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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2017
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Grace Huey Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
SQUARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A point-of-sale system includes a computing device, such as a mobile phone or tablet, and a payment object reader communicatively coupled to the computing device that is used to acquire data from a payment object reader. The payment object reader includes an optical output device. The brightness of the optical output device is controlled by the payment object reader depending on the brightness of the computing device coupled to the payment object reader. The brightness level of the optical output device of the payment object reader, which can be a near field communication (NFC) signal strength indicator having four light-emitting-diodes (LEDs), is coordinated to the brightness level of the computing device.