{"id":2744,"date":"2010-05-14T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2010-05-15T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T15:11:45","slug":"apple-plans-to-use-your-display-as-camera-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2010\/05\/apple-plans-to-use-your-display-as-camera-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Files Patent To Use Your Display As Camera Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/patent-posts.s3.amazonaws.com\/monitor-flash\/01-monitor-flash.PNG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an interesting patent application, Apple has plans to use your display\u2019s brightness as camera flash. This is one of those simple yet absurd ideas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you initiate the camera application,\u00a0 an ambient light sensor will calibrate the environment you are in. Based on this, the display will be configured to act as flash. The various parameters of the monitor that will be configured are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>color<\/li>\n<li>intensity<\/li>\n<li>brightness<\/li>\n<li>duration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The patent application details the flow of events and the various parameters:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/patent-posts.s3.amazonaws.com\/monitor-flash\/02-flowchart.PNG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The patent filing is of January this year and currently focuses on glorified PC use-case scenarios. iPhone, front facing camera and the screen acting as flash? Oh boy!<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot to detail about the patent. To put it in a nutshell: Bright display, not so great ambient lights around, the camera triggers the display to certain lighting levels depending on the surrounding environment\u2019s lighting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=20100118179.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20100118179RS=DN\/20100118179\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/beingmanan.com\/patent.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/abhinaba\/status\/13996890897\" target=\"_blank\">Abhinaba<\/a> pointed out that Photo Booth uses this tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple patent application details how Apple plans to use the computer display as flash for cameras.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2010\/05\/apple-plans-to-use-your-display-as-camera-flash\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7K6iCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[477,778,779,736],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-camera","tag-display","tag-flash","tag-patent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}