Freezing: Eliminating Unnecessary Drawing Computation for Low Power

Numerous functionalities are provided by smartphones and prolonging their battery lifetime is an undeniably critical support issue. In this paper, we propose a low-power scheme called unnecessary region freezing (URF) that achieves significant total power consumption reduction in smartphones by reducing unnecessary drawing computation that originates from a user's uninteresting display region. We implement URF on a real smartphone (Nexus 6)....