Electronic device

• US 10,463,914 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2014
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Jeongchul
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Sanjiv D.
• Application Number:
  US15/021,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20160220865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,106 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may create exercise data of a user on the basis of data obtained through a sensing unit and provide the created exercise data, and may perform various functions by interworking with a peripheral device.

Claims

1. An electronic device having a band to be worn on a human body, the electronic device comprising:

a display unit configured to support a touch screen function;

a wireless communication unit configured to support a short-range wireless communication function to interwork with a peripheral device;

a sensing unit configured to sense movement of a body of a user who wears the electronic device; and

a controller connected to the display unit, the wireless communication unit and the sensing unit, and configured to;

control the display unit to display a user interface corresponding to an operational state of the electronic device, the user interface including at least one item and each of the at least one item corresponding to at least one function,

receive, via the display unit, a touch input,

determine whether the touch input is a multi-touch, the multi-touch being a touch on the display unit with a palm or a plurality of fingers,

perform an item corresponding to a position of the touch input on the at least one item when the touch input is not the multi-touch, and

generate a control signal corresponding to, regardless of a position of the touch input, when the touch input is the multi-touch, the control signal being different from that of a touch using a finger applied to a specific spot,

control to perform a specific function using the control signal,

perform the specific function regardless of an operational state of the electronic device and provide a GUI for performing the specific function to the display unit, and

control a data obtaining period through the sensing unit and a period of exchanging data with an interworking peripheral device according to a determined operation mode,

wherein the determined operation mode is determined from among an exercise mode and a normal mode, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control the data obtaining period in the exercise mode and the period of exchanging data with the interworking peripheral device to be shorter than that in the normal mode.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a haptic module configured to perform a function of providing information through tactile sensation,

wherein the controller is configured control the display unit and the haptic module to perform a notification function regarding an event which has occurred in the peripheral device, and

when the multi-touch is received while the notification function regarding the generated event is being performed, the controller is configured control the peripheral device to perform a predetermined response function regarding the generated event.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured control the haptic module to generate vibrations having different patterns according to the event which has occurred in the peripheral device.

4. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein when a call reception event occurs in the peripheral device and the multi-touch is received while a notification function regarding the call reception event is being performed, the controller is configured control the peripheral device to interrupt a call reception notification function using a sound or vibration in the peripheral device.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein when the multi-touch is received while the notification function regarding the call reception event is being performed, the controller is configured provide a user interface for determining a response form corresponding to the call reception event through the display unit.

6. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein when a message reception event occurs in the peripheral device and the multi-touch is received while a notification function regarding the message reception event is being performed, the controller is configured control the peripheral device to convert a received message into a voice and output the converted voice.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured determine an operation mode of the electronic device on the basis of data obtained through the sensing unit.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein when a predetermined type of touch is received through the display unit, the controller is configured execute a specific function corresponding to the received touch regardless of the operational state of the electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein when an additional touch is not received through the display unit within a predetermined time after the specific function is executed on the basis of the received touch, the controller is configured terminate execution of the specific function.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the controller provides a user interface corresponding to the specific function to the display unit, and when a touch through the user interface is not received within a predetermined time after the user interface is performed, the controller is configured release displaying of the user interface.