Patent ID: 10613619

Abstract:
Techniques and apparatuses are described that provide an ultra-low power mode for a low-cost force-sensing device. These techniques extend battery life of the device by minimizing power consumption for potential wake-up events. To do this, a high-pass filter (e.g., differentiator) is used to evaluate sensor signals in a time domain to provide an estimate of a rate of change of the signal. When the rate of change of the signal deviates from a baseline value by a threshold amount, then a microcontroller is woken to evaluate a large number of historical samples, such as 200 or more milliseconds worth of historical data. If a human gesture is not recognized, then the microcontroller returns to an idle state, but if a human gesture is recognized, then a high-power application processor is woken to execute an application configured to perform an operation mapped to the human gesture.