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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Justin Black, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rashmi Kulkarni, San Carlos, CA (US);

Leonid Sheynblat, Hillsborough, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G01D 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/3293 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G01D 9/005 (2013.01); G06F 1/3293 (2013.01); Y02D 10/122 (2018.01); Y02D 50/20 (2018.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for power-efficiently processing sensor data. In one embodiment, the operations implemented include: configuring a sensor fusion engine and a peripheral controller with a general purpose processor; placing the general purpose processor into a low-power sleep mode; reading data from a sensor and storing the data into a companion memory with the peripheral controller; processing the data in the companion memory with the sensor fusion engine; and awaking the general purpose processor from the low-power sleep mode.


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