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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jon Breazile, Redmond, WA (US);
Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla, Redmond, WA (US);
Yi-Min Huang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device includes a display including an emission unit, a light sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of ambient light level, a memory in which filtering instructions and emission control instructions are stored, and a processor configured to implement the filtering instructions to generate at least one filtered representation of the ambient light level in accordance with the signal. The processor is further configured to implement the emission control instructions to determine whether the ambient light level is increasing or decreasing, and to generate a control signal that, based on the at least one filtered representation, increases a brightness level of the emission unit at a first rate if the ambient light level is increasing and that decreases the brightness level at a second rate if the ambient light level is decreasing. The first rate is greater than the second rate.