ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,162, issued on May 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).
"Method of determining a state of a display" was invented by Salim Bouchene (Seyssinet-Pariset, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display includes a display panel and a circuit. The circuit controls the display panel according to at least one control mode such as a pulse width modulation control mode. A method for determining a state of the display includes: acquiring samples from a channel of an ambient light sensor disposed below the display panel; supplying the samples to a processing circuit; detecting, by the processing circuit a...