Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090244863 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR MOUNTING HEAT SINK ONTO ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A mounting device ( | 10-01-2009 |
20090251863 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR MOUNTING HEAT SINK ONTO ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic apparatus includes a PCB with a heat generating electronic component disposed thereon, a heat sink, and a mounting device for mounting the heat sink onto the heat generating electronic component. The mounting device includes a mounting frame and a wire clip. The mounting frame surrounds the heat sink, and includes two first mounting arms and two second mounting arms disposed above the first mounting arms. The first mounting arms abut on the PCB. A pair of engaging wings are formed on the second mounting arms. The wire clip includes a pivot axis pivotably attached to the mounting frame and two resilient arms at opposite sides of the mounting frame. The resilient arms abut against the heat sink and engage with the engaging wings, thereby exerting a resilient force on the heat sink toward the heat generating electronic component. | 10-08-2009 |
20090284244 | SYSTEM FOR ACTUATING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system for actuating portable electronic devices includes a power supply circuit for providing an electric potential, a regulating circuit connected to the power supply circuit for regulating the electric potential provided by the power supply circuit, and an actuating circuit connected to the power supply circuit via the regulating circuit. The actuating circuit creating pulse signals to control the regulating circuit and the power supply circuit to create an actuating electric potential, which actuates portable electronic devices connected to the system. | 11-19-2009 |
20100132919 | HEAT SINK - A heat sink includes a plurality of metal fins interconnected together. Each metal fin includes a main plate, a flange extending forwardly from the main plate and an interlocking unit formed on the flange. The interlocking unit includes an engaging ear and a hook. The ear extends rearwards from a rear edge of the flange and defines a locking hole therein. The flange defines a cutout adjacent to a front edge thereof. The cutout is aligned with the ear and recessed rearwards from the front edge of the flange. The hook extends forwardly from the flange and is located within the cutout. The ear of a fin is engaged in the cutout of an adjacent rear fin. The hook of the adjacent rear fin is engaged in the locking hole of the engaging ear of the fin. | 06-03-2010 |
20100171714 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INPUTTING CHARACTERS AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and method for inputting characters in an electronic device partitions the touch panel of the electronic device into a display area and one or more input areas, and sets a corresponding input method for each input area. The system and method further receives input inputted by a user on an input area, and controls other input areas to be inactive when the input area is active. Furthermore, the system and method displays the input on the display area. | 07-08-2010 |
20100276553 | SUPPORT MECHANISM AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A support mechanism for a portable electronic device comprises two legs and a support bracket. The legs are retractably received in the portable electronic device. When the legs are withdrawn from the portable electronic device, the contact shoulder provides linear contact of the portable electronic device on a surface. | 11-04-2010 |
20100295775 | INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An input system and method for enhancing an input interface of an electronic device includes a stylus with a signal transmitting module that sends an interrupt signal to an interrupt module of the electronic device when triggered. The interrupt module identifies the interrupt signal and relays the interrupt signal accordingly in order to perform operations of the electronic device. | 11-25-2010 |
20110034211 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND START UP METHOD THEREOF - A communication device and a starting up method include determining if the communication device has been locked with a designated subscriber identification module (SIM) card, and determining if an acquired unique International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) code of a current SIM card matches a prestored IMSI code of the designated SIM card when the communication device has been locked with a designated SIM card. The communication device and method further include unlocking the designated SIM card with the communication device if the acquired IMSI code does not match the prestored IMSI code, and starting up the communication device. | 02-10-2011 |
20110044136 | ALARM SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An alarm system and method for an electronic device that includes an alarm unit and a setting unit. The alarm system provides alarm management for the electronic device to prevent users from oversleeping. The setting unit is operable to set an alarm mode and an alarm time of the electronic device. The alarm mode includes a normal mode and a non-normal mode. If the electronic device is in the non-normal mode, the alarm unit is activated to ring for a default period at the alarm time and a stop option is disabled, where the stop option is operable to stop the alarm unit from ringing. | 02-24-2011 |
20110063788 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SLIDABLE KEYPAD - A portable electronic device includes a housing, a resisting member and a keypad. The housing has a receiving recess running through two sides of the housing. The resisting member is formed on the bottom of the receiving recess. The keypad has a plurality of receiving cavities formed at the bottom surface. The keypad is hold by engagement of a receiving cavity with the resisting member and can slid by pushing of the keypad until another receiving cavity receives the resisting member. | 03-17-2011 |
20110148668 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A RESISTIVE TOUCH PANEL OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and a method for protecting a resistive touch panel of a communication device includes setting a pressure threshold level, obtaining parameter values of the resistive touch panel and location information of the touch point and calculating the value of the touch resistance. The system and the method further includes confirming a pressure level corresponding to a range of the calculated resistance value, and outputting audio alerts using the alarm unit to prompt that the press action on the resistive touch panel is too forceful if the confirmed pressure level is not lower than the pressure threshold level. | 06-23-2011 |
