Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080267015 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC TURNOFF METHOD FOR THE SAME - An electronic device includes an input unit for generating control signals according to operations of a user, a power supply unit for supplying power to the electronic device, a first timer for measuring and signaling the end of a first time interval by outputting a first end signal, a second timer for measuring and signaling the end of a second time interval by outputting a second end signal, a notifier for generating a notice signal based on a notice file, and a controller. The controller is for restarting the first timer and disabling the second timer whenever receiving one of the control signals, restarting the second timer and enabling the notifier when receiving the first end signal, and disabling the power supply unit when receiving the second end signal. A related automatic turnoff method for automatically turning off an electronic device is also disclosed. | 10-30-2008 |
20080281447 | WIRELESS EARPHONE, AUDIO PLAYER, AND AUDIO PLAYING METHOD - A wireless earphone is provided herein. The wireless earphone includes a transceiver, a storage unit, a playing unit, and a speaker. The transceiver is for wirelessly receiving a compressed audio file. The storage unit is for storing the compressed audio file. The playing unit is for decoding the compressed audio file stored in the storage unit, and transforming the decoded audio file into analog audio signals. The speaker is for transforming the analog audio signals into sound. An audio player and an audio playing method are also provided. | 11-13-2008 |
20090027526 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor includes a pixel array arranged with a plurality of pixel units configured for converting optical image information to electrical signals. Each pixel unit is divided into a plurality of first sensing portions and second sensing portions. Each second sensing portion has different effective sensing area for sensing lights from effective sensing area of each first sensing portion. | 01-29-2009 |
20090102804 | TOUCH-BASED APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A touch-based apparatus includes a display screen, a sensitive screen, and a micro processing unit. The sensitive screen and the display screen are coupled to the micro processing unit. The display screen is used for displaying images or icons. The sensitive screen is used for detecting positional coordinate of the touched portion. The micro processing unit is used for calculating an area of the touched portion according to the positional coordinate, and adjusting a display ratio of the images and icons based on the calculated areas. | 04-23-2009 |
20120066532 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SAVING ENERGY THEREOF - An electronic device includes a dynamic memory, a static memory, a detection unit, a copy unit and a set unit. The dynamic memory stores an interrupt monitoring program. The interrupt monitoring program monitors whether an interrupt request is generated, and generates an interrupt signal when the interrupt request is generated. The detection unit detects whether the electronic device needs to enter a sleep mode, and generates a detection signal if the electronic device needs to enter the sleep mode. The copy unit copies the interrupt monitoring program from the dynamic memory to the static memory in response to the detection signal, and runs the interrupt monitoring program in the static memory for monitoring whether an interrupt signal is generated. The set unit sets the dynamic memory into a self-refresh mode in response to the detection signal. | 03-15-2012 |
20120075480 | VIDEO TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video testing system tests the performance of a video player. The video player plays a predetermined video having video characteristics that correspond to the to-be-tested performance of the video player. The testing system includes a capturing member, a decomposition unit, an analysis unit, and a determination unit. The capturing member captures the video played by the video player. The decomposition unit decomposes the captured video into a sequence of frames according to a predetermined playback speed of the video player. The analysis unit selects frames of the captured video, and compares the selected frames to analyze video characteristic parameters of the captured video. The determination unit determines whether there is a difference between the video characteristic parameters of the captured video and standard characteristic parameters of the predetermined video is below a predetermined range to obtain the performance of the video player. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076474 | VIDEO PLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD - A video playing device includes a playing unit, a selection unit, a comparison unit, and an acquisition unit. The playing unit is adapted to play a video stored in a memory which is further used for storing a unique identifier of each frame of the video. The selection unit selects two sequential frames of the video from the memory. The comparison unit compares the two selected sequential frame to determine whether the two selected sequential frames are the same, and generates an acquisition signal when it is determined that the two selected sequential frames are not the same. The acquisition unit acquires the unique identifiers of the selected frames from the memory in response to the acquisition signal. The playing unit is further adapted to play the video stored in the memory according to the acquired unique identifiers. | 03-29-2012 |
