Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110141145 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD CAPABLE OF ZOOMING IMAGES - An electronic device includes a display screen, a processing unit, and a touch panel. The touch panel includes touch sensitive units, and each touch sensitive unit can be identified by an unique coordinate. The processing unit determines whether first two touch sensitive points are touched at the same time, and further determines whether two more touch sensitive points are also touched at the same time within a preset time interval. The processing unit calculates distance between the first two touched points and then a distance between the second two touched points. The processing unit compares the first distance value with the second distance value, and zooms in or zoom out a displayed image according to the result. A related method is also provided. | 06-16-2011 |
20110219041 | ELECTRONIC READER CAPABLE OF RECORDING COMMENTS AND AMENDMENTS AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic reader includes a storage unit configured for storing files and a processor. The processor includes a file display control module, a first file creating module and a second file creating module. The file display control module is configured for obtaining and displaying the files opened by user input. The first file creating module is configured for creating temporary files recording the comments and the amended sections of the opened files in response to user input. Each of the temporary files corresponds to one of the opened files. The second file creating module is configured for combining contents of the temporary files into a file. The contents of the temporary files are arranged in the file according to a predetermined rule if the formats of the temporary files are the same. | 09-08-2011 |
20110285644 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL - An electronic device includes a display unit and a touch panel. The display unit includes at least two display areas, wherein each of the display areas has a unique operation frequency. The touch panel is installed in front of the display unit and includes at least two touch areas corresponding to the display areas, each of the touch areas is scanned with a unique scan frequency corresponding to the unique operation frequency of the corresponding display area. Through partition design for the GUI, the electronic device can respectively scan the touch areas, which replace the existing scanning method to scan the whole touch panel, and it is more efficient. | 11-24-2011 |
20120026086 | ELECTRONIC READING APPARATUS AND INPUT METHOD THEREOF - An electronic reading apparatus comprises an input unit receiving input operations, a detect unit detecting and capturing images reflected by the input unit and a processing unit configured to receive the images to generate interruption signals; determine whether the number of the interruption signals reaches a pre-determined value in a pre-determined time; calculate a movement direction and a distance of the object on the input unit if the number of the interruption signals reaches the pre-determined value in the pre-determined time; determine a cursor displacement on the display unit and display a movement track of the cursor on a display unit. An input method for previewing files is also provided. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036349 | DATEBASE SERVER, CUSTOMER TERMINAL AND PROTECTION METHOD FOR DIGITAL CONTENTS - A customer terminal is provided. The customer terminal includes a receiving module and a decryption module. The receiving module receives an encrypted digital content from a database server connected thereto. A predetermined encryption key encrypts the encrypted digital content. The decryption module decrypts the encrypted digital content utilizing hardware information from the customer terminal. A database server and a protection method are also provided to prevent an unauthorized customer terminal from copying digital contents. | 02-09-2012 |
20120044044 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH REMOTE CONTROL AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device comprising an input unit and a remote control for generating control signals; an interface unit; and a processor unit configured to analyze operation type according to the control signals, and control the electronic device to flip page. A remote control method applied in an electronic device is also provided. | 02-23-2012 |
20120075054 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SELF-LEARNING FUNCTION AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device with self-learning function includes an input unit, a state detecting unit, a state recording unit, a state analysis unit, and a processing unit. The input unit generates input signals according to operations of a user. The state detecting unit detects real-time values of the state parameters. The state recording unit obtains the real-time values of predetermined state parameters when the input signals are received. The state analysis unit analyzes whether the times of an operation under a same state parameter value or in same state parameter value range has reached or equal to a predetermined number of times within a predetermined time period. If yes, the state analysis unit determines the operation is a habit and the state parameter value corresponding to the operation is the state parameter value of the habit. The processing unit executes a task corresponding to the habit. | 03-29-2012 |
20120089937 | REMOTE CONTROLLER WITH TOUCH SCREEN - A remote controller with touch screen is used for controlling an electronic device. The remote controller includes a housing, a storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit. A remote control interface is displayed on the touch screen. The remote control interface includes at least one virtual key, and the at least one virtual key produces a corresponding trigger signal in response to user's touch. The processing unit identifies the remote code after receiving the trigger signal, and drives the interface unit to emit the corresponding coded pulse to the electronic device, and at the same time the processing unit drives the touch screen to display the next level remote control interface. | 04-12-2012 |
