Patent ID: 8451279

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying a difference between a first image of content and a second image of the content by: identifying a subset of data in a frame buffer that is currently being displayed by a display device, and monitoring only write commands from a processor to the subset of data in the frame buffer that is currently being displayed by the display device; determining a persistence capacity of the display device utilized for the display of the content, the persistence capacity of the display device including a length of time the display device is capable of displaying the content at a predetermined intensity; and dynamically adjusting a refresh rate of the display device utilized for the display of the content, based on the difference identified by monitoring only the write commands to the subset of data in the frame buffer that is currently being displayed by the display device, and based on the persistence capacity of the display device, utilizing a processor; wherein the difference between the first image of the content and the second image of the content is identified on a pixel-by-pixel basis; wherein dynamically adjusting the refresh rate of the display device causes a display of at least one image of the content to be skipped, and a limit for the dynamic adjustment of the refresh rate of the display device is configured to support the persistence capacity of the display device, such that the limit allows only a predetermined number of images of the content to be consecutively skipped utilizing the adjusted refresh rate.