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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2007
Ankur Varma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Allen Andrews, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Susan Elizabeth Carrie, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rune Hartung Jensen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ankur Varma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Allen Andrews, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Susan Elizabeth Carrie, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rune Hartung Jensen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Power is dynamically conserved in a device by analyzing past processing performance of the device and predicting the amount of power required for future execution. In an example embodiment, a video frame is analyzed to determine what portion of the video frame was needed to render data. If less than the full video frame was needed, at least one power conservation technique is applied to the device for subsequent rendering of data. Power conservation techniques include adjusting the operating frequency of circuitry utilized to render data, adjusting the voltage applied to circuitry utilized to render data, and/or turning off/on circuitry utilized to render data.