ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,024, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displays with mesopic vision compensation" was invented by Francisco H Imai (San Jose, Calif.), Osborn F de Lima (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jun Miao (San Jose, Calif.) and Pradeep Nagesh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display, an ambient light sensor, and control circuitry. The control circuitry may use a mesopic vision model to compensate images that are displayed in low light conditions when the measured ambient light brightness is below a threshold. The mesopic vision model may use a tone mapping process and a co...