Pulsed battery discharge in communication devices
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Power Minimization in a Backlit TFT-LCD Display by Concurrent Brightness and Contrast Scaling
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
DLS: dynamic backlight luminance scaling of liquid crystal display
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
HEBS: Histogram Equalization for Backlight Scaling
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
B#: A Battery Emulator and Power-Profiling Instrument
IEEE Design & Test
Reducing display power in DVS-enabled handheld systems
ISLPED '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
EMSOFT '08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Embedded software
Power-saving color transformation of mobile graphical user interfaces on OLED-based displays
Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
EMSOFT '09 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Embedded software
Power modeling of graphical user interfaces on OLED displays
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
Object-based local dimming for LCD systems with LED BLUs
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM international symposium on Low-power electronics and design
Saliency aware display power management
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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This paper presents a novel backlight driving technique for liquid crystal displays. By scaling the intensity, frequency, and duty cycle of the backlight, this technique not only increases the perceived brightness but also prolongs the service time of rechargeable batteries. The increased brightness comes from a perceptual effect of temporal vision - a brief flash appears brighter than a steady light of the same intensity, called Brücke brightness enhancement effect. The prolonged service time comes from the relaxation phenomenon - a lithium-ion battery lasts longer by pulsed discharge. Combining these two effects, a great amount of service time can be obtained at the cost of flickering. We performed visual experiments to parameterize the Brücke effect and derived an optimization algorithm accordingly. To demonstrate the potential energy savings of this technique, we profiled the power consumption of an Apple iPod and fabricated an LED driving module. Based on experimental data, 75% of energy consumption can be saved and the service time can be extended to 300%.