a lower priority then a second image frame; and

adjusting an image displayed in the first image frame from the personalized optimal resolution to a second, lower resolution.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting that a physical state of the at least one user indicates that the electronic device display is not being viewed; and

adjusting the personalized optimal resolution of the electronic device display to a second, lower resolution.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second, lower resolution is zero.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining a distance between the electronic device display and the user; and

determining the first display resolution based on the distance.

16. A system for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device, comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;

program instructions to implement a test sequence to determine a personalized optimal resolution of a user at multiple test locations at a distance from the electronic device display including;

gather test location data for one of the multiple test locations;

display an image to the user on the electronic device display at a first resolution;

display the image to the user on the electronic device display at a second resolution different from the first resolution;

gather the user preference data regarding the first resolution and the second resolution to determine the personalized optimal resolution for the one of the multiple test locations;

repeat the test sequence steps for each of the remaining multiple test locations, such that user preference data is gathered for each of the multiple locations; and

save the personalized optimal resolution for each of the multiple test locations, wherein user identification data and test location data is saved with the personalized optimal resolution for each of the multiple test locations;

program instructions to detect the presence of the user at or near one of the multiple test locations; and

program instructions to adjust a resolution of the electronic device display based on the personalized optimal resolution of the user;

wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory, and wherein the personalized optimal resolution is determined based only on user preference data.