357 results about "Sleep control" patented technology

A sleep controlling apparatus includes a measuring unit that measures biological information of a subject; a first detecting unit that detects a sleeping state of the subject selected from the group consisting of a falling asleep state, a REM sleep state, a light non-REM sleep state and a deep non-REM sleep state, based on the biological information measured by the measuring unit; a first stimulating unit that applies a first stimulus of an intensity lower than a predetermined threshold value to the subject when the light non-REM sleep state is detected by the first detecting unit; and a second stimulating unit that applies a second stimulus of an intensity higher than the first stimulus after the first stimulus is applied to the subject.

A system and method to reduce leakage power while minimizing performance penalties and noise is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the system includes at least one sleep transistor operatively coupleable between a system power supply and at least one circuit powered by the system power supply to control the application of power to the circuit. The sleep transistor is also operatively coupleable to receive a sleep control signal to turn the sleep transistor on and off. A body bias voltage generator is operatively coupleable to a body of the at least one sleep transistor to substantially reduce leakage current when the sleep transistor is non-operational or idle and to improve the operational characteristics of the sleep transistor when the transistor is operational by reducing the performance penalty of the sleep transistor and by reducing impact of noise on the circuit and other devices.

A switching regulator controls an output transistor supplying current to an inductor and generates a second supply voltage from a first supply voltage. The switching regulator has: an error amplifier amplifying a difference between the second supply voltage and a reference voltage; a current sense amplifier converting an inductor current into voltage; a current comparator comparing an output voltages of the error amplifier and the current sense amplifier, so as to output a trigger signal when the second supply voltage decreases; a pulse generation circuit generating a control pulse to drive the first output transistor in response to the trigger signal; and a sleep control circuit, during a sleep period by a sleep signal supplied from a load side, suspending operation of the current sense amplifier or the pulse generation circuit, and tentatively resuming the suspended operation in response to the trigger signal, and thereafter suspending the operation again.

The invention belongs to the field of control for air conditioners, and particularly relates to an intelligent air conditioner, a sleep control device thereof and a sleep control method for the intelligent air conditioner. The intelligent air conditioner, the sleep control device and the sleep control method have the advantages that an intelligent scheme for controlling comfort operation of the air conditioner is provided; sleep running modes and corresponding set temperatures in the sleep running modes corresponding to movement states can be respectively acquired according to physiological parameter information and the movement states of current users after a control function of the sleep control device is started, the physiological parameter information and the movement states of the current users are detected in real time, the sleep running modes correspond to gender and age stage information, signals can be transmitted to an indoor unit, the air conditioner can run in the sleep running modes according to the set temperatures under the control of the sleep control device, accordingly, requirements of specific groups on environments can be met by the sleep running modes and the set temperatures, purposes of comfort and health can be achieved, and intelligent air conditioner, the sleep control device and the sleep control method are beneficial to improve the experience of the users.

A programmable logic device having logic block that can be selectively placed in a reduced power consumption mode is provided. The PLD includes a plurality of logic array blocks (LABs) and a plurality of interconnects defining signal pathways between the plurality of LABs. Sleep control logic of the PLD issues a sleep control signal for placing at least a portion of the plurality of LABs in a sleep mode. Bias control logic of the PLD is in communication with the sleep control logic. The bias control logic is triggered by the sleep control signal to issue a first bias control signal and a second bias control signal. The first and second bias control signals are transmitted to corresponding transistors of the LABS. The first and second bias control signals apply a reverse bias to corresponding transistor wells to increase threshold voltages for the respective transistors.

The present invention as disclosed hereby is to provide an information processing device with sleep mode function which is capable of running in a sleep mode, thereby reducing the power consumption for its accompanying device and main memory. In the information processing device with sleep mode function, its system CPU 10 during a normal operation mode loads a required control program from a ROM 12 to the main memory 11 and executes it to monitor an operating state of the accompanying device 2-9, and then executes a sleep controlling program stored in a sleep ROM 13 when it is detected that any operation request for the accompanying device has not been performed within a predetermined period of time. Upon execution of this sleep controlling program, the accompanying device is powered down with the exception of its reactivation-request generating function part and the clock supply to the main memory, the power supply to the main memory or both of them is(are) turned off, thereby allowing the information processing device to place in a waiting state for an interrupt from the accompanying device. Accordingly, the primary power for the accompanying device and the main memory is not wasted, thereby providing reduction of the power consumption.

