Electronic device and control method thereof

• US 9,300,898 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jang, Young-ick, Kim, Chang-yong, Jang, Jong-hyuk, Han, Jea-hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, Mustafizur
• Application Number:
  US14/481,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20140375893A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 348/730, 348/725, 348/734, 348/567, 348/372, 348/333.13, 348/220.1, 348/208.16, 348/14.16, 348/14.03, 725/37, 725/39, 725/40, 725/68, 725/79, 725/115, 725/116, 725/130, 725/146, 725/150, 725/151, 713/193, 713/310, 713/320, 713/323, 713/340
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3293 by switching to a less power-consuming processor, e.g. sub-CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/63 Generation or supply of power specially adapted for television receivers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

An electronic device and a control method thereof are disclosed, the electronic device including: an operation implementation unit conducting a predetermined operation; a first main controller controlling the operation of the operation implementation unit; an input reception unit receiving an input signal; a second main controller processing the input signal and being in the power saving state in the standby mode; and a subcontroller controlling the second main controller to process the input signal when the input signal is received in the standby mode, wherein the second main controller processes the received input signal according to control of the subcontroller, controls the first main controller to operate in the normal mode when the input signal corresponds to entering the normal mode, and returns to the power saving state in the standby mode when the input signal does not correspond to entering the normal mode.

Claims

1. A television comprising:

a display configured to display an image;

a main controller configured to control the display to display the image;

a first input receiver configured to receive a first input of an infrared signal or a radio frequency signal;

a second input receiver configured to receive a second input of a voice signal;

a voice recognizer configured to process the voice signal of the second input;

a subcontroller configured to perform a first power operation to control power supply to the main controller in response to one of the first input and the second input, and to perform a second power operation to control power supply to the voice recognizer in response to the second input.

2. The television of claim 1, wherein the subcontroller performs the first power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling a power supply to start to supply power to the main controller in response to one of the first input and the second input allowing the television to enter a normal mode.

3. The television of claim 1, wherein the subcontroller performs the second power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling the voice recognizer to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

4. The television of claim 3, wherein the voice recognizer is in a normal state when processing the voice signal of the second input and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal of the second input.

5. The television of claim 4, wherein the voice recognizer outputs an interrupt signal to the subcontroller in response to the processed voice signal of the second input allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and returns to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal of the second input not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

6. The television of claim 3, wherein the subcontroller performs preprocessing on the voice signal of the second input and outputs the preprocessed voice signal of the second input to the voice recognizer.

7. The television of claim 1, wherein the subcontroller stores information on the voice signal of the second input in a buffer memory, and

the voice recognizer processes the voice signal of the second input based on the information stored in the buffer memory.

8. The television of claim 7, wherein the voice recognizer performs an initialization in response to the second input of the voice signal, and

the subcontroller transmits the information stored in the buffer memory to the voice recognizer in response to the initialization of the voice recognizer being completed.

9. The television of claim 1, wherein the subcontroller comprises a first subcontroller performing the first power operation and a second subcontroller performing the second power operation.

48. The television of claim 1, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.

10. A method of controlling a television comprising a display to display an image, a main controller to control the display to display the image, and a voice recognizer to process a voice signal, the method comprising:

receiving a first input of an infrared signal or a radio frequency signal;

receiving a second input of a voice signal;

performing a first power operation to control power supply to the main controller in response to one of the first input and the second input; and

performing a second power operation to control power supply to the voice recognizer, which is configured to process the voice signal of the second input, in response to the second input.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the performing the first power operation comprises performing the first power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling a power supply to start to supply power to the main controller in response to one of the first input and the second input allowing the television to enter a normal mode.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the performing the second power operation comprises performing the second power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling the voice recognizer to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the voice recognizer is in a normal state when processing the voice signal of the second input and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal of the second input.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises controlling the voice recognizer to output an interrupt signal in response to the processed voice signal of the second input allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and controlling the voice recognizer to return to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal of the second input not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises performing preprocessing on the voice signal of the second input and outputting the preprocessed voice signal of the second input to the voice recognizer.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the performing the second power operation comprises storing information on the voice signal of the second input in a buffer memory, and

controlling the voice recognizer to process the voice signal of the second input based on the information stored in the buffer memory.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises controlling the voice recognizer to perform an initialization in response to the second input of the voice signal, and

transmitting the information stored in the buffer memory to the voice recognizer in response to the initialization of the voice recognizer being completed.

49. The method of claim 10, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.

18. A television comprising:

a display configured to display an image;

a main controller configured to control the display to display the image;

a first input receiver configured to receive a first input of an infrared signal or a radio frequency signal;

a second input receiver configured to receive a second input of a voice signal;

a voice recognizer configured to process the voice signal of the second input;

a subcontroller configured to perform a first power operation to control power supply to the main controller in response to one of the first input and the second input,

wherein in response to the second input when the television is in a standby mode, the voice recognizer performs a second power operation to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

19. The television of claim 18, wherein the voice recognizer is in a normal state when processing the voice signal of the second input and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal of the second input.

