TW529017B - Apparatus and method for highlighting selected portions of a display screen - Google Patents

Abstract

There is disclosed an apparatus and method for highlighting one or more selected portions of a display screen. The apparatus comprises a color shift controller capable of receiving a user input selecting one of a plurality of portions of a display screen and, in response to the user input selection, modifying the value of the pixels within the selected portion to increase the color temperature of the pixels. The method comprises selecting a portion of the display screen and increasing the color temperature of at least one color within the selected portion of the display screen. In one advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the color shift controller modifies white color pixel values in a selected portion of the display screen to new white color pixel values that have a higher color temperature. The higher color temperatures increase the apparent brightness of the displayed images.

Description

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Page 5 529017 V. Description of the invention (2) Drive. This can make the brightness level of the selected part lower than that of other areas. This method cannot be used for LCD displays, because the maximum brightness on the LCD screen is limited to the backlight of the LCD screen multiplied by the maximum light transmission, and 2) the maximum brightness of each window is usually selected to be the same on the LCD screen. The television industry understands that increasing the color temperature of the white part of the television image, depending on the brightness of the image, the car delivers other lower colors. The temperature is the same as the radiation energy. National Television Standards Association (NTSC) television surveillance "J is brighter. The cathode-ray tube (CRT) television monitor is white and white: brightness is brighter in color without increasing the brightness of the image. White in the image In this technique, there is a need for improvement. The selection part of the display unit display screen " The requirements of the temple are two prominent highlighting methods and methods to make the selection part of the display screen. The parts are bright. The selection is more harmful than the display screen. Summary of the invention: The invention provides an improved device and method for two: the first selection part of the display screen. The J-treatment of the invention: achieve , Is to increase the selection of the image in the selection part ί ;: Add the brightness of the image of the r. The hair = time :: one or more selection parts of the color temperature screen.

Page 6 529017 V. Description of the invention (3) An excellent embodiment of the present invention includes a color shift controller, which can repair the white image point value of the selected part on the screen as a new white The color image point value has a higher color temperature. & ^ ^ Another excellent embodiment of the month includes a color shift controller, which can repair the f. ^ The red, blue, green (RGB) image point value of the selected part of the screen is a new ^ Supervision. Green UGB) Image point value 'It has a higher color temperature. Demonstration camp 2 ;; :: To provide -devices and methods for highlighting the display ^ j. Another purpose is to provide a color shift controller for modifying the pixel value of the selected part to Increase the color temperature of the image point, and increase the apparent brightness of the display screen by one. Another purpose of displaying ^ ^ is to provide a color shift controller for modifying the white value of the image point of i < i select °, to increase the color of the image point and increase the apparent brightness of the display screen. . Heart color display Ϊ 之: Another—The purpose is to provide a color shift controller to modify the value of the image point in the part = green to increase the color heart color solitary degree, thereby increasing the apparent brightness of the display screen. Frequency Γ Ϊ Another purpose is to provide a device, and method, for striking projections, with a selection part of an f polar ray tube (CRT) display screen. Liquid crystal collar 4: [The purpose is to provide a device and method 'for highlighting the day and time', one of the selection parts of the screen. Excellent :: 上 ίΪ: 大: J 'Rather than broadly explain the characteristics and Technical vehicles are well understood. Other features and advantages of the present invention will form the basis of the invention.

