Electronic device, audio device, and methods of controlling electronic device and audio device power supply

• US 10,007,325 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2015
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Young-hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US14/959,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20160162015A1
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 713310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/10 Power supply of remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a communicator that wirelessly connects the electronic device to an external device, and a controller that controls the communicator and transmits a wake-up signal to the external device, in response to an input to turn on the power of the electric device, to instruct the external device in a standby state to initiate an audio output preparing operation. The standby state corresponds to a state in which the external device attempts to establish a connection.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a communication interface configured to wirelessly connect the electronic device to an external device, and

a controller configured to;

in response to an input to turn on power of the electronic device, start a booting operation of the electronic device, and control the communication interface to transmit a wake-up signal to the external device in a standby state in which the external device transmits a request signal for requesting a connection with the electronic device, the wake-up signal instructing the external device in the standby state to supply a power to speaker components of the external device before a connection of the electronic device and the external device is completed;

in response to completion of the booting operation, transmit, a response signal for responding to the request signal, to the external device in the standby state to perform the connection with the external device; and

in response to completion of the connection with the external device, transmitting audio signal to the external device, the audio signal being used to be output by the speaker components of the external device.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller periodically receives the request signal for requesting a connection with the electronic device from the external device via the communication interface while the external device is in the standby state.

3. An audio device comprising:

a communication interface configured to wirelessly connect the audio device to an electronic device; and

a controller configured to;

control the communication interface to transmit a request signal for requesting a connection with the electronic device,

receive a wake-up signal from the electronic device starting a booting operation of the electronic device in response to an input to turn on power of the electronic device,

in response to the wake-up signal, supplying a power to speaker components of the external device before a connection of the electronic device and the external device is completed,

in response to completion of the booting operation of the electronic device, receiving, a response signal for responding to the request signal, from the electronic device, to perform the connection with the electronic device, and

receiving an audio signal from the external device, the audio signal being used to be output by the speaker components of the external device.

4. The audio device of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to periodically transmit the request signal requesting a connection with the electronic device via the communication interface while the audio device is in the standby state.

5. The audio device of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to display, on a display of the audio device, a message notifying that the audio device is turned on, in response to the response signal.

6. A method of controlling an external device by an electronic device, the method comprising:

in response to an input to turn on power of the electronic device, starting a booting operation of the electronic device, and transmitting a wake-up signal to the external device in a standby state in which the external device transmits a request signal for requesting a connection with the electronic device, the wake-up signal instructing the external device in the standby state to supply a power to speaker components of the external device before a connection of the electronic device and the external device is completed,

in response to completion of the booting operation, transmitting, a response signal for responding to the request signal, to the external device in the standby state to perform the connection with the external device, and

in response to completion of the connection with the external device, transmitting audio signal to the external device, the audio signal being used to be output by the speaker components of the external device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, periodically receiving the request signal for requesting the connection with the electronic device from the external device while the external device is in the standby state.

8. A method of controlling power of an audio device, the method comprising:

transmitting a request signal for requesting a connection with an electronic device, in a standby state of the audio device;

receiving a wake-up signal from the electronic device starting a booting operation of the electronic device in response to an input to turn on power of the electronic device;

in response to the wake-up signal, supplying a power to speaker components of the audio device before a connection of the electronic device and the audio device is completed;

in response to completion of the booting operation of the electronic device, receiving, a response signal for responding to the request signal, from the electronic device, to perform the connection with the electronic device; and

receiving an audio signal from the audio device, the audio signal being used to be output by the speaker components of the audio device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising periodically transmitting the request signal to the electronic device while the audio device is in the standby state.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying, on a display of the audio device, a message notifying that the audio device is turned on in response to the response signal being received in response to the request signal.