Patent ID: 7379560

Claim:
A system, comprising: an image-capturing device; an image-processing logic coupled to the image-capturing device, the image-processing logic is to determine a direction of a user's gaze captured by the image-capturing device to determine whether the user is paying attention to a display coupled to the image-capturing device; and a power management logic coupled to the image-processing logic, wherein the power management logic is to perform one or more power management operations related to the display based on whether the user is paying attention to the display, the one or more power management operations includes operations to reduce power consumption of the display when the user is not paying attention to the display, wherein the operations to reduce the power consumption of the display include operations to dim the display if the user has not been paying attention for a short period of time and operations to power off the display if the user has not been paying attention for a long period of time.