Device that manages power provided to an object sensor
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsStephen Brian Gates, Jeremy K. Black
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Abstract
A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface.
Claims14
A hand-held device, comprising:
- a processing device;
- a plurality of input receiving elements coupled to the processing device;
- a first wireless transmission device coupled to the processing device;
- a second wireless transmission device, different than the first wireless transmission device, coupled to the processing device;
- a sensor coupled to the processing device;
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- a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processing device, cause the hand-held device to perform steps comprising:
- (a) using a signal received from the sensor to determine whether the hand-held portable device is positioned proximate to an object surface;
- (b) when it is determined from the signal received from the sensor that the hand-held portable device is positioned proximate to the object surface causing the hand-held device to operate a first operational mode in which the hand-held device is configured to use the first wireless transmission device to transmit a first communication representative of an activation of a one or more of the plurality of input receiving elements and when it is determined from the signal received from the sensor that the hand-held portable device is not positioned proximate to the object surface causing the hand-held device to operate in a second operational mode in which the hand-held device is configured to use the second wireless transmission device to transmit a second communication representative of the activation of the one or more of the plurality of input receiving elements;
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- (c) periodically repeating steps (a) and (b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.