This is an automatic "monitor brightness controller" based on environmental light conditions. This system uses a USB port base sensor unit to measure the light level and control monitor brightness accordingly. We design this system to reduce eye stress by matching the monitor brightness with environmental lighting. The sensor unit of this system is built around PIC18F2550 8-bit microcontroller. To measure the light level we use LDR with MCU's inbuilt ADC. The control software of this unit is design to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems and it uses Windows API's DDC/CI related functions to control the monitors/display devices. The firmware of USB sensor use 50-point boxcar filter to get the average readout from the ADC and that value is passed to PC over USB HID interface. Thanks to this HID interface this system may not need any special device driver, and it can use in any compatible PC with a minimum amount of configuration changes. A prototype v...
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