METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20150198676A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Min, Sun-Young
• Granted Patent: US 9,784,797 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/392 Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0069 Charging or discharging for charge maintenance, battery initiation or rejuvenation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters

Abstract

Various embodiments of this disclosure provide a power source management method and apparatus of an electronic device. The power source management apparatus of the electronic device includes a memory for storing a battery consumption pattern by situation and a battery charging pattern by situation. A controller is configured to collect at least one of situation information or information for life pattern judgment. The controller is also configured to predict a situation of the electronic device or a life pattern using the collection information and judge a chargeability of a battery. The situation is related with at least one or more of a location and a time.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store a battery consumption pattern by situation and a battery charging pattern by situation;

a controller configured to collect at least one of situation information and information for life pattern judgment, predict a situation of the electronic device or a life pattern using the collection information, and judge a chargeability of a battery,

wherein the situation is related with at least one or more of a location and a time.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to check the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern corresponding to the predicted situation.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to predict a battery available time on the basis of the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern corresponding to the predicted situation.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the battery charging pattern comprises a charging type, and

the controller is configured to judge an available charging type corresponding to the predicted situation.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the battery consumption pattern comprises information of an execution application, and

the controller is configured to judge a chargeability of a battery on the basis of a battery consumption amount of an application corresponding to the predicted situation.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to collect the information for the life pattern judgment from at least any one application among a scheduling application, an alarm application, and a health care application.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, comprising an output unit configured to output the judgment result of the judgment module.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the output unit is configured to output the judgment result using at least any one of a text, a sound, and a vibration.

9. A power source management method of an electronic device, the method comprising the operations of:

collecting at least one of situation information or information for life pattern judgment; and

predicting a situation of the electronic device or a life pattern using the collection information and judging a chargeability of a battery.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing a battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern of a situation related with at least any one of a location or a time.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein storing the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern comprises storing a battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern of a situation related with an execution application.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein judging the chargeability of the battery comprises checking the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern corresponding to the predicted situation.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein judging the chargeability of the battery comprises predicting a battery available time on the basis of the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern corresponding to the predicted situation.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the battery charging pattern comprises a charging type, and

judging the chargeability of the battery comprises judging an available charging type corresponding to the predicted situation.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein collecting the information for the life pattern judgment comprises collecting the information for the life pattern judgment from at least any one application among a scheduling application, an alarm application, and a health care application.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

outputting the judged chargeability of the battery.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the judgment result is output using at least any one of a text, a sound, and a vibration.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program comprising computer readable program code for:

collecting at least one of situation information or information for life pattern judgment in an electronic device; and

predicting a situation of the electronic device or a life pattern using the collection information and judging a chargeability of a battery.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, further comprising computer readable program code for:

storing a battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern of a situation related with at least any one of a location or a time.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein computer readable program code for storing the battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern comprises computer readable program code for storing a battery consumption pattern or battery charging pattern of a situation related with an execution application.