Patent ID: 8558771

Claim:
A method for displaying an image, the method comprising: determining a dim color from colors used in representing the image; adjusting the dim color to increase an available display time for a non-dim color used to represent the image; adjusting the non-dim color using the available display time; and generating a color sequence based on the adjusted dim color and the adjusted non-dim color; wherein the determining comprises computing a histogram for each color representing the image, and setting a color to be a dim color based in response to a determining that a maximum non-zero intensity level of the respective histogram is less than a dim color threshold; wherein the maximum non-zero intensity level is the largest intensity level with a non-zero count, and wherein a count of less than a specified error level is considered non-zero; wherein the adjusting of the dim color comprises computing an adjusted display duration for the dim color; and computing an adjusted pixel intensity for the dim color; wherein the adjusted display duration comprises a scaling of an original display duration of the dim color, wherein the scaling comprises a specified ratio in response to a determining that a ratio of an original brightness of the dim color to a maximum brightness of the dim color is less than a specified value; and wherein the adjusting of the dim color and the adjusting of the non-dim color are restricted to maintaining a white point or a secondary point of the image.