METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN APPARATUS

• US 20130231890A1
• Filed: 07/14/2011
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Schifferdecker, Daniel, Bennini, Fouad, Bartholomeyczik, Julian, Scheiermann, Sergej
• Application Number:
  US13/819,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231890A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/141
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/00 Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/21065 Module calibrates connected sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/84 Measuring functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0245 according to signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method is provided for controlling an electric apparatus having a sensor unit, the apparatus being operated in a first potential motion mode and/or in a second potential motion mode; a sensor signal being generated in the sensor unit; the first information and/or the second information being calculated as function of the sensor signal, as a function of a requirement for providing a first information with respect to the presence of the first potential motion mode and/or a second information with respect to the presence of the second potential motion mode.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for controlling an electric apparatus having a sensor unit, the apparatus being operated in at least one of a first potential motion mode and a second potential motion mode, the method comprising:

generating a sensor signal in the sensor unit; and

calculating, as a function of a requirement for providing at least one of the first information with respect to a presence of the first potential motion mode and the second information with respect to the presence of the second potential motion mode, at least one of a first information and a second information as a function of the sensor signal.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

determining at least one of a first event corresponding to the first potential motion mode and a second event corresponding to the second potential motion mode in a processing unit as a function of the sensor signal, at least one of the first event and the second event being used for at least one of triggering and controlling calibration of the sensor signal.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein, for the generating of the sensor signal in the sensor unit, at least one of an acceleration sensor, a magnetic field sensor, a gyroscope, a pressure sensor and an approach sensor, are used.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

filtering and storing the sensor signal, a first frequency bandwidth being stored in a first memory unit, and a second frequency bandwidth being stored in a second memory unit, wherein for at least one of determining the first event, the first memory unit being accessed and for determining the second event, the second memory unit being accessed.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

at least one of calibrating and correcting the sensor signal, a 0 g offset correction being carried out.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the requirement for providing the at least one of the first information and the second information is produced by an application.

17. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the requirement for providing the at least one of the first information and the second information is produced by a user input.

18. A device for controlling an electric apparatus, the device including a sensor unit, wherein the apparatus is able to be operated in a first potential motion mode or in a second potential motion mode, and a sensor signal being producible in the sensor unit, wherein the device is configured to, as a function of a requirement for providing a first information with respect to the presence of the first potential motion mode and a second information with respect to the presence of the second potential motion mode, calculate at least one of the first information and the second information as a function of the sensor signal.

19. The device as recited in claim 18, wherein the sensor unit includes at least one of an acceleration sensor, a magnetic field sensor, a gyroscope, a pressure sensor, and an approach sensor.

20. The device as recited in claim 18, further comprising:

a processing unit, wherein in the processing unit is configured, as a function of the sensor signal, to determine at least one of a first event corresponding to the first potential motion mode, and a second event corresponding to the second potential motion mode, at least one of the first event and the second event being usable for at least one of triggering and controlling calibration of the sensor signal.