Adaptive control of LCD display characteristics based on video content

1. A system comprising:

a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD);

LCD driver circuitry coupled to the LCD display operable to:

determine a video content type from a plurality of video content types; and

select pixel drive settings based upon the video content type.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising processing circuitry operably coupled to the LCD driver circuitry and operable to communicate the video content type to the LCD driver circuitry.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is operable to:

determine an active window from a plurality of windows; and

determine the video content type based upon the active window.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is operable to:

determine an active application program from a plurality of application programs, and

determine the video content type based upon the active application program.

5. The system of claim 1 :

further comprising a user interface module operably coupled to the LCD driver circuitry and operable to receive user input pixel drive preferences; and

the LCD driver circuitry operable to use the user input pixel drive preferences to determine the pixel drive settings.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the LCD driver circuitry further operable to consider power consumption in selecting the pixel drive settings.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the LCD has a plurality of pixel drive settings, and the LCD driver circuitry is operable to select the pixel drive settings from the plurality of pixel drive settings.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the LCD has continually variable pixel drive settings from a slowest drive setting to a fastest drive setting, the LCD driver circuitry operable to select the pixel drive settings in a range from the slowest drive setting to the fastest drive setting.

9. Controller circuitry comprising:

pixel drive circuitry for coupling to a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and operable in either a first mode based on at least a first LCD drive characteristic or in a second mode based on at least a second LCD drive characteristic; and

processing circuitry, operably coupled to the pixel drive circuitry and operable to select the first mode to support a first type of video content or the second mode to support a second type of video content, the first type of video content changing at a rate that is relatively faster than that of the second type of video content.

10. The controller circuitry of claim 9 , wherein:

the first type of video content and the second type of video content together comprise video data; and

the processing circuitry is operable to analyze the video data to identify the first type of video content and the second type of video content.

11. The controller circuitry of claim 10 , further comprising memory operable to queue the video data to support the analysis by the processing circuitry.

12. The controller circuitry of claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry operably couples to host processing circuit, the host processing circuit operable to direct the processing circuitry in the selecting the first mode or the second mode.

13. The controller circuitry of claim 12 , wherein the host processing circuit is operable to process a software application, wherein the software application is operable to control the host processing circuit to direct the processing circuitry.

14. The controller circuitry of claim 13 , wherein the control by the software application is governed by user interaction.

15. The controller circuitry of claim 13 , wherein the software application comprises at least one of:

operating system program code;

a user application;

a device driver; and

a graphics API (Application Programming Interface).

16. The controller circuitry of claim 9 , wherein:

the LCD has a first power consuming mode and a second power consuming mode, the first power consuming mode being relatively higher than the second power consuming mode; and

the pixel drive circuitry is operable in the first mode to support the first power consuming mode and in the second mode to support the second power consuming mode.

17. The controller circuitry of claim 9 , wherein the LCD has a first pixel response mode and a second pixel response mode, the first pixel response mode being relatively faster than the second pixel response mode, and the drive circuitry operates in the first mode to support the first pixel response mode of the LCD and in the second mode to support the second pixel response mode.

18. The controller circuitry of claim 9 , wherein:

the first LCD drive characteristic comprises a first pixel untwisting characteristic;

the second LCD drive characteristic comprises a second pixel untwisting characteristic; and

the first pixel untwisting characteristic being relatively slower than the second pixel untwisting characteristic.

19. A method comprising:

operating pixel drive circuitry coupled to a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) in a first mode having first pixel drive characteristics and in a second mode having second pixel drive characteristics;

interacting, by processing circuitry, with the pixel drive circuitry to select the first mode to support a first type of video content; and

interacting, by the processing circuitry, with the pixel drive circuitry to select the second mode to support a second type of video content, the first type of video content changing at a rate that is relatively faster than that of the second type of video content.

20. The method of claim 19 :

wherein the first type of video content and the second type of video content together comprise video data; and

further comprising analyzing the video data to identify the first type of video content and the second type of video content from the video data.

21. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

displaying the first video content in a first portion of the LCD;

displaying concurrently the second video content in a second portion of the LCD; and

operating the first portion of the LCD in the first mode; and

operating the second portion of the LCD in the second mode.