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20090114722 | Card Reader With Capability Of Adjusting Access Interface Display - A card reader with capability of adjusting the access interface display is provided, including a connection interface for electrically connecting to the host, a plurality of access interfaces for electrically connecting to corresponding memory cards, such as SD, CF, and a controller. When the host completes the enumeration, the controller issues a disconnect signal through the connection interface to the host to erase the original disk mappings, such as G:, F:, on the display for subsequent adjustment. For adjusting the display, the controller issues an optional reconnect signal belonging to the card reader to the host so that the host can execute the re-enumeration and adjust the displaying of the access interface available in the card reader according to the optional reconnect signal. | 05-07-2009 |
20100122014 | Method For Protecting Memory Proprietary Commands - A method for protecting memory proprietary command is provided. By using the logic block area (LBA) address in the header of the LBA mode, the device end can determine whether the data sector in the LBA mode includes a proprietary command. Also, by using the pre-defined computation function to establish a relation among the values stored in a plurality of characteristic point addresses and a specific point address so that he device end can determine whether a proprietary command is received. As the operating system will not filter out the proprietary command wrapped in this manner, the proprietary command can pass the operating system and be executed by the device end. | 05-13-2010 |
20130145068 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE FOR HIGH-EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION - The present invention discloses a Universal Serial Bus (“USB”) device that includes an Ethernet port configured to receive a first Ethernet packet, and an input control circuit including a data register memory, a header register memory and an input data control circuit. The input data control circuit, upon receiving a first Ethernet packet, stores first packet data of the first Ethernet packet in the data register memory, transmits the first packet data to a USB host, and, in response to the transmission of the first packet data, stores first header data of the first Ethernet packet in the header register memory. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145186 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE CAPABLE OF REMOTE WAKE-UP THROUGH A SPECIAL MASK CIRCUIT - The present invention discloses a Universal Serial Bus (“USB”) device capable of remote wake-up through a special mask circuit. The USB device includes an Ethernet port to transmit a first signal in response to a predetermined network packet, a wake-up pin to transmit a second signal in response to a remote wake-up trigger signal, a remote wake-up circuit to generate a wake-up signal in response to either the first signal or the second signal, and a mask circuit to receive the wake-up signal and delay transmission of the wake-up signal to a remote USB host for a predetermined delay time. | 06-06-2013 |
20130234755 | IMPEDANCE CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD - An impedance calibration device includes: a variable impedance, an operational unit, an analog-digital converter, and a controller. The operational unit receives a first analog signal and a second analog signal, and performs a difference operation to generate an output voltage. The analog-digital converter generates an adjustment code according to the output voltage. The controller is coupled to the analog-digital converter and the variable impedance, and adjusts a resistance value of the variable impedance according to the adjustment code. | 09-12-2013 |
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20120154808 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE OPTIMUM VIEWING DISTANCE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A method for detecting the optimum viewing distance of three-dimensional display is provided, which includes: providing a three-dimensional display having a display screen to display at least a testing pattern thereon; providing a platform with an included angle towards the display screen at a side of the three-dimensional display, wherein the testing pattern on the display screen is suitable to be projected onto the platform; providing an image sensing element over the platform to capture the testing pattern projected on the platform for producing an image frame. The image frame includes at least a first color area and at least a second color area. The first color area partially overlaps the second color area. The non-overlapping areas of the first color area and the second color area are defined as an optimum viewing distance. | 06-21-2012 |
20120188473 | STEREO DISPLAY DEVICE, BACKLIGHT MODULE AND LIGHT SOURCE DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A stereo display device, a backlight module and a light source driving method thereof are provided. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a first light source, and a second light source. The first light source is providing a first spectrum light set to the light guide plate in a first display period of a first frame period. The second light source is providing a second spectrum light set to the light guide plate in a second display period of a second frame period. Effective spectrums of a second red spectrum light, a second green spectrum light, and a second blue spectrum light of the second spectrum light set are different from effective spectrums of a first red spectrum light, a first green spectrum light, a first blue spectrum light of the first spectrum light set. | 07-26-2012 |
