Portable electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9836030-B2
Application number	US-201414511110-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 9, 2014
Priority date	Oct 11, 2013
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

A portable electronic device (biological information measurement device) is attachable to or detachable from a cradle and includes a USB terminal portion connected to a terminal provided in the cradle, an initial start-up unit that initially starts up the biological information measurement device, a connection determination unit that determines whether the connection has been released after the USB terminal portion has been connected to a terminal portion of the cradle, and a resetting unit that causes the initial start-up unit to initially start up the biological information measurement device when it is determined by the connection determination unit that the connection has been released after the cradle has been connected to the USB terminal portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable electronic device that is attachable to or detachable from a cradle, the device comprising:
a connection portion connected to a terminal provided in the cradle;
an initial start-up unit that initially starts up the portable electronic device;
a connection determination unit that determines whether the connection has been released after the connection portion has been connected to the terminal of the cradle; and
a resetting unit that causes the initial start-up unit to initially start up the portable electronic device, including resetting power of the device, when it is determined by the connection determination unit that the connection has been released.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a rechargeable battery,
wherein the connection portion includes a charging connection portion that acquires power that is supplied from the cradle, and
the connection determination unit detects a voltage or a current applied to the charging connection portion and determines whether the connection to the terminal of the cradle has been released.

3. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the connection portion includes an information exchange connection portion that exchanges information with another electronic device connected to the cradle via the cradle, and
the connection determination unit detects a result of the information exchange via the information exchange connection portion and determines whether the connection to the terminal of the cradle has been released.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display unit;
a plurality of light emitting elements;
a pulse acquisition unit that acquires a pulse rate of a subject;
a pulse zone determination unit that determines any one of a plurality of pulse zones divided in advance to which the pulse rate belongs; and
a report control unit that reports the pulse zone to which the pulse rate belongs by controlling a lighting state of the plurality of light emitting elements based on a determination result of the pulse zone determination unit.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
an exercise evaluation amount measurement unit that measures an exercise evaluation amount for evaluating an exercise amount of the subject; and
an achievement degree evaluation unit that evaluates an achievement degree of the exercise evaluation amount with respect to a target exercise value set in advance,
wherein, when the pulse zone is reported, the report control unit reports the achievement degree evaluated by the achievement degree evaluation unit by controlling the lighting state of the plurality of light emitting elements when an operation of instructing a report is performed by the subject.

6. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a rechargeable battery,
wherein the connection portion includes a charging connection portion that acquires power supplied from the cradle, and
the report control unit controls at least one of the plurality of light emitting elements to be in a lighting state when the power supplied from the cradle via the charging connection portion is supplied to the battery.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a rechargeable battery; and
a charge amount determination unit that determines whether a charge amount of the battery is less than a predetermined charge amount,
wherein the report control unit causes the display unit to display information for urging charging when it is determined by the charge amount determination unit that the charge amount of the battery is less than the predetermined charge amount.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Takano Yuichi
• Furuta Naoshi

Classifications

• G04G19/00 Primary

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