This invention is a wearable device which helps a person to track their food intake as part of a system for nutritional intake monitoring and management. This invention can be embodied in a smart watch and/or wrist band with a camera, a display and/or camera viewfinder, a spectroscopic sensor, and an eating detector. The eating detector can be an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a microphone, or an EMG sensor. The camera and/or the spectroscopic sensor can be automatically activated when the person eats food, but otherwise remain off to help maintain privacy.

Embodiments of systems and methods for platform framework arbitration are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: provide, from a platform framework to an arbitration object via an Application Programming Interface (API), a plurality of runtime objects; receive, by the platform framework from the arbitration object via the API, an indication of an arbitration result with respect to the plurality of objects; and convey, from the platform framework to a participant via the API, the indication of the arbitration result.

When a power state of an image forming apparatus is switched to a sleep state based on occurrence of an event, during a predetermined period after the occurrence of the event, the image forming apparatus does not return from the sleep state in a case where a return-from-sleep event corresponding to pressing a touch panel or pressing a key occurs, and returns from the sleep state in a case where a return-from-sleep event corresponding to an event other than pressing the touch panel and pressing the key occurs.

When a power state of an image forming apparatus is switched to a sleep state based on occurrence of an event, during a predetermined period after the occurrence of the event, the image forming apparatus does not return from the sleep state in a case where a return-from-sleep event corresponding to pressing a touch panel or pressing a key occurs, and returns from the sleep state in a case where a return-from-sleep event corresponding to an event other than pressing the touch panel and pressing the key occurs.

Methods and apparatus to implement always-on context sensor hubs for processing multiple different types of data inputs are disclosed. An examples apparatus includes a first processor core to implement a host controller, and a second processor core to implement an offload engine. The host controller includes first logic to process sensor data associated with an electronic device when the electronic device is in a low power mode. The host controller is to offload a computational task associated with the sensor data to the offload engine. The offload engine includes second logic to execute the computational task.

Operation of a head-mounted wearable device is responsive to whether a state of the device is being worn (donned) or not worn (doffed) on the head. The device may operate in a first mode while donned and a second mode while doffed. A capacitive sensor device having an electrode positioned in a bridge of the device provides output data. The output data is processed to determine a baseline value. Later, acquired output data is compared to the baseline value to determine don/doff data indicative of whether the device is donned or doffed. Data from other sensors, may also be used in conjunction with the output data to improve accuracy of the don/doff data. For example, if the output data is above the baseline value and accelerometer data is indicative of motion greater than a motion threshold, the don/doff data may be designated as donned.

A power consumption control method includes obtaining, by a wireless access device, characteristic data of one or more first components, where the characteristic data indicates a running status of the wireless access device; determining, by the wireless access device, target power consumption statuses of a plurality of second components based on the characteristic data; and adjusting, by the wireless access device, power consumption statuses of the second components based on the target power consumption statuses.

Provided are a control and apparatus for a wearable device, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The wearable device has a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The first operation mode is a mode for running a first system and a second system. The second operation mode is a mode for running only the second system. The first operation mode has a higher power consumption than the second operation mode. The control method includes: obtaining user behavior data (102), determining a user behavior status based on the user behavior data (104), and switching, in response to detecting that the user behavior status is a sleep status, the wearable device from the first operation mode to the second operation mode (106).

A power-management scheme where when a system-on-chip (SoC) is in an active state, control and monitoring logic or circuitry turns off all wake logic or circuits for various associated intellectual property (IP) blocks. Based on user defined operating system power manager (OSPM) policies, OSPM kicks off an interrupt to the control and monitoring logic or circuitry to turn off or power gate the wake logic for individual IP blocks in the SoC. As such, wake logic that are idle in active state (e.g., S0 state) and would otherwise draw power in the S0 state are now turned off, thus saving power and/or extending battery life for the system. When the SoC is in a low power state, then the control and monitoring logic or circuitry selectively turns on the wake logic for the associated IP blocks based on detected user presence for the computing system having the SoC.

A bus repeater includes first and second bus ports, a first termination resistor network coupled to the first bus port, a second termination resistor network coupled to the second bus port, and a power state change detection circuit coupled to the second bus port. The power state change detection circuit is configured to detect a power state change initiated by a device coupled to the first bus port. The detection of the power state change includes a determination that a voltage on the second bus port exceeds a threshold. Responsive to detection of the power state change, the power state change detection circuit is configured cause a change in a configuration of at least one of the first or second termination resistor networks.