Samsung patents wearable that prioritizes manual health checks over background scans
Samsung has been granted a patent for a wearable device that manages conflicts when its sensors need to measure two different body signals at the same time. The system decides which measurement to run first by comparing how the user requested the check, giving priority to manual scans over automatic background monitoring.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may comprise: a sensor module, comprising at least one sensor, configured to measure a biometric signal, at least one processor, and a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: receive, while performing a first function, an input for performing a second function using a second biometric signal using a first biometric signal; determine a priority between the first function and the second function, based on a measurement scheme of the second biometric signal specified by the input and a measurement scheme of the first biometric signal; and perform a function having a higher priority, among the first function and the second function, using the sensor module, based on the priority.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable electronic device comprising: a sensor module, comprising at least one sensor, configured to measure a biometric signal; at least one processor comprising processor circuitry functionally connected to the sensor module; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device to: detect, while measuring a first biometric signal by the sensor module, an event for measuring a second biometric signal by the sensor module, determine a priority between the measurement for the first biometric signal and the measurement of the second biometric signal, and based on the priority, perform, using the sensor module, a measurement having a higher priority among the measurement for the first biometric signal and the measurement of the second biometric signal, wherein the higher priority is assigned to the measurement for the second biometric signal rather than the measurement for the first biometric signal, when a measurement scheme for measuring the second biometric signal corresponds to a manual measurement scheme and a measurement scheme for measuring the first biometric signal corresponds to a continuous measurement scheme and/or a periodic measurement scheme.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Method for performing function using biometric signal and electronic device supporting same
- Patent number
- US12730495B2
- Application number
- 18102981
- Filed
- Jan 30, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 18
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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