The invention discloses an automatic sleep control system of a display device and a control method thereof. The automatic sleep control system of the display device comprises an eye locating unit, an eye state unit and a command unit. The eye locating unit is used for carrying out detection and recognition on users and locating human eyes. The eye state unit is used for carrying out detection on the located human eyes, generating and sending human eye state commands and then sending the generated human eye state commands to command modules. The command unit is used for judging the human eye state commands and controlling the display device to enter a sleep mode or a power-off mode according to the commands. The automatic sleep control system of the display device overcomes the defects in the prior art, is environment-friendly and humanized in design, and achieves energy conservation and emission reduction. The automatic sleep control system of the display device can automatically enter the sleep mode or the power-off mode when detecting that people close eyes or nobody watches over a certain time.

The invention relates to the field of sleeping control, in particular to a method and system for adjusting environment heat degrees. The method comprises the following steps of building a heat comfort degree model, working out the heat comfort degree at each sleeping stage of a user through the heat comfort degree model, controlling the operation mode of an indoor unit according to the heat comfort degree, and carrying out adjustment to meet the heat comfort degree of the user. The heat comfort degree model is designed according to the sleeping process of a human body, the sleeping quality and the sleeping comfort degree are improved for the user, and the effects of saving energy and reducing consumption are achieved while the user demands are met.

The invention belongs to the control field of household appliances, and particularly relates to an air-conditioner and a comfortable sleeping control method and system thereof. According to the air-conditioner and the comfortable sleeping control method and system thereof, a master controller of an indoor unit judges whether the current time is at night or not, whether people are in or not and whether lights have already been turned off or not according to the information acquired through a clock module, a human body induction detection module and an illuminance detection module respectively; in accordance with the current parameter information of the inside of a room, under the conditions that it is night, people are in the room at present and the lights have already been turned off, so long as the air-conditioner is started by a user, the air-conditioner can be controlled to enter into a comfortable sleeping mode automatically, relevant temperature setting, wind speed adjusting and wind speed correcting are carried out, so that the purpose of comfortable sleeping and the purpose of energy saving and environmental protection are achieved, and real perceptible benefits are brought to the user and the society.

A driving tool, such as a nailer, includes an electric motor, a crank mechanism driven by the electric motor, and a control apparatus for driving the electric motor. A crank-angle detection or calculation unit (109E) detects the crank angle of the crank mechanism or the motor in order to detect the operation state of the electric motor and a stopped time period of the motor is calculated from the crank angle. A sleep-control unit (109A) switches the driving tool between a sleep mode and a drive-enabled mode. If the stopped time period of the electric motor exceeds a prescribed time period, then the sleep-control unit (109A) switches the driving tool to the sleep mode. In the sleep mode, the electric current supplied to one or more of the control units constituting the control apparatus is reduced or cut off, thereby reducing the power consumption of the driving tool.

The invention provides an air conditioner sleep control method as well as a device and an air conditioner. The air conditioner sleep control method comprises the following steps of: judging whether a human body goes to sleep or not according to a sign parameter value; while judging that the human body goes to sleep, controlling the air conditioner to switch to a sleep mode from an existing operation mode, and controlling the air conditioner according to the sleep mode; and while judging that the human body does not go to sleep, keeping a before-sleep operation mode. According to the technical scheme adopted by the invention, the operation of the sleep mode corresponds to environmental requirements and a sleep state of a true sleep stage of the human body, so that accuracy effectiveness and intelligent property of sleep mode control are improved, use comfort of the air conditioner by a user is improved, different requirements on the environmental requirements and an air outlet direction after the human body is in different sleep stages are met better, and energy saving is achieved to certain extent while sleep comfort of the user is improved, and therefore, energy consumption of the air conditioner is improved.

