Apple Inc.

Conor J O'Reilly

Abhinav Pathak

Amit K Vyas

Rohit Mundra

Albert S Liu

Anthony R Newnam

Tianhe Wu

Chaohao Wang

Paolo Sacchetto

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Patrick Y Law

Arthur L Spence

Anca Andreea Chandra

Mohammad Ali Jangda

Yifan Zhang

Christopher Edward Glazowski

Paul M Thompson

Roberto Alvarez

Anshul Dawra

Matthew Smith

Shashi K Dua

Udaykumar R Raval

Yue Li

Prajakta S Karandikar

Christopher W Chaney

Daniel J Etter

Eduardo Sanchez

Scott C Tooker

Aditya Bhushan

Vladislav Sahnovich

Hina Dixit

Patrick L Coffman

Craig Michael Federighi

Nicholas D Felton

Kartik R Venkatraman

Anand Ramadurai

Ashish Patro

Andreas C Bergen

Soren C Spies

Gina B Lu

Han Ming Ong

Phillip J Azar

Nehal Bhandari

Jeffrey S Lale

Andrew P Sakai

Terrence R Long

Aakriti Mittal

Arjun S Vasudevan

This disclosure provide various techniques for decreasing the amount of energy consumed on an electronic device by one or more background processes. By implementing a fast energy accounting engine that may quickly detect changes in energy usage by the background processes and report the changes to a dynamic activity scheduler, a system may decrease the overall energy consumed by the one or more background processes.

Fast energy accounting system

Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques for measuring operational performance metrics, and presenting these metrics through an application programming interface (API) for developers to access for optimizing their applications. Exemplary metrics can include central processing unit or graphics processing unit time, foreground/background time, networking bytes (per application), location activity, display average picture luminance, cellular networking condition, peak memory, number of logical writes, launch and resume time, frame rates, and hang time. Regional markers can also be used to measure specific metrics for in application tasks. The techniques provide multiple user interfaces to help developers recognize the important metrics to optimize the performance of their applications. The data can be normalized over various different devices having different battery size, screen size, and processing requirements. The user interfaces can provide an intelligent method for visualizing performance changes for significant changes in application versions.

Logging techniques for third party application data

In some embodiments, an electronic device displays one or more representations of power usage of the electronic device, including across various periods of time and subperiods of time within those periods. In some embodiments, the displayed information reflects power usage both for periods of the display being on and periods of the display being off. In some embodiments, the displayed information includes power usage attributed to various mobile applications running on the electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays recommendations to reduce the usage of power by the electronic device, which a user has the option of applying. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays prose insight into power usage, indicating causes of the power usage.

User interfaces for indicating battery information on an electronic device

Visualization techniques for third party application data

Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may estimate the power being consumed by an OLED display screen of an electronic device, may provide further information about that power usage, may modify or change functions performed by the electronic device based on that power usage, and may inform an application's developer about the amount of power being used by the electronic device while the electronic device is running the application. One example may estimate the power being used by an OLED display screen of an electronic device by determining the content of images being displayed during a duration. The estimated power may then be presented to a user. The estimated power may be used in decisions to modify or change parameters of the screen or other device components.

Graphically providing OLED display power modeling

OLED display power modeling

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