Information processing method, method for driving image collection unit and electrical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9837050-B2
Application number	US-201313793836-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2013
Priority date	Mar 12, 2012
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

An information processing method and an electrical device are described. The information processing method is applied to an electrical device having at least a processing unit, the electrical device has a plurality of usage modes and further includes a plurality of sensing units. The method includes acquiring, by the processing unit, data collected by the plurality of the sensing units; judging whether the electrical device is in a first usage mode according to the acquired data collected by the plurality of the sensing units; wherein the first usage mode is one of the plurality of the usage modes. With the present method, objects of integrating a plurality of usage modes into one electrical device and judging a usage mode corresponding to a current application scene efficiently are realized.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An information processing method applied to an electrical device having at least a processing unit, a plurality of usage modes, and a plurality of sensing units, the method comprising:
acquiring, by the processing unit, data collected by the plurality of the sensing units;
judging whether the electrical device is in a first usage mode according to the acquired data collected by the plurality of the sensing units;
wherein the first usage mode is one of the plurality of the usage modes,
wherein the electrical device includes a first body and a second body, the sensing units include a first image collection unit and a second image collection unit, and the first image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the first body and the second image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the second body;
the first body and the second body can rotate from 0° to 360° with respect to each other; and the usage modes of the electrical device based on the rotating is determined through the information collected by the first image collection unit and the second image collection unit.

2. The information processing method of claim 1 , wherein the electrical device has a spin axis connecting the first body with the second body; the second body can rotate a 360° with respect to the first body by means of the spin axis; the plurality of the usage modes at least comprises: a notebook usage mode, a panel usage mode, a tent usage mode and a standing usage mode.

3. The information processing method of claim 2 , wherein controlling, by the processing unit, application programs executed in the electrical device so that attributes of the application programs match to the first usage mode, when the processing unit determines the electrical device is in the first usage mode.

4. The information processing method of claim 3 , wherein the attributes of the application program comprise a size of window, a text size of the application program, display parameters, or a display direction.

5. The information processing method of claim 3 , wherein when the first usage mode is the tent usage mode, controlling, by the processing unit, application programs executed in the electrical device is embodied as:
rotating the display direction of the application program, by the processing unit, so as to be coincident with viewing habits of users.

6. The information processing method of claim 2 , wherein the electrical device further comprises peripheral units, and the processing unit controls operation states of the peripheral units so that the operation states of the peripheral units match to the first usage mode, when the processing unit determines that the electrical device is in the first usage mode.

7. The information processing method of claim 6 , wherein the operation states comprises an enable state, a disable state, a power-saving state.

8. The information processing method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the sensing units at least comprise a first gravity sensor and the second gravity sensor, the first gravity sensor is disposed at the first body and the second gravity sensor is disposed on the second body.

9. The information processing method of claim 1 , wherein when the first usage mode is the panel computer usage mode,
the processing unit switches an operating system run in the electrical device currently to an ANDROID operating system.

10. The information processing method of claim 1 , wherein when the first usage mode is the notebook usage mode,
the processing unit switches an operating system run in the electrical device currently to a WINDOWS operating system.

11. An information processing method applied to an electrical device having at least a processing unit, a first body, a second body and a connection part connecting the first body with the second body, a plurality of sensing units, and a plurality of usage modes, method comprising:
acquiring, by the processing unit, data collected by the plurality of the sensing units;
judging an included angle between the first body with a horizontal plane and/or an included angle between the second body with the horizontal plane according to the acquired data collected by the plurality of the sensing units,
judging whether the electrical device is in a first usage mode according to the acquired data collected by the plurality of the sensing units;
wherein the first usage mode is one of the plurality of the usage modes;
wherein, the sensing units include a first image collection unit and a second image collection unit, and the first image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the first body and the second image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the second body;
the first body and the second body can rotate from 0° to 360° with respect to each other; and the usage modes of the electrical device based on the rotating is determined through the information collected by the first image collection unit and the second image collection unit.

12. An electrical device, wherein the electrical device has a first body, a second body and a spin axis connecting the first body with the second body;
the electrical device has a plurality of usage modes and at least comprises a processor, at least one first gravity sensor disposed at the first body and at least one distance sensor disposed at the second body;
the first gravity sensor is configured to collect a first included angle between a sensitive axis in the first gravity sensor with a gravity direction, when the second body rotates with respect to the first body;
the distance sensor is configured to collect a close distance to an object, when the second body rotates with respect to the first body;
the processor is configured to judge whether the electrical device is in a first usage mode according to the acquired first included angle and close distance to an object, wherein the first usage mode is one of the plurality of usage modes,
wherein, the sensing units include a first image collection unit and a second image collection unit, and the first image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the first body and the second image collection unit is disposed on the edge of a display in the second body;
the first body and the second body can rotate from 0° to 360° with respect to each other by means of the spin axis; and the usage modes of the electrical device based on the rotating is determined through the information collected by the first image collection unit and the second image collection unit.

13. The electrical device of claim 12 , wherein the first body has a first surface on which the display unit is located and a second surface being opposite to the first surface, and the second body has a third surface comprising an input apparatus and a fourth surface being opposite to the third surface, the first body rotates 360 degrees with respect to the second body so as to change the usage mode of the electrical device, and the usage modes comprises a notebook mode wherein an included angle between the first surface and the third surface is within a range of 0°-180°, an panel mode wherein the included angle is 360°, a tent mode wherein the included angle is within a range of 180°-360° and a common side between the first surface and the third surface goes up, and a standing mode wherein the included angle is within the range of 180°-360° and the third surface faces downwards.

Assignees

• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd
• Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd

Inventors

• Bao Haidong
• Wang Ningyu
• Zeng Xianshuan
• Gao Ying

Classifications

• G09G2330/022

  in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time · CPC title

• G06F1/1618 Primary

  the display being foldable up to the back of the other housing with a single degree of freedom, e.g. by 360° rotation over the axis defined by the rear edge of the base enclosure · CPC title

• G06F3/1423 Primary

  controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display · CPC title

• G09G2300/02

  Composition of display devices · CPC title

• G06F2200/1637

  Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer · CPC title