Ambient Mode: A Novel Service and Intelligent Control based on User Awareness using BLE and Wi-Fi

In this paper, we introduce a novel service, Ambient Mode, which delivers a functional value to customers when TV is off. Instead of showing a meaningless black screen, the Ambient Mode provides meaningful and emotional background experiences. To mitigate users' concern about the cost of using the Ambient feature, the TV intelligently detects the presence of a person in the room from the registered mobile's BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) signal and Wi-Fi connection to AP (Access Point). If there is no user nearby, the TV intelligently turns off, to save energy (a manual-off timer is available too). To interact with both Android phone and iPhone, we design a general BLE advertisement for Android phone and an iBeacon format for iPhone. On the BLE proximity-based service, the Ambient Mode can be turned off/on based on the BLE signal presence. On the Wi-Fi connection based service for long-range detection, TV can detect mobile's AP connection using ARP (Address Resolution Protocol). The proposed service and intelligent controls have been implemented as real products and launched the service of Ambient Mode in the market.