20130201096 | DISPLAY METHOD OF AN AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An auto-stereoscopic display device includes N pixel groups for displaying N visual angle images respectively, and an optical element for guiding the N visual angle images to corresponding N position groups respectively, a user located at a first to a (N−1)th position groups receives correct visual angle images, a user located at a Nth position group receives wrong visual angle images. A display method of the auto-stereoscopic display device includes the auto-stereoscopic display device displaying the N visual angle images; the auto-stereoscopic display device determining whether a user is located at the Nth position group; and when a user is located at the Nth position group, the auto-stereoscopic display device shifting the N position groups in order to let no user be located at the Nth position group. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201415 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS - A display apparatus and a liquid crystal lens are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a third electrode layer, and an insulating layer. The liquid crystal layer is between the first and second substrates. The first electrode layer is between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The second electrode layer is between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The third electrode layer is between the second electrode layer and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is driven by the first, second, and third electrode layers and has a refractive index that is first decreased and then increased to define a lens unit. The insulating layer is between the second and third electrode layers. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215102 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES AND METHOD THEREOF - A device for displaying three-dimensional images includes a processor, and a display panel. The processor is used for receiving a three-dimensional image signal, decoding the three-dimensional image signal to image data with a predetermined format, dividing the image data with the predetermined format into a plurality of parallel processing data groups, and executing image processing on the plurality of parallel processing data groups simultaneously. The display panel is used for displaying a three-dimensional image corresponding to the three-dimensional image signal according to image processing results of the plurality of parallel processing data groups. | 08-22-2013 |
20130235002 | AUTO STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An auto-stereoscopic display apparatus includes a liquid crystal lens array and a display panel. The liquid crystal lens array includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate has a plurality of first driving electrodes and a plurality of second driving electrodes. The second substrate is located opposite to the first substrate and has a common electrode. The liquid crystal layer is located between the first substrate and the common electrode of the second substrate. The display panel has a plurality of pixels arranged in array. These pixels are divided into first and second pixels. When the first driving electrodes are enabled, the first pixels display a first left-eye sub-frame, and the second pixels display a first right-eye sub-frame. When the second driving electrodes are enabled, the first pixels display a second right-eye sub-frame, and the second pixels display a second left-eye sub-frame. | 09-12-2013 |
20140083148 | SUSPENDED NUTRITION COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A suspended nutrition composition includes a foamed material, a colloid layer and a nutrient. The foamed material having a plurality of pores includes a starch, a biodegradable polyester and a plasticizer. The pores are formed by bubbles produced from a physical foaming agent. The colloid layer covers a surface of the foamed material. The nutrient is dispersed in the foamed material. | 03-27-2014 |
20140204567 | PLANT ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND PLANT ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - A plant illumination apparatus including a driving unit having a central axis, a first slide base, a second slide base, a light source, and a retractable arm having a retraction-control terminal and light-disposing terminal is provided. The first and second slide bases are disposed on the driving unit. The drive unit simultaneously drives the first and second slide bases to move along the central axis in opposite directions. The retraction-control terminal has a first end and a second end respectively connected to the first and second slide bases and moving therewith. When the first and second ends approach each other, the retractable arm extends so the light-disposing terminal moves away from the retraction-control terminal. When the first and second ends leave each other, the retractable arm retracts so the light-disposing terminal moves toward the retraction-control terminal. The light source is disposed on the light-disposing terminal to illuminate a plant. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205190 | METHOD OF AUTO-DETERMINATION A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FORMAT - A method of auto-determination a three-dimensional image format includes a processor receiving an image signal; the processor capturing a plurality of frames from the image signal; the processor determining whether a red sub-pixel gray-level, a green sub-pixel gray-level, and a blue sub-pixel gray-level of each pixel of a right half side of each frame of the plurality of frames are the same; and the processor determining that the image signal has a two-dimensional image plus depth information three-dimensional image format when the red sub-pixel gray-level, the green sub-pixel gray-level, and the blue sub-pixel gray-level of the pixel are the same. | 07-24-2014 |
