ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,161, issued on June 24, was assigned to SENSORTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
"Ambient light sensing method and ambient light sensor" was invented by Yu-Min Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ambient light sensing method and an ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensing method comprises a light sensing device sensing the light passing through an optical filter and giving an optical signal value, and an operational unit receiving the optical signal value and calculating an ambient light illuminance value according to the optical signal value. Accordingly, th...