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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/34 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes turning on, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a global positioning system (GPS) engine to measure a position of the mobile terminal and provide a position-related service using the position measured by the GPS engine; sensing, via a sensor of the mobile terminal, a movement characteristic of the mobile terminal; temporarily turning off the GPS engine when the sensed movement characteristic of the mobile terminal is below a predetermined threshold; and turning back on the GPS engine when then sense movement characteristic is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold.