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US 10,369,413 B2Granted
Power management in an activity monitoring device
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsKristofer Henderson, Michael Lapinsky, Edward S. Lowe, Jr., Michael Noone, James Zipperer
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Abstract
Batteries for an athletic activity monitoring device may be managed in both charged and discharged state to provide more accurate state information and/or expected charge times. Additionally or alternatively, various power management processes may be executed to maximize an amount of battery charge remaining.
Claims20
An athletic activity monitoring device comprising:
- one or more activity sensors;
- at least one battery;
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the athletic activity monitoring device to:
- read a voltage level from the at least one battery;
- determine a current amount of charge of the at least one battery based on the read voltage level and a look-up table storing an association between the read voltage level and a corresponding amount of charge;
- determine whether the current amount of charge meets a first predefined charge threshold and a second predefined charge threshold;
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets the first predefined charge threshold but not the second predefined charge threshold, deactivate at least one of:
- a first activity monitoring process and a first hardware device of the athletic activity monitoring device;
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets both the first and second predefined charge thresholds:
- deactivate the at least one of:
- the first activity monitoring process and the first hardware device of the athletic activity monitoring device;
- and
- deactivate at least one of:
- a second activity monitoring process and a second hardware device of the athletic activity monitoring device.
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A method comprising:
- reading a voltage level of at least one battery of an activity monitoring device;
- determining a current amount of charge of the at least one battery based on the read voltage level and a look-up table storing an association between the read voltage level and a corresponding amount of charge;
- determining whether the current amount of charge meets a first predefined charge threshold and a second predefined charge threshold;
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets the first predefined charge threshold, deactivating a first activity monitoring process;
- determining whether the current amount of charge meets a second predefined charge threshold that is higher than the first predefined charge threshold;
- and
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets the second predefined charge threshold, deactivating the first activity monitoring process and a first hardware device of the activity monitoring device.
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A device comprising:
- at least one activity sensor;
- at least one display;
- at least one battery;
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the device to:
- determine a current amount of charge of the at least one battery;
- determine whether the current amount of charge meets a first predefined charge threshold and a second predefined charge threshold;
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets the first predefined charge threshold but not the second predefined charge threshold, deactivate a first activity sensor of the at least one activity sensor;
- in response to determining that the current amount of charge meets both the first and second predefined charge thresholds:
- deactivate a first activity sensor of the at least one activity sensor;
- and
- deactivate a display of the at least one display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.