ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY WAKING UP OPERATING SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20140372737A1
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (WuHan) Co., Ltd. (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (WuHan) Co., Ltd. (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YANG, MIN, WANG, XIN-SHU, HUNG, JIAN-HUNG
• Application Number:
  US13/929,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372737A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4418 Suspend and resume; Hibernate and awake

Abstract

In a method for waking up an operating system of an electronic device, a sensor of the electronic device is started and controlled to detect a distance between a specific object and the electronic device when a specific object enters into a detection area of the sensor. The detected distance is read from the sensor. The method determines whether the detected distance is more than a predefined distance and determines whether a current status of the electronic device is maintained for a first predefined time if the detected distance is not more than the predefined distance. An operating system of the electronic device is controlled to wake up when the predefined status of the electronic device is maintained for a first predefined time.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one embedded controller; and

a storage device storing a computer program including instructions that, which executed by the at least one embedded controller, causes the at least one embedded controller to;

start a sensor of the electronic device, and control the sensor to detect a distance between a specific object and the electronic device when the specific object enters into a detection area of the sensor;

determine whether the detected distance is more than a predefined distance;

determine whether a current status of the electronic device is maintained for a first predefined time if the detected distance is not more than the predefined distance; and

control an operating system of the electronic device to wake up if the current status of the electronic device is maintained for the first predefined time.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the predefined distance and the first predefined time are defined by a user of the electronic device in a daily work of the electronic device.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is not started until a second predefined time after hibernating the operating system of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a waking up function which controls the sensor to detect the distance between the electronic device and the specific object.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is maintained to detect the distance between the specific object and the electronic device if the detected distance is more than the predefined distance.

6. A method for automatically waking up an operating system of the electronic device, the method comprising:

starting a sensor of the electronic device, and controlling the sensor to detect a distance between a specific object and the electronic device when the specific object enters into a detection area of the sensor;

determining whether the detected distance is more than a predefined distance;

determine whether a current status of the electronic device is maintained for a first predefined time if the detected distance is not more than the predefined distance; and

controlling an operating system of the electronic device to wake up if the current status of the electronic device is maintained for the first predefined time.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the predefined distance and the first predefined time are defined by a user of the electronic device in a daily work of the electronic device.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sensor is not started until a second predefined time after hibernating the operating system of the electronic device.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the electronic device includes a waking up function which is started to control the sensor to detect the distance between the electronic device and the specific object.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sensor is maintained to detect the distance between the specific object and the electronic device if the detected distance is more than the predefined distance.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions being executed by an embedded controller of an electronic device, causes the embedded controller to perform a method for automatically waking up an operating system of the electronic device, the method comprising:

starting a sensor of the electronic device, and controlling the sensor to detect a distance between a specific object and the electronic device when the specific object enters into a detection area of the sensor;

determining whether the detected distance is more than a predefined distance;

determine whether a current status of the electronic device is maintained for a first predefined time if the detected distance is not more than the predefined distance; and

controlling an operating system of the electronic device to wake up if the current status of the electronic device is maintained for the first predefined time.

12. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the predefined distance and the first predefined time are defined by a user of the electronic device in a daily work of the electronic device.

13. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the sensor is not started until a second predefined time after hibernating the operating system of the electronic device.

14. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the electronic device has a waking up function which is started to control the sensor to detect the distance between the electronic device and the specific object.

15. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the sensor is maintained to detect the distance between the specific object and the electronic device if the detected distance is more than the predefined distance.