Patent ID: 8289306

Claim:
A video display arrangement, comprising: a video display panel; a video source; a sample and hold frame buffer receiving and storing frames of video information as the frames of video information are supplied from the video source at a refresh interval to the video display panel in a dynamic mode of operation wherein the screen is refreshed with a new frame of video data at each refresh interval, wherein the sample and hold frame buffer stores a most recent new frame of video at each refresh interval; a switch that receives an output of the sample and hold frame buffer and the output of the video source, the switch being operative to divert the output of the sample and hold frame buffer to the display panel in place of the frames of video from the video source in a static mode of operation; a high frame rate converter, where the sample and hold frame buffer receives frames of video data from the high frame rate converter and where the frames of data received from the sample and hold frame buffer by the video display panel comprise only un-synthesized frames, and where the sample and hold frame buffer is not configured to receive synthesized frames; and wherein the video source is placed in a lower power consumption mode in the static mode of operation.