Patent ID: 8339472

Claim:
A mobile device comprising: a flash module comprising a white light source adapted to emit white light having an associate intensity of white light, and a red light source adapted to emit red light having an associate intensity of red light; an image sensor adapted to detect a color spectrum of ambient light; a camera module adapted to capture an image; and a processing module coupled to the white light source, red light source, image sensor, and camera module; wherein the processing module is adapted to: receive color spectrum data from the image sensor; determine an intensity of red light that matches a color spectrum of the ambient light when combined with a white light; determine an intensity of the red light when combined with the associated intensity of the white light, wherein a resulting color spectrum of the combination of the red light and white light intensities substantially matches the color spectrum of the ambient light; transmit red light flash control data to the red light source to control emission of the intensity of the red light with the red light flash control data based on the determined intensity of red light; and transmit white light flash control data to the white light source to control the emission of the intensity of the white light with the white light flash control data based on the determined intensity of red light.