Emissive element power control responsive to conditions local to a display device
AssigneeArm Limited
InventorsAli Mohammed Gamaleldin Gouda Ellabban, Daren Croxford, Nathan Robert Turnbull
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Abstract
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for affecting control signals to a display device to selectively reduce power to at least some individually controllable emissive elements in the display device. In one implementation, some of the individually controllable emissive elements of a display device may be configured to not emit visible light while a remaining portion continues presentation of the visible image according to one or more conditions local to the display device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- applying control signals to individually controllable emissive elements of a display device to present a visible image from the display device, at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements to be selectively configurable either to emit visible light or not emit visible light;
- detecting a first portion of the visible image at which a viewer's attention is directed;
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- based, at least in part, on the viewer's attention being directed to the detected first portion of the visible image, partially or fully removing power to a portion of the at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements that correspond to a second portion of the visible image outside the detected first portion of the visible image.
A controller device, comprising:
- circuitry to apply control signals to individually controllable emissive elements of a display device to present an image visible from the display device, at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements to be selectively configurable either to emit visible light or not emit visible light;
- circuitry to detect a first portion of the visible image at which a viewer's attention is directed;
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- circuitry to, based, at least in part, on the viewer's attention being directed to the detected first portion of the visible image, partially or fully remove power to a portion of the at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements that correspond to a second portion of the visible image outside the detected first portion of the visible image.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable code for fabrication of an apparatus comprising:
- circuitry to apply control signals to individually controllable emissive elements of a display device to present an image visible from the display device, at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements to be selectively configurable either to emit visible light or not emit visible light;
- circuitry to detect a first portion of the visible image at which a viewer's attention is directed;
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- circuitry to, based, at least in part, on the viewer's attention being directed to the detected first portion of the visible image, partially or fully remove power to a portion of the at least some of the individually controllable emissive elements that correspond to a second portion of the visible image outside the detected first portion of the visible image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.