DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AMBIENT LIGHT

摘要

Described are a device and method for detecting ambient light. The device comprises a processing unit, a memory arrangement and a camera port. The memory arrangement stores setting data which includes a plurality of ambient light levels and a setting of a component of the device corresponding to each level. The camera port is configured to receive first data in a first format from a camera-type arrangement. When the camera port receives from a non-camera type data acquisition device second data in a second format, the processing unit converts the second data into further second data stored in the first format. The processing unit determines an ambient light level as a function of the further second data and adjusts the setting of the component as a function of the ambient light level and the setting data.