公开(公告)号：US11307608B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16971049

申请日：2019-03-05

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Minwoo Song ,  Younghyun Ban ,  Juyoung Lim ,  Chulmin Lee

IPC: G06F1/10 ,  G06F1/06 ,  H03K5/00

Abstract: Disclosed are an integrated circuit for controlling function modules to a low-power status depending on an operating status, an electronic device, and a control method thereof. An integrated circuit includes at least one clock generator, a clock distribution circuit that distributes a clock generated by the at least one clock generator, a plurality of function modules that receive the clock distributed by the clock distribution circuit, a monitoring circuit that monitors operating statuses of the at least one clock generator and the clock distribution circuit, a memory, and at least one control circuit. When the operating statuses of the at least one clock generator and the clock distribution circuit monitored by the monitoring circuit correspond to a specified operating status, the at least one control circuit is configured to control at least one of at least one function module of the plurality of function modules, the at least one clock generator, or the clock distribution circuit based on a specified control method. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible.

公开(公告)号：US11216655B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-04

申请号：US16738030

申请日：2020-01-09

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Hoseon Shin ,  Chulmin Lee ,  Gajin Song

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  B25J13/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G10L17/00

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a housing, at least one camera, a plurality of microphones configured to detect a direction of a sound source, at least one driver operable to rotate and/or move at least part of the housing, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the camera, the microphones, the driver, and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a user utterance, detect a first direction from which the user utterance originated, control the driver to rotate and/or move towards the first direction, a first image scan for the first direction and analyze the image for a presence of a user, when the user is not detected, rotate and/or move the at least part of the housing in a second direction, and perform a second image scan.