US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Head-mounted device with content dimming for masking noise" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,025, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mounted device with content dimming for masking noise" was invented by Luke A Pillans (San Diego), Simon Fortin-Deschenes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Christian I Moore (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an electronic device to mask noise at low scene brightness levels is provided. The method can include acquiring images of a scene and determining a scene brightness level of the acquired images. In response to determining that the scene brightness level is in a first range, the...