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US 9,870,752 B2Granted
Display dimming in response to user
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorTim Plowman
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Abstract
In some embodiments a detector is to detect a body of a user. A controller is to determine an area of focus of the user in response to the detector, and to dim a portion of a display that is not in the area of focus. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims78
A method comprising:
- detecting at least one feature of a user;
- not dimming a first portion of a display based on the detecting;
- and
- not illuminating a second portion of the display based on the detecting.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a display;
- a camera;
- a detector to detect at least one feature of a user in response to the camera;
- and
- a controller to not dim a first portion of a display and not illuminate a second portion of the display based on the detected at least one feature of the user.
2 more elements
At least one computer-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed on a computing device cause the computing device to:
- detect at least one feature of a user;
- not dim a first portion of a display detected at least one feature;
- and
- not illuminate a second portion of the display based on the detected at least one feature of the user.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- detecting at least one feature of a user;
- preventing a first portion of a display from dimming based on the detected at least one feature;
- and
- preventing a second portion of the display from illuminating based on the detected at least one feature.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a display;
- a camera;
- a detector to detect at least one feature of a user in response to the camera;
- and
- a controller to prevent at least one portion of the display from dimming in response to the detector;
- a controller to prevent a first portion of a display from dimming and prevent a second portion of the display from illuminating based on the detected at least one feature of the user.
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At least one computer-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed on a computing device cause the computing device to:
- detect at least one feature of a user;
- prevent a first portion of a display from dimming based on the detected at least one feature;
- and
- prevent a second portion of the display from illuminating based on the detected at least one feature.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.