20. The television of claim 19, wherein the voice recognizer outputs an interrupt signal to the subcontroller in response to the processed voice signal of the second input allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and returns to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal of the second input not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

50. The television of claim 18, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.

21. A television comprising:

a display configured to display an image;

a first controller configured to control the display to display the image;

a first input receiver configured to receive an infrared signal;

a second input receiver configured to receive a voice signal;

a second controller configured to perform a first power operation to control first power supply to the first controller in response to one of the infrared signal and the voice signal, and to perform a second power operation to control second power supply to the first controller in response to the voice signal.

22. The television of claim 21, wherein the second controller performs the first power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling a power supply to start the first power supply to the first controller in response to one of the infrared signal and the voice signal allowing the television to enter a normal mode.

23. The television of claim 21, wherein the second controller performs the second power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling the first controller to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

24. The television of claim 23, wherein the first controller is in a normal state when processing the voice signal and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal.

25. The television of claim 24, wherein the first controller outputs an interrupt signal to the second controller in response to the processed voice signal allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and returns to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

26. The television of claim 23, wherein the second controller performs preprocessing on the voice signal and outputs the preprocessed voice signal of the second input to the first controller.

27. The television of claim 21, wherein the second controller stores information on the voice signal in a buffer memory, and

the first controller processes the voice signal based on the information stored in the buffer memory.

28. The television of claim 27, wherein the first controller performs an initialization in response to the voice signal, and

the second controller transmits the information stored in the buffer memory to the first controller in response to the initialization of the first controller being completed.

29. The television of claim 21, wherein the second controller comprises a first subcontroller performing the first power operation and a second subcontroller performing the second power operation.

41. The television of claim 21, further comprising a third input receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and

the second controller is configured to perform the first power operation to control the first power supply to the first controller in response the radio frequency signal.

42. The television of claim 21, wherein the second input receiver comprises a microphone to receive the voice signal.

43. The television of claim 42, wherein the second input receiver is provided in the television.

51. The television of claim 21, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.

30. A method of controlling a television comprising an infrared signal receiver, a voice signal receiver and a controller, the method comprising:

determining an infrared signal being received by the infrared signal receiver or a voice signal received by the voice signal receiver;

performing a first power operation to control first power supply to the controller in response to one of the infrared signal and the voice signal; and

performing a second power operation to control second power supply to the controller, which is configured to process the voice signal, in response to the voice signal.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the performing the first power operation comprises performing the first power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling a power supply to start the first power supply to the controller in response to one of the infrared signal and the voice signal allowing the television to enter a normal mode.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the performing the second power operation comprises performing the second power operation when the television is in a standby mode by controlling the controller to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the controller is in a normal state when processing the voice signal and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises controlling the controller to output an interrupt signal in response to the processed voice signal allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and controlling the controller to return to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

35. The method of claim 32, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises performing preprocessing on the voice signal and outputting the preprocessed voice signal to the controller.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein the performing the second power operation comprises storing information on the voice signal in a buffer memory, and

controlling the controller to process the voice signal based on the information stored in the buffer memory.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the performing the second power operation further comprises controlling the controller to perform an initialization in response to the voice signal, and

transmitting the information stored in the buffer memory to the controller in response to the initialization of the controller being completed.

44. The method of claim 30, wherein the television further comprises a third input receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and

the performing the first power operation comprises performing the first power operation to control the first power supply to the first controller in response the radio frequency signal.

52. The method of claim 30, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.

38. A television comprising:

a display configured to display an image;

a first controller configured to control the display to display the image;

a first input receiver configured to receive an infrared signal;

a second input receiver configured to receive a voice signal;

a second controller configured to perform a first power operation to control power supply to the first controller in response to one of the infrared signal and the voice signal,

wherein in response to the voice signal when the television is in a standby mode, the first controller performs a second power operation to consume less power than that of when the television is in a normal mode.

39. The television of claim 38, wherein the first controller is in a normal state when processing the voice signal and is in a power saving state when not processing the voice signal.

40. The television of claim 39, wherein the first controller outputs an interrupt signal to the second controller in response to the processed voice signal allowing the television to enter the normal mode, and returns to the power saving state in response to the processed voice signal not allowing the television to enter the normal mode.

45. The television of claim 38, further comprising a third input receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and

the second controller is configured to perform the first power operation to control the first power supply to the first controller in response the radio frequency signal.

46. The television of claim 38, wherein the second input receiver comprises a microphone to receive the voice signal.

47. The television of claim 46, wherein the second input receiver is provided in the television.

53. The television of claim 38, wherein the first power operation and the second power operation are to be operated in different power saving modes, respectively.