20140230503 | PELLETIZED FERTILIZER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing pelletized fertilizer includes the following steps of: mixing a biodegradable material and a water-soluble polymer material to form a first mixture; mixing a polyol, water and a nutrient salt to form a second mixture; mixing the first mixture and the second mixture to form a conglomerating gathered third mixture, and stirring the conglomerating gathered third mixture to form small lumps of the third mixture; spraying probiotic endo spores on the small lumps of the third mixture to form a plurality of fertilizer blocks; heating the fertilizer blocks, and extruding the fertilizer blocks to form a fertilizer strip; and cutting the fertilizer strip to form a plurality of pelletized fertilizer. | 08-21-2014 |
20140376803 | METHOD OF STORING A CONTENT OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method of storing a content of a three-dimensional image includes a processor initializing a register and a maximum number; the processor utilizing a stereo comparison algorithm to generate a depth information map corresponding to each frame of a three-dimensional image signal; the processor obtaining a depth value corresponding to each pixel of each pixel row of the depth information map from the depth information map; the processor generating at least one depth vector corresponding to the pixel row according to a depth value corresponding to each pixel of the pixel row; a counter counting a number of the at least one depth vector; the processor storing the number of the at least one depth vector in the register; the processor comparing the number of the at least one depth vector with the maximum number; and the processor executing a corresponding operation on the register according to a comparison result. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019221 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A speech recognition system includes a server, a data transmission interface and a speech recognition device. The speech recognition device builds a connection with the server through the data transmission interface. The speech recognition device includes a microphone, an output unit and a processing unit. The processing unit transmits received user information to the server through the data transmission interface to obtain a corresponding personal dictionary file. The personal dictionary file is generated according to history of speech recognition result and related data, which is used by others recently. The processing unit receives a voice signal to be recognized through the microphone and converts it into a digital characteristic file according to a voiceprint file of the user. The processing unit searches the personal dictionary file according to the digital characteristic file to obtain a speech recognition result for outputting through the output unit. | 01-15-2015 |
20150027182 | SUSPENDED NUTRITION COMPOSITION - A suspended nutrition composition includes a foamed material, a colloid layer and a nutrient. The foamed material having a plurality of pores includes a starch, a biodegradable polyester and a plasticizer. The pores are formed by bubbles produced from a physical foaming agent. The colloid layer covers a surface of the foamed material. The nutrient is dispersed in the foamed material. | 01-29-2015 |
20150128495 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL PLANTING SYSTEM - A multifunctional planting system includes a supporter and a spraying device. The supporter includes a base and a plurality of lateral walls. The lateral walls are bent from the base to form a sunken structure for storing nutrient solution. The spraying device is disposed on the supporter. The spraying device includes an accommodating structure, a buckling component and a piezoelectric component. The nutrient solution is accommodated inside the accommodating structure. The buckling component passes through the accommodating structure. The piezoelectric component is disposed on a hollow portion of the buckling component. A plurality of tiny apertures are formed on the piezoelectric component. The piezoelectric component receives an electronic signal to generate oscillation. The oscillation transforms the liquid nutrient solution inside the accommodating structure into the gaseous nutrient solution. The gaseous nutrient solution is sprayed via the plurality of tiny apertures, and is condensed to flow into the sunken structure. | 05-14-2015 |
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20120262543 | METHOD FOR GENERATING DISPARITY MAP OF STEREO VIDEO - The present invention utilizes determining the similarity between two adjacent frames to accelerate the computation of disparity maps of a stereo video. In a first stage, color similarity of pixels between the two adjacent frames is estimated. In a second stage, a plurality of feature points is selected from a previous frame, then the corresponding positions is located in a next frame for the feature points, and an average displacement of the feature points between the previous and the next frames is estimated. If the two adjacent frames are determined to be similar, the disparity map of the next frame can be obtained according to the disparity map of the previous frame. In such a manner, the computation of disparity maps of the stereo video can be accelerated. | 10-18-2012 |
