CN217607980U

CN217607980U - Intelligent watch

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Publication number: CN217607980U
Application number: CN202221689448.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 贾硕
Original assignee: Bestechnic Shanghai Co Ltd
Current assignee: Bestechnic Shanghai Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-30
Filing date: 2022-06-30
Publication date: 2022-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-30

Abstract

The application relates to an intelligent watch, which comprises an application processor, a Bluetooth module and a memory, wherein the memory stores an application program for accessing the Internet, the intelligent watch is connected with an intelligent mobile terminal through the Bluetooth module in a Bluetooth mode, and the intelligent mobile terminal is provided with a first Bluetooth PAN module supporting a Bluetooth network sharing function and a switch electrically connected with the first Bluetooth PAN module. The Bluetooth module comprises a second Bluetooth PAN sub-module supporting the operation of a TCP/IP protocol, and the second Bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first Bluetooth PAN module through a shared data network channel when the smart watch is connected with the smart mobile terminal in a Bluetooth mode and the switch is turned on. The application processor is communicably connected with the bluetooth module, and switches connection to the shared data network channel to access the internet in a case where the second bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first bluetooth PAN module via the shared data network channel. According to the smart watch, the power consumption of the application program during network access can be reduced.

Description

Intelligent watch

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of intelligent equipment, in particular to an intelligent watch.

Background

The smart watch generally needs to support use scenarios such as call, music playing, social software communication, and the like, and needs to meet the requirement of low power consumption of the smart watch. As shown in fig. 1, the existing smart watch 100 may access the internet through WiFi or cellular mobile communication, and correspondingly, the smart watch needs to integrate a WiFi chip 104 or a cellular mobile communication chip, that is, the application processor 101 needs to connect through the WiFi chip 104 or the cellular mobile communication chip for network access, and when the smart watch is not configured with the WiFi chip 104 or the cellular mobile communication chip, the smart watch cannot access the internet, and power consumption is large when the smart watch performs network access through the above two methods, and especially for applications that need to access the network but have a small data transmission amount, such as chat application (e.g., weChat) text transmission, connecting the network through WiFi or the like would cause a large waste in power consumption.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present application is provided to solve the above technical problems in the prior art. The application aims to provide a smart watch which can enable the smart watch to access the Internet even if a WiFi chip or a cellular mobile communication chip is not equipped, and has lower power consumption than the access to the Internet through WiFi and the like.

According to a first aspect of the present application, there is provided a smart watch including an application processor, a bluetooth module, and a memory storing at least one application program requiring access to the internet, the smart watch being bluetooth-connected to a smart mobile terminal via the bluetooth module, wherein the smart mobile terminal has a first bluetooth PAN module supporting a bluetooth network sharing function and a switch electrically connected thereto, and the switch sends a switch signal for turning on or off the bluetooth network sharing function to the first bluetooth PAN module. The Bluetooth module comprises a second Bluetooth PAN sub-module supporting TCP/IP protocol operation, and the second Bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first Bluetooth PAN module through a shared data network channel under the condition that the smart watch is connected with the smart mobile terminal in a Bluetooth mode and the switch is turned on. The application processor is communicatively connected with the bluetooth module and switches connection to a shared data network channel to access the internet if the second bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first bluetooth PAN module via the shared data network channel.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the embodiment of the application lie in that: the intelligent watch can share the internet connection of the intelligent mobile terminal through a shared data network channel between a second Bluetooth PAN sub-module supporting the running of a TCP/IP protocol and a first Bluetooth PAN module of the intelligent mobile terminal in the Bluetooth module, so that the intelligent watch can access the internet based on the TCP/IP protocol by only connecting through Bluetooth even if a WiFi chip or a cellular mobile communication chip is not equipped, and by utilizing a PAN network provided by the intelligent mobile terminal, the intelligent watch is particularly suitable for an application program with a small data transmission quantity, and the power consumption of the application program of the intelligent watch during network access can be greatly reduced.

Drawings

Features, advantages, and technical and industrial significance of exemplary embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals represent like elements, and in which:

fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a conventional smart watch structure;

FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a smart watch structure according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of another smart watch structure according to an embodiment of the application; and

fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of yet another smart watch structure according to an embodiment of the application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions of the present application better understood, the present application is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description. The embodiments of the present application will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments, but the present application is not limited thereto.

