Auto backlight management?

[Ivan Krstić]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Opportunistic use of the on-board camera and the time-of-day clock
> could yield such heuristics.


The camera lights up an LED when enabled, alerting the laptop operator  
to its use. This privacy-preserving feature would be rendered  
ineffective if kids got used to seeing the LED flash on and off every  
so often as the system autonomously attempts to adjust the backlight.

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