Page 7 Description of the invention (4) In the scope of the patent application, you can use the disclosed :, description. Those skilled in this art should understand that other structures are based on implementation: & Those skilled in this art are also in the category. "," Ό 冓 does not deviate from the spirit of the present invention in a broad sense and #ning tomb. The rules in the detailed description will derive the full text of the invention φ. _ ^, Meaning: "::: 制 ： f " Including " and "including " and / or, " and related " and " and the place and / or " are included, meaning 2 included, included, and inline, including ：: The meaning of the word "to" is "coupled to or coupled with, connected to Tonglu, connected to or connected to people, close to, and connected to, have, have one nature, phase = 歹,", and neighbor as Any device system or part of it can control j, a controller "means can be implemented by-hardware, firmware or software, or by ut, such as' installation should pay attention to any special controller related to function, σ〆 Local or remote control. The drafting of the present document is centralized or divided. Those skilled in the art will understand, and provide as above. Refine its future use. ~; In order to fully understand the present invention and its advantages, reference is made to the formula, where the same number represents the same component, where And accompanying figures FIG. 1 is an exemplary processing system of an excellent embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary processing system of an excellent embodiment of the present invention. Wire = block diagram; brain software; ) " " Figure 3 is a flowchart illustrating the method of an excellent embodiment of the present invention, to select one or more parts of the display screen to increase the selection of the detailed description of the invention ", Figure 1 The following discussion to FIG. 3 and the embodiments used to explain the principles of the present invention in the patent document are merely illustrative, and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present specification. Those skilled in the art can understand that the principles of the present invention can implement a properly arranged video display system, and display system, system. Figure 1 illustrates a block diagram of an example processing system. The present invention will be described using a processing system such as a personal computer as a processing system. I should keep in mind that other types of processing systems can also use the present invention and that the present invention is not limited to personal computers. As described in detail below, a superior embodiment of a personal computer includes software 'to increase the color temperature of an image of a selected portion of the display screen to simulate a higher image brightness. 2. The personal computer 100 includes a (CD-ROM drive) 102, a hard disk drive (HDD) 103, a display monitor 104, a keyboard 105, a central processing unit (CPU) 106, and a random access memory. (RAM) 107, pointing device (mouse) 108 'Input / output (I / O) interface (IF) 11〇, video / audio interface (IF) 112, audio device (ie speaker) 12〇 The qCD_r0m drive 102 can receive and read removable CD-R0M125. Display monitor 104 is a computer monitor that functions as a personal computer. The display monitor 104 may be a cathode ray tube (CRT), or a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen 'or a flat panel display screen, or a plasma display screen, or a video display screen' or other display device for displaying images. The display monitor 104 includes a camp screen 130, which can be viewed in windows 131, 132, and 13; 3

529017 V. Description of the invention (6) Different images are displayed. Although the display windows 131, 132, and 133 do not overlap, it is well known that one or more windows at least partially overlap. The hard disk drive 105 provides operating system programs, application programs and fast storage and access of the keyboard 105 and indicator 1 08, which is coupled to the personal computer 100 via the I / O interface IF circuit 11 0. The display monitor 104 and the speaker 120 are coupled to the personal computer 100 via the video / audio IF circuit 112. The internal components of personal computer 100 include CD-ROM drive 102, hard disk drive 103, cpu 106, rAm 107 'I / O IF circuit 1 10, video / audio IF circuit 112, The bus bars 115 are coupled and connected with each other. FIG. 2 illustrates a selected component of a personal computer 丨 〇 〇 Ram 1 107 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The RAM 107 stores the operating system program 2 j 0, the video driver 2 40, and the application authority. The application software includes user application 220, user application 230, and color shifter application 250. Computer software 2000 may also include other application software (not shown). The operating system program 21 and the application software system are loaded into the hard disk drive 103 from one or more CD-ROMs 1 25 '. Hard disk drive j 03 provides non-volatile storage and loading software 'until one or more software programs have been deleted from hard disk drive 03. The video driver 240 and the color shift application 250 are operated together to control the party schedule on the screen 130. The video driver 2 4 〇 cooperates with the operating system program 2 丨 0 ′ According to the method of this technology, the display 104 is controlled and monitored via the video / audio 丨 F circuit 丨 2. ~ C ρ ϋ 106 and the color shift application 25 0 collectively include a color shift control system 'which can implement the present invention. The color shift application 25 can make an application program ’such as user application program 22 or user application program 23

Page 10 529017 V. Description of the invention (7) 131: 133 The window selected is prominent and prominent. After being prominently highlighted, the brightness of the selected window and the black background of the screen of the selected group of 3 and 33 and the dark background of the screen are bright.

