CN1306842C - A power supply management method and apparatus for mobile communication terminal - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses a power supply management method for a mobile communication terminal. The key point lies in that the method comprises the following procedures that a. a threshold value of electric quantity is set; b. the mobile communication terminal carries out polling detection to the electric quantity of a power supply; c. when the electric quantity is below the threshold value, the electric quantity of a work unit without influences on the normal talk is adjusted; d. when the electric quantity is not below the threshold value, the method returns to the procedure b. Simultaneously, the present invention also discloses a power supply management device for the mobile communication terminal. The method and the device can be adopted for automatically adjusting the brightness of a screen light source according to the electric quantity of the terminal power supply, and thereby, priorly ensuring the talk or other normal work.
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to battery power management, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for power management of a mobile communication terminal.
Background
With the rapid development of mobile communication technology, various mobile communication terminal products, such as mobile phones, PDAs, and the like, have generally entered the lives of people.
Mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones usually have many working units or functions which do not affect normal conversation but have considerable loss of battery power, such as LCD screens for information display, and for convenience of reading information at night or to increase reading effect, these screens are usually supported by background light sources to increase backlight of different colors of the screens, obviously, they have a certain degree of consumption on the battery power of the mobile phones; in the prior art, the brightness of the screen light source of the mobile phone can be manually adjusted, but cannot be automatically adjusted according to the electric quantity of the battery, so that the call time and the standby time of the mobile phone can be shortened when the screen light source works all the time, and especially when the electric quantity of the mobile phone is insufficient, if the screen brightness is not manually adjusted, the ongoing call is usually interrupted because the electric quantity is lost on screen light.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention is directed to a power management method for a mobile communication terminal, which can automatically adjust the power consumption of an unimportant working unit according to the power of the terminal power, so as to preferentially ensure the call or other normal operations.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a power management device for a mobile communication terminal, which can automatically adjust the power consumption of the non-important operating units according to the power of the terminal power.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is realized as follows:
a power management method for mobile communication terminal is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:
a. setting a plurality of electric quantity thresholds which respectively correspond to the grades of electric quantity adjustment of the working unit which does not influence normal conversation by the mobile communication terminal;
b. the mobile communication terminal performs polling detection on the power supply electric quantity;
c. when the electric quantity is lower than one of the plurality of threshold values, adjusting the electric quantity of the corresponding grade on the working unit which does not influence the normal conversation;
d. and returning to the step b when the electric quantity is not lower than the threshold value.
Wherein,
in the step a, a plurality of electric quantity thresholds can be set and respectively correspond to the brightness levels of the mobile communication terminal for adjusting the screen light source;
step c is the adjustment of the brightness of the LCD background light source.
Step c is the adjustment of the volume of the ring tone.
And step c is to adjust the brightness of the LED lamp.
The mobile communication terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc.
The power management function user can manually set whether the power management function is used or not in advance, and the power management function user can default to use the power management function if the power management function is not set.
In step c, the mobile communication terminal adjusts the operating unit to turn off the operating unit or reduce the power consumption of the unit.
The mobile communication terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a PDA.
A power management device for a mobile communication terminal, comprising:
the electric quantity detection unit is connected with the power supply module and is used for detecting the residual working electric quantity of the battery;
a threshold value storage part for storing a plurality of preset electric quantity threshold values respectively corresponding to the grades of electric quantity regulation of the mobile communication terminal on the working unit which does not influence normal conversation;
and the control unit is connected with the electric quantity detection unit, the threshold storage part and other working units of the mobile communication terminal, controls the normal work of the mobile communication terminal and is also used for controlling the electric quantity regulation of corresponding grades to the working units which do not influence the normal conversation according to the comparison result of the residual working electric quantity and the threshold.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
the power management method of the mobile communication terminal provides a power management mechanism for the mobile communication terminal, can effectively manage the power quantity of the power supply in the mobile communication terminal, and automatically stops or reduces the power consumption of the non-important working unit when detecting that the power quantity of the mobile phone is not enough to a certain value, thereby preferentially ensuring the conversation.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of certain embodiments thereof, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an implementation of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a baseband module including the power management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, the method of the present invention is implemented by a flow chart. In the method, a threshold value of electric quantity is preset as a standard for judging the electric quantity of the battery, when the mobile communication terminal performs polling detection on the electric quantity of the power supply, if the electric quantity of the battery is lower than the threshold value, the mobile communication terminal performs electric quantity regulation on a working unit which does not influence normal conversation, and when the electric quantity is not lower than the threshold value, polling is continued.
The power management function user can manually set whether the power management function user uses the power management function in advance, and the power management function user uses the power management function if the power management function user does not set the power management function.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the device of the present invention for adjusting the backlight of an LCD; the method comprises the following steps:
an electric quantity detecting unit 200 connected to the power module 400 for detecting the remaining operating electric quantity of the battery; a threshold value storage section 100 for storing a preset threshold value of the amount of power; a control unit 300 connected to the power detecting unit 200 and the threshold storing part 100, and an LCD background light source 500.
