ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,979, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic device with a display for low light conditions" was invented by Ritu Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ryan J. Dunn (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Tom Sengelaub (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating an outward-facing display device for low light conditions may include receiving information indicative of ambient lighting conditions for the display device's environment; in accordance with a determination that the ambient lighting conditions do not satisfy a brightness criterion, determining a set of pixels in the outward-facing display device corres...