Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in mobile device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByeong Do AHN, Sung Min CHO
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Abstract
A method and apparatus capable of minimizing power consumption occurring when a mobile device is changed from a sleep state to a wake-up state by partially controlling on/off of a display unit and partial booting control of a system function are provided. The method includes detecting a change of the mobile device from a sleep state to a wake-up state, turning on a display unit of the mobile device such that a first section of the mobile device displays an operating region, the first section including one or more portions of the display unit and less than an entire screen of the display unit and waiting for a system function registered in the operating region.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a display screen;
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory configured to store instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
- receive an interaction for causing the electronic device to transition from a state where the display screen is not driven to a state where the display screen is driven,
- drive, based on receiving the interaction in a first mode, an entire area of the display screen to display a plurality of application icons,
- drive, based on receiving the interaction in a second mode, a partial area of the display screen to display at least one application icon of the plurality of application icons, and
- when one of the at least one application icon is selected for application execution in the second mode,
- execute an application associated with the one of the at least one selected application icon, and
- display a user interface of the executed application in the partial area of the display screen.
A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving an interaction for causing the electronic device to transition from a state where a display screen is not driven to a state where the display screen is driven;
- driving, based on receiving the interaction in a first mode, an entire area of the display screen to display a plurality of application icons;
- driving, based on receiving the interaction in a second mode, a partial area of the display screen to display at least one application icon of the plurality of application icons;
- and
- when one of the at least one application icon is selected for application execution in the second mode,
- executing an application associated with the one of the at least one selected application icon, and
- displaying a user interface of the executed application in the partial area of the display screen.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon executed by at least on processor to perform a method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving an interaction for causing the electronic device to transition from a state where a display screen is not driven to a state where the display screen is driven;
- driving, based on receiving the interaction in a first mode, an entire area of the display screen to display a plurality of application icons;
- driving, based on receiving the interaction in a second mode, a partial area of the display screen to display at least one application icon of the plurality of application icons;
- and
- when one of the at least one application icon is selected for application execution in the second mode,
- executing an application associated with the one of the at least one selected application icon, and
- displaying a user interface of the executed application in the partial area of the display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.