Drawing an inference using multiple sensors
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsJianguo Li, Paul C. Davis, James A. Rumpler, Di You
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Abstract
Disclosed are techniques (300, 500, 600) and apparatuses (102, 700) for drawing an inference using multiple sensors. These techniques and apparatuses enable a computing device to choose (302) a set of sensors that are capable of providing information for an inference, invoke (304) the chosen set of sensors to provide the information, receive (306) the information from at least a subset of the chosen sensors, and draw (308), based on the received information, the inference. In some cases, the set of sensors are chosen such that time or resources of the computing device can be conserved.
Claims20
On a computing device, a method for drawing an inference of a usage context of the computing device, the method comprising:
- choosing (302), by the computing device from a plurality of sensors capable of providing information for the inference, a set of sensors;
- invoking (304), by the computing device, the chosen set of sensors to provide information for the inference;
- receiving (306), by the computing device from at least a subset of the chosen set of sensors, information for the inference;
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- drawing (308), by the computing device, based, at least in part, on the received information, the inference of the usage context of the computing device.
An apparatus (102, 700) comprising:
- a plurality of sensors (212, 214), each sensor of the plurality of sensors capable of providing information useful to make an inference of a usage context of a computing device;
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- an inference controller (210) implemented at least partially via hardware to:
- select (302), from the plurality of sensors, a set of sensors;
- cause (304) the selected set of sensors to provide information for the inference;
- receive (306), from at least a subset of the selected set of sensors, information for the inference;
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- draw (308), based at least in part on the information received from the subset of sensors, the inference of the usage context of the computing device.
A method for drawing an inference, the method comprising:
- receiving (604), from one or more sensors of a computing device, information useful to draw the inference of a usage context, the information having an associated statistical value;
- comparing (606), by the computing device, the statistical value associated with the information with a predefined threshold;
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- if the statistical value meets or exceeds the predefined threshold, then drawing (608), by the computing device, the inference using the information received from the one or more sensors;
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- if the statistical value does not meet the predefined threshold, then waiting (610) for additional information from another sensor of the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.