ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STATUS INFORMATION PRESENTING APPARATUS

• US 20120200657A1
• Filed: 04/18/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iwai, Toshiyuki, Umemoto, Azusa, Hieda, Kaoru, Naoi, Kanae, Matsumoto, Yu
• Application Number:
  US13/449,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20120200657A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.02
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An electronic apparatus has a presence information generator that generates a presence information indicating whether or not a user of the electronic apparatus is in a room or a home in which the electronic apparatus is placed. A power supply outlet of the apparatus supplies power to another electronic appliance. A power supply status detector detects a state of power supply being supplied to the another electronic appliance by the power supply outlet. The presence information generator generates the presence information in accord with the state of power supply to the another electronic appliance, where the status of the power supply is obtained by the power supply status detector.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a presence information generator for generating a presence information indicating whether or not a user of the electronic apparatus is in a room or a home in which the electronic apparatus is placed,

a power supply outlet for supplying power to another electronic appliance, and

a power supply status detector for detecting a state of power supply being supplied to the another electronic appliance by the power supply outlet,

wherein

the presence information generator generates the presence information in accord with the state of power supply to the another electronic, obtained by the power supply status detector.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power supply status detector detects a state of power supply to an electronic appliance being operated by the user.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power supply outlet is provided with the power supply status detector.