Mobile terminal and motion-based low power implementing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10028227-B2
Application number	US-201515506656-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2015
Priority date	Sep 19, 2014
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed are a mobile terminal capable of implementing an always-on function with a lower power, based on a motion, and a motion-based low power implementing method thereof. The method includes sensing a motion of a user by using an acceleration sensor in a low-power always-on that only the acceleration sensor is activated; a selectively activating an always-on function according to the sensed motion and deactivating the always-on function when no motion is sensed in an always-on state and automatically entering to the low-power always-on function.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motion-based low power implementing method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
sensing a motion of a user in a state that a camera is deactivated and an acceleration sensor is activated;
activating the camera in response to the sensed motion; and
deactivating the camera and maintaining an activation state of the acceleration sensor when no motion is sensed,
wherein the method further comprises:
determining a screen-off time based on at least one of whether an object has approached the mobile terminal and whether a motion of the mobile terminal is sensed;
if no input has been applied for a predetermined time in a screen-on state, sensing whether the object has approached the mobile terminal through a proximity sensor;
determining the screen-off time as a first period of time when the proximity sensor senses the object has approached the mobile terminal;
if no input has been applied for the predetermined time in the screen-on state and no object has approached the mobile terminal, sensing the motion of the mobile terminal through the acceleration sensor;
determining the screen-off time as a second period of time longer than the first period of time when the motion of the mobile terminal is not sensed; and
determining the screen-off time as a third period of time of longer than the second period of time when the motion of the mobile terminal is sensed.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
checking a type of the sensed motion;
detecting a face by temporarily driving the camera if the sensed motion type is a facing motion to take the mobile terminal toward the face;
authenticating a user of the detected face; and
releasing a screen-locked state after turning on a screen or displaying additional information in a screen-off state when the user authentication is completed,
wherein the additional information includes a watch image or notification information indicating reception of an email and a call.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
checking a type of the sensed motion; and
displaying a safety preview on one side of a screen when the checked motion type is walking.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
if a user's activity is not sensed while a user's activity amount is measured by a sensor, deactivating the sensor not to measure the user's activity amount.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a sleep type based on the sensed motion; and
controlling a quality of sleep not to be measured if the detect fined sleep type corresponds to an awake state, but to be measured if the determined sleep type corresponds to a sleep state.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
checking an important degree of measurement data at a user's current position, based on a continuous state of the sensed motion; and
adaptively controlling a measurement period of environmental data according to the checked important degree of the measurement data.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
temporarily releasing a function being currently executed if no motion is sensed,
wherein the function being currently executed includes a Bluetooth function, a handshake preventing function and a GPS function.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sensing a detached state of a glasses-type terminal;
sensing a motion of the glasses-type terminal when the glasses-type terminal is detached; and
turning off a glasses-function when no motion of the glasses-type terminal Occurs.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a wrist position of a user who is wearing a smart watch, based on a sensing value sensed by the acceleration sensor; and
turning off the screen if the determined position of the wrist is a not a position to view a screen.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
checking an activity type and an activity amount by collecting and sorting activity data of the user when the camera is activated; and
displaying the checked activity type and activity amount on a circular time line.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein an icon indicating an exercise type is displayed at an inner side of the circular time line, and
wherein the icon is displayed in the same color when indicating the same exercise.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising calculating calories consumed per activity and total calories based on the checked activity type and activity amount, and displaying the calculated calories on the circular time line.

13. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a sensing unit configured to sense a motion of a user in a state that a camera is deactivated and an acceleration sensor is activated, wherein the camera and the acceleration sensor are included in the sensing unit; and
a controller configured to:
activate the camera in response to the sensed motion,
deactivate the camera and maintain an activation state of the acceleration sensor when no motion is sensed,
determine a screen-off time based on at least one of whether an object has approached the mobile terminal and whether a motion of the mobile terminal is sensed,
if no input has been applied for a predetermined of time in a screen-on state, sense whether the object has approached the mobile terminal through a proximity sensor included in the sensing unit,
determine the screen-off time as a first period of time when the proximity sensor senses the object has approached the mobile terminal,
if no input has been applied for the predetermined time in the screen-on state and no object has approached the mobile terminal, sense the motion of the mobile terminal through the acceleration sensor,
determine the screen-off time as a second period of time longer than the first period of time when the motion of the mobile terminal is not sensed, and
determine the screen-off time as a third period of time longer than the second period of time when the motion of the mobile terminal is sensed.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein if the sensed motion is a facing motion to take the mobile terminal toward a face, the controller performs a face detection and a face authentication by temporarily driving the camera,
wherein the controller releases a screen-locked state after turning on a screen and or displays additional information in a screen-off state when the face authentication is completed, and
wherein the additional information includes a watch image or notification information indicating reception of an email and a call.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein the controller checks a motion type based on a sensing value sensed by the acceleration sensor, and displays a safety preview on one side of a screen if the checked motion type is walking.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein the controller turns off the sensor not to measure a user's activity amount when a user's activity is not sensed while the user's activity amount is measured by the sensing unit.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
determine a sleep type based on the sensed motion, and
measure a quality of sleep when the determined sleep type corresponds to a sleep state and not to measure the quality of sleep when the determined sleep type corresponds to an awake state.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein the controller checks an important degree of measurement data at a user's current position, based on a continuous state of the sensed motion, and adaptively controls a measurement period of environmen

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Byoungeul
• Kim Hyunjin
• Kwon Chohee
• Kim Jongbeom
• Kim Hyunwoo

Classifications

• G06F1/1694

  the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer · CPC title

• H04M1/73

  Battery saving arrangements · CPC title

• G06T7/20

  Analysis of motion (motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51) · CPC title

• H04M2250/52

  including functional features of a camera · CPC title

• G06F1/3287

  by switching off individual functional units in the computer system · CPC title