Color adaptation for multimedia devices

Abstract

An adaptive color depth control may receive input signals from a power mode block, an ambient light sensor and / or a resource usage monitor to adjust the performance of a system through adaptation of the number of bits-perpixel for each of the three primary colors supplied to a display. The spatial resolution may be adapted in a similar manner with inputs from the power mode block, ambient light sensor, and / or resource usage monitor.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to color adaptation of multimedia equipment. Background technique [0002] Microprocessors with embedded memory arrays are used in a variety of consumer products. The development trend of portable products requires saving energy consumption and lowering system operating voltage. Saving energy consumption can be achieved by reducing the silicon chip area and reducing product cost during device processing. However, microprocessor systems used in multimedia applications pose additional problems, especially when display panels are included to support video and image data. These systems store and communicate large amounts of image data to support the refresh rate of the display panel. System bandwidth is primarily consumed by data traffic from the microprocessor to memory, and from memory to the display board. Particularly significant in these hand-portable systems is the increase in power consumption due to said data traffic. [0...

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Problems solved by technology

Especially significant in these hand-portable systems is the increase in power consumption due to the data traffic

[0003] The high bandwidth of the system can provide consumers with aesthetically pleasing multimedia devices, but may also cause significant power consumption

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