POWER-SAVING METHOD AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE USING THE SAME

• US 20100167792A1
• Filed: 12/17/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Company Limited (Inventec Corporation), Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Company Limited (Inventec Corporation), Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Xudong, Tsai, Shih-Kuang
• Application Number:
  US12/640,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20100167792A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A power-saving method for an electronic device is provided. The electrical device has a power-saving mode. The method includes detecting a position of the electronic device, and activating the power-saving mode if the detected position is determined to be one of a plurality of pre-determined power-saving positions. A system for performing the method is also provided. The system includes a detection unit for detecting the position of the mobile device, and an operational mode control unit coupled in signal communication with the detection unit. The control unit controls the mobile device to enter one of a power-saving mode and a wake-up mode based on the signals received from the detection unit.

Claims

1. A power-saving method for an electronic device having a display, comprising:

detecting a position of the electronic device; and

activating a power-saving mode and reducing the power consumption of the display in response to the detected position in one of a plurality of pre-determined power-saving positions.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a position of the electronic device in the power-saving mode;

comparing the detected position with the plurality of power-saving positions in the power-saving mode; and

entering a wake-up mode of the electronic device based on the detected position.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

detecting whether a keyboard of the electronic device is locked; and

entering the wake-up mode based on both the detected position and whether the keyboard is locked.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

re-detecting the position of the electronic device after said comparing the detected position;

comparing the re-detected position with the plurality of power-saving positions; and

entering the wake-up mode based on the re-detected position.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising designating a plurality of positions as the pre-determined power-saving positions, wherein the power-saving positions include at least one of a substantially horizontal position at which a major plane of the electronic device is substantially horizontal, a substantially vertical position at which a shorter side plane of the electronic device is substantially horizontal and a side vertical position at which a longer side plane of the electronic device is substantially horizontal.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said activating a power-saving mode further comprising:

detecting data transmission in the electronic device;

entering a sub power-saving mode if the data transmission is detected; and

entering the power-saving mode if the data transmission is not detected.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

detecting whether a pre-determined time limit is exceeded in the sub power-saving mode, and

entering the power-saving mode if the pre-determined time limit is exceeded.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a repeated movement of the electrical device; and

entering the power-saving mode when the repeated movement is detected.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

determining a swaying movement based on the detected positions of the mobile phone in the power-saving mode; and

remaining in the power-saving mode when the swaying movement is detected.

10. A power-saving method for an electronic device having a display, comprising:

detecting an orientation of the electronic device through a three-dimensional accelerometer; and

activating a power-saving mode and adjusting the power consumption of the display based on the detected orientation.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising reducing the power consumption of the display in the power-saving mode.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said activating the power-saving mode comprises activating the power-saving mode when the detected orientation is a pre-determined orientation at which a user is inconvenient to observe the content on the display.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said activating the power-saving mode comprises activating the power-saving mode when a pre-determined repeated movement of the mobile phone is detected.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising determining that the repeated movement is detected when the mobile phone is repeatedly moving between a first orientation and a second orientation.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising remaining in the power-saving mode when the repeated movement is detected.

16. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising remaining in the power-saving mode in response to the electronic device is locked.

17. A system for a mobile device, comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect the position of the mobile device and configured to set a plurality of pre-determined positions of the mobile device as power-saving points; and

an operational mode control unit coupled in signal communication with the detection unit, the control unit configured to receive signals representing the detected position from the detection unit and to control the mobile device to enter one of a power-saving mode and a wake-up mode based on the received signals.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the plurality of pre-determined positions comprises at least one position at which a user is inconvenient to observe the content on a display of the mobile device.

19. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the plurality of pre-determined positions comprises at least one of a first position at which the mobile device is positioned substantially horizontally and a second position at which the mobile device is positioned substantially vertically.

20. The system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the control unit is configured to control the mobile phone to reduce the power consumption of the display in the power-saving mode.