Terminal and method for detecting luminance of ambient light

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10520359-B2
Application number	US-201515764173-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2015
Priority date	Sep 28, 2015
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A terminal and a method for detecting luminance of ambient light, where the terminal includes a processor, an ambient light sensor, and a screen. The ambient light sensor and the screen are both coupled to the processor. A light-sensitive element of the ambient light sensor faces the screen and is located on a lower surface of the screen. After the screen is lit up, the processor adjusts first luminance of the screen to a value below a first threshold within a visual persistence time of human eyes. The ambient light sensor detects luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes. The terminal may eliminate non-ambient light that enters the ambient light sensor such that the ambient light sensor may detect luminance of relatively real ambient light.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A terminal, comprising:
a screen;
an ambient light sensor comprising a light-sensitive element facing the screen and located on a lower surface of the screen; and
a processor coupled to the screen and the ambient light sensor and configured to:
repeatedly adjust a first luminance of the screen to a value below a first threshold within a visual persistence time of human eyes detect luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes; and
average two or more consecutive values of the first luminance of the first ambient light to produce an average luminance of the first ambient light when the two or more consecutive values of the first luminance of the first ambient light are within a second threshold.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
restore the first luminance of the screen; and
adjust the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal.

3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to adjust the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal.

4. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein after the ambient light sensor detects the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes, the processor is further configured to:
restore the first luminance of the screen;
control a time length of the first luminance of the screen to fall within a first preset range; and
adjust the first luminance of the screen to the value below the first threshold within the visual persistence time of human eyes,
wherein the ambient light sensor is further configured to detect luminance of second ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes, and
wherein the processor is further configured to adjust the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal and the luminance of the second ambient light of the terminal that are detected by the ambient light sensor.

5. The terminal of claim 2 , wherein when adjusting the first luminance of the screen, the processor is further configured to:
detect whether there is a screen touch operation when the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal is less than luminance of ambient light that is detected by the ambient light sensor last time; and
adjust the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal when there is no touch operation.

6. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein when adjusting the first luminance of the screen to the value below the first threshold, the processor is further configured to adjust luminance of an organic light-emitting diode screen to the value below the first threshold when the screen comprises the organic light-emitting diode screen.

7. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein when adjusting the first luminance of the screen to the value below the first threshold, the processor is further configured to adjust, to the value below the first threshold, luminance of a screen area in which the ambient light sensor is located.

8. The terminal of claim 1 , further comprising an epoxy resin adhesive layer, wherein the epoxy resin adhesive layer is located on the lower surface of the screen, wherein the ambient light sensor is disposed in a hollowed-out area of the epoxy resin adhesive layer, and wherein the screen is an organic light-emitting diode screen.

9. A terminal, comprising:
a screen;
an ambient light sensor, wherein a light-sensitive element of the ambient light sensor faces the screen and is located on a lower surface of the screen; and
a processor coupled to the screen and the ambient light sensor and configured to:
repeatedly control image data within a visual persistence time of human eyes after the screen is lit up to make a grayscale value of the controlled image data is less than or equal to a first threshold; and
average two or more consecutive values of luminance of first ambient light to produce an average luminance of the first ambient light when the two or more consecutive values of the luminance of the first ambient light are within a second threshold,

wherein the ambient light sensor is configured to detect luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes.

10. The terminal of claim 9 , wherein when controlling the image data, the processor is further configured to adjust image data displayed on the screen to make a grayscale value of the adjusted image data is less than or equal to the first threshold.

11. The terminal of claim 9 , wherein when controlling the image data, the processor is further configured to insert image data, and wherein a grayscale value of the inserted image data is less than or equal to the first threshold.

12. The terminal of claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to adjust the grayscale value of the image data according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal.

13. The terminal of claim 12 , wherein when adjusting the grayscale value of the image data, the processor is further configured to:
detect whether there is a screen touch operation when the luminance of the first ambient sensor last time; and
adjust the grayscale value of the image data according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal when there is no touch operation.

14. The terminal of claim 9 , wherein when controlling the image data, the processor is further configured to:
control all image data in a screen area; or
control image data in a screen area in which the ambient light sensor is located.

15. The terminal of claim 9 , further comprising an epoxy resin adhesive layer located on the lower surface of the screen, wherein the ambient light sensor is disposed in a hollowed-out area of the epoxy resin adhesive layer, and wherein the screen is an organic light-emitting diode screen.

16. A method for detecting luminance of ambient light, comprising:
adjusting, by a terminal, first luminance of a screen to a value below a first threshold within a visual persistence time of human eyes after the screen of the terminal is lit up;
detecting, by an ambient light sensor of the terminal, luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes; and
average two or more consecutive values of luminance of the first ambient light to produce an average luminance of the first ambient light when the two or more consecutive values of the luminance of the first ambient light are within a second threshold.

17. The method of to claim 16 , wherein after detecting the luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes, the method further comprises:
restoring, by the terminal, the first luminance of the screen; and
adjusting, by the terminal, the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein after detecting the luminance of first ambient light of the terminal within the visual persistence time of human eyes, the method further comprises adjusting, by the terminal, the first luminance of the screen according to the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein after detecting the luminance of the first ambient light of the terminal within the v

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Xilin

Classifications

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  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title

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  using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser · CPC title