Power supply manageable wearable device and power supply management method for a wearable device

• US 10,185,383 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2017
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Liu, Chang, Yang, Wangwang, Wang, Haixiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhu, Qin
• Application Number:
  US15/695,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20180018010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0204 of power management
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6801 specially adapted to be attached to or worn on the body surface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3228 Monitoring task completion, e.g. by use of idle timers, stop commands or wait commands
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3296 by lowering the supply or operating voltage
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/21 the extracted parameters being power information
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/78 Detection of presence or absence of voice signals switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/87 Detection of discrete points within a voice signal
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A power supply manageable wearable device includes: a power management module connected to the microphone interface, a control module and a function module that are connected to the power management module respectively; wherein the control module monitors whether a user instruction includes a voice communication instruction; if the user instruction includes the voice communication instruction, the power management module is enabled to supply power to a microphone and output a first voltage to supply power to the control module; or otherwise, the power management module is enabled to cut off power supply to the microphone and output a second voltage to supply power to the control module and the function module, or output a first voltage to supply power to the control module and output a second voltage to supply power to the function module. The wearable device has the advantages of convenient use and low cost.

Claims

1. A power supply manageable wearable device, wherein a smart device supplies power to the wearable device via a microphone interface, wherein the wearable device comprises:

a power management module connected to the microphone interface;

a function module connected to the power management module; and

a control module connected to the power management module and configured to monitor whether a user instruction comprises a voice communication instruction;

wherein

if the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, the power management module is enabled to supply power to a microphone and output a first voltage to supply power to the control module;

otherwise, the power management module is enabled to cut off power supply to the microphone and output a second voltage to supply power to the control module and the function module, or output the first voltage to supply power to the control module and output the second voltage to supply power to the function module,

wherein the first voltage is lower than the second voltage, and

the function module is configured to perform user biological feature detection.

2. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the control module and the function module are integrated as a first function unit.

3. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 2, further comprising a second function unit;

wherein

if the power management module outputs the first voltage, the control module is configured to enable the second function unit to stop operating;

or

if the power management module outputs the second voltage, the control module is configured to enable the second function unit to operate.

4. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 3, wherein the second function unit is configured to perform user biological feature detection.

5. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a fourth switch module, wherein the fourth switch module is configured to control the power management module to cut off power supply to the second function unit if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the fourth switch module is configured to control the power managementre module to output the second voltage to supply power to the second function unit.

6. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the power management module further comprises:

a first switch module, wherein the first switch module is configured to control the power management module to supply power to the microphone if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the first switch is configured to control the power management module to cut off power supply to the microphone.

7. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the power management module further comprises:

a second switch module, wherein the second switch module is configured to conduct a first voltage output terminal such that the power management module outputs the first voltage to supply power to the control module if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the second switch module is configured to conduct a second voltage output terminal such that the power management module outputs a second voltage to supply power to the control module and the function module.

8. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the power management module further comprises:

a third switch module, wherein the third switch module is configured to control the power management module to cut off power supply to the function module if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the third switch module is configured to control the power management module to output the second voltage to supply power to the function module.

9. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the power management module comprises an isolating unit, the isolating unit is enabled to perform an isolation operation if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the isolating unit is short-circuited.

10. The power supply manageable wearable device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a fifth switch module, wherein the fifth switch module is configured to control the isolating unit to perform the isolation operation if the control module monitors that the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, the fifth switch module is configured to control the isolating unit to be short-circuited.

11. A power supply management method for a wearable device, wherein a smart device supplies power to the wearable device via a microphone interface, wherein the wearable device comprises a power management module connected to the microphone interface, a control module connected to the power management module and configured to monitor whether a user instruction comprises a voice communication instruction and a function module that are connected to the power management module and configured to perform user biological feature detection respectively;

the method comprising;

S100;

monitoring whether a user instruction comprises a voice communication instruction, performing step S200 if the user instruction comprises the voice communication instruction, otherwise, performing step S300;

S200;

supplying power to a microphone, and outputting a first voltage to supply power to the control module;

S300;

cutting off power supply to the microphone; and

outputting a second voltage to supply power to the control module and the function module;

or

outputting the first voltage to supply power to the control module and outputting the second voltage to supply power to the function module,

wherein the first voltage is less than the second voltage.

12. The power supply management method for a wearable device according to claim 11, wherein

step S200 comprises enabling a second function unit to stop operating;

and

step S300 comprises outputting the second voltage to supply power to the second function unit.

13. The power supply management method for a wearable device according to claim 11, wherein

step S200 comprises enabling an isolating unit to perform an isolation operation;

and

step S300 comprises causing the isolating unit to be short-circuited.

14. The power supply management method for a wearable device according to claim 12, wherein

step S200 comprises enabling an isolating unit to perform an isolation operation;

and

step S300 comprises causing the isolating unit to be short-circuited.