The present invention discloses a cordless electromagnetic induction system, which comprises a cordless pen and a tablet connecting to a host. In this regards, the cordless pen comprises a battery for supplying power to the cordless pen, a radio frequency (RF) oscillation circuit for generating RF signal representing the location and status of the cordless pen, a wake up apparatus, and a sleep control apparatus. The wake up apparatus sets the cordless pen into a working mode and startup the RF oscillation circuit when receiving a wakeup RF signal. Moreover, the sleep control apparatus sets the cordless pen into a sleep mode and shutdown the RF oscillation circuit when the cordless pen is idle for a while in the working mode. In this embodiment, the tablet comprises a control apparatus, a tablet RF emitter, and a tablet RF receiver for receiving RF signal, representing the location and status of said cordless pen, from the RF oscillation circuit and informing the control apparatus. In this regards, the control apparatus starts up the tablet RF emitter when no RF signal from the RF oscillation circuit received, and shuts down the tablet RF emitter when RF signal from the RF oscillation circuit received.

A memory device (20) having substantially reduced leakage current in a sleep / data retention mode whereby at least a portion (25, 28) of the periphery circuitry (24) shares the same power supplies VDDA and / or VSSA of the memory array (22) such that during sleep / data retention mode the voltage across both the portion (25, 28) of the periphery circuitry (24) and the memory array (22) of the selected SRAM block is reduced, while all other circuits can be shut down except the sleep control circuits as well as selected latches, flip-flops, etc. whose contents need to be retained. A sequence for powering up and shutting down portions of the periphery circuitry (24) and the external circuitry (26) is also provided.

A network node for connecting a network with a terminal is described, wherein the network node includes a sleep control device. The sleep control device includes a terminal linking device and a network linking device. The terminal linking device is adapted to connect to a terminal, wherein the network linking device is adapted to connect to a network. Furthermore, the network node is adapted to enter a standby mode, wherein the sleep control device is further adapted to switch on the network node on appearing of at least one trigger event of (i) appearing of a predefined signal sequence on the terminal linking device during a monitoring period of a listen cycle or (ii) appearing of a terminal paging signal sequence on the network linking device. The sleep control device is adapted to detect during the monitoring period the predefined signal sequence on the terminal linking device.

The invention provides an intelligent sleep supervision system and an intelligent healthy sleep supervision and control system based on Internet of Things, and relates to the technical field of software development of a healthy sleep control system, aiming at solving the problems that an existing bed system is not fused into the Internet of Things and the sleep of a user cannot be supervised and controlled. A data acquisition module is used for carrying out time acquisition, weight acquisition and temperature acquisition so as to obtain sleep data of the user, including resting time, sleeping duration, weight change, body temperature change and frequency of getting up in the night to urinate; a wireless transmission module is used for uploading the sleep data to a system server and a medical institution database; a data early warning and management module is used for giving corresponding resting time according to expected sleeping duration set by the user, and comparing user sleeping duration data with an average value of data accumulated in a user individual digital health document for a long period; when the user sleeping duration data is lower than the average value, a prompt is sent; and if the sleeping duration is in a poor state for a long period, a bed system sends out early warning. The user can automatically acquire related data and an analysis report through an APP.

A drowsiness level detection section detects a drowsiness level of an individual person. A sleep depth level control section controls the sleep depth of the individual person based on the detected drowsiness level. The sleep depth level control section executes a first sleep control, in which the sleep depth level of the individual person is maintained at a predetermined sleep depth level below a maximum sleep depth level, if the detected drowsiness level is equal to or below a predetermined threshold.

The invention belongs to the field of electronics and electric appliances, in particular to an air conditioner system and a sleep control method and device thereof. According to the air conditioner system and the sleep control method and device of the air conditioner system, brightness information of a room where the air conditioner system is located and the specific position of a human body are continuously detected and diurnal change rules are considered to enable the air conditioner system to automatically set and enter a corresponding night sleep control mode or a daylight sleep control mode for a user, after the user gets up, the air conditioner system automatically exits the corresponding sleep control mode. The whole air conditioner system is high in automation degree, avoids frequent manual setting, and is simple in operation and capable of effectively improving the sleeping comfort effect of the user.

