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20100118212 | Multimedia Playing Method and Multimedia Playing Device Thereof - In a multimedia playing device, a type of a TV program included in a received multimedia signal is determined by analyzing various kinds of channel information or image characteristics included in the multimedia signal. When an automatic audio adjusting mode is activated, an appropriated audio mode for the type is retrieved from an audio mode database to play the multimedia signal. The automatic audio adjusting mode of the multimedia playing device allows better flexibility for a viewer in choosing an audio mode. Therefore, the observer is able to choose between a predetermined audio mode of the received multimedia signal and a preferred audio mode meeting needs of the viewer in listening to the played multimedia signal. | 05-13-2010 |
20100134686 | Automatic OSD Adjusting Device and Method - An automatic OSD adjusting device and the associated method are provided. The device includes a receiving unit, a processing unit, an OSD unit and an OSD adjusting module. The receiving unit receives a video signal. The processing unit is coupled to the receiving unit and processes the video signal to generate a pixel signal. The OSD unit generates an OSD signal. The OSD adjusting module, coupled to the processing unit and the OSD unit, compares the OSD signal with the pixel signal to generate a comparison result, and selectively adjusts the OSD signal according to the comparison result. | 06-03-2010 |
20100272244 | Music Data Processing Method and Electronic Apparatus Using the Same - A music data processing method applied to an electronic apparatus includes obtaining a time data; retrieving a partial music data from an input music data according to the time data; and performing a pre-end-play processing on the partial music data to output an output music data. With the pre-end-play processing performed, the output music data is substantially different from the partial music data. | 10-28-2010 |
20100281511 | Multimedia System and Associated Control Method - A multimedia system and associated control method is provided. The multimedia system includes a remote control, a display device and a multimedia signal generator. A control method of the multimedia system includes steps of transmitting a remote control signal to the display device by the remote control, transmitting a local control signal associated with the remote control signal to the multimedia signal generator, generating an operation command by the multimedia signal generator in response to the local control signal, and executing the operation command by the multimedia signal generator. | 11-04-2010 |
20100283916 | TV Receiver, Associated TV System and TV Control Method - A television (TV) receiver includes a wireless module, a database, a user identification module and a channel selecting module. The wireless module receives a wireless signal carrying an identification (ID) data of a specific user. The database stores channel selecting information corresponding to a plurality of users. The user identification module retrieves channel selecting information corresponding to the specific user from the database according to the ID data of the specific user. The channel selecting module selects a channel according to the channel selecting information corresponding to the specific user. An associated TV system and TV control method are also provided. | 11-11-2010 |
20120036472 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AN INTERACTIVE OBJECT ON A DISPLAY FRAME BY A NUMERIC CONTROLLER - A display control apparatus is applied to generate an interactive object mark on a display apparatus to enable a user to select the interactive object in a display frame via a numeric controller. The display control apparatus includes a content receiving module, for receiving a display control data; a display content processing module, for generating a display frame and display frame position information according to the display contend data; an interactive object selecting module, for determining a target interactive object according to the position information and an interactive object selecting rule; an on-screen display (OSD) module, for generating an interactive object mark corresponding to the target interactive block; and a frame output control module, for combining the display frame and the interactive object mark to output a combined frame to the display apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
20150055015 | VIDEO/AUDIO DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MODULE - A video/audio data processing module is provided. By directly transmitting audio streams of different channels designated by multiple users to mobile devices respectively held by the users, instead of being restricted to a limitation that a digital TV being capable of playing a monophonic audio, the users are enabled to listen to audios of respective desired programs. | 02-26-2015 |
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20090217026 | METHOD FOR CHANGING POWER STATES OF A COMPUTER - A method for changing power states of a computer sends a shutdown event to all running applications before the computer goes to sleep to prevent data loss in a sleep state of the computer. Furthermore, the method stores a system memory image into a flash memory before the computer goes to the sleep state. Moreover, the method restores the system memory image from the flash memory to the system memory when the computer exit the sleep state to come back the work state. | 08-27-2009 |
20130271359 | MULTI-MONITOR DISPLAY SYSTEM - A multi-monitor display system includes a main monitor, at least one secondary monitor, a main input device, at least one secondary input device, a storage module, and a control module. The storage module stores a plurality of display modes of the main monitor and the secondary monitor, and a table that defining the display contents of the main monitor and the at least one secondary monitor in each display mode, which of the at least one secondary input device is enabled in each display mode, and which of the secondary monitor can be operated by the enabled input device in corresponding display mode. The control controls the main monitor and the at least one secondary monitor to display in a selected mode, and controls which of the main input device and the at least one secondary input device to operate the monitors according to the table. | 10-17-2013 |
