US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Electronic devices with ambient flicker detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,001, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with ambient flicker detection" was invented by Anand K Chamakura (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen N Sweet (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Motamed (San Francisco), Dong Zheng (Los Altos, Calif.), Jianjun Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Chau H Nguyen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a sensor to measure ambient flicker. The sensor may be a sigma-delta converter. The flicker may be calculated based on the voltage output of the sigma-delta converter and the number of times the sigma-delta converter is triggered durin...