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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:
May. 15, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

David A. Doyle, San Francisco, CA (US);

Joshua G. Wurzel, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Tyler R. Kakuda, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); H01L 27/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G02F 1/13338 (2013.01); H01L 27/323 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the temperature of a light-generating component of a display assembly using a voltage of the light-generating component are provided. In one embodiment, a method for operating an electronic device, which may include an external surface and a light-emitting diode operative to emit light for illuminating the external surface, may include detecting the forward voltage of the light-emitting diode, calculating the temperature of the light-emitting diode using the detected forward voltage of the light-emitting diode, and altering the performance of the electronic device based on the calculated temperature of the light-emitting diode. Additional embodiments are also provided.


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