As used in this application, the terms "first," "second," and the like do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another. The word "comprising" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element preceding the word covers the element listed after the word, and does not exclude the possibility that other elements are also covered. "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like are used merely to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object being described is changed, the relative positional relationships may also be changed accordingly.

In the present application, when a specific device is described as being located between a first device and a second device, there may or may not be intervening devices between the specific device and the first device or the second device. When a particular device is described as being coupled to other devices, that particular device may be directly coupled to the other devices without intervening devices or may be directly coupled to the other devices with intervening devices.

All terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs unless specifically defined otherwise. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.

Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to one of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a structure of a smart watch according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2, the smart watch 100 may include an application processor 101, a bluetooth module 102, and a memory 103 storing at least one application program that needs to access the internet. In some embodiments, the smart watch 100 may be bluetooth connected to the smart mobile terminal 200 via the bluetooth module 102, wherein the smart mobile terminal 200 has a first bluetooth PAN module 201 supporting the bluetooth network sharing function and a switch 202 electrically connected thereto, and the switch 202 is configured to send a switch signal to the first bluetooth PAN module 201 to turn on or off the bluetooth network sharing function. In some embodiments, the smart mobile terminal 200 may switch on the switch 202 by manual operation, for example, the smart mobile terminal 200 may be a mobile phone, such as a wysika mobile phone, and the switch 202 may be switched on or off by operating a setting-mobile network sharing-bluetooth sharing network on the mobile phone. Such as a millet cell phone, switch 202 can be turned on or off by operating settings-personal hotspot-bluetooth network sharing on the cell phone. Different handsets may switch the switch 202 on or off through different operations. After the switch 202 is turned on, the smart mobile terminal 200 sends a switch signal for starting the bluetooth network sharing function to the first bluetooth PAN module 201, and the smart watch 100 and the smart mobile terminal 200 may establish a bluetooth connection; after the switch 202 is turned off, the smart mobile terminal 200 sends a switch signal for turning off the bluetooth network sharing function to the first bluetooth PAN module 201, and the smart watch 100 and the smart mobile terminal 200 are disconnected from each other by bluetooth.

In some embodiments, the application processor 101 and the bluetooth module 102 of the smart watch 100 may be integrated together in a bluetooth chip or SOC chip, with the application processor and the bluetooth module 102 being communicatively coupled in the same chip as 101. In other embodiments, the application processor 101 and the bluetooth module 102 may be separately configured, for example, the bluetooth module 102 is integrated into a bluetooth chip or an SOC chip, and the application processor 101 is separately configured and communicatively connected to the bluetooth module 102 on the bluetooth chip or the SOC chip. The application processor 101 may be various ARM processors, such as an ARM M0 series of processors. The bluetooth chip may specifically be a chip of the existing CSR101 × chipset product series, and the like. The application processor 101 and the bluetooth chip may be specifically selected according to actual needs, and the application is not limited herein.

The bluetooth module 102 includes a second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a supporting running of a TCP/IP protocol, and the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a is connected to the first bluetooth PAN module 201 via the shared data network channel 300 when the smart watch 100 is bluetooth-connected to the smart mobile terminal 200 and the switch 202 is turned on. The second Bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a and the first Bluetooth PAN module 201 are modules supporting Bluetooth PAN Profile (Bluetooth PAN) standard protocol, such as a specification of the personal area Networking Profile V1.0 version, etc. The second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a supporting the running TCP/IP protocol includes a TCP/IP protocol stack 102a1 therein.

