Method for controlling brightness in mobile terminal display, mobile terminal and storage device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11308893-B2
Application number	US-201816636929-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2018
Priority date	Aug 8, 2017
Publication date	Apr 19, 2022
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022

Abstract

Disclosed by the present application are a method for controlling brightness in mobile terminal display, a mobile terminal and a storage device, the method comprising: controlling an optical sensor and an acceleration sensor within a mobile terminal to respectively monitor in real time a change value for environmental brightness and a change value for angle of rotation; determining whether the change value for environmental brightness and the change value for angle of rotation as monitored by the mobile terminal are less than a preset brightness and a preset angle, respectively; and when yes, controlling the brightness in mobile terminal display to not change.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling display brightness of a mobile terminal comprising:
turning on a light sensor in the mobile terminal to monitor ambient brightness in real time, and turning on a acceleration sensor to monitor a rotation angle in real time at the same time;
respectively monitoring the ambient brightness and the rotation angle after a position of the mobile terminal is changed through the light sensor and the acceleration sensor after the position of the mobile terminal is changed; and
calculating an ambient brightness change value and a rotation angle change value of the mobile terminal by the mobile terminal based on the ambient brightness and the rotation angle after the position is changed;
determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value monitored by the mobile terminal are respectively smaller than a preset brightness and a preset angle; and
controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein before the step of controlling the light sensor and the acceleration sensor in the mobile terminal in advance to respectively monitor the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value in real time the method further comprises:
setting a brightness adjustment state to automatically adjusting the display brightness through the mobile terminal.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein after the step of determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value monitored by the mobile terminal are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle the method further comprises:
controlling the mobile terminal to automatically adjust the display brightness when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively greater than or equal to the preset brightness and the preset angle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the preset brightness is 200 cd/m 2 .

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the preset angle is 40 degrees.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the step of determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value monitored by the mobile terminal are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle further comprises:
setting the preset brightness and the preset angle through the mobile terminal in advance; and
determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value monitored by the light sensor is smaller than the preset brightness, and determining whether or not the rotation angle change value monitored by the acceleration sensor is smaller than the preset angle at the same time.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the step of controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle further comprises:
sending an instruction for prohibiting brightness adjustment to a background of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal determines that the ambient brightness change value is smaller than the preset brightness and the rotation angle change value is smaller than the preset angle; and
controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged by the background of the mobile terminal according to the received instruction for prohibiting brightness adjustment.

8. A mobile terminal comprising a processor, a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory storing a computer program, the processor being configured to call the computer program in the memory to implement operations of:
turning on a light sensor in the mobile terminal to monitor ambient brightness in real time, and turning on a acceleration sensor to monitor a rotation angle in real time at the same time;
respectively monitoring the ambient brightness and the rotation angle after a position of the mobile terminal is changed through the light sensor and the acceleration sensor after the position of the mobile terminal is changed; and
calculating an ambient brightness change value and a rotation angle change value of the mobile terminal by the mobile terminal based on the ambient brightness and the rotation angle after the position is changed;
determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value monitored by the mobile terminal are respectively smaller than a preset brightness and a preset angle;
controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle; and
controlling the mobile terminal to automatically adjust the display brightness when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively greater than or equal to the preset brightness and the preset angle.

9. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 8 , wherein before the operation of controlling the light sensor and the acceleration sensor in the mobile terminal in advance to respectively monitor the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value in real time the operations further comprises:
setting a brightness adjustment state to automatically adjusting the display brightness through the mobile terminal.

10. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the preset brightness is 200 cd/m 2 .

11. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the preset angle is 40 degrees.

12. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the operation of determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value monitored by the mobile terminal are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle further comprises:
setting the preset brightness and the preset angle through the mobile terminal in advance; and
determining whether or not the ambient brightness change value monitored by the light sensor is smaller than the preset brightness, and determining whether or not the rotation angle change value monitored by the acceleration sensor is smaller than the preset angle at the same time.

13. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the operation of controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged when both the ambient brightness change value and the rotation angle change value are respectively smaller than the preset brightness and the preset angle further comprises:
sending an instruction for prohibiting brightness adjustment to a background of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal determines that the ambient brightness change value is smaller than the preset brightness and the rotation angle change value is smaller than the preset angle; and
controlling the display brightness of the mobile terminal unchanged by the background of the mobile terminal according to the received instruction for prohibiting brightness adjustment.

14. A memory device storing a computer program, the computer program being executable to implement operations of:
turning on a light sensor in the mobile terminal to monitor ambient brightness in real time, and turning on a acceleration sensor to monitor a rotation angle in real time at the same time;
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Assignees

• Jrd Communication Shenzhen Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Yanwen
• Liu Yan
• He Lanying
• Zhai Xiaobin
• Liu Junting

Classifications

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