Patent ID: 11877071
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. An electronic device comprising:
a housing having an aperture; and
a camera configured to receive light through the aperture;
wherein:
the camera includes a pixel array positioned to receive ambient light through the aperture on a light-receiving side;
the pixel array includes flicker current detection circuitry (FCDC) formed with pixels of the pixel array on a common semiconductor substrate;
a set of pixels of the pixel array is electrically connected with FCDC; and
the electronic device is operable to:
detect a flicker in the ambient light using a combination of light-generated currents from the set of pixels of the pixel array during a first time interval; and
record an image with the camera during a subsequent time interval using compensation for the flicker detected in the ambient light.