Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Information processing unit, power-saving management program, and storage medium stored with the power-saving management program
- Patent Title (中): 信息处理单元,省电管理程序和存储有节电管理程序的存储介质
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Application No.: US12576155Application Date: 2009-10-08
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Publication No.: US08386817B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Yamanaka , Fumiaki Hisamatsu
- Applicant: Yasuhiro Yamanaka , Fumiaki Hisamatsu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP
- Priority: JP2008-265791 20081014
- Main IPC: G06F1/00
- IPC: G06F1/00 ; G06F1/32

Abstract:
An information processing unit having an auto power-off function includes: a mode setting means for setting one mode from a plurality of pre-prepared power-saving modes in conformity with input by a user, wherein the plurality of power-saving modes includes a first mode and a second mode, and the first mode and the second mode differ in electricity consumption reduction effectiveness; a determination means for determining whether a non-operated state in which no input operation has been carried out by the user has continued for a predetermined time or longer; a processing execution means for executing internal processing; and a decision means for deciding whether or not to execute the auto power-off function based on the mode set by the mode setting means and internal processing executed by the processing execution means when the determination means has determined that the non-operated state has continued for a predetermined time or longer. A storage medium stores a computer program for power-saving management. A power-saving management method includes a mode setting step, a determination step, a processing execution step, and a decision step.
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