20120106670 | METHOD, SERVER AND CUSTOMER TERMINAL FOR DIGITAL CONTENT TRANSMISSION - A server is provided. The serve includes a publishing module, a program module, a relationship module, and a transmission module. The publishing module publishes digital content. The program module stores programs for playing the digital content. The relationship module stores a relationship between the digital content, a plurality of pre-stored hardware information of customer terminals, and programs for playing corresponding the digital contents corresponding to hardware information. The transmission module searches a particular one of the programs for playing a particular one of the digital contents in response to a request from a customer terminal for downloading the particular digital content. The particular program is corresponding to the hardware information of the customer terminal according to the pre-stored hardware information. The transmission module further transmits the particular digital content and the particular program to the customer terminal A customer terminal and a digital content transmission method are also provided. | 05-03-2012 |
20120151102 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, CONNECTION CONTROLLER, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTION CONTROLLER - A connection controller and connection control method for controlling the connections of a peripheral device with a computer is provided. The connection controller can detect the connection status of the peripheral devices and initializes the peripheral device while the peripheral device is connected. The connection controller transmits an interrupt signal to the computer while the peripheral device is initialized to allow the computer to access the peripheral device. Alternatively, the connection controller generates a suspend signal to switch off the power supply track from the computer to the peripheral device, and the connection controller will then be suspended without unloading the driver of the peripheral device to eliminate the repetition of loading and unloading the driver of the peripheral device. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154129 | REMOTE CONTROL FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A remote control for an electronic device comprises an input unit for generating control signals, a connector and a microprocessor. A connector with a plurality of interfaces, one end of connector is electrically connected to a transmission unit of the remote control via a data bus, each of the interfaces of the connector is configured for engaging with an interface of the electronic device for transmitting the control signals to the electronic device. The microprocessor determines which interface to transmit the control signals to the electronic device to control the electronic device to flip pages. A signal transmission method applied in a remote control for an electronic device is also provided. | 06-21-2012 |
20120198133 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH EXPANDABLE MEMORY CAPACITY AND AN EXPANSION METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a processor, an internal memory for storing system information and installing programs, and a memory expansion interface for connecting an expansion memory. The expansion memory is partitioned into at least one region to expand the internal memory. The internal memory is partitioned into a system region and a user region; the system region is used to store system information while the user region can be controlled and used by a user. The processor further includes a detection unit and a memory management unit. The detection unit detects the connection of the expansion memory to the memory expansion interface, and the memory management unit determines whether the expansion memory has been previously configured to expand the internal memory, and if not, the memory management unit associates the expansion memory with the internal memory to expand the internal memory. | 08-02-2012 |
20120313797 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE USED IN SYNCHRONOUS CONTROL SYSTEM AND SYNCHRONOUS CONTROL METHOD - An exemplary electronic device used for a synchronous control system includes an input unit, a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control module. The input unit includes at least one key including a unique key code. The storage unit stores a code table recording key codes of each of the at least one key. The control module executes the function associated with a key or a key combination manipulated by a user, and determines the key code associated with the key or the key combination. The control module further transmits the determined key codes to other electronic devices to control the other electronic devices to also execute the same instruction as the corresponding instruction associated with the determined key code associated with the key or the combination. A related method is also provided. | 12-13-2012 |
20130007610 | ELECTRONIC READER AND PAGE FLIPPING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic reader includes an input unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The input unit generates a content updating signal in response to user's operation. The processing unit includes a file retrieving module, a mode control module, a block setting module, and a display control module. The file retrieving module retrieves content of an electronic file for displaying on the display screen of the display unit, in response to the content updating signal. The mode control module controls the electronic reader to operate in a refreshing mode in which the display screen is divided into a plurality of predetermined blocks. The block setting module determines one or more blocks. The display control module controls the display unit to update the content at the determined blocks with the corresponding retrieved content by refreshing the determined blocks one after another. A related method is also provided. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007611 | ELECTRONIC READER AND PAGE FLIPPING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic reader includes a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a file retrieving module, a refreshing mode control module, a block setting module, and a display control module. The file retrieving module retrieves one or more shapes or figures, to be displayed for effect, and the content of a new target page when a content updating signal is received. The refreshing mode control module controls the electronic reader to operate in a refreshing mode. The block setting module determines the blocks to be refreshed and the order in which the blocks are to be refreshed. The display control module controls the display unit to firstly update the content of a block with the one or more shapes or figures, and then update with retrieved new content by refreshing the blocks one after another in a predetermined procedural order. A related method is also provided. | 01-03-2013 |
