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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127269 | Method and Apparatus for Adjusting 3D Depth of Object and Method for Detecting 3D Depth of Object A method for adjusting three-dimensional (3D) depth including performing block matching on left-eye/right-eye frames of a stereo video signal to generate a motion vector of a specific object and to obtain 3D depth of the specific object; and adjusting 3D depth of an add... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105726 | Analog Television Receiver An analog television (TV) receiver converts a received analog TV signal to a digital TV signal and performs digital demodulation to increase demodulation efficiency. The analog TV receiver includes a radio frequency (RF) turner and an intermediate frequency (IF) circuit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105024 | Feedback Regulating Circuit A feedback regulating circuit provides a regulated voltage to a multi-output circuit that outputs a plurality of output voltages. The feedback regulating circuit includes a voltage control unit, coupled to the plurality of output voltages, for generating a first voltage... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120042118 | Method for Flash Memory and Associated Controller A method is disclosed for a flash memory including a plurality of data units includes determining whether to refresh data of the data units according to number of time the data units that are being read when the flash memory is read. The present invention provides metho... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036472 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AN INTERACTIVE OBJECT ON A DISPLAY FRAME BY A NUMERIC CONTROLLER A display control apparatus is applied to generate an interactive object mark on a display apparatus to enable a user to select the interactive object in a display frame via a numeric controller. The display control apparatus includes a content receiving module, for rec... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028575 | Power Supply control Apparatus and Method Thereof and Mobile Apparatus Using the same A power supply control apparatus is applied to a communication apparatus that is applied to a mobile apparatus. The power supply control apparatus includes a switch, coupled between the communication apparatus and a power supply; and a signal detecting unit, for detecti... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026156 | Display Timing Control Circuit and Method Thereof A display timing control circuit is capable of rapidly adjusting display timing to achieve frame synchronization. The display timing control circuit includes an output pixel clock generator, a display timing generator, and a clock adjusting unit. The output pixel clock ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025894 | Multi-Mode Output Transmitter A multi-mode output transmitter includes a pair of driving circuits and a pair of common circuits. Each of the driving circuits includes an n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), and each of the common circuits includes a p-channel MOSFET.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023353 | AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCH PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A portable electronic device having automatic power supply mode switching is provided. The portable electronic device includes a micro-sensor and a control circuit. The control circuit controls operations of the electronic device, the micro-sensor senses whether the ele... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023342 | Power Management Method for a Multi-Microprocessor System A power management method for a multi-microprocessor system is provided. The multi-microprocessor system comprises a first microprocessor and a second microprocessor. The power management method comprises steps of receiving a power down instruction; transmitting a power... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021711 | Communication Device and Control Method Thereof A communication device including a receiving unit and a decision-making unit is provided. The receiving unit receives a first burst in a paging message provided from a base station. After comparing a signal-to-noise ratio to a threshold, the decision-making unit decides... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110279421 | Overdrive Apparatus and Associated Method for Display System An overdrive apparatus applied to a display system is provided. The overdrive apparatus includes an indication unit, an access circuit and a plurality of memories. The indication unit provides an indication signal corresponding to a scan line of an image frame. The acce... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279154 | Clock Generating Circuit and Clock Generating Method A clock generating circuit includes a phase detector for detecting a phase difference between a first clock and a second clock to generate a detecting result associated with the phase difference, a first filtering device for filtering the detecting result, a charge pump... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120019304 | Mixer for Canceling Second-Order Inter-Modulation Distortion and Associated Transconductor Circuit A transconductor circuit used in a mixer for canceling second-order inter-modulation distortion includes a first transistor and a second transistor, of which the base (gate) ends coupled to a first input end and a second input end, for receiving a differential input sig... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019167 | Backlight Control Circuit and Method Thereof A backlight control circuit and method thereof are provided to control the backlight of a backlight module so as to enhance the dynamic contrast ratio and save power. The backlight control circuit includes an average luminance detection circuit, a luminance distribution... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110268171 | Signal Selection Apparatus and Method Thereof A signal selection apparatus for selecting a target signal from a plurality of input signals is provided. The input signals correspond to different time indexes. The signal selection apparatus comprises a weight calculation unit for generating a corresponding weight res... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20120017219 | Multi-CPU Domain Mobile Electronic Device and Operation Method Thereof A multi-CPU domain mobile electronic device, includes: a first CPU domain, comprising at least a first migration agent unit, the first migration agent unit detecting a task migration condition, determining whether to migrate a migratable task, and sending an associated ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016922 | Video Codec and Method thereof A video codec method is provided, for processing video data processed by a Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) operation, comprising: (a) if a transformation matrix having a plurality of coefficients comprises at least one non-integer coefficient among the coefficients... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005046 | Merchandise and Geographic Information Matching System, Associate Apparatus and Method Geographic merchandise matching system, associated apparatus and method are provided. In an embodiment, a hand-held apparatus integrates user geographic location and a merchandise matching condition, and queries a merchandise service platform. An information matching mo... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001725 | Identification Processing Apparatus and Mobile Device Using the Same An identification processing apparatus is provided for performing an identification procedure according to a smart card, including a storage unit for storing a first password; and an authentication unit for determining whether to perform the identification procedure acc... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001718 | Transformer A transformer includes a first planar coil having two input ends, with a distance being between the two input ends; and a second planar coil, having two output ends. The two input ends correspond to two points on relative positions of the second planar coil, and a coil ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317933 | Image Coding Method for Facilitating Run Length Coding and Image Encoding Device Thereof An image coding method for run-length coding (RLC), including quantizing a coefficient string representing a plurality of pixel values to generate a first quantization coefficient string, determining a cutoff quantization coefficient in the first quantization coefficien... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316992 | Image Playback System, Associated Apparatus and Method Thereof An image playback system displays three-dimensional (3D) content data via a pair of glasses together with a monitor to provide a multiplexing service to a user wearing different types of glasses via a single monitor. For a multiplexing service, the monitor interleaving ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316847 | Display Apparatus and Associated Glasses A display apparatus associated with a pair of glasses displays three-dimensional (3D) content. The pair of glass includes a transmitting circuit for establishing bi-directional communication with the display apparatus; and a proximity sensor, which is for sensing whethe... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316595 | VCO FREQUENCY TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR PLLS The present invention discloses a continuous voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) frequency temperature compensation apparatus for a phase locked loop (PLL) and a continuous VCO frequency temperature compensation method for a PLL. The system utilizes a VCO with one digit... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314214 | Memory Sharing System and Memory Sharing Method A memory sharing system includes a master control device, a slave control device and a memory device. The master control device selectively generates a clock signal to the memory device. The slave control device receives and tracks the clock signal via a delay phase loc... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311000 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A communication device including a receiving unit and a signal processing module having a simulation unit and a decision unit is provided. The receiving unit receives a first burst of a paging message provided from a base station. Base on a reference burst code and an e... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309138 | Barcode Image Recognition System and Associated Method for Hand-Held Device The present disclosure relates to a barcode image recognition system and associated method for hand-held device including an image processing module and a barcode recognition module for recognizing characters corresponding to a one-dimensional barcode image. The image p... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304365 | FAST PHASE LOCKING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CALIBRATED FRACTIONAL-N PLL The current invention provides a second feedback loop around the existing FLL, which forces the signal on the route of N-divider (NDIV), PFD, CP, and LPF to essentially reach their desired lock conditions before the FLL is switched off and the system enters PLL mode. Th... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110294418 | Portable Apparatus for Supporting Electronic Wallet A portable apparatus is capable of switching between a plurality of smart cards and associated circuits to provide a user various independent electronic wallet functions via a single portable apparatus, thereby increasing utilization flexibility and convenience. The por... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293111 | Audio Processing Apparatus and Related Method An audio processing apparatus including an audio phase detecting device and an adjusting device is provided. After detecting a phase relationship between a first channel signal and a second channel signal, the audio phase detecting device generates a phase control signa... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293011 | Motion Estimation Apparatus and Motion Estimation Method A motion estimation apparatus used in a video encoding system is provided. The motion estimation apparatus includes a first calculation module and a second calculation module. When a search position moves from a first candidate search position to a second candidate sear... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292741 | Memory Apparatus and Associated Method A memory apparatus includes a plurality of first bit columns for constructing a common memory space and at least one reserve second bit column. A column address of a damaged first bit column is recorded as a predetermined column address. When a byte column is accessed, ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292187 | 3D Display Control Device and Method Thereof A three-dimensional (3D) display control device generates a suitable and fixed output timing signal for a 3D display panel. Regardless of input 3D video format, the 3D display control device maintains a stable 3D display quality. The 3D display control device includes a... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286515 | Quantized Coefficient Coding Apparatus and Quantized Coefficient Method A quantized coefficient coding apparatus used in a media coding system includes a determination module, a coding mode arbitration module and a coding module. The determination module determines whether a set of quantized coefficients are defined in a predetermined varia... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285761 | Control Apparatus Used in Three-Dimensional Display Apparatus and Associated Three-Dimensional Glasses A control apparatus for controlling a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus includes: an image processing unit to receive an image source signal and convert the image source signal to an interval signal. The interval signal is defined as a first timing interval and a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285608 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Image Characteristics of a Second Display on a First Display An image transform apparatus for displaying image characteristics of a second display on a first display includes a first transform unit, for transforming a first image signal of the first display to a first output signal according to a second gamma value associated wit... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285377 | Data Transmission Interface and Electronic Device Using the Same A data transmission interface, for coupling to an external apparatus, including a first signal transmission line and a second signal transmission line, for transmitting a differential signal, a first resistor and a voltage-variable component, selectively connected to th... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110254595 | Flip-Flop and Frequency Dividing Circuit with Flip-Flop Various embodiments of a flip-flop and a frequency dividing circuit are provided. In one aspect, a flip-flop includes an input stage and a latch stage. The input stage is capable of converting an input signal to an output signal under the control of a first clock signal... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110242025 | Hand Gesture Recognition Method for Touch Panel and Associated Apparatus A hand gesture recognition method according to the present disclosure is applied to a touch panel comprising a plurality of sensors, each of which generating a sensing value according to a touch operation. The method includes providing a first reference value and a seco... | 10/06/2011 |