20130314333 | MULTI-MONITOR SYSTEM AND MULTI-MONITOR CONTROLLING METHOD - An exemplary multi-monitor method includes controlling a first position determining unit and a second position determining unit of a corresponding monitor to emit signals. Then, the method determines which of the first position determining unit and the second position determining unit of the corresponding monitor has received the signal. The method next determines the position of the corresponding monitor among all of the monitors, and determines a new coordinate range of the corresponding monitor in the Cartesian coordinate system. Then the method determines which point has been touched in response to a user touch on the touch unit, and determines the new set of coordinates in the Cartesian coordinate system corresponding to the touched point. Next, the method determines one or more touched monitors, and controls the determined one or more touched monitors to execute the corresponding operation. | 11-28-2013 |
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20090172015 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING MAPPED OBJECTS - An apparatus for playing mapped objects and a method thereof are provided. When a first object is selected to be played, the apparatus for playing mapped objects and the method thereof according to the invention select a target object of a corresponding category from an object categorizing database, and prompt the first object and the target object to be played simultaneously by means of using an object playing unit, thereby accomplishing an effect of playing a plurality of multimedia objects of the same category at the same time. | 07-02-2009 |
20090193470 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, TV DATA DISPLAYING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A data processing method, including: (a) respectively recording usage duration of a plurality of data in a predetermined time period of at least one day to generate a usage time parameter, or respectively recording the number of usage times of a plurality of data in a predetermined time period of at least one day to generate a usage times parameter; and (b) processing the data according to the usage time parameter or the usage times parameter when the data is processed in the predetermined time period of any one day. | 07-30-2009 |
20130057494 | METHOD, TOUCH DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONVERTING TOUCH POINTS INTO CHARACTERS - The disclosure is related to a method, a touch device and a computer program product for converting touch points into characters. In particular, through an input interface, the converting method can be applied to the touch device and the computer program product. The converting method for example includes the following steps of: sensing at least one touch point triggered by a user on the input interface to obtain touch point number information and touch point position information; generating a touch point distribution of the sensed touch point(s) according to the touch point number information and the touch point position information; and determining an input character according to the touch point distribution. | 03-07-2013 |
20130169884 | VOICE CONTROL SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHOD APPLIED TO ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A control method for a voice control system applied to an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: launching a predetermined audio receiving period and lowering an output volume of the electronic apparatus when determining to receive an audio signal for controlling the electronic apparatus; receiving the audio signal and executing a corresponding command; and restoring the output volume of the electronic apparatus when the predetermined audio receiving period ends. The audio signal is for controlling the electronic apparatus. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176504 | REMOTE CONTROLLER WITH DUAL POWER SUPPLY UNITS - A remote controller with dual power supply units is provided. The remote controller controls an electronic apparatus. The remote controller includes a housing, a first sub-system and a second sub-system. The first sub-system is disposed in the housing and includes a first power supply unit for powering the first sub-system. The first sub-system further generates a first signal for controlling the electronic apparatus to perform a first operation. The second sub-system is disposed in the housing and includes a second power supply unit for powering the second sub-system. The second sub-system further generates a second signal for controlling the electronic apparatus to perform a second operation. | 07-11-2013 |
20130322855 | PLAYBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video/audio playback method is provided which can provide simultaneous, multi-language support for consumers of television and multimedia. The method includes steps of: receiving a first playback data and a second playback data; converting first character information in the first playback data into a first audio signal; and simultaneously playing the first audio signal, and a second audio signal corresponding to the second playback data. The first audio signal and the second audio signal respectively correspond to a first playback language and a second playback language. | 12-05-2013 |
20140078405 | BROADCAST METHOD AND BROADCAST APPARATUS - A broadcast apparatus is provided. The broadcast apparatus is signally connected to an input apparatus, which generates a plurality of corresponding control signals according to a plurality of operations. A broadcast method is also provided. The broadcast method includes: receiving one of the control signals; determining identification information and a set of broadcast parameters when the one of the control signals matches a tag; and broadcasting according to the set of broadcast parameters. | 03-20-2014 |
