A display device and a method for operating a display device disclosed herein include transmitting a proximity signal from a proximity sensor, the proximity sensor being positioned under a lower surface of a surface layer with an illumination component being positioned between the surface layer and the proximity sensor, in response to the illumination component being deactivated, receiving a reflected proximity signal based on the proximity signal, determining a proximity value based on the reflected proximity signal and modifying an operation of the display device based on the proximity value. The modifying the operation of the display device includes any one or a combination of activating the illumination component, deactivating the illumination component, or modifying a property of the illumination component

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of light emitting elements, a moving bar movable on a rear surface of the display panel, and a plurality of sensor modules mounted on the moving bar and configured to sense sensing light emitted from a rear surface of the display panel.

An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an ambient light sensor for gathering ambient light information. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust the brightness level of an image being displayed by the display based on ambient light measurements from the ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensor may be formed from an ambient light sensor module that is aligned with an opening in an opaque masking layer in the display. One or more antireflection layers may be interposed between an inwardly facing surface of the display and an opposing external surface of the ambient light sensor module. The ambient light sensor module may have a light attenuator and other optical structures.

A display comprises a plurality of autonomous pixels on a stretchable substrate. Each autonomous pixel comprises a display element and a control element arranged to sense an external stimulus and to generate, entirely within the autonomous pixel, a control signal to drive the display element based, at least in part, on a magnitude of the sensed external stimulus. The stretchable substrate comprises a plurality of less elastic regions separated by stretchable areas, where the less elastic regions are less stretchable than the surrounding stretchable areas and each control element of an autonomous pixel is located in or on a less elastic region of the stretchable substrate.

An autonomous pixel comprises a display element, a plurality of different sensors and a control element. The sensors are arranged to detect one or more external stimuli and the control element is arranged to generate, entirely within the autonomous pixel, a control signal to drive the display element based, at least in part, on a magnitude of an external stimulus detected by one or more of the different sensors.

A device includes a digital camera positioned underneath a display of the device that captures images through the display. The brightness of the display is controlled when capturing images using the digital camera to reduce interference from light emitted by the display with the captured images. The brightness can be controlled in various manners, such as reducing the brightness of only a camera region of the display that is within the field of view of the camera, reducing the brightness of only an expanded region of the display that includes a camera region of the display and an area surrounding the camera region but less than the entire display, reducing the brightness of the entire display or the brightness of only particular colors of the display, blacking out the camera region of the display, blacking out the expanded region of the display, strobing the display, and so forth.

The embodiments of the present application disclose a method of controlling display of a display device, an apparatus thereof and a display apparatus. The display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel, wherein the backlight unit includes a plurality of backlight partitions, each of which is independently driven, and the display panel includes a plurality of display partitions in one-to-one correspondence with the backlight partitions. The method comprises: causing the display panel to display a test image, wherein each pixel of the test image has a same gray value; acquiring a luminance of each display partition of the display panel; determining a compensation coefficient according to the luminance of each display partition; adjusting backlight data of the backlight partition according to the compensation coefficient to obtain adjusted backlight data of each backlight partition; and providing the adjusted backlight data to the backlight unit for display by the display panel.

The energy of light irradiated by a backlight causes stress on TFTs for controlling transmissivity for each pixel on a display panel so as to degrade TFTs. The present invention addresses the problem concerning disturbance in transmissivity control based on image information and incapacity of displaying images with desired luminance. The present invention includes a backlight, a transmission-type display panel disposed on the front face of the backlight, a cumulative quantity calculation part configured to calculate a cumulative quantity representing either the cumulated electric energy cumulating power supplied to the backlight or the cumulated light quantity of the backlight, and a display panel controller configured to change a driving condition for the display panel depending on the cumulative quantity.

The present disclosure describes methods of contrast enhancement and dual-cell display apparatus. The method includes receiving an RGB value of each second pixel of a displayed image, and determining a brightness value of each first pixel according to the RGB value of each second pixel. The method also includes determining a local brightness adjustment factor and a global brightness adjustment factor by performing statistics processing for local region brightness values and global image brightness values according to the brightness value of each first pixel; and calculating a brightness drive signal corresponding to the first pixel, according to the brightness value of each first pixel, the local brightness adjustment factor and the global brightness adjustment factor. The brightness drive signal adjusts a transmittance of a corresponding pixel of the first panel. The global brightness adjustment factor adjusts an output brightness value of a corresponding pixel of the first panel.

A display having a variably controlled backlight and/or driver is disclosed. The backlight includes a first light source that emits light within a first spectral power distribution and has a first radiant power output. A second light source emits light within a second spectral power distribution matched to an optical filter for producing a perceived chromaticity and luminosity matching the perceived display appearance without the optical filter.