Patent ID: 9060090
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: an operating section configured to receive an operation command from an operator; a plurality of human body sensors configured to detect an operator coming close to the electronic apparatus and thus issue a detection signal and disposed at different locations on a front side of the electronic apparatus; a mode shift section configured to, based on a presence or absence of the detection signal from the human body sensor, shift the electronic apparatus from a normal operation mode allowing the electronic apparatus to normally operate to a sleep mode for saving power, or vice versa; an operation recording section configured to, for each of the human body sensors, record as an operation history whether or not the operating section has been operated within a predetermined time of the human body sensor detecting an operator coming close to the electronic apparatus; and a setting section configured to, based on the operation history recorded in the operation recording section, set as a sleep non-cancel sensor uninvolved in cancelling the sleep mode, out of the plurality of human body sensors, a human body sensor for which an operation of the operating section within the predetermined time of detecting an operator coming close to the electronic apparatus occurred with a frequency not higher than a predetermined value, wherein the mode shift section is configured to determine whether or not to cancel the sleep mode based on whether the detection signal is coming from the sleep non-cancel sensor or the human body sensor during the sleep mode of the electronic apparatus, and to maintain the electronic apparatus in the sleep mode when the detection signal is coming from the sleep non-cancel sensor, and shift the electronic apparatus to the normal operation mode when the detection signal is coming from the human body sensor.