Energy and effort efficient reading sessions
View Patent ↗Presenting text and figures on a display screen by formatting, by a computer, text in a document into a single display line, scrolling the single display line on a first portion of the display screen, wherein the display screen remains active, and displaying, on a second portion of the display screen, figures in the document referenced by the scrolled text in the single display line on the display screen.
1. A method for reducing electrical power consumption of a display screen, the method comprising:
formatting, by a computer, text in a document into a single display line;
scrolling the single display line on a first portion of the display screen, wherein the display screen remains active;
displaying, on a second portion of the display screen, figures in the document referenced by the scrolled text in the single display line on the display screen;
receiving, by the computer, an interrupt, wherein the interrupt comprises a message from a separate device wherein the message comprises an element selected from the group consisting of: a call, a text message, an SMS, and a tweet;
saving a state of the first and second portion of the display screen;
processing the interrupt; and
responsive to completing the interrupt processing, restoring the state of the first and second portion of the display screen.
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
saving, by the computer, a document text location of the displayed formatted text from the document;
terminating the displaying of the single display line; and
displaying, on the display screen, a portion of the document that includes document text from the saved document text location.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein displaying the formatted text from the document in the single display line is user controlled, and wherein characteristics of the first and second portions of the display screen are user controlled.
4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the computer enhances the display of the included document text.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein processing the interrupt further comprises:
formatting, by the computer, information related to the interrupt for display on the first portion of the display screen; and
displaying the information related to the interrupt on the first portion of the display screen.
6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising reducing power, by the computer, to portions of the display screen not displaying the single display line nor the referenced figures.