US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Compensation for crosstalk between electronic display and ambient light sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,264, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Compensation for crosstalk between electronic display and ambient light sensor" was invented by Ionut A Mirel (Cupertino, Calif.), Mahesh B Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.) and Maximillian C Bruggeman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic display includes an ambient light sensor (ALS) located beneath an active area to sense ambient light above the active area. The ALS is synchronized with blanking periods of a display pixel on the active area. An emission-off scale factor is calculated based on an emission profile of the display pixel when t...