Patent ID: 8780033

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to detect brightness and output an illuminance value corresponding to the detected brightness; derive a luminance set value for controlling a light emission signal regulating luminance of a light source based on the illuminance value and a luminance level set from a plurality of luminance levels corresponding to a level of brightness that a user actually senses; derive power consumption information based on the luminance set value, the power consumption information representing at least one of power consumption and a power consumption rate of the light source; control a display to display the power consumption information in graphical form in relation to a minimum value and a maximum value, wherein the graphical form of the power consumption shows the power consumption rate of the light source and a percentage of power consumption in relation to a minimum power consumption rate of the light source and a maximum power consumption rate of the light source; and selectively disable a function of controlling the light emission signal regulating the luminance of the light source based on the luminance set value derived based on the illuminance value.