ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,506, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dimming of optical passthrough displays" was invented by Anselm Grundhoefer (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of controlling a dimming level of dimmable optical element based on a predicted ambient light level is performed at a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a dimmable optical element. The method includes predicting a change, in a first direction, in an ambient light level at a future time. The method includes changing, at a first time in advance of the future time and in the fir...