Determination of display device power consumption
OwnerFrederick L. Lathrop, John Frederick +1inventors
InventorsFrederick L. Lathrop, John Frederick, Thong Thai
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Abstract
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to determination of display device power consumption. In example embodiments, an operating parameter of a display device of a computing device is received, which, in some embodiments, may be a current level of brightness of the display device. A level of power consumption of the display device may then be determined based on the operating parameter.
Claims15
A computing device comprising:
- a video interface for communication with an external display device;
- and
- a display management module comprising:
- a parameter reading module to receive a current operating parameter of the external display device,
- a power consumption reading module to receive power consumption data describing a level of power consumption of the external display device based on the operating parameter, and
- a power determination module to determine a level of power consumption of the external display device based on application of the current operating parameter to the power consumption data.
A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions for receiving a respective operating parameter for each of a plurality of display devices, the plurality of display devices including an integrated display device and at least one external display device;
- instructions for determining a respective level of power consumption of each display device of the plurality of display devices using the respective operating parameter;
- and
- instructions for outputting each determined level of power consumption for each display device.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device, a current level of brightness of a plurality of display devices connected to the computing device;
- determining a respective level of power consumption of each respective display device based on the current level of brightness of the respective display device;
- and
- coordinating the level of brightness of each of the plurality of display devices based on a user-specified brightness setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.