WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMMUNICATION

• US 20170146561A1
• Filed: 03/29/2016
• Published: 05/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Yongfeng, Zhuang, Weifeng
• Application Number:
  US15/084,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20170146561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/002 adapted to accommodate electronic equipment patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/34 with electrical or electronic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/44 with sensors, e.g. for detecting contact or position
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/48 with transmitting devices, e.g. GSM or Wi-Fi®
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00

Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at electronic device, data from a wearable device; detecting that the received data relate to a sensor event of at least one sensor of the electronic device, the sensor event being generated and operable to effect an operation of the electronic device via an operating system of the electronic device; and effecting the operation of the electronic device based on the sensor event via the operating system. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at an electronic device, data from a wearable device;

detecting that the received data relate to a sensor event of at least one sensor of the electronic device, the sensor event being generated and operable to effect an operation of the electronic device via an operating system of the electronic device; and

effecting the operation of the electronic device based on the sensor event via the operating system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when an application in the electronic device is an application running at top level, the method further comprises:

responding, by the application, to the generated sensor event, wherein the application is different from the operating system.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device runs a service and analyzes motion data through the service;

the analyzing of the motion data through the service further comprises;

parsing motion displacement data from motion data, wherein the motion displacement data is motion trajectory data of a user collected by the wearable device;

acquiring, according to a first preset relationship, the sensor event corresponding to the motion displacement data.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the data, determining one or more corresponding sensors in the electronic device, and generating sensor events corresponding to the one or more sensors respectively.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

injecting generated sensor events into the operating system;

detecting, by an application run in the operating system, the sensor events and responding accordingly.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises deriving the sensor event based on the received data.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the received data comprises motion data.

8. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory device that stores an operating system comprising instructions executable by the processor;

at least one sensor coupled to the processor, the at least one sensor being operable to generate a sensor event to the operating system in order to effect an operation of the electronic device; and

a receiver coupled to the processor, the receiver being configured to receive data from a wearable device,

wherein the instructions executable by the processor comprise instructions executable by the processor to detect that the data received from the receiver relate to the sensor event of the at least one sensor, and to effect the corresponding operation of the electronic device based on the sensor event via the operating system.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the receiver is configured to receive motion data from the wearable device, and the instructions executable by the processor derive the sensor event based on the received data.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the receiver is configured to receive a sensor event from the wearable device, and the instructions executable by the processor effect the corresponding operation of the electronic device based on the received sensor event.

11. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein when an application in the electronic device is an application running at top level, the application responds to the generated sensor event, wherein the application is different from the operating system.

12. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the electronic device runs a first service, and a first analysis unit analyzes the data via a first service;

the first analysis unit parses motion displacement data from the data, wherein the motion displacement data is motion trajectory data of a user collected by the wearable device; and

acquires, according to a first preset relationship, the sensor event corresponding to the motion displacement data.

13. The electronic device according to claim 8, further comprising:

instructions executable by the processor to analyze the data, determine one or more corresponding sensors in the electronic device, and generate sensor events corresponding to the one or more sensors respectively.

14. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the electronic device further comprises:

a first injection unit, which injects generated sensor events into the operating system;

an application run in the first operating system, the sensor events and responding accordingly.

15. A wearable device, comprising:

a processor;

a motion sensor operatively connected to the processor, the motion sensor collating motion data of the wearable device;

a transmitter operatively connected to the processor, the transmitter transmitting data to an electronic device; and

a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to;

generate a sensor event based on the collated motion data, wherein the sensor event is of a type of sensor event that is processed by the electronic device; and

transmit the sensor event to the electronic device.

16. The wearable device according to claim 15, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

parse motion displacement data from the motion data, wherein the motion displacement data is motion trajectory data of a user collected by the wearable device; and

identify a sensor event corresponding to the motion displacement data according to a preset relationship.

17. The wearable device according to claim 16, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

analyze the motion data;

identify one or more corresponding sensors in the electronic device; and

generate sensor events corresponding to the one or more sensors.

18. The wearable device according to claim 15, wherein the transmitted data are used to derive the sensor event

19. The wearable device according to claim 18, wherein the derived sensor event effects operation of an electronic device.

20. The wearable device according to claim 15, wherein the motion data includes motion trajectory data.