In some embodiments, the application processor 101 is communicatively connected with the bluetooth module 102, and switches connection to the shared data network channel 300 to access the internet 400 in the case where the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a is connected with the first bluetooth PAN module 201 via the shared data network channel 300. After the switch 202 of the smart mobile terminal 200 is turned on, the bluetooth connection is established between the smart watch 100 and the smart mobile terminal 200, the TCP/IP protocol stack 102a1 of the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a of the smart watch 100 includes a DHCP protocol, and the smart watch 100 automatically allocates an IP address through the DHCP protocol. With the IP address automatically allocated via the DHCP protocol, the application in the memory 103 of the smart watch 100 can access the internet 400 through the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a through the network connection of the smart mobile terminal 200 via the shared data network channel 300. According to the embodiment of the application, an approach for accessing the internet 400 is provided for the application program on the smart watch 100, that is, under the condition that the smart watch 100 is not required to support WiFi or cellular mobile communication by itself, the internet 400 is accessed via the network connection on the smart mobile terminal 200 connected with the bluetooth of the smart watch 100 only in the manner of the bluetooth PAN, so that the hardware configuration requirement on the smart watch 100 can be greatly reduced, and the power consumption of the smart watch during network access can also be reduced.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of another smart watch structure according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 3, a WiFi chip and/or a cellular mobile communication chip 104 may also be included in the smart watch 100. The smart phone 100 may further include one or both of a WiFi chip and a cellular mobile communication chip. The WiFi chip may be specifically, for example, a BCM4331, BCM4360, or BCM47186 model chip. The types of the WiFi chip and the cellular mobile communication chip may be specifically selected according to actual needs, and the application is not limited herein.

The application processor 101 is in communication connection with the bluetooth module 102, a TCP/IP protocol stack 102a1 is integrated in the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a, before an application program in the memory 103 accesses a network, the switch 202 is turned on, the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a is connected with the first bluetooth PAN module 201 through the shared data network channel 300, and the smart mobile terminal 200 is connected with the network of the internet 400 through the shared data network channel 300.

In some embodiments, the application processor 101 switches connection to the WiFi chip or the cellular mobile communication chip to access the internet 400 in a case where the smart watch 100 is not bluetooth-connected to the smart mobile terminal 200, or the smart watch 100 is bluetooth-connected to the smart mobile terminal 200 and the state of the switch is off.

In some embodiments of the present application, the application processor is communicably connected with the bluetooth module through the SPI bus, and the application processor is communicably connected with the WiFi chip and/or the cellular mobile communication chip through the SDIO bus.

In some embodiments of the present application, the TCP/IP protocol includes a Socket interface. The Socket interface provides a mechanism for applications to exchange data using a network protocol.

In the case where the application processor switches connection to the shared data network channel to access the internet, the application program accesses the internet via the shared data network channel using the Socket interface. The application programs comprise a streaming media music player, social software and the like. For example, the streaming media music player accesses the internet through a Socket interface, and the streaming media music player downloads the http music link through accessing the internet. When accessing the internet through the shared data Network channel between the second Bluetooth PAN sub-module and the first Bluetooth PAN module, the application program in the memory may include, from top to bottom, a TCP/IP Protocol (including a Socket interface), a BNEP (Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol) (not shown), a L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Layer Protocol) (not shown) of the Bluetooth module, a Bluetooth physical Layer (not shown), and the like according to a layered Protocol stack structure suggested in specifications such as Personal Area Networking Profile V1.0.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of yet another smart watch structure according to an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 4, the bluetooth module is further integrated with SPP protocol and/or HFP protocol, and bluetooth communication is performed between the smart watch and the smart mobile terminal based on SPP protocol and/or HFP protocol 102 b. The Bluetooth module is integrated with SPP (Serial Port Profile) and HFP (Hands-free Profile), and can support data transmission and telephone functions of the smart watch. The SPP protocol and/or HFP protocol 102b and the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a are integrated in the bluetooth module 102 independently from each other, and the SPP protocol and/or HFP protocol 102b is connected to the smart mobile terminal through the SPP channel or HFP channel. After the switch 202 of the smart mobile terminal 200 is turned on and the smart mobile terminal 200 and the smart watch 100 are bluetooth-connected, the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a is connected to the first bluetooth PAN module 201 via the shared data network channel 300, the memory 103 is connected to the application processor 101, the application processor 101 is communicatively connected to the bluetooth module 102, the TCP/IP protocol stack 102a1 is integrated in the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102a, and the application programs in the memory 103 are connected to the internet 400 of the smart mobile terminal 200 via the shared data network channel 300 through the second bluetooth PAN sub-module 102 a.

In some embodiments of the present application, the smart watch hosts an RTOS operating system upon which the application runs. The RTOS operating system is a non-Linux system, a non-Android system and a non-iOS system, and has the advantage of less occupied system resources.

