Adaptive display power management for mobile games

• Main Authors: ANAND, Bhojan, THIRUGNANAM, Karthik, SEBASTIAN, Jeena, KANNAN, Pravein G., ANANDA, Akhihebbal L., CHAN, Mun Choon, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Power Management; Tone Mapping; Backlight Scaling; Mobile Games; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1368; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2367/viewcontent/BALAN_2011_mobisys_AdaptiveDisplay.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we show how tone mapping techniques can be used to dynamically increase the image brightness, thus allowing the LCD backlight levels to be reduced. This saves significant power as the majority of the LCD’s display power is consumed by its backlight. The Gamma function (or equivalent)...