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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025

Filed:

May. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Anselm Grundhoefer, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G09G 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G09G 5/10 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0118 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G09G 2360/141 (2013.01); G09G 2360/144 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one implementation, a method of controlling a dimming level of dimmable optical element based on a predicted ambient light level is performed at a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a dimmable optical element. The method includes predicting a change, in a first direction, in an ambient light level at a future time. The method includes changing, at a first time in advance of the future time and in the first direction, a transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the predicted change in the ambient light level. The method includes changing, at a second time after the first time and in a second direction opposite the first direction, the transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the ambient light level at the second time.


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