Patent ID: 9311114
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G

Claim Text:
1. A method for creating a virtual display overlay, the method comprising: detecting, at a first time, a first value of a visual characteristic of a presentation, the presentation being sent to a display device from an application executing in a data processing system associated with the display device; detecting, at the first time, an ambient condition, wherein the ambient condition changes a user's perception of the first value of the visual characteristic to a perceived value of the visual characteristic; identifying a difference between the perceived value of the visual characteristic and a preference specified by a user; generating automatically, using a processor, responsive to the identifying, the virtual display overlay having an adjustment value, wherein the adjustment value when applied to the perceived value of the visual characteristic reduces the difference to less than a tolerance threshold; displaying the virtual display overlay on the display device such that the virtual display overlay covers the presentation.