One-button power-on processing method and terminal thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11216543-B2
Application number	US-201916421464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2019
Priority date	Apr 21, 2017
Publication date	Jan 4, 2022
Grant date	Jan 4, 2022

Abstract

A one-button power-on processing method and a terminal thereof are provided. The method includes: judging whether pressing a power button at a current time triggers one-button power-on of a terminal when it is detected that the power button is pressed at the current time; and sending the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to an operating system of the terminal for one-button power-on processing if pressing the power button at the current time triggers one-button power-on of the terminal. In this way, the terminal is powered on by a user by performing the press operation once. This enhances convenience, and effectively improves user experience of the terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A one-press power-on processing method, the method being applied to a terminal with a power button, the terminal comprising a biometric feature identification module and a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor and the biometric feature identification module are configured to communicate with each other via a serial peripheral interface, and the biometric feature identification module is configured to acquire biometric feature data of an operating subject when the operating subject presses the power button; the method comprising:
in a pre-processing stage of one-button power-on, performing, by the microprocessor, operations of:
when the operating subject presses the power button such that the terminal enters a sleep state, a dormant state or a power-off state, receiving a power state corresponding to the sleep state, the dormant state or the power-off state of an operating system of the terminal from a fingerprint feature identification drive of the terminal, and storing the power state; registering a power button press event in the biometric feature identification module such that the biometric feature identification module detects the power button press event to determine whether the power button is pressed; and entering a low power consumption mode after registering the power button press event in the biometric feature identification module;

in a login stage of one-button power-on:
notifying, by the biometric feature identification module, the microprocessor by way of interruption that the pressing of the power button has been detected, and waking up the microprocessor when it is detected that the power button is pressed at a current time;
controlling, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature identification module to acquire the fingerprint feature data, and acquiring the fingerprint feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module;
detecting, by the microprocessor, whether the power state corresponding to the sleep state, dormant state or power-off state of the terminal is stored, and determining whether the pressing of the power button at the current time triggers one-press power-on operation of the terminal when it is detected that the power state corresponding to the sleep state, dormant state or power-off state of the terminal is stored; and
sending, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to an operating system of the terminal for one-press power-on processing when the pressing of the power button at the current time triggers the one-press power-on operation of the terminal for the one-press power-on processing;

wherein the biometric feature identification module is a fingerprint feature identification module, and the biometric feature data comprises a fingerprint image.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sending, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to an operating system of the terminal comprises:
sending, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to the operating system of the terminal based on a biometric feature data verification request.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
acquiring, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data by the biometric feature identification module upon detecting that the power button is pressed at the current time and prior to the determining whether pressing the power button at the current time triggers one-press power-on of the terminal; or
acquiring, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data by the biometric feature identification module upon determining that pressing the power button at the current time triggers one-press power-on of the terminal and prior to the sending the biometric feature data to the operating system of the terminal.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the biometric feature data is acquired by the biometric feature identification module comprises:
calling, by the operating system of the terminal, the biometric feature identification drive such that the biometric feature identification module acquires the biometric feature data.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising storing, by the microprocessor, the acquired biometric feature data, wherein the sending, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to an operating system of the terminal comprises: pulling the stored biometric feature data and sending the biometric feature data to the operating system of the terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
discarding, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module when the power button is pressed at the current time if the pressing of the power button at the current time does not trigger one-press power-on of the terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
discarding the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module if the power state corresponding to the sleep state, the dormant state or the power-off state of the operating system of the terminal is not stored.

8. The method according to claim 1 , the power button and the biometric feature identification module are combined together and arranged at the same position of the terminal.

9. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
waiting, by the microprocessor, for startup of the operating system of the terminal; and
sending, by the microprocessor, the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to the operating system of the terminal for one-press power-on processing upon startup of the operating system.

10. A terminal, comprising:
a power button;
a biometric feature identification module arranged on the power button and configured to acquire biometric feature data of an operating subject when the operating subject presses the power button; and
a microprocessor configured to communicate with the biometric feature identification module via a serial peripheral interface,
wherein the microprocessor is configured to:
in a pre-processing stage of one-button power-on, when the operating subject presses the power button such that the terminal enters a sleep state, dormant state or power-off state, receive a power state corresponding to the sleep state, the dormant state or the power-off state of an operating system of the terminal from a fingerprint feature identification drive of the terminal, and store the power state; register a power button press event in the biometric feature identification module such that the biometric feature identification module detects the power button press event to determine whether the power button is pressed; and entera low power consumption mode after registering the power button press event in the biometric feature identification module;

the biometric feature identification module being further configured to:
in a login stage of one-button power-on, notify the microprocessor by way of interruption that the pressing of the power button has been detected, and waking up the microprocessor when it is detected that the power button is pressed at a current time;
the microprocessor being further configured to:
in a login stage of one-button power-on, control the biometric feature identification module to acquire the fingerprint feature data, and acquire the fingerprint feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module; and detect whether the power state corresponding to the sleep state o

Assignees

• Shenzhen Goodix Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liao Xiaojun
• Wang Bing
• Sun Wenbin
• Qing Xiaogang

Classifications

• G06V40/13

  Sensors therefor · CPC title

• G06F21/32 Primary

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints · CPC title

• G06F1/28

  Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision · CPC title

• G06F21/81

  by operating on the power supply, e.g. enabling or disabling power-on, sleep or resume operations · CPC title

• G06K9/00013

  Physics · mapped topic