Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJiyoung Huh, Myungeun Park, Seungbum Hong
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Abstract
A terminal and a method of controlling the same are disclosed, by which a snooze function for an alarm can be activated depending on whether a user sleeps after outputting the alarm. The terminal may include a measuring unit configured to measure a bio-information of a user, a memory having an alarm set therein, an alarm unit configured to output the alarm, and a controller configured to measure the bio-information of the user through the measuring unit after the outputted alarm. The controller, when determining that the user is currently asleep based on the measured bio-information, may control a snooze function for the alarm to be automatically activated.
Claims19
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense information associated with a user;
- a memory to store prescribed alarm settings;
- an output device to output an alarm based on the stored alarm settings;
- and
- a controller configured to control the alarm based on the sensed information,
- wherein the controller
- controls the output device to output the alarm based on the alarm settings,
- controls the sensor to sense the information associated with the user after the alarm turns on,
- determines whether the sensed information corresponds to a sleep state of the user,
- automatically activates a snooze function when the alarm turns off and the sensed information corresponds to the sleep state, and
- wherein, in a case the snooze function is active while an audio content is being played, when the determined level of sleep is lower than or equal to the reference level, the controller ends the snooze function and decreases a volume of the audio content, and when the determined level of sleep is higher than the reference level, the controller maintains the snooze function and stops playback of the audio content.
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- activating an alarm function based on an alarm setting stored in a memory;
- determining whether a prescribed condition is satisfied according to the alarm setting;
- outputting an alarm through an output device in response to the prescribed condition;
- sensing information associated with a user after the alarm turns on, the sensed information corresponding to vital signs of the user;
- determining whether the sensed information corresponds to a prescribed sleep state based on the sensed information;
- automatically activating a snooze function when the alarm turns off and the sensed information corresponds to the prescribed sleep state;
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- wherein, in a case the snooze function is active while an audio content is being played, when a determined level of sleep is lower than or equal to a reference level, the snooze function is ended and a volume of the audio content is decreased, and when the determined level of sleep is higher than the reference level, the snooze function is maintained and playback of the audio content is stopped.
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