ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,047, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Ambient light sensing with image sensor" was invented by Francesco Cannillo (Munich) and Tibi Galambos (Binyamina, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method of measuring ambient light using an image sensor. The method includes integrating a charge in each pixel in a set of pixels and reading out a respective voltage corresponding to a respective charge integrated by each pixel in the set of pixels. After reading out the respective voltage corresponding to the respective charge integrated by each pixel in the set of pi...