Granted Patent B2

US 12,327,341 · App. 17/596,894 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Inventors: Hyomin Kim (Seoul, KR); Kangsoo Kim (Seoul, KR); Jonghyung Lee (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

G06T5/92G06T5/40G09G3/2007G09G2320/0626

Abstract

Claims (42)

1. A display device comprising:

a controller configured to perform tone mapping for adjusting luminance of an input image using a tone curve; and

a display configured to display the input image having the adjusted luminance,

wherein the controller is further configured to separate an object and a background in the input image and adjust a luminance of at least one of the object or the background,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

calculate a threshold value for separating the object and the background in the input image;

change the tone curve based on the threshold value; and

adjust the luminance of the at least one of the object or the background by performing tone mapping using the changed tone curve,

wherein the controller comprises:

a brightness distribution conversion predictor configured to calculate a result of converting the input image using an electro-optical transfer function (EOTF); and

a tone mapping result predictor configured to tone-map an image calculated by the brightness distribution conversion predictor using the tone curve.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to increase the luminance of the object in the input image.

3. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to decrease the luminance of the background in the input image.

4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to calculate the threshold value from the input image using an Otsu algorithm.

5. The display device of claim 1 ,

wherein the controller is further configured to compare the threshold value with a center value and change the tone curve based on a result of the comparison, and

wherein the center value is a median value of a signal level of the input image.

6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the controller is further configured to change the tone curve to decrease output luminance based on the threshold value being greater than the center value, and change the tone curve to increase the output luminance based on the threshold value being less than the center value.

7. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the controller is further configured to classify the signal level of the input image as a dark area class or a bright area class, and determine whether to change output luminance of a dark area of the tone curve and whether to change output luminance of a bright area of the tone curve based on characteristics of the dark area class and characteristics of the bright area class.

8. The display device of claim 7 , wherein the controller is further configured to calculate a dark area threshold value of the dark area class and a bright area threshold value of the bright area class, and determine whether to change the output luminance of the dark area of the tone curve and whether to change the output luminance of the bright area of the tone curve based on the dark area threshold value and the bright area threshold value.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the controller is further configured to decrease the output luminance of the dark area of the tone curve based on the dark area threshold value being greater than a dark area reference value.

10. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the controller is further configured to increase the output luminance of the bright area of the tone curve based on the bright area threshold value being less than a bright area reference value.

11. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the controller is further configured to decrease the output luminance of the dark area of the tone curve based on the dark area threshold value being greater than a dark area reference value, and increase the output luminance of the bright area of the tone curve based on the bright area threshold value being less than a bright area reference value.

12. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller comprises:

a histogram calculator configured to obtain a histogram for a signal level of the input image;

a maximum brightness extractor configured to obtain a maximum brightness of the input image based on the histogram;

a tone curve determiner configured to adjust the tone curve based on the maximum brightness; and

a tone mapping performer configured to tone-map the input image using the tone curve adjusted by the tone curve determiner.

13. The display device of claim 12 , wherein the controller further comprises a tone mapping enhancer configured to change the tone curve adjusted by the tone curve determiner based on characteristics of the input image, and

wherein the tone mapping performer is further configured to tone-map the input image using the tone curve changed by the tone mapping enhancer.

14. The display device of claim 13 , wherein the tone mapping enhancer comprises:

the brightness distribution conversion predictor;

the tone mapping result predictor;

a threshold value calculator configured to calculate at least one threshold value from the image having a luminance adjusted by the tone mapping result predictor;

a brightness range extender configured to change the tone curve based on the at least one threshold value; and

a contrast enhancer configured to change the tone curve changed by the brightness range extender based on the at least one threshold value.

15. The display device of claim 14 ,

wherein the tone curve determiner is further configured to obtain a first tone curve,

wherein the brightness range extender is further configured to change the first tone curve to a second tone curve, and

wherein the contrast enhancer is further configured to change the second tone curve to a third tone curve.

16. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to change the tone curve such that a brightness range of a histogram according to a signal level of the input image is widened.

17. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to change the tone curve to increase a level of a bright area class of a histogram according to a signal level of the input image and to decrease a level of a dark area class of the histogram according to the signal level of the input image.

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