Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Valdimir Sklovsky

Greg R Black

Mark R Braun

Robert J Bero

An embodiment relates generally to a method of selecting applications. The method includes positioning a powered-down mobile device into a close proximity of a near field communication device and selecting an application from a plurality of applications stored on the powered-down mobile device. The method also includes executing the application in the powered-down mobile device to interact with the near field communication device.

Methods, systems and apparatus for selecting an application in power-off mode

An electronic device () includes a display panel () and a display controller () for controlling the display panel (). A plurality of data lines supplies image data to the display panel (). The data lines include data lines for supplying red image data, green image data, and blue image data. Masking gates () are provided between a video buffer () and the display controller (). A method of reducing power consumption includes masking selected ones of the data lines at predetermined times. The masking reduces the pixel depth of the image data. Thus, the pixel depth is reduced without re-encoding the source video data. Reducing the number of state transitions in the video data path reduces power consumption, thus longer battery life.

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Northbrook, IL, United States of America

Valdimir Sklovsky