ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140160007A1
• Filed: 06/05/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Dong-geun
• Application Number:
  US13/910,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20140160007A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3218 of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a physical button to be manipulated by a predetermined manipulation, a sensor to measure ambient illuminance when an operation mode of the electronic apparatus is a power saving mode or a power off mode and the physical button is manipulated, and a controller to perform an operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button when it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined illuminance value.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, the electronic apparatus comprising:

a physical button to be manipulated by a predetermined manipulation;

a sensor to measure ambient illuminance when an operation mode of the electronic apparatus is a power saving mode or a power off mode and the physical button is manipulated; and

a controller to perform an operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button when it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined illuminance value.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a user interface to display a message requesting a confirmation of the manipulation of the physical button when it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor is less than the predetermined illuminance value.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein when the physical button is manipulated for a first predetermined time and it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor for the first predetermined time is less than the predetermined illuminance value, the controller controls the user interface to display the message.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the user interface displays the message only for a second predetermined time.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein, when a user confirmation command is input after the message is displayed, the controller performs the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the user confirmation command is input through at least one of the manipulated physical button, a button other than the manipulated physical button, and a touch input of the user interface.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the operation mode of the electronic apparatus is the power saving mode and the physical button is manipulated, and it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to the predetermined illuminance value, the controller changes the operation mode of the electronic apparatus to a normal mode.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of functional elements including the sensor; and

a power supply which supplies power to each of the plurality of functional elements,

wherein, when the operation mode of the electronic apparatus is the power off mode and the physical button is manipulated, the controller controls the power supply to only supply power to the sensor, and

wherein, when it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to the predetermined illuminance value, the controller controls the power supply to supply power to all of the functional elements.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 8, wherein the plurality of functional elements further comprises a user interface, and

wherein, when the physical button is manipulated for a first predetermined time and it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor for the first predetermined time is less than the predetermined illuminance value, the controller controls the power supply to supply power to the user interface.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 8, wherein, when it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured by the sensor for a third predetermined time after the physical button has been manipulated is less than the predetermined illuminance value, the controller controls the operation mode of the electronic apparatus to change to the power off mode.

11. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the physical button is at least one of a power button to receive a power manipulation command, a volume control button to receive a volume control command, a home button to receive a screen display command, and a keyboard button to input text.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the physical button is at least one of a push button and a slide button.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus is connectable with a docking apparatus,

wherein, when the electronic apparatus is connected with the docking apparatus and the physical button is manipulated, the controller controls the sensor not to measure ambient illuminance and directly performs the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button.

14. An electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, the electronic apparatus comprising:

a physical button to be manipulated by a predetermined manipulation;

a sensor to measure ambient illuminance;

a first controller to perform an operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation; and

a second controller to control the sensor to measure ambient illuminance when an operation mode of the electronic apparatus is a power saving mode or a power off mode and the physical button is manipulated, and, when it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to a predetermined illuminance value, to control the first controller to perform the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a power supply to supply power to each of the sensor and the first controller,

wherein when the operation mode of the electronic apparatus is the power off mode, the second controller controls the power supply not to supply power to the sensor and the first controller,

wherein when the operation mode of the electronic apparatus is the power off mode and the physical button is manipulated, the second controller controls the power supply to supply power to the sensor, and

wherein when power is supplied to the sensor and it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to the predetermined illuminance value, the second controller controls the power supply to supply power to the first controller.

16. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, the method comprising:

manipulating a physical button by a predetermined manipulation when an operation mode of the electronic apparatus is a power saving mode or a power off mode;

measuring ambient illuminance when the physical button is manipulated; and

performing an operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button when it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to a predetermined illuminance value.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying a message to receive a confirmation on the manipulation of the physical button when it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is less than the predetermined illuminance value.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the message comprises:

displaying the message when the physical button is manipulated for a first predetermined time and it is determined that the ambient illuminance measured for the first predetermined time is less than the predetermined illuminance value.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the message comprises:

displaying the message only for a second predetermined time.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein performing the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button comprises:

performing the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button when a user confirmation command is input after the message is displayed.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the user confirmation command is input through at least one of the manipulated physical button, a button other than the manipulated physical button, and a touch input of a user interface.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein performing the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation comprises:

changing the operation mode of the electronic apparatus to a normal mode when the physical button is manipulated while the operation mode of the electronic apparatus is the power saving mode, and it is determined that the measured ambient illuminance is greater than or equal to the predetermined illuminance value.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein the electronic apparatus is connectable with a docking apparatus,

wherein the measuring does not measure the ambient illuminance when the electronic apparatus is connected with the docking apparatus,

wherein performing the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button comprises:

directly performing the operation corresponding to the predetermined manipulation of the physical button when the electronic apparatus is connected with the docking apparatus and the physical button is manipulated.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable medium to contain computer-readable codes as a program to execute the method of claim 16.