Electronic device and method of motion processing

• US 9,798,390 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2013
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (China Mobile Limited)
• Original Assignee: China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (China Mobile Limited)
• Inventors: Ye, Zhou, Li, Chin-Lung, Liou, Shun-Nan, Hsu, Chien-Chih
• Primary Examiner(s): Sun, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/945,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20150025840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 11/3089 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors, sensors, probes, agents software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface G06F11/3656; performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3096 wherein the means or processing minimize the use of computing system or of computing system component resources, e.g. non-intrusive monitoring which minimizes the probe effect: sniffing, intercepting, indirectly deriving the monitored data from other directly available data
• 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

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a motion sensor and a processor. The motion sensor is configured to perform a sampling at a sampling rate. In each sampling, the motion sensor generates a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of the electronic device. The motion sensor is further configured to store each sample in a buffer of the motion sensor. The processor is coupled to the motion sensor and is configured to perform a polling at a polling rate. In each polling, the processor fetches a plurality of the samples from the buffer. The processor is further configured to perform a numerical integration based on the fetched samples.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a motion sensor, having sensor circuitry including a sensor clock, the motion sensor being configured to perform a sampling at a sampling rate according to the sensor clock, wherein in each said sampling the motion sensor generates a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of the electronic device, wherein the motion sensor is further configured to store each said sample at the sampling rate in a buffer of the motion sensor, and the buffer is located inside the motion sensor; and

a processor, having processor circuitry including a processor clock, the processor being coupled to the motion sensor and configured to perform a polling at a polling rate, wherein in each said polling the processor fetches only a part of the samples from the buffer, wherein the processor is further configured to perform a numerical integration based on the fetched samples according to the sensor clock;

wherein the sampling rate is higher than the polling rate.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor sets the sampling rate for the motion sensor by accessing a configuration register of the motion sensor.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor uses a part of the fetched samples to perform the numerical integration.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor uses all of the fetched samples to perform the numerical integration.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor uses a sampling period corresponding to the sampling rate to perform the numerical integration.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor lacks a dedicated interrupt pin configured to facilitate fetching of the sample.

7. A method of motion processing, comprising:

performing, by a motion sensor, a sampling at a sampling rate according to a sensor clock of the motion sensor, wherein each said sampling comprises generating a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of an electronic device;

storing each said sample at the sampling rate in a buffer of the motion sensor, and the buffer is located inside the motion sensor;

performing a polling at a polling rate according to a processor clock, wherein each said polling comprises fetching only a part of the samples from the buffer; and

performing a numerical integration based on the fetched samples according to the sensor clock to reduce accumulated error between the processor clock and the sensor clock;

wherein the sampling rate is higher than the polling rate.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of performing the numerical integration comprises:

using a part of the fetched samples to perform the numerical integration.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of performing the numerical integration comprises:

using all of the fetched samples to perform the numerical integration.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of performing the numerical integration comprises:

using a sampling period corresponding to the sampling rate to perform the numerical integration.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

a motion sensor, having sensor circuitry including a sensor clock, the motion sensor being configured to perform a sampling to generate a sample at a sampling rate according to the sensor clock, wherein the motion sensor is further configured to store each said sample at the sampling rate in a buffer of the motion sensor, and the buffer is located inside the motion sensor; and

a processor, having processor circuitry including a processor clock, the processor being coupled to the motion sensor and configured to perform a polling at a polling rate, wherein in each said polling the processor fetches only a part of the samples from the buffer;

wherein the sampling rate is higher than the polling rate; and

wherein the processor is further configured to perform a numerical integration based on the fetched samples according to the sensor clock.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the motion sensor is a gyro-sensor, an accelerometer, a 6-axis motion sensor or a 9-axis motion sensor.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein in each said sampling the motion sensor generates a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of the electronic device.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor lacks a dedicated interrupt pin configured to facilitate fetching of the sample.