Microsoft Patents Inconspicuous Mode For Mobile Devices

While you are delivering a PowerPoint presentation in a conference room where the lights have been dimmed as you are explaining an important part of the topic someone in the audience decides to take out his/her smartphone and this diverts your attention; thanks to the bright light. For such cases, Microsoft Corporation might just have the right solution. Recently it has filed a patent application for a technology that known as ‘inconspicuous mode’. When a mobile device is set to the inconspicuous mode the display brightness and contrast and lowered to watch the ambient lighting. You might be now thinking it’s just the same as auto-brightness feature but it’s much more.

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When the mode is on, it tries to remove the amount of things that are making the display bright plus it changes the user interface to a larger percentage of black in order to blend with the darkness. You have the option of manually activating the mode or it can be set to auto detect environments like theaters and conference rooms. Thanks to this you won’t have to squint while you are trying to read the message that someone has sent at the middle of the night. In the meanwhile, Microsoft has not mentioned when this technology will be available on its devices.

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