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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tianbo Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian R. Land, Woodside, CA (US);
Dong Zheng, Los Altos, CA (US);
Serhan O. Isikman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkata Siva Sunil Kumar Reddy Bommu, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhang Jia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have a housing in which a display is mounted. The display may have an active area in which images are displayed by an array of pixels and an inactive area that is free of pixels. A color ambient light sensor may make color and luminance measurements on ambient light received through an ambient light sensor window in the inactive area of the display or elsewhere in the electronic device. The color ambient light sensor may have color ambient light sensor elements of different colors. The ambient light sensor elements may extend in a row along an edge of the display or may have other configurations. Analog-to-digital converter circuitry and switching circuitry may gather color ambient light sensor measurements and measurements indicative of whether or not the color ambient light sensor has been obscured by an external object from the light sensor elements.