20120170866 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE COMPARISON METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure relates to an electronic device with image comparison function and an image comparison method utilized in the electronic device. The method includes loading a multimedia file in response to a first input signal and processing the multimedia file to form a two-dimensional array of each image and generate pixels of each image, acquiring a selection reference value in response to a second input signal and selecting an image comparison algorithm according to the acquired selection reference value, and comparing with the pixels of two adjacent images according to the selected image comparison algorithm and obtaining a comparison result. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173010 | PRODUCT LINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method testing the quality of products applied to a system is provided. Each product includes a unique identification number. The system includes a data storage device and test devices. The data storage device includes a first table recording identification numbers, test types, and test results, each test device stores a second table records the identification numbers and the test types. The method includes: obtaining the identification number; obtaining the test type; determining whether a test type previous to the test type exists; and generating first information to prompt the operator to return the to-be-tested product to the workstation of previous test type when the test result corresponding to the existed previous test type does not exist or the test result corresponding to the existed previous test type is a first value. | 07-05-2012 |
20120192060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING HTML DOCUMENTS IN AN HTML DOCUMENT UPDATING DEVICE - An HTML document updating method implement for an HTML document updating device is provided. The device includes a storage system to store at least one HTML document of a given webpage. The method includes: first saving an input given website address as a URL of a webpage. Then, obtaining a HTML document of the given webpage at every time interval. Next, analyzing the currently obtained HTML document and a saved HTML document, obtaining HTML elements of the currently obtained HTML document and the HTML elements of the saved HTML document, and updating the HTML element of the saved HTML document of the given webpage with the corresponding HTML element of the currently obtained HTML document of the given webpage when the HTML element of the saved HTML document of the given webpage does not match the corresponding HTML element of the currently obtained HTML document of the given webpage. | 07-26-2012 |
20120239614 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA IN DATABASE - A method for managing data in a database includes loading data in a database to an office software based document template pre-configured in a server to generate a corresponding office software based document, and modifying and updating the data in the database through implementing a program by use of the office software based document. | 09-20-2012 |
20130162603 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TOUCH INPUT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A touch input control method comprising steps is provided: displaying an interface comprising at least one object; gathering signals as to actual touches for calibration purposes. In use, calculating coordinates of the touch; determining whether the coordinates of the actual touch match the predetermined touch coordinates of the object; creating an adjustment signal if the coordinates of the touch is not the same as the predetermined touch coordinates of any object; determining which finger used for touch input, and retrieving a touch offset direction and a touch offset distance of the determined finger of the user from a calibration database; and applying compensation to the coordinates of the touch, so as to determine the touched object. An electronic device using the touch input control method is also provided. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173251 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A natural language analysis method for an electronic device is provided. The language analysis method includes the steps of: receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textual information; segmenting the textual information into a number of vocabulary segments, each vocabulary segment including a number of separated vocabularies; retrieving the use frequency of each of vocabulary, sorting the vocabulary segments, and obtaining a first sorting of the number of vocabulary segments into descending order; segmenting the textual information into a number of sentence segmentations; obtaining a second sorting of the vocabulary segmentations, according to the number of sentence segmentations and the number of vocabulary segment results; and determining a reply to the textual information, according to the topmost result after the second sorting. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173252 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A language analysis method for an electronic device storing a basic corpus and a temporary corpus is provided. The language analysis method includes steps of receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textualized information; analyzing the textualized information; obtaining a first understanding result according to the basic corpus, the vocabulary segmentation results, and the sentence segmentation results; determining whether the first understanding result is an appropriate understanding according to the context; determining one or more anaphoric vocabularies when the first understanding result is an inappropriate understanding; determining a temporary understanding result of the one or more anaphoric vocabularies and a second understanding result of the textualized information according to the context; and determining a reply for the textualized information, according to the second understanding result, the basic corpus, and the temporary corpus. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 07-04-2013 |