One or more thresholds of power are stored in the threshold storage portion 100 in advance, the power detection unit 200 performs polling detection on the power of the power module 400 under the control of the control unit 300, and if the battery power is lower than the threshold stored in the threshold storage portion 100, the control unit 300 adjusts the brightness of the LCD backlight 500 or turns off the LCD backlight 500; when the power is not lower than the threshold, the power detection unit 200 continues to detect the power of the power module 400.
In addition, a plurality of electric quantity thresholds can be preset and respectively correspond to the brightness levels of the mobile communication terminal for adjusting the screen light source; for example, 3 electric quantity thresholds are set, which are A, B, C from large to small, and the corresponding screen light source brightness levels are one, two and three levels from bright to dark, respectively, when the electric quantity of the battery is detected to be lower than the threshold A and larger than the threshold B, the mobile communication terminal controls the screen light source brightness to be adjusted to be one level, when the electric quantity of the battery is detected to be lower than the threshold B and larger than the threshold C, the mobile communication terminal controls the screen light source brightness to be adjusted to be two levels, and when the electric quantity of the battery is detected to be lower than the threshold C, the mobile communication terminal controls the screen light source brightness to be adjusted to be three levels.
In the above process, the mobile communication terminal may adjust the screen light source to weaken the brightness or turn off the light source; if the screen light source is in the off state, the mobile communication terminal does not operate any more.
The mobile communication terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a PDA.
As shown in fig. 3, which is a schematic structural diagram of a general mobile phone, the baseband module 30 is a core part of the whole device, controls the whole operation of the mobile communication terminal, and is connected to a SIM card (Subscriber identity module) a memory module, a keyboard portion, an audio module, a power module, and the like. Where the LCD module 10 comprises an LCD display screen, an LCD controller and two LCD drivers, the LCD module 10 is used to display the basic operating state of the camera phone, and the LCD module 10 also contains an LCD background light source (not shown) for screen illumination.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a baseband module including the power management apparatus, as shown in fig. 4, including: a DSP (digital signal processor) 31, assisted by a CPU32, which is used to optimize decision-directed codes and sense and control external events; an RF interface 33 and an audio interface 34 are connected with the DSP31, the RF interface 33 is connected with the RF module 40, and the audio interface 34 is connected with a microphone 91 and a loudspeaker 92 in the audio module 90 to control the realization of the normal work; a flash memory 36 for storing all microprocessor codes; a static memory (SRAM) module 35, which serves as a cache, a register, and an intermediate memory, and a power management module 37, which is connected to the power module 400 and manages the power configuration of the entire device.
The power management module 37 includes an electric quantity detection unit 200 for detecting the working electric quantity of the power module 400; the CPU32 is a control section of the power management apparatus of the present invention, and the flash memory 36 and the static memory (SRAM) module 35 can be used as a threshold storage section of the power management apparatus of the present invention to store a threshold of power. It is clear that the objects of the invention are fully achieved by this device.
The method and apparatus for power management in a mobile communication terminal of the present invention is not limited to the application set forth in the description and implementation, but is capable of being applied in a variety of fields where the invention is applicable, and additional advantages and modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art, and it is therefore intended that the invention not be limited to the exact details, representative devices and illustrative examples shown and described herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the general concept as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1. A power management method of a mobile communication terminal is characterized by comprising the following steps:
a. setting a plurality of electric quantity thresholds which respectively correspond to the grades of electric quantity adjustment of the working unit which does not influence normal conversation by the mobile communication terminal;
b. the mobile communication terminal performs polling detection on the power supply electric quantity;
c. when the electric quantity is lower than one of the plurality of threshold values, adjusting the electric quantity of the corresponding grade on the working unit which does not influence the normal conversation;
d. and returning to the step b when the electric quantity is not lower than the threshold value.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein step c is an adjustment of the brightness of the LCD backlight.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein step c is an adjustment of ring volume.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein step c is an adjustment of the brightness of the LED lamp.
5. A method according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that in step c the adjustment of said operating unit by the mobile communication terminal is to switch off the operating unit or to reduce the power consumption of the unit.
6. The method according to any of the claims 1 to 4, wherein said mobile communication terminal comprises but is not limited to a mobile phone, a PDA.
7. A mobile communication terminal power management device, comprising:
the electric quantity detection unit is connected with the power supply module and is used for detecting the residual working electric quantity of the battery;
a threshold value storage part for storing a plurality of preset electric quantity threshold values which respectively correspond to the grades of electric quantity regulation of the mobile communication terminal on the working unit which does not influence normal conversation;
and the control unit is connected with the electric quantity detection unit, the threshold storage part and other working units of the mobile communication terminal, controls the normal work of the mobile communication terminal and is also used for controlling the electric quantity regulation of corresponding grades to the working units which do not influence the normal conversation according to the comparison result of the residual working electric quantity and the threshold.
8. The device of claim 7, wherein the power detecting unit employs a power determining chip of a power management part of the general mobile communication device or a dedicated chip.
9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the threshold storage portion is a separate storage portion or is stored by using an existing storage module.
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