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US 9,520,105 B2Granted
Power savings for display panels
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJun Shi, Akihiro Takagi, Robert J. Brennan, Seh W. Kwa, Yanli S. Zhang
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Abstract
In some embodiments one or more areas of interest to a user of a display screen are determined. Portions of the display screen other than the one or more areas of interest are dimmed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- determining one or more areas of interest to a user of a display screen in response to a size and a location of one or more windows opened by the user;
- dimming portions of the display screen other than the one or more areas of interest by dimming a backlight segment of the display screen to reduce power consumption of the display screen;
- and
- not performing frame updates in areas outside the area of interest.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a driver to determine one or more areas of interest to a user of a display screen in response to a size and a location of one or more windows opened by the user;
- and
- a controller to dim portions of the display screen other than the one or more areas of interest by dimming a backlight segment of the display screen to reduce power consumption of the display screen;
- wherein frame updates are not performed in areas outside the area of interest.
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An article comprising:
- a readable storage medium having instructions thereon which when executed cause an electronic device to:
- determine one or more areas of interest to a user of a display screen in response to a size and a location of one or more windows opened by the user;
- and
- dim portions of the display screen other than the one or more areas of interest by dimming a backlight segment of the display screen to reduce power consumption of the display screen;
- and
- not perform frame updates in areas outside the area of interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.