Program title display with anti-aging
View Patent ↗A method is provided to perform anti-aging techniques in an informational display. An informational display is located on the front bezel of a consumer recording device that displays information related to the content being recorded or played or the operation of the device. To increase the life of the display, displayed text is shifted within the display so that pixel use in the display is more evenly distributed with the pixels in the display. To determine the direction and shape of the shift, real-time calculations of pixel use are made or a simulator is used to compute the probable use of each pixel in the display over a certain period of time. Another anti-aging technique is to dim the display of information after a specified amount of time of display at normal brightness.
1. A method, comprising:
causing to display information on a location of a display screen;
determining an amount of time during which a pixel in a plurality of pixels is illuminated on the display screen;
determining whether the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds a specified time amount, the specified time amount being based on a maximum of a duty cycle for illumination of the pixel;
in response to determining that the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds the specified time amount, moving the location of the information on the display screen;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying the information displayed on the display screen at a lesser brightness after a specified amount of time.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display screen is an OLED display.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display screen is a non-OLED display.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein moving the location of the information is in a rectangular pattern around edges of the display screen with a triangle wave oscillation on borders of the rectangle.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display screen comprises two sections.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the information is displayed in the first section and second information is displayed in the second section.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein moving the location of the information is within the first section and moving a location of the second information is within the second section.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform the steps:
causing to display information on a location of a display screen;
determining an amount of time during which a pixel in a plurality of pixels is illuminated on the display screen;
determining whether the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds a specified time amount, the specified time amount being based on a maximum of a duty cycle for illumination of the pixel;
in response to determining that the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds the specified time amount, moving the location of the information on the display screen.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the one or more sequences of instructions further comprise instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform the step:
displaying the information on the display screen at a lesser brightness after a specified amount of time.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the display screen is an OLED display.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the display screen is a non-OLED display.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein moving the location of the information is in a rectangular pattern around edges of the display screen with a triangle wave oscillation on borders of the rectangle.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the display screen comprises two sections.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the information is displayed in the first section and second information is displayed in the second section.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein moving the location of the information is within the first section and moving a location of the second information is within the second section.
17. An apparatus comprising:
a subsystem, implemented at least partially in hardware, that causes to display information on a location of a display screen;
a subsystem, implemented at least partially in hardware, that determines an amount of time during which a pixel in a plurality of pixels is illuminated on the display screen;
a subsystem, implemented at least partially in hardware, that determines whether the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds a specified time amount, the specified time amount being based on a maximum of a duty cycle for illumination of the pixel;
a subsystem, implemented at least partially in hardware, that, in response to determining that the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds the specified time amount, moves the location of the information on the display screen.
18. The apparatus of claim 17 , further comprising:
a subsystem, implemented at least partially in hardware, that displays the information on the display screen at a lesser brightness after a specified amount of time.
19. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the display screen is an OLED display.
20. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the display screen is a non-OLED display.
21. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the location of the information is moved in a rectangular pattern around edges of the display screen with a triangle wave oscillation on borders of the rectangle.
22. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the display screen comprises two sections.
23. The apparatus of claim 22 , wherein the information is displayed in the first section and second information is displayed in the second section.
24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein moving the location of the information is within the first section and moving a location of the second information is within the second section.