20130009884 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH STYLUS - An electronic device includes a stylus, a touch screen, and a processing unit. The touch screen includes a plurality of touch spots arranged in a matrix. The stylus includes a flexible and conductive nib including a plurality of flexible sub-nibs, and a body for receiving the nib and sub-nibs. The sub-nibs touching the touch screen causes changes in the charges of the touch spots actually touched. The processing unit determines the number of the touch spots which have been touched according to changes in the charges of the touch spots, and controls the weight or lightness of the corresponding stroke displayed on the touch screen according to the determined number of the touched touch spots. | 01-10-2013 |
20130050277 | DATA TRANSMITTING MEDIA, DATA TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND DATA RECEIVING DEVICE - A data transmitting device communicating with a data receiving device includes a touch display unit displaying a plurality of icons and a control unit. The controlling module determines a first starting position, a touch path, and a first end position of a touch of a user, and a selected icon according to the first starting position, and calculates a transmission progress of data transmission. When the first end position is located on the predetermined position, the data corresponding to the selected icon and position information associated with the first starting position, the touch path, and the first end position are transmitted to the data receiving device. The selected icon is moved from the first starting position to the first end position along the touch path according to the transmission progress. A data transmitting device and a data transmitting media are also provided. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054753 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING CONTENT - An electronic device includes a communication unit communicate with a network, a processing unit, and a storage unit. The processing unit controls the communication unit to transmit keywords to the network in response to user input, and controls the communication unit to transmit a download request of addresses of searched content of the network to target mobile terminal(s) selected from at least one mobile terminal communicating with the communication unit. The download request searches the network for content associated with the download addresses, the searched content are downloaded to the target mobile terminal(s). | 02-28-2013 |
20130069984 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHOWING PAGE TORE-OFF EFFECT - An electronic device includes a storage unit, a touch display unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a parameter table comprising a plurality of parameters, and each parameter includes a first group of coordinates to determine the first part of a page and a second group of coordinates to determine the second part of the page. When the user's touch crosses a predetermined area, the processing unit obtains the parameters in sequence, and produces a tear-off-page figure on the first part of a current page, to cover the second part with a second area of the following page to display a combined page. Then the processing unit may store or delete the tore-off page according to a user selection after the next page is displayed in full. A related method is also provided. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080951 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOVING ICONS ACROSS DIFFERENT DESKTOP SCREENS AND RELATED COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA COMPRISING COMPUTER EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS - An electronic device with a touch screen device configured to display succeeding or preceding desktop screens. Each desktop screen includes opposite boundaries and displays icons. A touched and dragged icon may be added to any desired desktop screen. A method of moving icons and one or more computer readable storage media comprising computer executable instructions are also disclosed. | 03-28-2013 |
20130091474 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING SELECTED TEXT - An electronic device includes a storage unit, a touch display unit and a central processing unit. The central processing unit includes a control module, a searching module, and a spit-screen module. The control module generates a first window on the touch display unit to display a text document when the text document is opened, and determines a selected text of the displayed text document by a user according to touch positions when the touch display unit is touched. The searching module searches occurrences of the selected text in the text document, and the control module stores the searched text in the storage unit. The spit-screen module displays each occurrence of the selected text on a second window produced thereby with a size thereof smaller than that of the first window. A related method is also provided. | 04-11-2013 |
