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Background plateau manipulation for display device power conservation

  • US 9,953,553 B2
  • Filed: 05/10/2010
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for reducing power consumed by an electronics device that includes a display device, the method comprising:

  • altering background video information to produce altered background video information such that the display device will consume less power when displaying the altered background video information than an amount of power that would be required to display the background video information without the alteration;

    at least partially altering video information for a graphical user interface item such that the alteration of the video information for the graphical user interface item is different than the alteration of the background video information; and

    displaying the altered background video information with the at least partially altered video information for the graphical user interface item.

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