Patent ID: 7602388

Claim:
A method for reducing power consumed by an electronics device that includes a display device, the method comprising: generating edge detection video information for a graphics component that allows a person to visually locate the graphics component in a display area for the display device, wherein the edge detection video information includes perimeter edge detection video information; altering video information in the display area, wherein altering video information includes altering video information in an internal portion of the graphics component that is inside the perimeter edge detection video information and altering video information that is outside the perimeter edge detection video information, while visually preserving the edge detection video information relative to the video information in the internal portion of the graphics component and relative to the video information that is outside the perimeter edge detection video information, to produce altered video information, such that the display device will consume less power when displaying the altered video information than an amount of power that would be required to display the video information without the alteration; and displaying the altered video information with the edge detection video information.