For example, false contempt was prominently selected from 1 3 1. The user selects the window 131 via the keyboard 105 and the pointer 108, and the CPU 106 sends a notification of selecting the window 131 to the video driver 240. The video driver 2 40 then launches the color shift application 2 50. When active, the color shift application is applied to modify the view, and the window 3, 1 is input the red-blue-green (RGB) image point value, which is the new red-blue-green (RGB) image point value, which has a higher shape. Color temperature. The new RGB image point value and higher color temperature make the f image on the window 丨 3 1 brighter than the unselected windows 132 and 133 (and the background is Brahman than the screen 130) ° Color shift application 2 5 0 keep The higher color level of window 1 31 is until the user chooses another window or terminates the user application of window 1 31. In a consistent embodiment, the color shift application 25 uses the linear matrix in the software to increase the temperature of the color white image point to change the original red-blue-green (RGB) value to a new red-blue-green ( RGB) value, which may have a higher color temperature. ‘In one embodiment, the color shift application 250 has the ability to make more than one screen stand out at the same time. By issuing the appropriate selection and instruction, the user can choose to turn on or highlight any one or all of the windows 131-133. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating operations of the personal computer 1000 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The processing steps in flowchart 3 0 0 are performed in c p υ 1 0 6. In the first step 305, the CPU 106 executes the user application 220 in the window 131 and the user application 230 in the window 132 simultaneously. At step 310, the CPU 106 decides

Page 11 529017 V. Description of the invention (8) Whether window 1 3 1 is selected to be prominent and prominent. If window 1 31 is not selected as a highlight, control proceeds to decision step 320. If window 131 has been selected for highlighting, cpu 106 causes the color shift application 250 to increase the color temperature in window 1 31 (processing step 315). Control returns to decision step 320. In decision step 320, the CPU 106 determines whether the window 132 is selected as the highlighting. If the window 132 is not selected, the control proceeds to step 330. If window 132 has been selected to be highlighted, CPU 106 causes color shift application 250 to increase the color temperature in window 132 (step 3 25). Control returns to step 330. In the decision step 330, the CPU 106 determines whether the window 133 is selected as the highlight and highlight '. If the window 1 3 3 is not selected as the highlight and highlights, the control proceeds to step 3440. If the window 133 has been selected, the CPU 106 causes the color shift application 250 to increase the color temperature in the window 133 (processing step 335). Control returns to step 340. In step 3 40, the application (or multiple screens) in the prominent screen continues to run with this application, which is on other unobtrusive screens. Although the present invention has been described in detail above, those skilled in the art should understand that various changes, substitutions and modifications can be made without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the present invention.