An information processing device (1) includes a main CPU (2) and a sub CPU (3). The main CPU (2) is provided with a function of managing schedules of task processing and idle processing and executes sleep control which reduces power consumption of the main CPU (2) as the idle processing when the task processing is not executed. The sub CPU (3) measures elapsed time during which the sleep control is executed, detects an interrupt event occurring during the sleep control, and notifies the elapsed time until the interrupt event occurs to the main CPU (2). The main CPU (2) terminates the sleep control in accordance with the notification of the elapsed time and reflects the elapsed time in the schedule. As a result, inconsistency of a timer caused by the sleep control can be solved, and the information processing device which can use a scheduler correctly even if the sleep control is executed is provided.

A tree topology in a multi-hop wireless network is configured by having each node other than the root node select a parent node within direct communication range, thereby becoming a child node of the selected parent node. Neighboring nodes provide selection values such as routing costs and local structural information indicating the existing topology in their vicinities, including parent-child relationships. The selection of the parent node is based on the received selection values, but the local structural information is used to bias the selection in favor of neighboring nodes with at least one other child node. This selection strategy reduces the number of parent nodes in the network and enables more nodes to operate as end nodes, which can then conserve power by carrying out sleep control.

The invention discloses an air conditioner with an expert learning function. The air conditioner comprises a man-machine interactive interface module used for receiving user information, environment setting information and using operating information which are input by a user, a user using habit automatic learning module used for automatically learning according to the using operating information of the user to generate a using habit of the user, an expert sleep knowledge base module used for establishing an expert sleep knowledge base according to the user information and the environment setting information which are input by the user and the using habit generated by the user using habit automatic learning module, an inference module used for generating a sleep control parameter according to an operational order input by the user this time and the expert sleep knowledge base, and an executive module used for controlling the air conditioner according to the sleep control parameter generated by the inference module. According to the air conditioner, the using habit of the user can be automatically learned, the operation of the air conditioner is controlled according to the using habit, and the comfort level of the user is improved. The invention also discloses an expert learning method and an expert control method for the air conditioner.

The invention discloses a sleep control system and method of a vehicle controller. The sleep control system of the vehicle controller comprises a power interface, an MCU (Microprogrammed Control Unit), a working module, a wake-up source and an SBC (System Basis Chip), wherein the SBC comprises an external wake-up source input module and a voltage stabilizing module, the external wake-up source input module is connected with the wake-up source, the input end of the voltage stabilizing module is connected with the power interface, and the output end of the voltage stabilizing module is connectedwith the MCU; and the wake-up source is also connected to the MCU. According to the invention, an SBC is introduced into the sleep control system, and because the SBC integrates a voltage stabilizerand an external wake-up source input module, the circuit design is greatly simplified, and the cost is reduced; in addition, by using a wake-up function of the external wake-up source input module onthe SBC, when the system sleeps, the power supply of all modules except the SBC is turned off, and only part of the functions of the SBC are retained, thus greatly reducing the static power consumption of the system without affecting the response time of the system to external signals.

The invention provides a control method for terminal sleep in a relay network and a control device thereof. The method comprises steps of: obtaining sleep demand information for representing a terminal with sleep demand in the relay network; generating and sending sleep entering state inform information to the terminal based on the sleep demand information; obtaining sleep control information aiming at the terminal; sending the sleep control information to the terminal for managing the terminal, making the terminal enter a second sleep state or escape a first sleep state. The invention enables the terminal to be in a low power consuming sleep state in waiting reciprocal process of the relay and the base station, which saves terminal energy more efficiently under the relay mode and is compatible with a sleep mechanism of a non-relay mode without changing standards.

