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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Scott M. Herz, San Jose, CA (US);

Roberto G. Yepez, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);

Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G09G 3/34 (2006.01); H04M 1/22 (2006.01); H04M 1/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G09G 3/3406 (2013.01); H04M 1/22 (2013.01); G09G 2330/022 (2013.01); G09G 2360/144 (2013.01); H04M 1/67 (2013.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); H04M 2250/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting or input of a display control parameter, and causing or altering, based on the user setting or input, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter. The user input may be an unlock of a touch screen input capability of the display device, and a wake of the display device from inactivity dim. Also, according to embodiments of the inventions, a method of operating a display of an electronic device includes receiving a change to one of a display brightness output level and an ambient light sensor output level, and altering, according to the change, a display brightness or contrast output level. Other apparatuses and methods and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.


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