20140143691 | USER INTERFACE GENERATING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A user interface apparatus and associated method are configured to estimate a distance to a user and display a graphic user interface according to the distance, so as to adaptively adjust a display image of the user interface according to the distance. | 05-22-2014 |
20140219472 | SOUND COLLECTING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A sound collecting system includes a plurality of microphones, a distance estimation module and an adjustment module. The distance estimation module estimates a distance to a user to accordingly provide a user distance. The adjustment module adjusts a part or all of the positions of the microphones according to the user distance. | 08-07-2014 |
20150039305 | CONTROLLER FOR VOICE-CONTROLLED DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A controller for a voice-controlled device is provided. The controller includes a setting module and a recognition module. The setting module generates a threshold according to an environmental parameter. The recognition module compares a confident score of speech recognition with the threshold to accordingly execute voice control. | 02-05-2015 |
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20140033129 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DESKTOP APPLICATIONS - A method defines gesture types of touch events on a touch screen of a computing device, and sets associations between the gesture types and touch areas of the touch events and operation instructions stored within a storage device. The computing device displays a window of a desktop application on the touch screen. When a touch event is detected by the touch screen, the method records information in relation to the touch event, determines a touch area and a gesture type of the touch event by analyzing the information, determines an operation instruction corresponding to the touch event according to the touch area, the gesture type, and the preset associations, and executes the operation instruction to perform operations on the window of the desktop application. | 01-30-2014 |
20140047526 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES - In a method for providing cloud computing services using an electronic device, the electronic device connects to a cloud server through a network, and the cloud server connects to a cloud storage system. The electronic device includes a slave operating system (OS), a streamer agent, and a touch screen. The cloud server assigns an IP address and a security code to the electronic device using a hypervisor of the cloud server. The slave OS receives an account and a password inputted from a user operation interface, and verifies whether the account and password are valid according to the security code. The electronic device uploads data to the cloud server by the streamer agent, downloads data from the cloud storage system by the streamer agent, and displays the downloaded data on the touch screen and each display device that is wirelessly connected to the electronic device. | 02-13-2014 |
20140119356 | NFC SERVER AND NFC SERVICE METHOD OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES USING WIFI DIRECT - In a near-field communication (NFC) service method of communication devices using WIFI Direct, each of the communication devices connects to an NFC server through a wireless network. Information of the communication devices is registered to the NFC server, and a service authorization of each of the communication devices is set according to an NFC service rule. A member register list is generated according to the service authorizations of the communication devices. When the communication device has been registered in the member register list, the communication devices are grouped into the communication group according to the service authorizations of the communication devices, so as to accomplish device authorization of the communication devices in the NFC server. A WIFI Direct connection is then established between any two of the communication devices in the communication group to perform a WIFI service for each of the communication devices. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120862 | CLOUD SERVER AND METHOD OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICE - In a method of an emergency response service using a cloud server, the cloud server communicates with a terminal device installed in a vehicle through a wireless network. The terminal device sends driving information of the vehicle to the cloud server through the wireless network. The cloud server determines whether the vehicle is involved in an emergency by analyzing the driving information of the vehicle, and obtains a real-time position of the vehicle from the driving information of the vehicle when the emergency happens to the vehicle. The cloud server generates a telephone contact list including a telephone number of a rescue center nearby the vehicle, generates rescue information according to the basic information and the driving information of the vehicle, and sends the rescue information to the rescue center according to the telephone contact list. | 05-01-2014 |
20140181760 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNLOCKING TOUCH SCREEN THEREOF - A method for unlocking a touch screen of an electronic device includes the following steps. First, touch signals are generated in response to manual touch operations on the touch screen. Second, a shape is identified according to the touch signals. Third, the touch screen is unlocked if the identified shape is substantially the same as a predefined shape, wherein the predefined shape is a shape of two fingertips simultaneously sliding in a direction from up to down on the touch screen. An electronic device equipped for unlocking a touch screen thereof is also provided. | 06-26-2014 |
20140281095 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING THUNDERBOLT CHIP ON MOTHERBOARD - In a method for integrating a thunderbolt (TBT) chip on a motherboard of a computing device, the motherboard includes a PCIe slot, and a platform controller hub (PCH) chip. The computing device includes a PCIe card plugged into the PCIe slot. The PCIe card includes a micro controller unit (MCU), and an EEPROM. The TBT chip, the MCU, and the EEPROM are integrated into the PCIe card. The PCH chip communicates with the TBT chip and the MCU through a system management bus of the motherboard. The method defines a TBT protocol parameter list used in the TBT chip, and sets GPIO parameters to support the TBT chip to perform various TBT protocol functions according to the TBT protocol parameter list. The TBT chip executes a TBT protocol function according to a GPIO signal output from the MCU. | 09-18-2014 |