The invention discloses a sleep control method of a mobile terminal. The sleep control method comprises the following steps of: 1, detecting the inclination angle and / or jitter acceleration of the mobile terminal in real time; 2, prolonging the remaining time for the mobile terminal to enter a sleep state in real time when the inclination angle is greater than a preset inclination angle threshold value and / or the jitter acceleration is greater than a preset acceleration threshold value. The invention also discloses the mobile terminal. The invention discloses the sleep control method of the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal thereof. According to the sleep control method and the mobile terminal, the user can conveniently adjust the time for the mobile terminal to enter the sleep state so as to normally watch the picture content of the mobile terminal when the user uses the mobile terminal, so that the precious time of the user can be saved, the working efficiency during use of the mobile terminal by the user is improved, the experience of the user in use of the product of the mobile terminal is enhanced, and great production practice significance is realized.

The invention provides a sleeping control device and method. The device at least comprises a mobile side, a detector and a cloud side server, is used for determining theoretical sleeping state information corresponding to body signals based on a preset database through a sleeping analysis algorithm, and is characterized in that the cloud side server completes the correction and demonstration process of the theoretical sleeping state information on the basis of the before-sleeping feeling, after-sleeping feeling, actual sleeping state information and / or external condition information input by the user through the mobile side, and the mobile side is configured to retrieve the actual sleeping state information and related information stored in the cloud side server and / or the mobile side through self-definition keywords, external conditions and / or physical features by the user. By making the sleeping feeling of the user related to the actual sleeping state of the user, the personalized sleeping state guiding can be more effectively conducted, and the ability of controlling the sleeping state by the user is trained and improved.

The invention relates to a method for making TD-SCDMA mobile phone and base station synchronously, wherein it comprises that: receiving descending guide time-slit data sent from receiving base station; matching said received data with local data, to obtain the peak position of time-slit data in signal channel; calculating out the difference between peak position and ideal synchronous position; based on said difference, confirming the synchronous time difference between mobile phone and base station; based on said time difference, adjusting the initial position when receiving next frame, to be synchronous with base station. The invention also provides relative synchronous device, which comprises receiver, matcher, calculator, corrector, and synchronous unit.

It is provided a base station included in a cellular network system together with other neighboring base stations, which provides information service to a user terminal. The base station comprising: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by said base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether said base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with said base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.

A display includes a power switch, a serial bus interface, a microprocessor and other necessary components. The serial bus interface is configured to connect to a serial bus interface of a computer through a data cable. The power switch is provided to be pressed down by user, which is used to turn on or off the display. The microprocessor determines whether the duration of pressing on the power switch exceeds a predetermined period of time. If yes, the microprocessor further determines a current state of the display. If the display is “off”, the microprocessor transmits a sleep control instruction to the computer and controls the computer to fall asleep. If the display is “on”, the microprocessor transmits a wake-up instruction to the computer and wakes up the computer. A method of controlling a computer to fall asleep is also provided.

The invention discloses a sleep control method of an air conditioner. The method comprises the following steps that when a sleep report mode of intelligent wearable equipment is started through a mobile terminal and the intelligent wearable equipment is bound with the air conditioner, an indoor noise decibel value and user sleep state parameters detected by the intelligent wearable equipment are obtained; according to the sleep state parameters, comfortable operation parameters, corresponding to the sleep report mode, of the air conditioner are obtained, and the difference value between the current indoor noise decibel value and a preset standard decibel value is calculated; and according to the difference value, the comfortable operation parameters are corrected, and the air conditioner is controlled to be operated in the air conditioner sleep mode according to the corrected comfortable operation parameters. The invention further discloses a sleep control device, the air conditioner and a sleep control system. The comfortable operation parameters can be corrected according to the indoor noise decibel in the sleep mode, so that a comfortable sleep environment is provided for a user, and user experience is improved.

The invention discloses an air conditioner as well as a realizing method, device and system of a sleep controlling mode. The realizing method of the sleep controlling mode of the air conditioner comprises the following steps: responding to a triggering instruction of the sleep control mode, and updating indoor environment target temperature and target rotation speed of a blower; acquiring indoor environment actual humidity, outdoor environment actual temperature and indoor environment actual temperature; correcting the indoor environment target temperature according to the indoor environment actual humidity; and adjusting the target rotation speed of the blower according to outdoor environment actual temperature, indoor environment actual temperature and indoor environment target temperature. The comfort of the indoor temperature and humidity during sleeping can be guaranteed, and the running noise is low.