APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOTION VECTOR THRESHOLD DETERMINATION

• US 20170168082A1
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Published: 06/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC. (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC. (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: Johnson, Donald Matthew, Dobeck, Brian R.
• Application Number:
  US14/969,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20170168082A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3234 Power saving characterised by the action undertaken
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An apparatus is provided including processing circuitry configured to determine a gravity vector of a device, detect a motion of the device, calculate a force vector of the motion, compare the force vector to the gravity vector to determine a vector difference, and determine if the vector difference satisfies a predetermined difference threshold.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to:

determine a gravity vector of a device;

detect a motion of the device;

calculate a force vector of the motion;

compare the force vector to the gravity vector to determine a vector difference; and

determine if the vector difference satisfies a predetermined difference threshold.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold is indicative of at least a component of the motion being in a vertical direction.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

cause the device to transition to an active state in response to satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device does not transition to an active state in an instance in which the vector difference fails to satisfy the predetermined difference threshold.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

monitor device motion in response to satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

detect a motion cessation.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

determine a duration of motion cessation; and

compare the duration of motion cessation to a predetermined time threshold.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

cause the device to transition to an inactive state responsive to satisfying a predetermined time threshold.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein determining a gravity vector comprises determining the gravity vector based on transitioning to an inactive state.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the gravity vector is based on the orientation of the device determined based on transitioning the user device to an inactive mode.

11. A method comprising:

determining a gravity vector of a device;

detecting a motion of the device;

calculating a force vector of the motion;

comparing the force vector to the gravity vector to determine a vector difference; and

determining, using processing circuitry, if the vector difference satisfies a predetermined difference threshold.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold is indicative of at least a component of the motion being in a vertical direction.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

causing the device to transition to an active state in response to satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the device does not transition to an active state in an instance in which the vector difference fails to satisfy the predetermined difference threshold

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

monitoring device motion in response to satisfaction of the predetermined difference threshold.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

detecting a motion cessation.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

determining a duration of motion cessation; and

comparing the duration of motion cessation to a predetermined time threshold.

18. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

causing the device to transition to an inactive state responsive to satisfying a predetermined time threshold.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein determining a gravity vector comprises:

determining the gravity vector based on transitioning to an inactive state.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the gravity vector is based on the orientation of the device determined based on transitioning the device to an inactive mode.