Patent ID: 7602371

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a housing; plural processing components disposed in the housing and operable to process information; a display integrated in the housing, the display having a backlight and pixels, the backlight illuminating the pixels to present images formed with the information; an inverter operable to power the backlight; a controller interfaced with the inverter and operable to accept user brightness settings; a graphics processor interfaced with the inverter and operable to generate automated brightness adjustments; a light sensor interfaced with the inverter, the light sensor operable to detect ambient light to provide an ambient light brightness correction; and a brightness module integrated in the inverter and interfaced with the controller, the graphics processor and the light sensor, the brightness module operable to sum the user brightness setting, the automated brightness adjustment and the ambient light brightness correction to determine a power output from the inverter to the backlight.