Abstract:
In an embodiment, a display pipe is configured to composite one or more frames of images and/or video sequences to generate output frames for display. Additionally, the display pipe may be configured to compress an output frame and write the compressed frame to memory responsive to detecting static content in the output frames. The display pipe may also be configured to read the compressed frame from memory for display instead of reading the frames for compositing and display. In some embodiments, the display pipe may include an idle screen detect circuit configured to monitor the operation of the display pipe and/or the output frames to detect the static content.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a display pipe is configured to composite one or more frames of images and/or video sequences to generate output frames for display. Additionally, the display pipe may be configured to compress an output frame and write the compressed frame to memory responsive to detecting static content in the output frames is detected. The display pipe may also be configured to read the compressed frame from memory for display instead of reading the frames for compositing and display. In some embodiments, the display pipe may include an idle screen detect circuit configured to monitor the operation of the display pipe and/or the output frames to detect the static content.
Abstract:
A system and method for efficient dynamic utilization of shared resources. A computing system includes a shared data structure accessed by multiple requestors. Both indications of access requests and indices pointing to entries within the data structure are stored in storage buffers. Each storage buffer maintains at a selected end an oldest stored indication of an access request from a respective requestor. Each storage buffer stores information for the respective requestor in an in-order contiguous manner beginning at the selected end. The indices stored in a given storage buffer are updated responsive to allocating new data or deallocating stored data in the shared data structure. Entries in a storage buffer are deallocated in any order and remaining entries are collapsed toward the selected end to eliminate gaps left by the deallocated entry.
Abstract:
A system and method for efficiently processing access requests for a shared resource. A computing system includes a shared memory accessed by multiple requestors. Control logic determines two requestors seek to access a same data block within the shared memory. In response to the determination, a first requestor of the two requestors sends a read request to the shared memory on behalf of the two requestors. The second requestor of the two requestors is prevented from sending a read request. In response to detecting data is returned as a response to the read request generated by the first requestor, both the first requestor and the second requestor retrieve the data. In response to detecting a given requestor of the two requestors generates an indication that it is unable to continue retrieving the same response data, the two requestors return to generating separate, respective read requests.
Abstract:
This disclosure provide various techniques for reducing the impact of an under-display sensor on an electronic display. Some sensors (e.g., a proximity sensor), when activated, may emit a beam through the electronic display. Emitting the beam through the electronic display may cause pixels to display a different brightness level than intended. To address this, an electronic device may use spatially weighted statistics to determine a timing profile for the under-display sensor to reduce the sensor's interference on the pixels. Additionally, a compensation voltage may be applied to further reduce or eliminate the impacts of the interference.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.
Abstract:
An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.
Abstract:
An electronic display pipeline may process image data for display on an electronic display. The electronic display pipeline may include burn-in compensation statistics collection circuitry and burn-in compensation circuitry. The burn-in compensation statistics collection circuitry may collect image statistics based at least in part on the image data. The statistics may estimate a likely amount of non-uniform aging of the sub-pixels of the electronic display. The burn-in compensation circuitry may apply a gain to sub-pixels of the image data to account for non-uniform aging of corresponding sub-pixels of the electronic display. The applied gain may be based at least in part on the image statistics collected by the burn-in compensation statistics collection circuitry.
Abstract:
An electronic device may include a display panel with pixels that present an image based on image data and an application processor that generates the image data. The electronic device may include a display pipeline coupled to the electronic display and the application processor. The display pipeline may receive first image data from the application processor corresponding to a first color space used by the application processor. The display pipeline may apply a color mapping relationship to the first image data to generate second image data. The color mapping relationship may define a transform to apply to the first image data to generate the second image data corresponding to a second color space used by the electronic display. The display pipeline may transmit the second image data to a display driver that operates the electronic display to emit light according to the second image data.