Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a first drawing processing block configured to generate a first video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on entered image data;
• a second drawing processing block having a higher drawing processing power than a drawing processing power of said first drawing processing block, said second drawing processing block being configured to generate a second video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on the entered image data;
• a workload measuring block configured to measure at least one of a first workload in said first drawing processing block and a second workload in said second drawing processing block;
• a storage block configured to store a plurality of applications;
• and
• a control block configured to select, if an application of said plurality of applications, read from said storage block, requires drawing processing by at least one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, any one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block as a drawing processing block on which said application read from said storage block is executed, on the basis of information about at least one of the first workload in said first drawing processing block and the second workload in said second drawing processing block measured by said workload measuring block,
• wherein said plurality of applications stored in said storage block are divided into a first category in which drawing processing is always executed by predetermined one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, and a second category in which drawing is executed by one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, and
• if said application read from said storage block is of said second category, then the control block selects one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block on which to execute said application.

An information processing method comprising:

• storing a plurality of applications;
• measuring at least one of a first workload of a first drawing processing block configured to generate a first video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on entered video data and a second workload of a second drawing processing block configured to generate a second video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on entered video data, said second drawing processing block having a higher drawing processing power than that of said first drawing processing block;
• and
• selecting, if said application requires drawing processing by at least one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, any one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block as a drawing processing block on which said application read from said storage is executed, on the basis of information about at least one of the measured first workload in said first drawing processing block and the measured second workload in said second drawing processing block,
• wherein said stored plurality of applications are divided into a first category in which drawing processing is always executed by predetermined one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, and a second category in which drawing is executed by one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block, and
• wherein if an application read from said stored plurality of applications is of said second category, then one of said first drawing processing block and said second drawing processing block is selected for executing said application.