20130232139 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATION CONTENT - An electronic device includes a database, a display, and several program modules executable by a processor. The program modules include a query receiving module to receive a search query from a user, a query analyzing module to analyze the received search query and determine a content of interest associated with the search query and associated content associated with the content of interest. Also include are a search module to search for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest in the database, a sorting module to sort the search results retrieved by the search module according to the number of times that the search has been conducted before, and a result presenting module to present the sorted search results according to a screen size of the display. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242200 | MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING RESPONSE TIME OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for calculating response time of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: obtaining a video file recording a process of change of interface displayed from an original interface to a new interface chosen by a user, the video file comprises a series of video frames; searching for a key video frame among all the video frames of the video file, the image of the key video frame indicates the point of demarcation between the original interface and the new interface displayed; and calculating a time interval from a first video frame of the video file to the key video frame, according to timestamps of the first video frame and of the key video frame, so as to determine the actual response time of the electronic device. A related measuring device is also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251190 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING WATERMARK INTO IMAGE - A method of embedding a binary watermark into an image and a computer applied such are disclosed. The binary watermark is transformed to a watermark sequence consisting of K binary numbers and the image is converted into a grayscale image, being segmented into several sections. K sections are selected randomly while each selected section corresponds to one of the binary numbers of the watermark sequence. In relation to each selected section, a sum of a first part of the pixels and a sum of a second part of the pixels is compared. Each of the selected sections having their result of comparison being made to correspond to corresponding binary number in accordance with a predefined correlation results in the binary watermark being embedded into the image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254654 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA SOURCE CONTROL CONVERSION - A computerized method implemented by a computing device that converts two one-dimensional data source controls into a single two-dimensional data source control. A target webpage having at least two one-dimensional data source controls is loaded from a storage of the computing device. Reference information of a first control and a second control of the target webpage are acquired, and one-dimensional data source and columns of each of the first control and the second control are acquired according to the reference information. The first control and the second control are converted into the single two-dimensional data source control according to the one-dimensional data source and columns of each of the first control and the second control. The first control and the second control are deleted from the target webpage, and the two-dimensional data source control is displayed on the target webpage. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY - A semantic ambiguity reduction system deconstructs the sentence into a number of basic word units according to predetermined word definitions and semantic logic rules. The semantic ambiguity reduction system acquires the semantic judgments based on the basic word units and the semantic logic rules, stores the semantic judgment if only one semantic judgment of the sentence is acquired, and determines a number of keywords of a semantic ambiguity if more than one semantic judgment is acquired. The semantic ambiguity determines critical information by searching the keywords in the word definitions and the semantic judgments being stored, and selects one semantic judgment from the more than one semantic judgment about the sentence according to the critical information. | 10-03-2013 |
20130266130 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE OF MISSED INCOMING CALL - A computerized method is implemented by a communication device for evaluating levels of importance of missed incoming calls. One or more reference parameters in relation to incoming calls received by the communication device are defined, a function for evaluating levels of importance of the missed incoming calls is formed using the one or more reference parameters. When an incoming call is received by the communication device, whether the received incoming call is missed is determined If the received incoming call is missed, the one or more reference parameters in relation to the received incoming call are obtained. A level of importance of the missed incoming call is evaluated by applying the obtained one or more reference parameters to the function. | 10-10-2013 |
20130318596 | PASSWORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A computerized method manages passwords to unlock an electronic device from a standby mode by taking changed GPS coordinates of a location of the electronic device and utilizing the changed coordinates in preset formulas to establish and require a new password in substitution for a current password, to allow unlocking of the electronic device. | 11-28-2013 |
20130330005 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SEQUENTIAL CODE - A character recognition method to apply one or more user-controlled definitions to scanned writing is implemented by an electronic device. The electronic device includes an image capturing device where a recognition rule is set for recognizing a type of a sequential code according to an arrangement rule of characters of the type of sequential codes. A first sequential code is extracted from a captured image of an object having a sequential code and when the first sequential code does not match with the recognition rule, the first sequential code is corrected according to the preset recognition rule to obtain a second sequential code for matching with the recognition rule. | 12-12-2013 |
