Ams Develops Ambient Light Sensors for Smartphone Camera Images

Sensor supplier Ams is sampling ambient light sensors designed for smartphone camera image correction. The sensors can be positioned at the gap between the display screen and the phone’s chassis to stretch edge to edge with no aperture, said the company. The higher-end version includes flicker detection for artificial light sources such as LEDs, enabling a phone’s camera to eliminate banding and other flicker-generated artifacts that distort images, said the company.