Program title display with anti-aging

摘要

A method is provided to perform anti-aging techniques in an informational display. An informational display is located on the front bezel of a consumer recording device that displays information related to the content being recorded or played or the operation of the device. To increase the life of the display, displayed text is shifted within the display so that pixel use in the display is more evenly distributed with the pixels in the display. To determine the direction and shape of the shift, real-time calculations of pixel use are made or a simulator is used to compute the probable use of each pixel in the display over a certain period of time. Another anti-aging technique is to dim the display of information after a specified amount of time of display at normal brightness.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
causing to display information on a location of a display screen; determining an amount of time during which a pixel in a plurality of pixels is illuminated on the display screen; determining whether the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds a specified time amount, the specified time amount being based on a maximum of a duty cycle for illumination of the pixel; in response to determining that the amount of time during which the pixel is illuminated on the display screen exceeds the specified time amount, moving the location of the information on the display screen; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.