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US 10,037,724 · App. 14/845,648 · Granted Jul 31, 2018

Information handling system selective color illumination

Inventors: Kenneth Musgrave (Austin, TX); Stefan Peana (Austin, TX); Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, TX)
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
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Patent No.
US 10,037,724
App. No.
14/845,648
Filed
Sep 4, 2015
Granted
Jul 31, 2018
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2623
USPC
345/77
Abstract

A display presents information as visual images with plural pixels, each pixel having red, green and blue OLED films that illuminate with varying intensity defined by pixel values generated by a graphics processor. An image adjuster alters the pixel values for pixels located outside the field of view of an end user so that degradation of OLED material occurs in a balanced manner, such as by reducing illumination of blue OLED material, which tends to degrade at a more rapid rate than red and green OLED material.

Claims (52)

1. An information handling system comprising:

a housing;

a processor disposed in the housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;

a memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the information;

a graphics processor interfaced with the processor and memory, the graphics processor operable to process the information to generate pixel information for presenting the information at a display as visual images;

a display interfaced with the graphics processor, the display operable to present the pixel information as visual images by illuminating red, green and blue OLED material at each pixel with current adapted to generate a color defined by the pixel information;

a camera interfaced with the graphics processor and aligned to capture an image proximate the display;

a pixel illumination database storing pixel usage data to track pixel degradation; and

an image adjuster stored in non-transitory memory and executable on a processor, the image adjuster interfaced with the graphics processor and camera, the image adjuster operable to detect a predetermined condition associated with the image captured by the camera, the predetermined condition including at least a field of view of an end user viewing the display, the field of view including less than all of the pixels, and in response to the predetermined condition to alter pixels outside of the field of view by reducing illumination of at least the blue material relative to the defined pixel information at pixels outside of the field of view to increase the uniformity in degradation of the pixels outside of the field of view by reference to the stored pixel degradation individual pixel color and brightness illumination over time.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the predetermined condition comprises a user location relative to the display.

3. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the predetermined condition comprises a user eye scan direction relative to the display.

4. The information handling system of claim 3 wherein the predetermined of pixels comprises pixels at greater than a predetermined distance from the center of the user eye scan direction.

5. The information handling system of claim 4 altering the predetermined pixels comprises reducing the illumination of the blue film in proportion to the distance of the pixel from the center of the user eye scan.

6. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the image adjuster is further operable to track display data information over time including at least illumination intensity for the red, green and blue material, and to alter the illumination of the predetermined pixels' red, green and blue OLED material to maintain balanced degradation over time.

7. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the image adjuster is further operable to detect a type of content associated with the predetermined pixel and apply the type of content to vary the reducing the of illumination.

8. The information handling system of claim 7 wherein the image adjuster varies the reducing of the illumination by providing a greater relative amount of blue illumination for predetermined pixels associated with a video than for predetermined pixels associated with a document creation application.

9. A method for presenting images at an information handling system display, the method comprising:

presenting visual images by sending pixel values to pixels of the display, the pixel values defining a color balance of red, green and blue OLED material associated with each pixel;

detecting an end user with a camera image captured by a camera located proximate to a display;

analyzing the end user to determine a position relative to the display;

allocating a field of view of the end user from the analyzing, the field of view including at least some display pixels located in the field of view and some display pixels located outside the field of view; and

reducing relative illumination of at least blue OLED film of pixels located outside the field of view, the illumination reduced to wear level pixels in the pixels outside the field of view, the reducing relative illumination to wear level including at least changing pixel color balance for the sent pixel values at each of the pixels outside the field of view to have a greater relative reduction in color illumination at each pixel outside the field of view based upon degradation of each color in each pixel, the pixels within the field of view presenting the color balance of the sent pixel values.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

detecting movement of the end user in the image; and

in response to detecting movement, re-allocating the field of view based upon a change in the position of the end user relative to the display.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein analyzing the end user to determine a position relative to the display further comprises:

analyzing the end user eye position to determine a direction of gaze of the end user; and

allocating the field of view based upon the direction of gaze.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein reducing relative illumination of blue OLED film of pixels located outside the field of view further comprises:

determining a type of content associated with the pixels located outside the field of view; and

varying the reducing illumination based at least in part upon the type of content.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the content comprises white colored background images and video images, the reducing relative illumination having a greater reduction of blue illumination for the white colored background images than the video images.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

tracking pixel illumination history associated with the display over time; and

adjusting the reducing relative illumination to balance degradation of red, green and blue OLED films at the pixels over time.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein analyzing the end user to determine a position relative to the display further comprises:

presenting images at first and second displays;

analyzing the end user to determine orientation relative to the first and second displays;

allocating the field of view to one of the first or second displays based on the orientation;

illuminating the pixels of the display having the allocated field of view with display illumination settings; and

reducing illumination of blue in the display that does not have the allocated field of view.

16. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

presenting images at first and second displays;

determining the first display has an active cursor;

determining the second display lacks an active cursor;

allocating the field of view to the first display; and

excluding the second display from the field of view.

17. A system for presenting visual information as images at a display, the system comprising:

a graphics processor unit having processing resources to process information into pixel values for presentation at a display, the pixel values defining red, green and blue OLED material illumination at each pixel, and non-transient memory for storing instructions to execute on the processing resources; and

an image adjuster stored in the non-transient memory and operable to reduce only the blue OLED material illumination in predetermined pixel values based upon a field of view defined for the display, the image adjuster maintaining pixel values within the field of view at defined values received from the graphics processor and reducing pixel illumination values outside of the field of view, the reduced pixel illumination values wear leveling pixel degradation by reducing blue OLED material illumination values for each pixel outside the field of view.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising a camera disposed proximate the display and operable to capture an image of an end user for application by the image adjuster to determine the field of view of the end user.

19. The system claim 17 wherein the image adjuster is further operable to apply a first reducing of illumination for pixels associated with presentation of a first type of visual image and a second reducing of illumination for pixels associated with presentation of a second type of visual image.

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