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Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2024
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mahesh B Chappalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Ionut A Mirel, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yan Guan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Akshay Bhat, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2006.01); G01J 1/42 (2006.01); G09G 3/32 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2013.01); G01J 1/4204 (2013.01); G09G 3/32 (2013.01); G01J 2001/444 (2013.01); G09G 2360/144 (2013.01);
Abstract

To mitigate undesirable outcomes due to crosstalk in an ambient light sensor reading resulting from light emission from an electronic display, statistics may be gathered to determine and compensate for the crosstalk. For example, the ambient light sensor may detect ambient light levels while the electronic display is temporarily paused to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between the light produced by the electronic display and the ambient light sensor. However, the ambient light sensor may retain charge from a previous light emission, creating back-emission crosstalk. The ratio of back-emission to front-emission (e.g., present light emission) may not be linear, and the degree of nonlinearity may vary with pixel value, color component, display brightness, temperature, and so on. As the ambient light sensor is affected by back-emission, compensation for the nonlinearity between the front-emission and the back-emission may be obtained to estimate the crosstalk induced on the ambient light sensor.


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