20140041430 | PELLETIZED FERTILIZER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a pelletized fertilizer includes the following steps. A water-soluble manure and a colloidal solution are mixed, to form an aqueous solution of a fertilizer, wherein the water-soluble manure is selected from the group consisting of monopotassium phosphate, epsomite, manganous sulfite, boric acid, borax, copper sulfate pentahydrate, white vitriol, ammonium molybdate, urea, ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and potassium nitrate, the colloidal solution is selected from the group consisting of agar, xanthan gum, shellac, guar gum, natto gum, pectin, synthetic hydrogel and PLGA, and the weight percentage of the colloidal solution in the aqueous solution of the fertilizer is between 1.5 and 15%. The aqueous solution of the fertilizer is added into a water within a temperature range between 0 and 4° C., whereby the aqueous solution of the fertilizer is solidified to the pelletized fertilizer. | 02-13-2014 |
20140161309 | GESTURE RECOGNIZING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING A GESTURE - A gesture recognizing device includes an image processing module. The image processing module is adapted to process an image and includes a skin color detection unit adapted to determine whether the area of a skin color of the image is larger than a threshold value; a feature detection unit electrically connected to the skin color detection unit and adapted to determine a hand image of the image; and an edge detection unit electrically connected to the feature detection unit and adapted to determine a mass center coordinate, the number of fingertips and coordinate locations of fingertips of the hand image. | 06-12-2014 |
20140215920 | HYDROPONIC APPARATUS AND COLLECTING DEVICE THEREOF - A hydroponic apparatus and a collecting device are provided. The collecting device includes at least two hollow containers, a connection part and two handles. Each of the hollow containers has an interior adapted to be stuffed with a porous adsorption material. The connection part is adapted to physically connecting one of the hollow containers to next one of the hollow containers in order. The two handles are disposed on the outermost two of the hollow containers. | 08-07-2014 |
20140240303 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a stereoscopic display device and a display method thereof. The stereoscopic display device includes a liquid crystal lens, a display panel, a driving voltage generation unit, and a control unit. The display panel has a display area. The display area includes at least one first two-dimensional display area and at least one hybrid display area. The hybrid display area includes at least one three-dimensional display area and at least one second two-dimensional display area. The control unit controls the first two-dimensional display area to display a first two-dimensional image, the three-dimensional display area to display a three-dimensional image, and the second two-dimensional display area to display a second two-dimensional image. The present invention is capable of displaying the two-dimensional images and the three-dimensional image simultaneously. | 08-28-2014 |
20150082699 | PLANT CULTIVATION DEVICE - A plant cultivation device includes: a planting container having an accommodation space; a planting pan disposed in the accommodation space of the planting container for dividing the accommodation space into a leaf region and a root region; an atomizing sheet disposed in a bottom plate of the planting container, used for performing spraying to the root region of the planting container; and a control circuit board, electrically connected to the atomizing sheet, used for controlling whether the atomizing sheet performs spraying, a nutrient solution tank, used for accommodating a nutrient solution; and a water absorbing material, wherein an end of the water absorbing material is disposed in the nutrient solution tank for taking the nutrient solution of the nutrient solution tank, and the other end of the water absorbing material is in contact with the atomizing sheet. | 03-26-2015 |
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20110158108 | ETHERENT PHYSICAL LAYER TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD - An Ethernet physical layer test system and method, wherein a signal pattern generator is utilized to generate repeatedly a signal pattern frame required by the test items of the Ethernet physical layer according to a transmission procedure of a medium access controller; meanwhile, the signal pattern generator generates a control signal for switching a multiplexer, so as to control the transmission of a signal pattern frame. The Ethernet physical layer receives the signal pattern frame and outputs a test packet to a measurement instrument via a twisted-pair, for testing and analyzing quality of signals output by the Ethernet physical layer. Through the application of this Ethernet physical layer test system and method, the time required for testing the Ethernet physical layer can be effectively reduced, thus simplifying the complexity of an algorithm in testing the Ethernet physical layer. | 06-30-2011 |
20120106861 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD - A compressing method is applicable to compress of an image at a fixed compression ratio, in which the image has a raw data. The compression method includes the steps of receiving the raw data with a predetermined length as a compression unit; compressing the compression unit into a compressed bit stream, wherein a total length of the compressed bit stream being not larger than a target bit stream length; when the total length of the compressed bit stream is smaller than the target bit stream length, appending a dummy code to the compressed bit stream, so that a bit stream length of the compressed bit stream with the dummy code is equal to the target bit stream length; and repeating steps until the raw data is compressed into an image bit stream. | 05-03-2012 |
