Patent ID: 8063873

Claim:
A method of adjusting images to be displayed on a display of an electronic device, comprising: identifying a highest brightness value of a pixel in an image to be generated on said display; determining a brightness headroom value for said image based on a difference between a value related to said highest brightness value and a value related to a maximum brightness level for the display; if said brightness headroom value is determined to be larger than a predetermined threshold, then: creating an adjusted image based on said image where elements of said adjusted image are increased in brightness from said image based on a value related to a ratio of said brightness headroom to said highest brightness value; generating said adjusted image on said display; and providing an adjusted backlight level for said adjusted image, said adjusted backlight level being lower than a backlight level for said image based on a ratio of a value relating to said highest brightness value to a value related to said maximum brightness level.