20140292829 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BACKLIGHTING LCD DISPLAY TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT DISPLAY DEFINITIONS - Electronic device and a method for backlighting a liquid crystal display (LCD) display to provide different display definitions, the LCD display includes a backlight unit composed of one or more backlighting blocks. The method determines a display definition of a video image and illuminates or turns off backlighting blocks of the backlight unit to display the video image accordingly. The video image is displayed in full screen by all backlighting blocks if the video image is an ultra high definition (UHD) image, and turns on a smaller number of the backlighting blocks to display the video image if the video image has other than UHD display definition. As such, the electronic device is controlled to save power consumption in different display definitions of the LCD display. | 10-02-2014 |
20140313204 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING RETINA DISPLAY - In a method for driving a retina display of an electronic device, the electronic device includes a graphics input-output (I/O) driver, a video driver, a graphics engine, an I/O manager, and a video adaptor connected to the retina display. The graphics engine detects a retina resolution of the retina display and a standard resolution of an image currently displayed on the retina display, and analyzes a display ratio of the image displayed on the retina display according to the retina resolution when the retina resolution is greater than the standard resolution. The standard resolution is adjusted to the retina resolution according to an image compensation algorithm, and the video driver controls the video adaptor to display the image on the retina display according to the retina resolution and the display ratio. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313210 | EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT GRAPHICS DEVICE - An exemplary external independent graphics device is capable of processing graphics data of a computer. The external independent graphics device includes a first thunderbolt port, a graphic processing unit, and a control unit. The external independent graphics device communicates with the computer via the first thunderbolt port. The control unit controls the first thunderbolt port to receive the graphics data from the computer, controls the graphic processing unit to process the received graphics data, and controls the first thunderbolt port to transmit the processed graphics data to the computer. | 10-23-2014 |
20140366092 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE STORAGE DEVICE USING THE SAME - A mobile storage device is disclosed. The mobile storage device includes a wireless communication unit configured to allow the mobile storage device to be coupled to a cloud server via a network; a synchronizing unit configured to transmit data between the mobile storage device and the cloud server; and a storage unit configured to store data. | 12-11-2014 |
20150039925 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING AN OPERATING STATUS OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - The computing device calculates a battery level of a battery of the computing device when the computing device is powered by direct current (DC) electricity of the battery. The computing device adjusts an operating system (OS) of the computing device to a sleep mode when the battery is in a warming state. The computing device activates a watchdog (WDT) of a basic input output system (BIOS) to count a predetermined time and saves data into the storage device before the predetermined time ends. | 02-05-2015 |
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20130170369 | CLOCK RATE CONTROLLER AND METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a clock rate control method. Firstly, a usage of a first input first output (FIFO) buffer in an electronic device is detected. Then, whether the usage falls within a first specific interval is determined, wherein the first specific interval has a first upper limit value and a first lower limit value. When the usage is larger than the first upper limit value, a clock rate of the inner device of the electronic device is increased; when the usage is less than the first lower limit value, the clock rate is decreased. | 07-04-2013 |
20140142734 | VIRTUAL SIGNAL SOURCE GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A virtual signal source generating apparatus is provided. The virtual signal source generating apparatus includes at least an audio interface, a control module, a detecting module and a processing module. The control module is used for acquiring an audio signal from a signal source, wherein the audio signal includes a clock information and an audio information. The detecting module is used for detecting whether the audio interface is coupled to the signal source. The processing module is used for transmitting the audio signal. If the detecting module detects that the signal source disappears when the virtual signal source generating apparatus is in the recording mode, the control module transmits a control signal to the processing module so that the processing module transmits a virtual audio signal to a host. | 05-22-2014 |
20140341264 | AUTO-DETERMINING SAMPLING FREQUENCY METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present disclosure provides an auto-determining sampling frequency method. The method is for determining sampling frequency for an input signal of a single wire transmission interface. Each frame of the input signal includes a preamble and binary data presented in a plurality of bits. The method includes utilizing an internal sampling clock to acquire a plurality of period widths of the preamble and the binary data in the input signal and determining range of the sampling frequency according to the detected period widths of the preamble and the binary data. | 11-20-2014 |