PORTABLE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

• US 20180054696A1
• Filed: 12/07/2016
• Published: 02/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: PARK, Hyunsu, YOO, Hyunsun, SHIM, Sooyong
• Granted Patent: US 9,961,482 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1041 Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements switches in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1058 Manufacture or assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/029 Manufacturing aspects of enclosures transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/01 Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/033 Headphones for stereophonic communication details thereof, e.g. relating to batteries, cables or control elements H04R1/10
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/20 Master-slave selection or change arrangements

Abstract

A portable electronic equipment including a main body configured to be worn on a user'"'"'s neck; a user input unit on the main body; a short-range wireless chipset loaded in the main body and configured to perform wireless communication with a host media device; and a controller configured to sense, via a sensor, whether or not the user is wearing the main body on their neck, and selectively control the short-range wireless chipset to perform the wireless communication with the host media device via a designated profile supported by the host media device and a function implemented by the host media device.

Claims

1. A portable electronic equipment comprising:

a main body configured to be worn on a user'"'"'s neck;

a user input unit on the main body;

a short-range wireless chipset loaded in the main body and configured to perform wireless communication with a first host media device and a second host media device; and

a controller configured to;

sense, via a sensor, whether or not the user is wearing the main body on their neck,

selectively control the short-range wireless chipset to perform the wireless communication with the first host media device and the second host media device via a designated profile supported by the first host media device and the second host media device and a function implemented by the first host media device and the second host media device,

in response to the sensor sensing the user is wearing the main body on their neck, control the short-range wireless chipset to function as a multimedia or calling device and wirelessly communicate with the first host media device in a calling or multimedia playing mode and to output calling audio data or multimedia audio data received from the first host media device, and

in response to the sensor sensing the user is not wearing the main body on their neck, control the short-range wireless chipset to function as a remote control for controlling the second host media device,

wherein the first host media device is a mobile terminal for performing call/multimedia playing and the second host media device is a presentation terminal.

3. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, further comprising:

a speaker formed in the main body; and

earbuds extendably attached to the main body and configured to be extended from the main body and inserted into the user'"'"'s ears,

wherein the controller is further configured to output the audio data via the earbuds when the earbuds are extended and inserted into the user'"'"'s ears and to output the audio data via the speaker when the earbuds are not extended and inserted into the user'"'"'s ears.

5. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the user input unit includes:

a first input unit for skipping to a next song; and

a second input unit for skipping to a previous song,

wherein when the short-range wireless chipset controls the first media device, the controller is further configured to;

control the first host media device to skip to the next song in response to the first input unit being manipulated, and

control the first host media device to skip to the previous song in response to the second input unit being manipulated.

6. The portable electronic equipment of claim 5, wherein when the short-range wireless chipset controls the second media device, the controller is further configured to:

control the second host media device to skip to a next page of content displayed on the second host media device in response to the first input unit being manipulated, and

control the second host media device to skip to a previous page of the content displayed on the second host media device in response to the second input unit being manipulated.

7. The portable electronic equipment of claim 5, further comprising:

a third input unit for increasing an output volume of the portable electronic equipment; and

a fourth input unit for decreasing an output volume of the portable electronic equipment,

wherein when the short-range wireless chipset is controlled to function as the multimedia or calling device, the controller is further configured to;

increase the output volume of the portable electronic equipment in response to the third input unit being manipulated, and

decrease the output volume of the portable electronic equipment in response to the fourth input unit being manipulated, and

wherein when the short-range wireless chipset is controlled to function as the remote control, the controller is further configured to;

control the host media device to capture an image in response to at least one of the third input unit and the fourth input unit being manipulated.

8. The portable electronic equipment of claim 7, further comprising:

an illumination lamp on the main body and configured to illuminate a face of the user when the host media device is controlled to the capture the image.

9. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the profile comprises one or more of an HFP (Hands Free Profile), AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile), HID (Human Interface Device) and A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile).

10. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

pair the portable electronic equipment to the host media device,

pair the portable electronic equipment to a new connected host media device, and

in response to the sensor sensing the user is not wearing the main body on their neck, control the short-range wireless chipset to function as a remote control for controlling the new host media device.

11. The portable electronic equipment of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to the sensor sensing the user is wearing the main body on their neck, control the short-range wireless chipset to control the host media device.

12. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a microphone on the portable electronic equipment, and

wherein the controller is further configured to sense the user is wearing the main body, when the microphone senses a friction sound between the main body and the user.

13. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises an IR sensor, and

wherein the controller is further configured to sense the user is wearing the main body, when the IR sensor senses a proximity of the user.

14. The portable electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the host media device is one of a mobile terminal for performing call/multimedia playing and a presentation terminal.

15. The portable electronic equipment of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to:

use an HFP profile-based wireless communication when the host media device performs a call function, and

use an A2DP profile-based wireless communication when the host media device plays multimedia.

16. The portable electronic equipment of claim 8, wherein the main body has a C-shaped appearance wearable on the user'"'"'s neck, and

wherein the illumination lamp is arranged adjacent to an end of the C-shape.

17. The portable electronic equipment of claim 8, wherein the illumination lamp is provided in in the user input unit provided in a front surface of the main body.

2. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

18. A method of controlling a portable electronic equipment including a main body configured to be worn on a user'"'"'s neck, a user input unit on the main body, and a short-range wireless chipset loaded in the main body and configured to perform wireless communication with a first host media device and a second host media device, the method comprising:

sensing, via a sensor, whether or not the user is wearing the main body on their neck;

selectively controlling, via a controller, the short-range wireless chipset to perform the wireless communication with the first host media device and the second host media device via a designated profile supported by the first host media device and the second host media device and a function implemented by the first host media device and the second host media device;

in response to the sensor sensing the user is wearing the main body on their neck, controlling the short-range wireless chipset to function as a multimedia or calling device and wirelessly communicating with the first host media device in a calling or multimedia playing mode and outputting calling audio data or multimedia audio data received from the first host media device; and

in response to the sensor sensing the user is not wearing the main body on their neck, controlling the short-range wireless chipset to function as a remote control for controlling the second host media device,

wherein the first host media device is a mobile terminal for performing call/multimedia playing and the second host media device is a presentation terminal.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

outputting the audio data via earbuds when the earbuds are extended and inserted into the user'"'"'s ears; and

outputting the audio date via a speaker when the earbuds are not extended and inserted into the user'"'"'s ears.

19. (canceled)

21. (canceled)