Ambient light context-aware display

A portable electronic device, comprising:

• a display;
• a light sensor configured to sense an ambient light color condition;
• a processor configured to execute an adaptive display module, the adaptive display module configured to:
• determine an ambient light history including a plurality of ambient light color conditions sensed over a duration of device operation by a light sensor;
• read a display-ready image from an image source, the display-ready image having a plurality of pixels;
• adjust a manner in which the display-ready image is displayed on the portable electronic device by color-shifting at least a subset of the plurality of pixels based on the plurality of ambient light color conditions in the ambient light history to thereby generate a color-modified image;
• and
• display the color-modified image on the display.

A method for adjusting a display to account for ambient light, the method comprising:

• at a portable electronic device:
• receiving ambient light data from an ambient light sensor, the ambient light data including ambient color data indicating an ambient light condition external to the portable electronic device;
• receiving contextual data from a contextual data source;
• reading a display-ready image from an image source, the display-ready image having a plurality of pixels;
• modifying one or more properties of at least a subset of the plurality of pixels based on at least the ambient light data and the context data;
• and
• displaying the modified image on a display.