US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Head-mounted electronic device with localized flicker detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,140, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mounted electronic device with localized flicker detection" was invented by Anselm Grundhoefer (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided that includes external-facing cameras for acquiring images of a scene, displays configured to present the acquired images, and control circuitry configured to identify an area of the acquired images as a candidate region for including a local light source, to determine whether the candidate region exhibits a pattern indicative of flicker, and to mitigate flicker caused by the local l...