System and method for monitoring a mobile computing product/arrangement

• US 7,822,513 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2005
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Wulff, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu; Yonel
• Application Number:
  US11/190,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20070027585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,917 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/36, 701/70, 345/156, 345/158, 345/173, 340/463, 340/467, 340/500
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0264 for control means
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• 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 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• 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

Abstract

Described is a mobile computing arrangement having a sensor detecting first motion data of the arrangement and a memory to store second motion data, the second motion data including a threshold value. A comparison module compares the first motion data to the second motion data and an actuation module initiates an action for the arrangement when the first motion data exceeds the threshold value.

Claims

1. A mobile computing arrangement, comprising:

a sensor detecting first motion data of the arrangement;

a memory to store second motion data prior to detecting the first motion data, the second motion data including a threshold value;

a comparison module to compare the first motion data to the second motion data;

an actuation module to initiate an action for the arrangement when the first motion data exceeds the threshold value; and

a display screen, wherein the action is one of turning off a backlight of the display screen and turning off the display screen.

2. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the display screen includes a touch screen.

3. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the first motion data is one of an acceleration, a velocity, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and a vibration.

4. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the arrangement is part of a motion based system.

5. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the sensor is coupled to a bus of the arrangement.

6. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the sensor is coupled to the arrangement via one of a flash connection, a USB connection, a serial connection, a parallel connection and a firewire connection.

7. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes one of a G-shock sensor, a switch, an accelerometer, a strain gauge, a piezo-electric sensor and a MEMS.

8. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second motion data includes a plurality of thresholds, each threshold corresponding to a defined type of movement of the arrangement.

9. The mobile computing arrangement of claim 1, wherein the threshold includes a time component.

10. A method, comprising:

storing a threshold value related to a motion of a mobile computing device;

detecting the motion of the mobile computing device;

operating the mobile computing device in a first mode when the motion is less than the threshold value; and

operating the mobile computing device in a second mode when the motion is one of greater than and equal to the threshold value, wherein the first mode includes providing full power to a display screen of the mobile computing device and the second mode includes providing less than full power to the display screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the mobile computing device is included in a motion based system.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the threshold is based on data stored in the mobile computing device.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein less than full power includes one of no power to the display screen and no power to a backlight of the display screen.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the motion is one of an acceleration, a velocity, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and a vibration.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the motion is detected by a sensor including one of a G-shock sensor, a switch, an accelerometer, a strain gauge, a piezo-electric sensor and a MEMS.

16. A motion based system, comprising:

a vehicle for imparting a motion; and

a mobile computing device coupled to the vehicle, wherein the mobile computing device includes;

a sensor detecting first motion data corresponding to the motion of the vehicle, a memory to store second motion data prior to detecting the first motion data, the second motion data including a threshold value, and a processor to compare the first motion data to the second motion data and initiate an action for the mobile computing device when the first motion data exceeds the threshold value, wherein the mobile computing device further includes a display screen and the action is one of turning off a backlight of the display screen and turning off the display screen.

17. The motion based system of claim 16, wherein the motion is one of an acceleration, a velocity, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and a vibration.

18. The motion based system of claim 16, wherein the sensor includes one of a G-shock sensor, a switch, an accelerometer, a strain gauge, a piezo-electric sensor and a MEMS.