Display control apparatus, systems, and methods

• US 20050068254A1
• Filed: 09/30/2003
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Booth, Lawrence A.
• Application Number:
  US10/677,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20050068254A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/3.300
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/04 Partial updating of the display screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to receive partial-display data, receive color resolution data, receive display resolution data, and update a display using at least one of the partial-display data, the color resolution data, and the display resolution data.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving partial-display data;

receiving color resolution data;

receiving display resolution data; and

updating a display using at least one of the partial-display data, the color resolution data, and the display resolution data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving update rate data to implement an update rate of between about zero cycles-per-second and about one hundred twenty cycles-per-second.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the update rate data is provided by a hardware update mechanism.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the update rate data is provided by an on-demand update mechanism.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the display further comprises:

resetting a display pipeline to a smaller size defined by the partial-display data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the display further comprises:

blanking a portion of a display.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the portion of the display is defined by the partial-display data.

8. An article comprising a machine-accessible medium having associated data, wherein the data, when accessed, results in a machine performing:

receiving partial-display data;

receiving update rate data;

receiving display resolution data; and

updating a display using at least one of the partial-display data, the update rate data, and the display resolution data.

9. The article of claim 8, wherein the update rate data includes an on-demand update request.

10. The article of claim 8, wherein the update rate data includes a hardware update signal to provide a display update rate of about zero cycles-per-second to about one hundred twenty cycles-per-second.

11. The article of claim 8, wherein the data, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

receiving a power reduction request; and

modifying at least one of the partial-display data, the update rate data, and

the display resolution data responsive to the power reduction request.

12. The article of claim 8, wherein the data, when accessed, results in the machine performing:

receiving a power reduction request; and

modifying color resolution data responsive to the power reduction request.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

a partial-display module;

a color resolution module;

a display resolution module; and

a data register coupled to the partial-display module, the color resolution module, and the display resolution module.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the partial-display module is to provide a hardware update frequency.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the hardware update frequency is between about zero cycles-per-second and about one hundred twenty cycles-per-second.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the hardware update frequency is between about two cycles-per-second and about ten cycles-per-second.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising:

a static-update display to couple to the data register.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising:

a display coupled to a frame buffer to couple to the data register.

19. A system, comprising:

an apparatus including a partial-display module, a color resolution module, a display resolution module, and a data register to couple to the partial-display module, the color resolution module, and the display resolution module;

a receiver;

an omnidirectional antenna to couple to the receiver; and

a processor to couple to the apparatus and to the receiver.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the color resolution module is to provide a selected amount of color resolution reduction.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the selected amount of color resolution reduction is selected from a range of about three-fourths to about one-tenth.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the display resolution module is to provide a selected amount of display resolution reduction.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the selected amount of display resolution reduction is selected from a range of about one-half to about one-sixteenth.

24. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

a cellular telephone transmitter coupled to the omnidirectional antenna.

25. An apparatus, comprising:

a controller to receive a combination of data including partial-display data,

color resolution data, display resolution data, and update rate data.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising:

a static update display to couple to the controller.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the update rate data is provided by an on-demand update mechanism.

28. An apparatus, comprising:

a controller to modify a combination of data including partial-display data,

color resolution data, display resolution data, and update rate data responsive to receiving power management data.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the power management data comprises a power reduction request.

30. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the update rate data is provided by an on-demand update mechanism.

31. A method, comprising:

modifying a combination of data including partial-display data, color resolution data, display resolution data, and update rate data responsive to receiving power management data.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising:

updating a display in accordance with at least two of the modified update rate data, modified partial-display data, modified color resolution data, and modified display resolution data.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the power management data includes a battery connection notification.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein the power management data includes an alternating current power supply connection notification.