Apple Inc.

Kartik P Sathappan

David L Biderman

Christopher M Garrido

Ming Jin

Patrick Miauton

Eric L Chien

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

Xiaoxiao Zheng

Komei Harada

Wenhui Xu

Yichao Shen

In scenes that have low lighting, it may be difficult for a personal electronic device to capture video images that meet a scene lighting criteria. In some low-lighting situations, the receiving party may be unable to sufficiently see the face of the party that they are videoconferencing with. Described herein are techniques for utilizing a device's display to illuminate the scene surrounding the device. Improved lighting may come from global display adjustments, local display adjustments that do not alter the display's contents (other than to change their brightness levels), and/or local display adjustments that alter the display's contents. In some embodiments, background elements on a device's display may be identified for brightening in a first attempt to meet the scene lighting criteria without negatively impacting foreground scene content. If such approaches are unsuccessful, the device may next replace one or more regions of displayed content with regions of brightened pixels.

Video capture in low-light conditions

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Kartik P Sathappan