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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ramana V. Rachakonda, Austin, TX (US);

Rohit K. Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Brad W. Simeral, San Francisco, CA (US);

Peter F. Holland, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 1/3287 (2019.01); G06F 1/3228 (2019.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 1/3228 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.


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