Patent ID: 8339429

Claim:
A method for controlling electrical power consumption of a monolithic display monitor screen, comprising: grouping screen pixels of the monolithic display monitor screen into different nested resolution cells; detecting display of one or more windows on the monolithic display monitor screen; and selectively controlling the nested resolution cells, wherein selectively controlling the nested resolution cells comprises, dynamically identifying an optimal resolution of an application corresponding to a window of the one or more windows of interest, wherein the optimal resolution of the application is different than a maximum resolution of the monolithic display; and dynamically restricting a display of the window within one or more of the nested resolution cells corresponding to the optimal resolution without changing resolution of portions of the monolithic display not occupied by the window, wherein the one or more nested resolution cells within which the window is restricted is a subset of the nested resolution cells of the monolithic display; providing power only to screen pixels in nested resolution cells corresponding to one or more windows of interest of the one or more windows on the monolithic display monitor screen to a user, and reducing power to screen pixels in remaining cells of the nested resolution cells, and selectively providing power for backlighting only the nested resolution cells corresponding to the one or more windows of interest of the one or more windows on the monolithic display monitor screen to the user, and reducing power for backlighting the remaining cells.