A feature that automatically compensates for high background light in order to give better detail to darker areas of the picture.
This is a feature of cameras that automatically adjusts the image to compensate for bright sunlight or bright lights, to give more detail on the darker areas of the image. For example to focus on detail of a face of a person that has the sunlight shining from behind.
A feature on newer CCD cameras which electronically compensates for high background lighting to give detail which would normally be silhouetted.
A feature on newer CCD cameras that compensates electronically for high background lighting to give detail that would normally be silhouetted.
A feature which electronically compensates for high background lighting to give detail which would normally be silhouetted or shadowed.
If an excessive light is behind the center object, it is necessary to prevent the center object from becoming too dark. The cameras equipped with automatic back light compensation usually increase contrast locally in the center and other programmable areas of the field of view to help avoid silhouetting.