Patent ID: 8421786

Claim:
A display device, comprising: an image display region displaying images; an automatic light sensor sensing ambient lighting conditions of a location of the display device; and a control system controlling an amount of light produced within the image display region by the displayed images based upon the sensed ambient lighting conditions, wherein the control system includes a single user interface displayed within the image display region and allows simultaneous enabling/disabling of the automatic light sensor and adjusting of image display characteristic values of the displayed images by a user, disabling the automatic light sensor enables the adjusting of an image display characteristic value by the user, and enabling the automatic light sensor disables the adjusting of an image display characteristic value by the user, the disabled adjustment of an image display characteristic value includes modifying an appearance of a portion of the single user interface corresponding to the image display characteristic value to provide at least one metering display of the image display characteristic value determined by the automatic light sensor, and the modifying of the appearance includes one of greying-out of text corresponding to the image display characteristic value, reducing size of text corresponding to the image display characteristic value, and changing a font of text corresponding to the image display characteristic value.