Dynamic Component Control for Power Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices face increased power consumption due to enhanced functionality, leading to reduced battery life, necessitating a method to optimize power usage while meeting user requirements.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device control method that determines the running mode of current applications and adjusts corresponding components (such as display, processor, and memory) to match user requirements, reducing power consumption and improving battery life by controlling features like volume, resolution, frame rate, and processing frequency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If application performance is continuously improved to meet user requirements, then user satisfaction is enhanced, but power consumption increases accordingly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of component performance parameters (CPU frequency, screen refresh rate, resolution) based on real-time detection of application requirements and running modes. The system transitions from static high-performance configuration to dynamic adaptation, adjusting parameters upward when applications require high performance and downward when requirements are met with lower resources, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining high application performance and reducing power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters of hardware components (processor frequency, memory allocation, display resolution, screen refresh rate) based on detected application characteristics and user behavior patterns. By dynamically modifying these parameters rather than maintaining fixed high-performance settings, the system achieves adequate application performance while significantly reducing unnecessary power consumption.
2Adaptability or versatility
If electronic devices implement more functions with enhanced functionality, then user requirements are better served, but power consumption increases leading to reduced battery life
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic detection of application requirements and user interaction patterns, adjusting component performance in cycles rather than continuously. The processor periodically evaluates whether current performance levels are necessary and adjusts accordingly, enabling the device to maintain enhanced functionality when needed while conserving battery power during periods of lower demand, thus extending battery life.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors application performance requirements, user interaction patterns, and current power consumption levels. Based on this feedback, the system intelligently adjusts component parameters to maintain necessary functionality while minimizing power consumption, thereby extending battery life without sacrificing essential device adaptability and versatility.
3Productivity
If component performance is blindly improved without considering actual user requirements, then application performance capacity increases, but power consumption rises unnecessarily
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by adjusting component performance parameters to exactly match detected application requirements rather than always operating at maximum capacity. When applications can function adequately with reduced performance settings, the system deliberately operates at lower power levels, avoiding excessive action and unnecessary energy loss while still meeting user needs.
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AI summary
An electronic device control method, apparatus, and an electronic device, where the electronic device control method includes determining a running mode of a current running application in an electronic device, and controlling, based on the running mode, a component in the electronic device to execute an operation corresponding to the running mode, where the component includes a component employed for running the current running application.