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Apple’s latest niche little patent idea covers automatically adjusting mobile displays. Such systems have been around for years, but Apple’s new idea uses the contrast level of media rather than ambient light to set its display level.
The submitted patent’s flow diagram shows that it would have the ability to analyse contrast levels on a frame-by-frame basis, setting a display brightness level that suits the media being played, In reality this will do doubt be quite annoying and no one likes constantly fluctuating brightness levels, but it might make a handy bullet point on the iPhone 7′s spec sheet. [USPTO via Apple Insider]
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Don’t TVs do this already?
My LG constantly turns the brightness up and down depending on what is on the screen. Or is it different and I just don’t get it?
It’s around under various names like Dynamic Contrast Ratio adjustment, a couple of my monitors have it – personally I turn it off for anything but films or gaming as the constant shift is quite annoying, particularly when trying to read text!
Thanks for that.
I find it especially annoying when it brightens up during a dark scene and the next scene is Midday in the middle of Summer and you get blinded while it tries to catch up.
The patent system is a joke nowadays.