20130338811 | MATRIX PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A matrix production system for a production line includes a plurality of processing units, a controller, and a plurality of detectors. Each processing unit covers a plurality of stations having the same or similar functions. Each station has a detector. The controller sets an initial flowchart during process of industrial production and a known first reference capacity for each station. A current number of workpieces at each station is detected. The controller compares the current number with the first reference capacity to determine an overburdened station or otherwise and then analyzes a running state of overburdened station determined as being overburdened to establish a malfunctioning station, and if malfunctioning, switches the flow of workpieces from the malfunctioning station to a station with the greatest amount of available or free capacity. | 12-19-2013 |
20140002672 | TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING SAME | 01-02-2014 |
20140169672 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SIMILARITY BETWEEN TWO IMAGES - A computerized method determines a similarity between a first image and a second image. The first image is converted into a first grayscale image, and the second image is converted into a second grayscale image. A first feature vector of the first grayscale image and a second feature vector of the second grayscale image are extracted. A similarity value is calculated indicating the similarity between the first image and the second image according to the first feature vector and the second feature vector. If the similarity value is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold, the first image is similar to the second image and a determination result is outputted denoting the first image is similar to the second image. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181846 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND WEB SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A method manages a web system having a plurality of sub-systems using a computing device. A web project is created for the web system and is stored in a storage of the computing device. Each of the sub-systems has a directory created under the web project. Programs of each sub-system are compiled to generate a dynamic link library (DLL) document of each sub-system. The DLL document of each sub-system is written into a corresponding directory under the web project. | 06-26-2014 |
20140245286 | APPLICATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SAME - A system and method used in an electronic apparatus for managing a number of applications installed in the electronic apparatus. The application managing system includes a detection module and an uninstall module. The detection module detects usage states of each application at every predetermined time period and determines unused application(s) in the predetermined time period according to the usage states of the applications. The uninstall module uninstalls the unused application(s). The usage states of each application include times the application was used in the predetermined time period and/or a last time the application was activated in the predetermined time period. | 08-28-2014 |
20140310687 | DATABASE SERVER AND PROGRAM PACKAGE INTEGRATING METHOD - A database server communicates with a plurality of client devices. Each of the client devices is used to create a program package to cooperatively develop a software project. An integrating package is created in a storage of the database server. When two or more client devices simultaneously access the integrating package, a storage region is created for each of the two or more client devices in a storage space of the integrating package. When the two or more client devices write the program package to the integrating package, the program package of each of the two or more client devices is automatically written into a corresponding storage region. | 10-16-2014 |
20140320320 | VEHICLE DETECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle detecting system, a vehicle detecting method adapted for a vehicle, and a computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program are disclosed. The system controls two cameras to capture images in the front of the vehicle and at the back of the vehicle respectively, according to a speed and a direction of the vehicle. The system further determines whether or not two images from each camera are the same, if the two images from each camera are different, the vehicle is in a dangerous driving condition, and when times of the dangerous driving condition within a preset time period reaches a preset value, the system outputs a warning to prompt a driver. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324225 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES - A household appliance control method sets a number of orientations of a number of household appliances in a particular area. Each orientation corresponds to one of the household appliances. A sliding operation applied to a touch screen of an electronic device is obtained. When a direction of the sliding operation matches the orientation of one of the household appliances, a control signal is sent to a corresponding household appliance to control the household appliance to perform a corresponding function. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331208 | COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR DEBUGGING PROGRAM - A computer-implemented method for debugging a program includes responding to user input to debug a program step by step. The debugging information of each line of the program is temporarily stored. Request available stored debugging information is displayed according to user input. Any stored debugging information is deleted when debugging of the program is finished. | 11-06-2014 |
