Displays with improved color accessibility

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9984658-B2
Application number	US-201615244940-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2016
Priority date	Apr 19, 2016
Publication date	May 29, 2018
Grant date	May 29, 2018

Abstract

An electronic device may include a display and control circuitry that operates the display. The control circuitry may be configured to daltonize input images to produce daltonized output images that allow a user with color vision deficiency to see a range of detail that the user would otherwise miss. The daltonization algorithm that the control circuitry applies to input images may be specific to the type of color vision deficiency that the user has. The daltonization strength that the control circuitry applies to the image or portions of the image may vary based on image content. For example, natural images may be daltonized with a lower daltonization strength than web browsing content, which ensures that memory colors such as blue sky and green grass do not appear unnatural to the user while still allowing important details such as hyperlinks and highlighted text to be distinguishable.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for displaying an image on a display in an electronic device having control circuitry, comprising:
with the control circuitry, determining a color transformation with an associated daltonization strength, wherein the daltonization strength is image-content-specific;
with the control circuitry, applying the color transformation to the image to produce a daltonized image; and
with the display, displaying the daltonized image.

2. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength comprises selecting a first color transformation with a first daltonization strength for a first portion of the image and a second color transformation with a second daltonization strength for a second portion of the image, and wherein the first daltonization strength is less than the second daltonization strength.

3. The method defined in claim 2 wherein applying the color transformation to the image comprises applying the first color transformation to the first portion of the image and the second color transformation to the second portion of the image.

4. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength comprises determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength based on one or more image characteristics selected from the group consisting of: type of image content, application displaying the image content, saturation levels associated with the image content, and whether the image content includes a memory color.

5. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength comprises selecting a three-dimensional look-up table based on image content.

6. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength comprises selecting a first three-dimensional look-up table based on image content in a first portion of the image and a second three-dimensional look-up table based on image content in a second portion of the image.

7. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the associated daltonization strength comprises selecting a three-by-three matrix with a daltonization strength factor based on image content.

8. The method defined in claim 1 wherein determining the color transformation with the desired daltonization strength comprises selecting a first three-by-three matrix with a first daltonization strength factor based on image content in a first portion of the image and selecting a second three-by-three matrix with a second daltonization strength factor based on image content in a second portion of the image.

9. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising:
with the control circuitry, determining a type of color vision deficiency associated with a user's vision, wherein determining the color transformation comprises determining the color transformation based on the type of color vision deficiency.

10. The method defined in claim 9 wherein determining the type of color vision deficiency comprises determining the type of color deficiency based on input from the user.

11. A method for displaying an image on a display in an electronic device having control circuitry, comprising:
with the control circuitry, daltonizing a first portion of the image using a first daltonization strength;
with the control circuitry, daltonizing a second portion of the image using a second daltonization strength that is greater than the first daltonization strength; and
after daltonizing the first and second portions of the image, displaying the image on the display.

12. The method defined in claim 11 wherein the first daltonization strength is based on image content in the first portion of the image and the second daltonization strength is based on image content in the second portion of the image.

13. The method defined in claim 11 wherein daltonizing the first and second portions of the image comprises daltonizing the first and second portions of the image using a three-dimensional look-up table.

14. The method defined in claim 11 wherein daltonizing the first and second portions of the image comprises daltonizing the first portion of the image using a first three-dimensional look-up table and daltonizing the second portion of the image using a second three-dimensional look-up table.

15. The method defined in claim 14 wherein the control circuitry determines whether to use the first three-dimensional look-up table or the second three-dimensional look-up table based on a type of image content being displayed.

16. The method defined in claim 15 wherein each of the first and second three-dimensional look-up tables is configured to map input colors to daltonized output colors with varying degrees of daltonization strength.

17. An electronic device, comprising:
a display that displays images;
control circuitry that controls the display; and
storage that stores a three-dimensional look-up table for daltonizing the images for the display, wherein the control circuitry maps input colors to daltonized output colors with varying degrees of daltonization strength using the three-dimensional look-up table.

18. The electronic device defined in claim 17 further comprising an additional three-dimensional look-up table for daltonizing images in the storage, wherein the control circuitry determines which three-dimensional look-up table to use to daltonize the images based on content in the images.

19. The electronic device defined in claim 17 wherein the three-dimensional look-up table is one of three three-dimensional look-up tables stored in the storage, wherein each of the three three-dimensional look-up tables corresponds to a different type of color vision deficiency.

20. The electronic device defined in claim 19 wherein the control circuitry determines which type of color vision deficiency a user has and determines which of the three three-dimensional look-up tables to use based on the user's type of color vision deficiency.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Bonnier Nicolas P
• Wu Jiaying
• Jin Can
• Raymann Roy J E M

Classifications

• G09G5/026 Primary

  Control of mixing and/or overlay of colours in general (G09G5/022 and G09G5/024 take precedence) · CPC title

• G09G2320/0686

  with two or more screen areas displaying information with different brightness or colours · CPC title

• G09G2354/00

  Aspects of interface with display user · CPC title

• G09G2340/14

  Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed · CPC title

• G09G2320/0613

  The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed · CPC title