20120229182 | SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING POWER-ON-RESET SIGNAL - A signal generating apparatus, for generating a power-on-reset signal, including a bias circuit and a power-on-reset signal generating circuit is disclosed. The bias circuit is for generating an output bias voltage, and includes at least one bipolar junction transistor (BJT), wherein a base terminal of the BJT is coupled to a collector terminal of the BJT, and the output bias voltage is related to an emitter-to-base voltage of the BJT. The power-on-reset signal generating circuit is coupled to the bias circuit, and is for generating a duplicated voltage by duplicating the output bias voltage, wherein the power-on-reset signal is generated according to the duplicated voltage. | 09-13-2012 |
20130241601 | High-side driver circuit - The present invention provides a high-side driver circuit including a power transistor, the first transistor, the second transistor, the second capacitor, the second diode, a start-up circuit. The start-up circuit is coupled between a resistor and the second capacitor to complete a gate driving circuit. And, the aforementioned resistor can either be the gate resistance of the power transistor or an external resistor. The design of start-up circuit enables the functionality of the bootstrap capacitor of being charged to a designate voltage level. Thus, the depletion-mode transistor can be controlled to turn on/off without a floating voltage source or a negative voltage source. | 09-19-2013 |
20140320179 | SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING POWER-ON-RESET SIGNAL - A signal generating apparatus, for generating a power-on-reset signal, including a bias circuit and a power-on-reset signal generating circuit is disclosed. The bias circuit is for generating an output bias voltage, and includes at least one bipolar junction transistor (BJT), wherein a base terminal of the BJT is coupled to a collector terminal of the BJT, and the output bias voltage is related to an emitter-to-base voltage of the BJT. The power-on-reset signal generating circuit is coupled to the bias circuit, and is for generating a duplicated voltage by duplicating the output bias voltage, wherein the power-on-reset signal is generated according to the duplicated voltage. | 10-30-2014 |
20150022387 | FEEDFORWARD DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR - A feedforward delta-sigma modulator includes a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter, a digital-to-analog converter, N integrators, a first adder, a second adder, and an optimization zero generation unit, where N is a positive integer. An output terminal of each integrator of the N integrators is coupled to the successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The digital-to-analog converter is coupled between the first adder and the successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The first adder is coupled to an input terminal of a first integrator of the N integrator. The second adder is coupled to an input terminal of a K | 01-22-2015 |
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20140193242 | FAN MODULE - A fan module including a first fan, a second fan and a actuator is provided. The first fan has a first pivot portion and a plurality of first fan blades. Each first fan blade has a first blade face. The second fan has a second pivot portion and a plurality of second fan blades corresponding to the first fan blades. Each second fan blade has a second blade face. The second pivot portion is slidably disposed at a containing cavity of the first pivot portion. The actuator is adapted to drive the first fan to rotate. The first fan is adapted to drive the second fan to rotate. When the second pivot portion protrudes out of the containing cavity, a part of each of the second blade faces does not overlap with the corresponding first blade face along a direction perpendicular to the corresponding first blade face. | 07-10-2014 |
20140298046 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CHARGERS AND CHARGING MANAGEMENT METHODS - Universal serial bus chargers and charging management methods thereof are provided. The universal serial bus charger includes a control unit, a charger module, a universal serial bus interface device, and a switch device. The control unit receives a power management signal and provides a switching signal and a charging signal according to the power management signal. The charger module outputs power and a power suspending signal according to the charging signal and a communications protocol signal, respectively. The universal serial bus interface device operates according to the power, and outputs the communications protocol signal according to a universal serial bus peripheral device connected thereto. The switch device is coupled between the charger module and the universal serial bus interface device, and receives the power. Furthermore, the switch device provides the power to the universal serial bus interface device according to the switching signal. | 10-02-2014 |
20150121095 | HUB DEVICE FOR UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - A hub apparatus for USB and a power management method thereof are provided. The hub apparatus includes at least one USB-PD port, at least one USB port and a control unit. The control unit detects whether the USB-PD port is connected to a first external device and whether the USB port is contacted to a second external device respectively. When the at least one first external device complies with a USB-PD interface and a connecting situation of the at least one first external device and the at least one second external device are changed, the control unit determines a required power supply determination value according to the connecting situation of the at least one first external device and the at least one second external device, and accordingly, the control unit communicates with the first external device to set a power transmission profile of the at least one USB-PD port. | 04-30-2015 |