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529017 Amendment No. 90105232 6. Scope of patent application— · ~-= 1 · A device for highlighting a selection part (131) of a display screen (丨 3 〇), the device is used for a device with a display screen ( 13〇) processing system (100), including: a color shift controller (106, 250), which can receive a plurality of parts (131, 132, 130) of the selection display screen (130) One of (133) (131) user input 'and in response to the user's input selection, modify the value of at least one pixel in the selection portion (丨 3 丨)' to increase the color temperature of the at least one pixel. 2. The device according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the display screen (丨 3 〇) includes one of the following: a liquid crystal display screen, a flat panel display screen, a plasma display screen, and a projection display screen. 3 · If the device of the scope of patent application item 1, wherein the selected part of the display screen (丨 3 〇) (1 3 1) 'including the first window (丨 3 丨), the processing system (1 0 0 ) Controlled by the first application (2 50) executed, wherein the color shift controller (106, 2 50) can modify the red-blue of a plurality of pixels in the first window (1 3 1) -Green (RGB) value to increase the color temperature of a plurality of image points. 4 · The device according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the selected part (1 3 1) of the display screen (1 3 0) includes the first window (1 3 1), which is processed by the processing system (1 0 0 ) Controlled by the first application (2 50), where the color shift controller (106, 2 50) can modify the first group of white image point values of the first window (1 3 1), To increase the color temperature of the white image point value. 5. The device according to item 4 of the scope of patent application, wherein the color shift controller (106, 250) uses a linear matrix in the software to increase the color temperature of the white image point value to convert the original red -The blue-green (RGB) value is a new red-blue-green (RGB) value, which has a higher color temperature. O: \ 69 \ 69752-911112.ptc Page 14 529017 Case No. 90105232? / Year // month / second amendment 6 、 Applicable patent scope 6 ・ If the device of the first patent scope is applied, the color shift control The device (1 06, 2 5 0) increases the color temperature of the background of the display screen d 3 0), relative to the color temperature of at least one pixel. 7 · A processing system (100), including: a display screen (130); a memory (107); a data processor (106); a device for highlighting the display screen The selected part (1 3 1) of (1 3 0) includes a color shift controller (丨 0, 2 5 0), which can receive a plurality of parts of the display screen (130) input and selected by the user. (131, 132, 133) part (1 3 1), in response to the user input selection, modify the value of at least one image point in the selection part (1 3 1) to increase the color of the at least one image point temperature. 8 · —A method for highlighting a selection part (1 3 1) of a display screen (丨 3〇). This method is used in a processing system (1 0 0) with a display screen (丨 3 0). In the method, the method includes: selecting a portion (131) of the display screen (130); and increasing a color temperature of at least one color in a selection portion (1 31) of the display screen (130). 9 · The method according to item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the color temperature of at least one color in the selection part (13 1) of the display screen (130) is increased, including the following sub-steps: Modifying the display screen (130 The red monitor green (RGB) value of the plurality of pixels in the selection part (131). O: \ 69 \ 69752-911112.ptc Page 15 529017 _Case No. 9Q1Q5232_9 / year // month / two days __ VI. Application for patent scope 1 0. For the method of applying for the scope of patent item No. 8, in which the display is added The color temperature of at least one color in the selection part (1 3 1) of the screen (1 3 0), including the following sub-steps: Modify the plurality of pixels in the selection part (1 3 1) of the display screen (1 3 0) White value to increase the color temperature of the white image point value. 1 1. The method according to item 10 of the scope of patent application, wherein the white value of the plurality of image points of the selection portion (1 3 1) of the display screen (130) is increased to increase the color of the white image point value The temperature includes the following sub-steps: The original red-blue-green (RG Β) value converted in the software in the linear matrix is the new red-blue-green (RG Β) value, which has a higher color temperature. 12. The method according to item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the step of increasing the color temperature includes a sub-step, that is, increasing the color temperature of at least one image point relative to the color temperature of the background of the display screen (130). 1 3. —A computer-readable storage medium (1 2 5) containing computer executable instructions for prominently highlighting a selection part (1 3 0) of a display screen (1 3 0) in a processing system (1 0 0) 3 1), the computer-executable instructions include the following steps: receiving user input for selecting a part (1 3) of the display screen (1 3 0); and adding a selection part (1 3 0) of the display screen (1 3 0) 3 1) The temperature of at least one color within. 14. If the computer-readable storage medium (1 2 5) of item 13 of the scope of patent application, wherein at least one color temperature of the selected portion (1 3 1) of the display screen (1 3 0) is increased, including The following substeps: O: \ 69 \ 69752-911112.ptc page 16 529017 _ case number 90105232 VI. Scope of patent application f / year // month day The red, blue and green (RGB) values of the plurality of selection portions (131) of the display screen (130) are modified to increase the color temperature of the plurality of image points. 1 5 · If the computer-readable storage medium (1 2 5) in item 13 of the scope of patent application, in which at least one color in the selection part (丨 3 丨) of the display screen (丨 3 0) is added The temperature includes the following sub-steps: Modify the white value of the plurality of image points in the selection part (1 3 1) of the display screen (130) to increase the color temperature of the white image point. 1 6 · If the computer-readable storage medium (1 2 5) in item 15 of the scope of patent application, wherein the white value of a plurality of image points in the selection portion (131) of the display screen (130) is modified to increase The color temperature of the image point value includes the following sub-steps · The original red, blue, green (RGB) values in the linear matrix in the conversion software are new red and green (RGB) values, which have a higher color temperature. "1 7 · The background temperature of the computer-readable storage medium (1 (1 3 0)) in the scope of Shen Jing's patent, item 13 is the color temperature.