Patent ID: 7760210

Claim:
A method for reducing power consumed by an electronics device that includes a display device, the method comprising: identifying white video information included in video information for display on the display device by applying a predetermined white threshold to all video information in the display, wherein the video information is represented according to an RGB scheme and the predetermined white threshold comprises a red threshold, a green threshold, and a blue threshold, and wherein the white video information is characterized by a red value greater than the red threshold, a blue value greater than the blue threshold and a green value greater than the green threshold; altering the white video information, to create altered white video information characterized by an altered red value that is less than the red value, an altered green value that is less than the green value and an altered blue value, and wherein the altered red value and the altered green value are both less than the altered blue value, such that the display device will consume less power when displaying the altered white video information than an amount of power that would be required to display the white video information without the alteration; and displaying the altered white video information with non-white video information included in the video information for display that was not identified as the white video information.