Electronic device comprising led indicators and an energy saving method
OwnerKoen Van Oost, Alex De Smedtinventors
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Abstract
The present invention concerns an electronic device comprising more than one electronic indicator, an electronic indicator being adapted to indicate a state of a feature of the device, the state being among others set to enabled, disabled or enabling, the electronic indicator consuming energy, and ECO indicator configuring means for setting for each electronic indicator the normal mode of operation, the normal mode corresponding to a state of the feature, and activating a second indicator and deactivating the more than one electronic indicator when the more than one indicator are all in a normal mode of operation.
Claims12
An electronic device being adapted to run more than one function, a function being an application and/or an interface, said electronic device comprising:
- more than one electronic indicator, said more than one electronic indicator being either enabled or disabled, and consuming energy when being enabled, each one of said more than one electronic indicator being adapted, when enabled, to indicate more than one state of a function, at least one of said states corresponding to a steady mode where the function is operating in normal operation state,
- a steady mode indicator for indicating that all of said functions are in said steady mode, and
- ECO mode configuring means for enabling said second indicator and disabling all of said electronic indicators when said functions are all in said steady mode, and for disabling said second indicator and enabling any of said electronic indicators when at least one of said functions is not in said steady mode.
A method at an electronic device adapted to run more than one function, a function being an application and/or an interface, said electronic device comprising more than one electronic indicator, said more than one electronic indicator being either enabled or disabled, and consuming energy when being enabled, each one of said more than one electronic indicator being adapted, when enabled, to indicate more than one state of a function, at least one of said states corresponding to a steady mode where the function is operating in normal operation state, said electronic device comprising a steady mode indicator for indicating that all of said functions are in said steady mode,
- said method comprising the steps of:
- enabling said steady mode indicator and disabling all of said electronic indicators when said functions are all in said steady mode, and
- disabling said steady mode indicator and enabling all of said electronic indicators when at least one of said functions is not in said steady mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.