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Adaptive Display Management

Adaptive Display Management

Ambient Light Sensors (ALS)  ALS sensors deliver optimal sensitivity to accurately approximate the photopic human response – the vision of the human eye in good lighting conditions. This is then used to measure the illuminance of ambient light to help adjust a display's screen brightness according to the current conditions.

Color Sensors Eyestrain and sleep disturbance are unwanted side effects of too high a level of blue light on our displays. Our accurate XYZ color sensors enable notebook computer controllers to adjust the white-point balance of the display in response to changes in the color temperature of ambient light, to make text as readable as it is when printed on paper.
The new color sensor TCS3408 enables operation behind OLED to maximize edge-to-edge display screen size. It features on-chip flicker detection to eliminate unwanted video image banding artefacts in all lighting environments.

Behind OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) In order to provide users with all-screen, bezel-less displays that are more comfortable and effective to use, ams technology enables accurate ambient light and color sensing to help adjust a display's brightness. White point is adjusted with an optical sensor solution that operates behind an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, instead of in the bezel or frame outside the display area.

 

User-Presence Detection

User-Presence Detection

The mobile computing space has adopted the use of facial-recognition technology as the latest security feature to automatically lock and unlock your laptop. ams OSRAM active stereo infrared camera technology sits in the display's bezel and performs the actual authentication function. A low-power time-of-flight optical sensor is also implemented, which constantly checks for a user’s face to initiate the system.

The small size and low power consumption of the direct time-of-flight sensors TMF8820, TMF8821 and TMF8828 are ideal for user presence detection to automatically initiate or put the system into a low-power sleep mode based on the presence or absence of a user. 

Attention Aware Systems

Attention Aware Systems

Our active stereo IR camera technology-based solution supports eye-movement detection in extreme light conditions – from poor to overly bright ambient light.  This technology recognizes head movement and pinpoints the screen area a user is focusing on, while engaging with content.

Benefits:

  • Satisfying user experience
  • Facilitates user engagement and interaction with the technology and content
  • Simplifies the selection of actions by focusing on screen area
  • Enables safety control as it monitors the user’s presence and focus on the displayed information
  • Improves overall display management by tracking the user's focus and reducing the screen resolution elsewhere
User Authentication

User Authentication

Every day, our computers require multiple authentication checks – are you the right person to see this information? This repetitive and mandatory task can become irritating for users. Facial recognition has already engaged users in the mobile space as it simplifies access by simply facing the screen. ams provides a facial authentication solution for the computer market, offering a simple and convenient approach to access control without the need of a password or PIN code.

Our reference solution gathers the latest hardware products of dot pattern projectors and illuminator technologies along with a face recognition software. This standardized solution is targeted to the needed level of performances without compromises on security.
 

Application Computing - Digital ANC - Augmented Hearing

Digital ANC - Augmented Hearing

The increasing number of decentralized employees and students, as well as the recent trend towards social distancing drives remote working. More and more people require earbuds and headsets to participate in video conferences in an effective way.  ams’ Digital Augmented Hearing solutions hereby support you as a consumer by allowing you to: Hear what you want to hear. You can tune out ambient noise through market leading Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) performance >40dB and simultaneously tune in speech and music with our natural and boosted transparency modes. 

 

The technology supports all kinds of earbuds and headphone form factors. Through its unique Automatic Leakage Compensation (ALC) technology, ANC can even be enabled in loose fit earbuds.  They are very popular, it is however, very difficult to implement ANC in loose fit earphones as the amount of ambient noise that leaks around the earphone and into the user’s ear is constantly changing. Features like ALC or the Automatic Preset Selection (APS) which adopts the ANC towards different environments are running on the unique Augmented Hearing Engine (AHE) which is a tailored Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to meet the low-power requirements of true wireless systems.