20130111334 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130120430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TEXT READING GUIDE METHOD THEREOF - A text reading guide method for an electronic device including a display screen and a storage unit is provided. The storage unit stores a database recording a number of feature values of images and a plurality of coordinates. Each set of coordinates corresponds to a display region and is associated with a feature value. The method includes the steps of capturing an image of finger of a user; extracting a finger image feature value from the captured finger image; searching the database to find a matching finger image feature value, and retrieving the coordinates associated with the finger image feature value; determining the display content on the display region corresponding to the retrieved coordinates; and displaying the determined contents in a manner of highlighting on the display screen. An electronic device using the method is also provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120548 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TEXT READING GUIDE METHOD THEREOF - A text reading guide method for an electronic device including a display screen and a storage unit is provided. The storage unit stores a database recording a number of feature values of images and a plurality of coordinates. Each coordinate corresponds to a display region of the display screen and is associated a corresponding feature value. The method includes the following steps: capturing a real-time eye image of a user; extracting an eye image feature value from the captured eye image; searching the database to find the eye image feature value of the user matching the extracted eye image feature value, and retrieving the coordinates associated with the eye image feature value; determining the display content on the display region corresponding to the retrieved coordinates; and displaying the determined contents in a highlight fashion on the display screen. An electronic device using the method is also provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122877 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTACT LIST IN ORDER OF PRIORITY LEVELS - A method for displaying a contact list of a mobile terminal in order of priority levels is provided. The method includes steps: receiving an incoming call or message; obtaining an incoming phone number of the received call or message; finding out a calling contact associated with the incoming phone number on a contact list of the mobile terminal; obtaining remaining phone numbers associated with the calling contact; setting priority levels for all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact; and displaying all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact in an order of decreasing priority levels from high to low on a display screen of the mobile terminal A related mobile terminal is also provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132245 | CHARGING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A charging management system applied in a public facility includes a communicating unit communicating with a server with an online payment system, a charge interface, a power converting unit, a billing unit, and a control unit. The power converting unit converts power provided by a power supply to charge an electronic device connected to the charge interface. The control unit generates an electronic bill according to a charging cost computed by the billing unit, sends the electronic bill to the server, and communicates with the online payment system of the server to pay for the electronic bills. A related method is also provided. | 05-23-2013 |
20130139078 | ELECTRONIC READER AND PAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A page processing method for an electronic reader including a touch screen is provided. The method comprising: displaying a page of a selected file on the touch screen in response to a user's operation; detecting a touch on the displayed page, and generating a signal associated therewith; determining whether the touch of the user is an earmark gesture according to the signal; adding an earmark to the displayed page if the touch of the user is an earmark gesture; displaying the earmarked page on the touch screen; gathering all the earmarked pages and generating an index file containing the earmarked pages; and storing the index file. An electronic reader using the page processing method is also provided. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141359 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND PAGE FLIPPING METHOD - A page flipping method for an electronic device is provided. An exemplary method includes the following steps: displaying an interface comprising a page preview region and a page flipping region; displaying a page on the page flipping region, and displaying an icon group comprising a plurality of icons on the page preview region; determining whether a flipping gesture is applied on the page flipping region; determining the type of the flipping gesture; determining a page flipping manner according to the determined result of the gesture and a function table, and retrieving a corresponding target page according to the determined page flipping manner; creating a new icon group according to the retrieved target page; and displaying the target page on the page flipping region, and displaying the created new icon group on the page preview region. An electronic device using the page processing method is also provided. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145458 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNLOCKING LOCKED OPERATING SYSTEM - A method for unlocking a locked operating system of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a storage unit and a locking unit, the storage unit is configured for storing a preset password and preset unlocking request information. The method includes steps: receiving a message from a second electronic device; verifying the received message according to the preset unlocking request information; and sending the preset password to the second electronic device if the verification is successful. | 06-06-2013 |
