PERSONALIZING OPERATING ENVIRONMENT OF DATA PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20110246754A1
• Filed: 04/05/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
• Original Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
• Inventors: Porwal, Gunjan
• Application Number:
  US12/753,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A method includes sensing a data uniquely associated with an environment of a user of a data processing device through a sensor associated with the data processing device and/or the data processing device. The method also includes personalizing an operating environment of the data processing device based on the sensed data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sensing a data uniquely associated with an environment of a user of a data processing device through at least one of a sensor associated with the data processing device and the data processing device; and

personalizing an operating environment of the data processing device based on the sensed data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the sensed data in a memory of the data processing device as a reference data uniquely associated with the environment of the user of the data processing device; and

comparing a new sensed data, uniquely associated with the environment of the user of the data processing device and sensed through the at least one of the sensor associated with the data processing device and the data processing device, with the reference data to personalize the operating environment of the data processing device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising personalizing the operating environment of the data processing device as an effect of a plurality of personalized operating environments of the data processing device,

wherein each personalized operating environment of the plurality of personalized operating environments is based on the sensed data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring a reference data uniquely associated with the environment of the user of the data processing device from an external device to the data processing device; and

comparing the sensed data through the at least one of the sensor associated with the data processing device and the data processing device with the reference data to personalize the operating environment of the data processing device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the new sensed data and the reference data is at least one of an image data, a video data, a text data, an audio data, a temperature data, a brightness data, a speed data, a positional data, a date data, and a time data.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein personalizing the operating environment of the data processing device comprises modifying the operating environment of the data processing device based on the comparison of the new sensed data with the reference data.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

communicating at least one of the new sensed data and the reference data to a processor in the data processing device;

communicating a request associated with the personalization of the operating environment of the data processing device from the processor to an operating system associated therewith; and

interacting between the operating system and a requisite hardware of the data processing device through a driver to effect the personalization of the operating environment of the data processing device in accordance with the request.

8. The method of claim 7, utilizing a pattern matching algorithm through the processor and the memory to compare the new sensed data with the reference data.

9. A method comprising:

storing a reference data uniquely associated with an environment of a user of a data processing device in a memory of the data processing device;

sensing a non-reference data uniquely associated with the environment of the user through at least one of a sensor associated with the data processing device and the data processing device; and

personalizing an operating environment of the data processing device based on the sensed non-reference data and the reference data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein personalizing the operating environment of the data processing device based on the sensed non-reference data and the reference data comprises modifying the operating environment of the data processing device based on a comparison of the sensed non-reference data with the reference data.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the reference data and the non-reference data is at least one of an image data, a video data, a text data, an audio data, a temperature data, a brightness data, a speed data, a positional data, a date data, and a time data.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

communicating at least one of the sensed non-reference data and the reference data to a processor in the data processing device;

communicating a request associated with the personalization of the operating environment of the data processing device from the processor to an operating system associated therewith; and

interacting between the operating system and a requisite hardware of the data processing device through a driver to effect the personalization of the operating environment of the data processing device in accordance with the request.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising personalizing the operating environment of the data processing device as an effect of a plurality of personalized operating environments of the data processing device,

wherein each personalized operating environment of the plurality of personalized operating environments is based on the sensed non-reference data and the reference data.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising transferring the reference data from an external device to the data processing device.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising sensing the reference data through the at least one of the sensor associated with the data processing device and the data processing device.

16. The method of claim 12, utilizing a pattern matching algorithm through the processor and the memory to compare the sensed non-reference data with the reference data.

17. A data processing device comprising:

at least one of an interface configured to be coupled to an external sensor and an internal sensor configured to enable sensing of a data uniquely associated with an environment of a user of the data processing device;

a memory configured to store at least one of a reference data uniquely associated with the environment of the user and the sensed data; and

a processor configured to compare the sensed data with the reference data to personalize the operating environment of the data processing device.

18. The data processing device of claim 17, wherein at least one of the reference data and the sensed data is at least one of an image data, a video data, a text data, an audio data, a temperature data, a brightness data, a speed data, a positional data, a date data, and a time data.

19. The data processing device of claim 17, wherein the memory includes at least one of a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory.

20. The data processing device of claim 17,

wherein the processor is at least one of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU);

and

wherein the data processing device is one of a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, and a desktop computer.