Abstract

Displays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are now widely used in mobile devices, in which they are major power consumers. The power drawn by an OLED display increases nonlinearly with sub-pixel intensities—thus reducing brightness saves appreciable power, but can displease users. This paper examines this tradeoff, and proposes a color blending scheme in which each frame is darkened in a way that reduces power consumption significantly while limiting the visual impact. The target lightness of frames is determined, in the LAB color space, from average intensities of the original frames; and these average values are in turn obtained by adaptive sampling, so as to reduce the computational overhead. An Android smartphone uses 12%–36% less power when running this scheme, compared to standard video playback, while a user evaluation suggested that reducing brightness to a certain extent can be largely unnoticed, or readily tolerated.

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