Kids just can't help fiddling with the brightness and contrast on their smartphones. That's the result of the latest survey carried out by pollmeisters Ipsos MORI. According to the poll, the main reason behind two-thirds of 15 to 24-year-olds wanting to change the settings is to improve the picture quality on their devices – …

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Tuesday 21st January 2014 14:50 GMT Richard Taylor 2

Some decent systems thinking

Acutally a lovely idea (or really a set of well integrated ideas) for better imaging - if you can get the sensors/manufacturers to coop. Of course the proof will be in the looking.

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Tuesday 21st January 2014 15:08 GMT Elmer Phud

Not Boffinry?

"Based in Loughborough, their team consists of biologists and developers, respectively specialising in the human eye and visual interfaces. They have modelled the human retina as a digital signal processor and used the resulting technology to produce display and camera systems."

That must be at least close to boffinry

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1. Tuesday 21st January 2014 15:59 GMT AbelSoul
  
  Re: That must be at least close to boffinry
  
  Agreed.
  
  It certainly surpasses my non-boffin-determined benchmark.
  
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  1. Wednesday 22nd January 2014 17:41 GMT Swarthy
    
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    It seems to me that it's boffinry enough to warrant "Retina Display".
    
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Tuesday 21st January 2014 16:26 GMT Semtex451

Yes stop fiddling teens

I read in bed, when wifey is asleep - only peace I get.

Anyway I can't get the bloom'n backlight low enough, even when its set dark grey/dark red on black.

She's naturally oblivious, fast asleep having beaten me up earlier, least I feel like it.

But you see its my eyes that don't like the light, I start waking up.

Anything that helps with the battery-life : visibility ratio, gets a thumbs up in my book /e-reader

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1. Tuesday 21st January 2014 16:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Yes stop fiddling teens
  
  An OLED screen would help you here, no backlight, just self illuminating pixels. I use grey on black on my Note II, all you see is the text.
  
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  1. Tuesday 21st January 2014 21:16 GMT Sureo
    
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    The real reason they do it is to look like they're busy texting friends.
    
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2. Wednesday 22nd January 2014 11:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
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  "But you see its my eyes that don't like the light, I start waking up."
  
  It's not the light per se, it's the colour. Try http://justgetflux.com
  
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Tuesday 21st January 2014 23:27 GMT John Smith 19

Wow. One of those IP tech companies George Osborne wants to see more of

Yet sadly ARM seems to be the only that's got a global reputation.

So far.

Thumbs up.

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Tuesday 21st January 2014 23:28 GMT armster

users are more intelligent

I seldom fiddle with brightness, but when I do I take a choice: I trade display quality for battery life. If the fancy tech needs more processor cycles to save some nits at constant display quality that is nice to improve daylight readability, or even preserve quality at lower backlight rates, but there is no way it is as efficient as dialing down backlight to 'barely readable' mode.

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Wednesday 22nd January 2014 00:31 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hopefully these guys are on to something, but every time I read about some amazing super intelligent display enhancer it ends up being, "contrast and saturation on maximum and to hell with it"...

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Wednesday 22nd January 2014 04:00 GMT andreas koch

The real question is:

Are the firms lawyers up to a battle with Apple's lawyers? If it works and takes off, surely Apple will have patented it long ago . . .

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Wednesday 22nd January 2014 10:24 GMT ilmari

Brightness doesn't go low enough on most devices. Turning them on in a dark place is still similar to looking into the end of a lightsabre when switching it on...

Also, I feel the ambient light sensors dont quite work as intended when they're on fhe front of the devices. Either I myself place the sensor in shadow, or they pick up something bright behind me, or pick up dark behind me, and completely ignore what is, from my point of view, the background against which the display's brightness should match.

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1. Wednesday 22nd January 2014 17:45 GMT Alan Brown
  
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  >Brightness doesn't go low enough on most devices. Turning them on in a dark place is still similar to looking into the end of a lightsabre when switching it on...
  
  There are a few apps for oled phones which drop the brighness levels to "superdark" - perfect for pitch black but utterly useless for reading with the light on. Thankfully the brightness can go upwards from there.
  
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