User behavior adaptive sensing scheme for efficient power consumption management

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising stored instructions that when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• detect a user interaction at a first passive user interface sensor of a computing system;
• identify the detected user interaction as one of a first and a second predetermined user interaction;
• responsive to identifying the detected user interaction as the first predetermined user interaction, activate a second passive user interface sensor and deactivate the first sensor;
• and
• responsive to identifying the detected user interaction as the second predetermined user interaction, activate a third passive user interface sensor and deactivate the first sensor.

An apparatus comprising:

• at least three passive user interface sensors;
• a signal processing unit coupled to a first sensor of the at least three passive user interface sensors to detect a user interaction at a first sensor of the at least three sensors and to identify the detected user interaction as one of a first and a second predetermined user interaction;
• and
• a sensor activation unit to:
• deactivate the first sensor and activate a second sensor of the detected user interaction as the at least three passive user interface sensors responsive to the identification of the first predetermined user interaction, and
• deactivate the first sensor and activate a third sensor responsive to the identification of the detected user interaction as the second predetermined user interaction.

A computing system comprising:

• at least three passive user interface sensors;
• a memory storing a set of instructions to execute a computer program providing a use of the at least three passive user interface sensors;
• a user interaction identification module to detect a user interaction at a first sensor of the at least three sensors and to identify the detected user interaction as one of a first and a second predetermined user interaction;
• and
• a sensor activation module to deactivate the first sensor, activate a second of the at least three sensors responsive to a respective identification of the detected user interaction as the first predetermined user interaction at the user interaction identification module, and activate a third of the at least three sensors responsive to a respective identification of the detected user interaction as the second predetermined user interaction at the user interaction identification module;
• and
• a processor for initially activating the first sensor, the user interaction identification module and the sensor activation module after executing the set of stored instructions providing the use of the at least three passive user interface sensors.