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20080284741 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE NAVIGATIONAL MECHANISMS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics and associated methods are disclosed. The electronic devices can include a sensing component that senses a touch from an input mechanism and an input circuitry that measures at least one parameter of the touch from the sensing component. The electronic devices can also include a processor that performs an analysis of the measured at least one parameter of the detected touch and causes the user interface to navigate on the display based on the performed analysis. | 11-20-2008 |
20080284743 | Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics, and associated methods - Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics and associated methods are disclosed. The electronic devices can include a touch sensing component that senses a touch from an input mechanism and an input circuitry that measures at least one parameter of the touch from the touch sensing component. The electronic devices can also include a processor that performs an analysis of the measured at least one parameter of the detected touch and implements preselected operational characteristics of the electronic device based on the performed analysis. | 11-20-2008 |
20100159998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING OPERATING MODES IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system for automatically changing the operating mode of a mobile device in response to changes in positioning or the use of the device includes multiple sensors that provide information relating to the mobile device and its environment. The sensors determine positioning information, incident light intensity, and object proximity and detect the presence of a pointer device. The system monitors the sensors and applications executed by the operating system. Based on the monitoring, the system changes the operating mode of the mobile device. | 06-24-2010 |
20130176266 | Portable Electronic Apparatus and Touch Sensing Method - The invention discloses a touch sensing method and a portable electronic apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a capacitive touch sensor unit, an acoustic touch sensor unit and a processing unit. The capacitive touch sensor unit and the acoustic touch sensor unit are used for monitoring a touch input interface. When both of the capacitive touch sensor unit and the acoustic touch sensor unit sense a touch input on the touch input interface at the same time and in response generate a first sensed coordinate and a second sensed coordinate respectively, the processing unit selects or executes an application function on the touch input interface according to the first sensed coordinate. | 07-11-2013 |
20140139443 | Touch Sensing Method and Portable Electronic Apparatus - A touch sensing method and a portable electronic apparatus are disclosed in this invention. The portable electronic apparatus includes a display module, a touch module and a processing unit. The display module is used for displaying a user interface. The user interface includes a plurality of interface layers. Each of the interface layers has a layer depth index respectively. The touch module is used for sensing a touch input. The processing unit is used for mapping the touch input to one of the interface layers according to the touch input and the layer depth indices of the interface layers, so as to select or execute an application function on the one of the interface layers. | 05-22-2014 |
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20080284752 | Delay judgment systems and methods - Delay judgment systems and methods are provided. The system comprises an input device and a processing module. The processing module receives and buffers a plurality of inputs via the input device within a specific time period, where each input comprises an input property. After the specific time period, the processing module performs a determination according to the input properties of the respective inputs. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288681 | Devices with multiple functions, and methods for switching functions thereof - Devices with multiple functions and methods for switching functions thereof are provided. The device comprises a plurality of hardware components, a plurality of functional modules, an input device, and a processing module. Each functional module corresponds to one of the functional connecting configurations for the hardware components. The processing module executes one of the functional modules and drives the hardware components according to the functional connecting configuration corresponding to the executed functional module. The processing module determines whether to generate a switch command according to an input command received by the input device. When the switch command is generated, the processing module directly terminates the functional module being currently executed and adjusts to execute another functional module, and drives the hardware components according to the functional connecting configuration corresponding to the functional module to be executed. | 11-20-2008 |
20090171564 | SATELLITE NAVIGATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A satellite navigation method and system are provided. The system includes a global position system (GPS) module, an input unit, a picture database, a geographical information system (GIS) module, an integrating unit, and a display unit. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, a navigation area is determined through the input unit, so as to search out several picture batches in the navigation area from the picture database. Next, a map relating to the navigation area is provided by the GIS module. Then, the picture batches and the map are integrated by the integrating unit to produce an integrated map shown on a first frame of the display unit. Afterwards, several pictures of the picture batch chosen from the first frame displayed on a second frame and satellite navigation information of the picture chosen from the second frame are displayed on a third frame by the display unit. | 07-02-2009 |
20120176236 | EVENT NOTIFICATION METHOD AND PORTABLE APPARATUS WITH EVENT NOTIFICATION FUNCTION - An event notification method and a portable apparatus with event notification function are provided. The method comprises the following steps: A notification event is detected. Whether the notification event is read after no operation is applied to an electronic device for a first time interval is determined. If not, whether the electronic device changes to a second moving state from a first moving state and maintains the second moving state for a second time interval is determined. If so, a notification signal indicating the occurrence of the notification event is outputted. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185803 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT OF THE SAME - A portable electronic device, a control method and a computer program product of the same are provided for providing a shortcut on a lock screen of the portable electronic device. The control method includes the following steps. An application usage history of a number of applications of the portable electronic device is stored. At least one of a current time and a current location of the portable electronic device is obtained. A most-likely-used application is determined from the applications according to the application usage history and at least one of the current time and the current location. A shortcut icon of the most-likely-used application is displayed on the lock screen of the portable electronic device. The most-likely-used application is opened when the portable electronic device is unlocked from the lock screen via a shortcut icon. | 07-19-2012 |
20130283283 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An application usage history of a plurality of applications installed on the portable electronic device is logged. The application usage history includes any combination of when the applications are launched, where the application are launched and application launch patterns. Any combination of a current time information, a current location information and a current application launch pattern are obtained. The applications are selected to provide the application list including at least one application that is possible to be launched according to the application usage history and any combination of the current time information, the current location information and the current application launch pattern. | 10-24-2013 |