TERMINAL CONTROLLING METHOD AND TERMINAL THEREFOR

• US 20140075055A1
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YI, Sang-ho, SHIN, Jae-hyuck, CHOI, Hyun-jin, LEE, Yoon-kyung
• Granted Patent: US 10,521,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/19
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/80 Special sensors, transducers or devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/325 Power saving in peripheral device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3093 Configuration details thereof, e.g. installation, enabling, spatial arrangement of the probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/883 where the sensing device enters an active or inactive mode
• 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

Abstract

A method of controlling a terminal is provided. The method includes determining a current status of at least one of the terminal and a peripheral environment of the terminal based on information obtained by using at least one sensor from a predetermined list of a plurality of statuses regarding the terminal or the peripheral environment of the terminal, determining an operation schedule of the at least one sensor based on the determined current status and the information obtained by using the at least one sensor, and controlling the at least one sensor to operate based on the determined operation schedule.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a terminal comprising at least one sensor, the method comprising:

determining a current status of at least one of the terminal and a peripheral environment of the terminal based on information obtained by using the at least one sensor from a predetermined list of a plurality of statuses regarding the terminal or the peripheral environment of the terminal;

determining an operation schedule of the at least one sensor based on the determined current status and the information obtained by using the at least one sensor; and

controlling the at least one sensor to operate based on the determined operation schedule.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the operation schedule comprises:

determining an operation frequency of the at least one sensor based on the determined current status and the information obtained by using the at least one sensor.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining of the operation frequency comprises:

obtaining a period adjusting factor regarding at least one of an increase, and a decrease in the operation frequency of the at least one sensor, and a maximum operation frequency based on the determined current status; and

determining the operation frequency of the at least one sensor based on a current operation frequency by which the at least one sensor currently operates, the period adjusting factor, and the maximum operation frequency.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the operation frequency comprises:

determining a smaller value between a value obtained by multiplying a current operation frequency and the period adjusting factor, and the maximum operation frequency as the operation frequency of the at least one sensor.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the operation frequency comprises:

determining whether to increase or decrease the operation frequency of the at least one sensor according to whether a value detected by the at least one value is included in a previously set range; and

determining the previously set range based on the determined current status.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the maximum operation frequency is a greater value between a maximum requirement value corresponding to the determined current status and a minimum requirement value corresponding to the statuses included in the list of the plurality of statuses other than the determined current status.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a sensor for which an operation schedule is to be changed based on the determined current status from the at least one sensor,

wherein the determining of the operation schedule comprises changing the operation schedule of the selected sensor.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the determining of the operation schedule comprises:

disabling or decreasing an operation frequency of the at least one sensor other than the selected sensor.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the current status comprises:

determining the current status of the at least one of the terminal and the peripheral environment of the terminal based on an application executed by the terminal or on information regarding a job performed through the application.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting an operation mode of the terminal,

wherein the determining of the operation schedule comprises;

when the operation mode of the terminal is set as a saving mode, selecting one of the at least one sensor obtaining a value equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and

determining to increase or enable the operation frequency of the selected sensor.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the operation schedule comprises:

when a plurality of statuses are determined based on the information obtained by using the at least one sensor, determining a plurality of operation schedules based on the plurality of statuses; and

removing a redundant operation from operations of the at least one sensor included in the determined plurality of operation schedules.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

13. A terminal comprising:

at least one sensor;

a status determiner configured to determine a current status of at least one of the terminal or a peripheral environment of the terminal based on information obtained by using the at least one sensor from a predetermined list of a plurality of statuses regarding the terminal or the peripheral environment of the terminal;

a scheduler configured to determine an operation schedule of the at least one sensor based on the determined current status and the information obtained by using the at least one sensor; and

a controller configured to control the at least one sensor to operate based on the determined operation schedule.

14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the scheduler determines an operation frequency of the at least one sensor based on the determined current status and the information obtained by using the at least one sensor.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the scheduler obtains a period adjusting factor regarding at least one of an increase and a decrease in the operation frequency of the at least one sensor and a maximum operation frequency based on the determined current status, and determines the operation frequency of the at least one sensor based on a current operation frequency by which the at least one sensor currently operates, the period adjusting factor, and the maximum operation frequency.

16. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the scheduler determines a smaller value between a value obtained by multiplying a current operation frequency and the period adjusting factor, and the maximum operation frequency as the operation frequency of the at least one sensor.

17. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the scheduler determines whether to increase or decrease the operation frequency of the at least one sensor according to whether a value detected by the at least one value is included in a previously set range, and determines the previously set range based on the determined current status.

18. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the maximum operation frequency is a greater value between a maximum requirement value corresponding to the determined current status and a minimum requirement value corresponding to the statuses included in the list of the plurality of statuses other than the determined current status.

19. The terminal of claim 13, the scheduler selects a sensor for which an operation schedule is to be changed based on the determined current status from the at least one sensor, and changes the operation schedule of the selected sensor.

20. The terminal of claim 19, wherein the scheduler disables or decreases an operation frequency of the at least one sensor other than the selected sensor.

21. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the status determiner determines the current status of the at least one of the terminal and the peripheral environment of the terminal based on an application executed by the terminal or information regarding a job performed through the application.

22. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller sets an operation mode of the terminal, and

wherein, when the operation mode of the terminal is set as a saving mode, the scheduler selects one of the at least one sensor obtaining a value equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and determines to increase or enable the operation frequency of the selected sensor.

23. The terminal of claim 13, wherein, when a plurality of statuses are determined based on the information obtained by using the at least one sensor, the scheduler determines a plurality of operation schedules based on the plurality of statuses, and removes a redundant operation from operations of the at least one sensor included in the determined plurality of operation schedules.