# US 10,375,226 B2 · Mobile electronic device and control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,375,226 B2 - Document ID: US10375226B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/506,233 - Filed: 2015-08-27 - Published: 2017-09-07 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-08-27 - Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation - Applicants: KYOCERA Corporation - Inventors: Shigeki Tanabe; Hideki Morita; Isao Masuike; Shinya Saito - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10375226B2 ## CPC - H04M 1/72454: according to context-related or environment-related conditions - G06F 1/1626: {with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]} - G06F 1/3231: Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - H04W 52/0254: {detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device} - H04W 52/028: {switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks} - H04M 2250/12: including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion - Y02D 10/00: Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management - Y02D 30/70: in wireless communication networks - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - Y02D: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE ## Abstract In one aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a first sensor configured to detect proximity to an own device, a second sensor configured to detect a biological response, and a controller configured to determine that the own device is present within a storing part provided on clothing when the biological response is detected by the second sensor in a case where proximity to the own device has been detected by the first sensor. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A mobile electronic device, comprising: a first sensor configured to detect proximity of a user to the mobile electronic device, a second sensor configured to detect a biological response originating from an inside of a body of the user of the mobile electronic device, including a heartbeat or pulse of the heart of the user, and a controller configured to determine that the mobile electronic device is present within a storing part provided on clothing when the biological response is detected by the second sensor in a case where proximity of the user to the mobile electronic device has been detected by the first sensor; wherein the controller is configured to determine that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that proximity of the user to the mobile electronic device is continuously detected by the first sensor after determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part, and the controller is configured to determine that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that the biological response is continuously detected by the second sensor after determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine that the mobile electronic device is present at somewhere other than the storing part when the biological response is not detected by the second sensor in a case where proximity to the mobile electronic device has been detected by the first sensor. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the determination on whether the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part in a case where the mobile electronic device is in a sleep state. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the determination on whether the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that the mobile electronic device has shifted to a sleep state from an active state. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the determination on whether the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that the mobile electronic device has shifted to an active state from a sleep state. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a third sensor configured to detect a change in a movement state of the mobile electronic device, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the determination on whether the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that a change in the movement state of the mobile electronic device has been detected by the third sensor. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the determination on whether the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that an event has occurred. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to stop a near field wireless communication function when it is determined that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein in response to detecting that the mobile electronic device is shifted to a second state from a first state, which is different from the second state, the controller is configured to determine whether the proximity to the mobile electronic device is detected by the first sensor. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first state is a sleep state, and the second state is an active state. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to cause the first sensor to detect the proximity to the mobile electronic device in response to detecting that the mobile electronic device is at a sleep state. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the second sensor is configured to detect the biological response including at least one of a heartbeat of a user of the mobile electronic device, a pulse of the user, an electrical signal emitted from the heart of the user, or a gas discharged from a body of the user. ### Claim 13 A control method that a mobile electronic device including a sensor is caused to carry out, the control method comprising: detecting proximity of a user to the mobile electronic device, detecting a biological response originating from an inside of a body of the user of the mobile electronic device and including a heartbeat or pulse of the heart of the user when proximity of the user to the mobile electronic device is detected, determining that the mobile electronic device is present within a storing part provided on clothing when the biological response is detected; determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that proximity of the user to the mobile electronic device is continuously detected by the first sensor after determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part, and determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part by virtue of a condition that the biological response is continuously detected by the second sensor after determining that the mobile electronic device is present within the storing part.