Methods and apparatus for saving power
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJose Piccolotto, German Lancioni
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Abstract
In one example embodiment, a device uses a camera and an eye detection service to determine whether a user is looking at a display of the device during periods when the user is not actively interacting with the device. In response to a determination that the user is not looking at the display, the display is automatically powered off. In response to the user's resumption of looking at the display, the display may be automatically powered back on. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims32
1-31. (canceled)
One or more machine accessible media encoding instructions, which, when executed by a data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- determining cessation of user interaction with the data processing system;
- powering up a camera of the data processing system;
- and
- controlling a display of the data processing system based on one or more images captured by the camera.
A method for saving power, the method comprising:
- determining cessation of user interaction with the data processing system;
- powering up a camera of the data processing system;
- and
- controlling a display of the data processing system based on one or more images captured by the camera.
A data processing system comprising:
- a camera;
- a display;
- one or more processors;
- at least one machine readable media encoding instructions, which, when executed by the data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- determining cessation of user interaction with the data processing system;
- powering up the camera of the data processing system;
- and
- controlling the display of the data processing system based on one or more images captured by the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.