ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME

• US 20170199588A1
• Filed: 01/11/2017
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: AHN, Choong-Hee, LEE, Young-Sub, CHOI, Won Suk
• Application Number:
  US15/403,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20170199588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• 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: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Disclosed are an electronic device and a method of operating the same. The electronic device may include: at least one sensor including one or more of a proximity sensor and a biometric sensor; a motion sensor; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to identify proximity of a user corresponding to the electronic device through the at least one sensor, to acquire a motion value corresponding to a motion of the electronic device based on the identification, and to execute at least one function based on the motion value.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

at least one sensor comprising at least one of a proximity sensor and a biometric sensor;

a motion sensor; and

a processor configured to;

identify a proximity of a user of the electronic device through the at least one sensor,

acquire, based on identifying the proximity, a motion value corresponding to a motion of the electronic device through the motion sensor, and

execute at least one function based on the motion value.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to change at least a part of a user interface based on one or more of a speed, a direction, a size, or a change amount of the motion.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to move at least one content displayed on the electronic device in a direction corresponding to a direction of the motion.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to execute a first function corresponding to the motion value when the motion value meets a first condition, and to execute a second function corresponding to the motion value when the motion value meets a second condition.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to perform the at least one function while the proximity of the user is detected through the sensor.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein, when the proximity of the user is not detected through the proximity sensor, the processor is configured to perform a third function.

7. The electronic device of claim 2, further comprising a display, wherein the processor is configured to display screen data for an application being executed on the display.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein, when the proximity of the user is identified, the processor is configured to activate at least one motion sensor configured to acquire the motion value.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to identify a function corresponding to the motion acquired through the motion sensor and to perform the identified function.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to perform at least one function of scrolling the screen data, mobbing some areas of the screen data, enlarging and reducing the screen, and changing a menu in the application based on the motion.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein, when the motion is not acquired by the motion sensor, the processor is configured to maintain a brightness of the display unit after a threshold time passes.

12. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein, when the application is an application configured to interwork with the sensor, the processor is configured to activate the sensor.

13. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the biometric sensor includes at least one of a heartbeat sensor, a temperature sensor, and a vein sensor, and the processor is configured to be paired with an external electronic device based at least one piece of heartbeat information, temperature information, and vein information detected by the biometric sensor.

14. A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying screen data;

identifying proximity of a user through at least one sensor comprising at least one of a proximity sensor and a biometric sensor;

detecting a motion of the electronic device through a motion sensor when the proximity of the user is identified; and

executing at least one function corresponding to the motion.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the displaying of the screen data comprises displaying screen data for an application being executed.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the displaying of the screen data further comprises:

identifying whether the application is an application interworking with the sensor; and

activating the sensor.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the detecting of the motion comprises, activating the motion sensor when the proximity of the user is identified.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the detecting of the motion comprises:

identifying first sensing information when the motion sensor is activated;

identifying second sensing information corresponding to the motion when the motion is detected; and

determining a change value between the first sensing information and the second sensing information.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the executing of the at least one function comprises:

identifying whether there is a function corresponding to the determined change value; and

executing the function when the function exists.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the executing of the function comprises executing at least one function of scrolling the screen data, mobbing some areas of the screen data, enlarging and reducing the screen, and changing a menu in the application based on the change value.