US Patent Issued to Honor Device on Feb. 18 for "Ambient light and proximity detection method, photographing method, and terminal" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,179, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ambient light and proximity detection method, photographing method, and terminal" was invented by Chenlong Li (Shenzhen, China), Hongxia Gui (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides ambient light and optical proximity detection methods, a photographing method, and a terminal, so that an entire display screen of the terminal is used to display a user interface, and this improves user experience. The method specifically includes: contro...