In some embodiments of the application, the memory and the application processor are connected by a data bus. The data bus includes an SDMMC bus and the like, and the present application is not particularly limited thereto as long as the data bus can realize data transfer between the memory and the application processor.

In some embodiments of the present application, the TCP/IP protocol includes the LwIP protocol stack. An open source LwIP protocol stack is transplanted in the intelligent watch, so that the intelligent watch can access the Internet in a Bluetooth PAN mode.

In some embodiments of the present application, the smart mobile terminal includes at least one of a mobile phone, a PAD, or a personal computer. The intelligent mobile terminal can be connected with the internet, so that the intelligent watch can access the internet through the internet connection of the intelligent mobile terminal.

Moreover, although exemplary embodiments have been described herein, the scope thereof includes any and all embodiments based on the present application with equivalent elements, modifications, omissions, combinations (e.g., of various embodiments across), adaptations or alterations. The elements of the claims are to be interpreted broadly based on the language employed in the claims and not limited to examples described in the present specification or during the prosecution of the application, which examples are to be construed as non-exclusive. It is intended, therefore, that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit being indicated by the following claims and their full scope of equivalents.

The above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive. For example, the above-described examples (or one or more versions thereof) may be used in combination with each other. For example, other embodiments may be used by those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the above description. In addition, in the above detailed description, various features may be grouped together to streamline the application. This should not be interpreted as an intention that features of an application that are not claimed are essential to any claim. Rather, subject matter of the present application can lie in less than all features of a particular application's embodiments. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the detailed description as examples or embodiments, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment, and it is contemplated that these embodiments may be combined with each other in various combinations or permutations. The scope of the application should be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.

The above embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present application, and are not intended to limit the present application, and the protection scope of the present application is defined by the claims. Various modifications and equivalents may be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the present application and such modifications and equivalents should also be considered to be within the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. The smart watch is characterized by comprising an application processor, a Bluetooth module and a memory, wherein the memory stores at least one application program needing to access the Internet, the smart watch is in Bluetooth connection with a smart mobile terminal through the Bluetooth module, the smart mobile terminal is provided with a first Bluetooth PAN module supporting a Bluetooth network sharing function and a switch electrically connected with the first Bluetooth PAN module, and the switch sends a switch signal for turning on or off the Bluetooth network sharing function to the first Bluetooth PAN module;

the Bluetooth module comprises a second Bluetooth PAN sub-module supporting the running of a TCP/IP protocol, and the second Bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first Bluetooth PAN module through a shared data network channel when the smart watch is connected with the smart mobile terminal in a Bluetooth mode and the switch is switched on;

the application processor is communicatively connected with the bluetooth module and switches connection to a shared data network channel to access the internet if the second bluetooth PAN sub-module is connected with the first bluetooth PAN module via the shared data network channel.

2. The smart watch of claim 1, further comprising a WiFi chip and/or a cellular mobile communications chip,

and the application processor is switched to be connected to a WiFi chip or a cellular mobile communication chip to access the Internet under the condition that the intelligent watch is not connected with the intelligent mobile terminal in a Bluetooth mode or the intelligent watch is connected with the intelligent mobile terminal in the Bluetooth mode and the switch is turned off.

3. The smartwatch of claim 2, wherein the application processor is communicatively coupled to the bluetooth module via an SPI bus, and wherein the application processor is communicatively coupled to the WiFi chip and/or cellular mobile communications chip via an SDIO bus.

4. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the TCP/IP protocol comprises a Socket interface,

and under the condition that the application processor is switched to be connected to the shared data network channel to access the Internet, the application program accesses the Internet through the shared data network channel by using a Socket interface.

5. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the bluetooth module further integrates an SPP protocol and/or an HFP protocol, and the smart watch and the smart mobile terminal perform bluetooth communication based on the SPP protocol and/or the HFP protocol.

6. The smart watch of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the smart watch is hosting an RTOS operating system, the application running based on the RTOS operating system.

7. The smartwatch of claim 2, wherein the memory and the application processor are connected by a data bus.

8. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the TCP/IP protocol comprises an LwIP protocol stack.

9. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the smart mobile terminal comprises at least one of a cell phone, a PAD, or a personal computer.