20110148929 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DISPLAY CONTROL THEREOF - An electronic device comprises a slide detector on a rim of the electronic device to detect a slide gesture. The electronic device determines a rotation command for the slide gesture. If the gesture is clockwise, the corresponding rotation is clockwise and vice versa. Each rotation is 90 degrees to interchange the electronic device between a landscape view and a portrait view. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149099 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE LEVEL DETECTION AND METHOD THEREOF - An image capture device an with adjustable level detection function comprises a controller that determines whether the rotation angle of the image capture device exceeds a predefined angle and terminates an image capture process of the image capture device when the rotation angle exceeds the predefined angle. An image capture module of the image capture device captures images when the rotation angle is within the predefined angle. | 06-23-2011 |
20110191391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA BACKUP IN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system and method automatically backup unsaved data in a communication device if a back cover of the communication device is removed. An identifier of an application of the communication device is received. Based on the received identifier, an application corresponding to the received identifier is registered. If the back cover of the communication device is removed, a save signal is sent to the registered application and the unsaved data of the registered application is saved to a storage unit of the communication device. | 08-04-2011 |
20110316777 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING REGULATION OF BACKLIGHT BRIGHTNESS AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a display module, a function key, a motion sensor, a determination module, and a regulation module. The motion sensor is operable to acquire a coordinate of the electronic device. The determination module is operable to determine whether the electronic device is in the upright position based on the coordinate. The regulation module regulates backlight brightness of the display module when the function key is operative and the specific application is not executed when the electronic device is in the upright position. | 12-29-2011 |
20120100835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READING SMS MESSAGES - A method for reading Short Message Service (SMS) messages using a mobile device, a user can read the SMS messages saved in a mailbox of the mobile device by acquiring a contact entry. The user selects the contact entry in a contact list saved in a memory of the mobile device. Then, the mobile device reads a phone number of the contact entry. Continually, the mobile device acquires the SMS messages from the memory, and reads identifier numbers and the phone numbers of the SMS messages. After comparing procedure, if a phone number of one of SMS messages is the same as the phone number of the contact entry, the mobile device saves an identifier number corresponding to the one of SMS messages to the memory. The mobile device loads the SMS messages corresponding to the identifier numbers saved in the memory into the mailbox. | 04-26-2012 |
20120188282 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE DISPLAYED ON SCREEN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for adjusting an image displayed on a screen of an electronic device uses an accelerometer of the electronic device to measure a rotation angle and a rotation direction of the electronic device when the electronic device is rotated. The electronic device acquires the rotation angle and the rotation direction from the accelerometer and reversely rotates the image relative to the rotation direction by the rotation angle. | 07-26-2012 |
20120259439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STARTING UP APPLICATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for starting up an application of an electronic device, usage histories of applications, which have used an audio channel of the electronic device, are read from a log file of a storage system of the electronic device when a headphone is inserted to a headphone socket of the electronic device and no application previously activated is using the audio channel. A menu list of icons of the applications is displayed on a display of the electronic device. An application selected from the menu list by a user is started up. | 10-11-2012 |
20120266105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING EVENTS WITH OBJECTS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a plurality of objects. The plurality of objects include short message service (SMS) messages, pictures, music, and videos. The electronic device allows user-selected associations between one or more events and a particular user-selected operation behavior of an object. When the selected operation behavior of the object is triggered, the electronic device starts the associated one or more events automatically. | 10-18-2012 |
20120302214 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING UNFINISHED PHONE CALLS - In a method for avoiding interrupting a phone call of a communication device, a prompt mode of the communication device is set for reminding that the phone call is not complete. The method detects whether voice signals from a second communication device is still being received when the communication device generates the phone call with the second communication device. If the communication device is communicating with the second communication device and the receiver has received the voice signal, the method prompts a user that the phone call is not complete according to the prompt mode. | 11-29-2012 |
20120314976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE FILES OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a system and method for processing images, a double-sided image format is set, and a new file with the double-sided image format is established. Specific content identifying the double-sided image format is written into a name domain of the new file, and data of a first image file is written as front image data into a data domain of the new file. The system further writes data of a second image file as back image data into the data domain after the front image data. Memory position of the front image data in the new file may be written into a front description domain of the new file according to a first byte number of the front image data. Memory position of the back image data may be written into a back description domain according to a second byte number of the back image data. | 12-13-2012 |
20130007521 | SYNCHRONOUS TEST CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING TESTING DEVICE - A system and method for controlling a synchronous test in a testing device include inserting a synchronous command into a test program of the testing device, and defines a first synchronous data and a second synchronous data for the testing device. When the synchronous command is executed by the test program, the method sends a pause command to suspend the test program and to send the first synchronous data into the shared file of a host device. The testing device monitors whether the second synchronous data exists in the shared file, when sending the first synchronous data to the host device. If the second synchronous data is monitored in the shared file, the method informs a processor of the testing device to execute the test program continually. | 01-03-2013 |