Patent ID: 7590871
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: G06F,H02J

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, comprising: an operation mode setting unit configured to set the operation modes; a time zone setting unit configured to set a time zone information for carrying out each operation mode of the electronic apparatus; an operation mode acquisition unit configured to acquire a current operation mode; an operation mode determination unit configured to independently determine whether or not the current operation mode acquired by the operation mode acquisition unit corresponds to a desired operation mode by determining whether or not a current time belongs to a time zone of the acquired current operation mode indicated by the time zone information set by the time zone setting unit; a control unit configured to carry out an operation mode changeover to set the desired operation mode if the operation mode determination unit determines that the current operation mode does not correspond to the desired operation mode; and an operation mode control unit configured to carry out at least one of screen saver control, monitor power control, hard disk power control, and CPU processing speed control based upon the desired operation mode.