20140351944 | SOFTWARE PROTECTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A software protecting system existing as an independent program in an electronic device protects against misuse of new software to be installed. The protecting system includes an invoking module and an input/output setting module. The invoking module invokes the genuine software in response to user input but the input/output setting module sets input/output functions of the genuine software when the genuine software is run to prevent complete of peripheral functionality during any trial period of use. An electronic device with the software protecting system is also provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358622 | WORK STATION ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for arranging work stations arranges a number of work stations of different types in a predetermined area, and calculates a number of each type of work station to ensure that a total production efficiency of each type of work station can reach a predetermined production efficiency. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359368 | TESTING SCHEDULING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A testing scheduling system for optimizing and scheduling a testing path among a plurality of available work station calculates a distance between work stations according to the coordinates of the of the available work stations, assigns a value to a quantity, and applies this to the failure rate of each work station, the backlog quantities of each work station, the test-awaited quantities, and the distances between each available work station to acquire a failure rate value, a backlog quantities value, a test-awaited quantities value, and a distances value. The testing scheduling system further calculates a first weighted value of each available work station by summing the failure rate value, the backlog quantities value, the test-awaited quantities value, and the distances value of each available work station, and analyzes the first weighted values to determine a preferred work station. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365262 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND AGENDA REMINDING METHOD - In an agenda notification method of an electronic device, an applicable reminding time period and an alarm time is set for each of one or more agendas created in the electronic device. A movement state of the electronic device is detected in real-time to determine whether the movement state of electronic device changes from a static state to a moving state. When the movement state of the electronic device changes from the static state to the moving state and a current time is within the applicable reminding time period of an agenda, a notification is output to remind a user. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365445 | SERVER WITH FILE MANAGING FUNCTION AND FILE MANAGING METHOD - A server communicates with a number of terminal devices. Each terminal device stores a file having a same file name. The server generates a trace log. The trace log records modification of the file in each of the terminal devices. The server further determines whether or not one of the terminal devices opens the file, searches in the trace log according to the file name of the file to find all the modifications corresponding to the file, determines the latest modification among all the modifications in the terminal devices according to the modification time corresponding to each of the found modifications, and displays at least a part of content of the found latest modification in the terminal device which currently runs the file. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365646 | NETWORK CONNECTION MANAGING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure provides a device and a method for managing network connection. The device is used to connect a number of external devices to a network, and stores a plurality of pieces of network configuration information. The method includes detecting whether one or more external devices requests to connect to the network via the device; and determining the configuration information corresponding to each external device, configuring the allowed external devices and connecting the configured external devices to the network according to the determined network configuration information. A network connection managing system is further provided. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372779 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POWER SHUTDOWN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A control system for power shutdown of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sound monitor. The sound monitor monitors a decibel level of sound generated by surrounding environment. The control system includes a sound acquiring module, a first determining module, and a control module. The sound acquiring module acquires the decibel level of the sound from the sound monitor. The first determining module determines whether or not the acquired decibel level of the sound is within a predetermined range. The control module controls the electronic device to enter a shutdown state when the acquired decibel level of the sound is within the predetermined range. An electronic device and a method for power shutdown are also provided. | 12-18-2014 |
20140375442 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES - An electronic device communicates with a plurality of household appliances to execute a method to control the household appliances. A reference orientation of each household appliance relative to the electronic device is obtained and stored in a storage. When an acceleration of the electronic device exceeds a predetermined value, a movement orientation of the electronic device is detected and one or more household appliances having the reference orientation matching the movement orientation of the electronic device are displayed in a selectable image via a display. One or more household appliances selected from the selectable image can be controlled to perform corresponding functions using the electronic device according to user operations. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376882 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH VIDEO ANALYZING FUNCTION AND VIDEO ANALYZING METHOD - A computer-implemented video analyzing method includes dividing a video into a plurality of sections. The similarity value of the first frame and the last frame of each section is greater than zero. A representative frame is selected from each section, and the similarity value of each two representative frames is computed. Two sections the similarity of whose representative frames is the greatest are combined into one section. The recording time of the first frame and the recording time of the last frame of each section is determined if the similarity value of representative frames of each two adjacent sections is zero. | 12-25-2014 |