20130152006 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SIMULATING PAGE FLIP EFFECT - An electronic device capable of simulating page flip effect includes an input unit, a display unit, a page flip control module and a thickness control module. The input unit generates a flip-page instruction in response to a user's operation. The display unit displays an electronic document in a page flipping format which includes a currently displayed page and a margin portion adjacent to the currently displayed page, and the margin portion includes a plurality of displayed stacked margins of undisplayed pages. The margins cooperatively resemble a thickness of the undisplayed pages. The page flip control module flips the currently displayed page over in response to the flip-page instruction to display a page flipping effect on the display unit. The thickness control module adds or removes a margin displayed in the margin portion, in response to the flip-page instruction to present a variation of the thickness of the undisplayed pages accordingly. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152018 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND PAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A page processing method for an electronic device is provided. The method includes the steps of: displaying a first cube consisting of a plurality of stacked layers, the stacked layers comprising a top layer displaying a current active icon group and remaining layers beneath the top layer associated with corresponding inactive icon groups; displaying a second cube consisting of a plurality of stacked layers, the stacked layers each associated with a inactive icon group; determining the touched region; determining the type of the touch by the user; retrieving a target page stored in the storage unit or creating a target page; creating at least one new icon group; and displaying the target page on the page display region, and updating the icon groups on the first and second cubes. An electronic device using the page processing method is also provided. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152024 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PAGE ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF - A page zooming method for an electronic device having a touch screen and a storage unit is provided. The method includes the following steps: generating operation signals in response to a touch operation applied on a page displayed on the touch screen; determining the touch operation being a zooming gesture if the touch operation comprising a press operation and a slide operation at a same time; determining the slide direction and determining the type of the zooming gesture according to the determined slide direction of the slide operation, the type of the zooming gesture comprising a zooming in gesture and a zooming out gesture; creating a zoomed page of the page displayed on the touch screen according to the type of the zooming gesture; and displaying the zoomed page on the touch screen. An electronic device using the page zooming method is also provided. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159927 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND SCREEN UNLOCKING METHOD THEREOF - An exemplary provided screen unlocking method for an electronic device with a touch screen comprises the following steps: displaying a screen unlocking interface on the touch screen; generating unlocking signals in response to an unlocking operation applied on the touch screen; determining whether the enduring touch time period of the unlocking operation reaches a predetermined touch time period, and whether the touch area of the unlocking operation reaches a predetermined touch area, according to the unlocking signals; and unlocking the touch screen when the enduring touch time period of the unlocking operation reaches the predetermined touch time period, and the touch area of the unlocking operation reaches the predetermined touch area. An electronic device using the screen unlocking method is also provided. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162524 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OFFERING SERVICES ACCORDING TO USER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - A method for offering services according to facial expressions is provided. The method has an electronic device storing a service database recording at least one user's information. The method activates an offering service function; captures facial expressions of the user; extracting the features of the facial expressions; compares the extracted features with the features in images of the facial expressions stored in the service database, so as to identify a corresponding feature stored in the service database, and determines the type of expression and the service corresponding thereto from images of the user stored in the service database; and activates and provides the determined service. An electronic device using the method is also provided. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162820 | STREET LIGHT HAVING ALARM DEVICE AND ALARM METHOD - A street light includes a post, a light source mounted on the post, a communicating unit, a button unit, a camera unit, a storage unit, and a central control unit. The communicating unit communicates with a server which includes an alarm system. The button unit and the camera unit are mounted on the post. The central control unit enables the camera unit to take photo of an area adjacent to the street light in response to manual operation of the button unit. The storage unit stores location information of the street light and the photos taken by the camera unit. The central control unit further transmits the photo and the location information obtained from the storage unit to the server via the communication unit. A related method is also provided. | 06-27-2013 |
20140068495 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HANDWRITING INPUT - An apparatus for processing handwriting input includes a touch display unit, a touch display control unit, a storage unit, a calculating unit, and a processing unit. The touch display control unit determines a character in response to a character operation by an input device, and a height and a width of an imaginary rectangle sized to fittingly encircle the character. The calculating unit enlarges the height of the imaginary rectangle by adding a given value to the height of the imaginary rectangle if the height of the imaginary rectangle is smaller than a predetermined value. The processing unit resizes the character displayed within the enlarged imaginary rectangle by a first scaling factor. The touch display control unit controls the touch display unit to display the resized character in one of rows of a character display portion provided by the touch display unit. A related method is also described. | 03-06-2014 |