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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126368 | Semiconductor Package The invention provides a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a substrate. A first passivation layer is disposed on the substrate. An under bump metallurgy layer is disposed on the first passivation layer. A passive device is disposed on the under b... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120081610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL SCANNING Methods for channel scanning are provided. An embodiment of a method for channel scanning comprises scan progress information stored when interrupting a channel scanning process. A carrier RF subsequent to the most recently processed carrier RF is locked onto with refer... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081159 | METHOD USING DIGITAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT INCLUDING A PHASE DELAY QUANTIZER A phase locked loop circuit and method for use, in accordance with an embodiment, implements a digital phase delay quantizer to replace the analog charge-pump and phase frequency detector in an analog PLL circuit. Therefore, the built-in loop filter can be a compact-siz... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072660 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDER AND BUFFER MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF A buffer management method is provided. A host issues a read command requesting access for a read data block and a write command requesting recording of a write data block. A write buffer is dedicated to store the write data block. A read buffer is dedicated to store th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071108 | Radio Frequency Signal Control Module and Radio Frequency Signal Controlling Method A radio frequency (RF) signal control module is provided. The RF signal control module includes a detection and control device detecting at least one radio coupling value in a transmission band according to a radio coupling signal and generating a control signal for con... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120038516 | Portable Electronic Device A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a housing, a circuit board, an amplifier, an antenna and a short element. The circuit board is disposed in the housing, wherein the circuit board includes a first edge and a second edge, a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038497 | Transmission Interface and System Using the Same A transmission interface includes a first pin, a second pin, a conversion unit, and a decoding unit. The conversion unit receives a serial input data stream via the first pin and receives a serial clock via the second pin. The conversion unit converts the serial input d... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036459 | Apparatuses and Methods for Arranging and Manipulating Menu Items An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit configures a touch screen to display a first set of the menu items in a first row on the touch screen, and to display a second set of the menu items in a second row on the touch ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036435 | Apparatuses and Methods for Rearranging Menu Items An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit detects a drag event on a touch screen to indicate a first position to which a menu item is moved, and determines whether the first position corresponds to a page indicator other... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034891 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING SIGNAL PROCESSING PARAMETERS FOR PROCESSING WANTED SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME A communications apparatus is provided. A signal processing device receives an RF signal comprising a wanted signal complying with a first wireless communications protocol from an air interface and processes the RF signal according to one or more signal processing param... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033762 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING ONE OR MORE RF PARAMETERS AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUSE UTILIZING THE SAME A communications apparatus is provided. A radio frequency (RF) circuit is arranged to receive an RF signal from an antenna and process the RF signal according to one or more RF parameters to generate an intermediate signal. A signal processing unit is arranged to proces... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033719 | TRANSMITTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND CALIBRATING A PHASE SIGNAL AND AN AMPLITUDE SIGNAL A transmitter for transmitting and calibrating a phase signal and an amplitude signal. The transmitter comprises a phase modulation path, an amplitude modulation path, and a control unit. The phase modulation path transmits the phase signal. The amplitude modulation pat... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120023426 | Apparatuses and Methods for Position Adjustment of Widget Presentations An electronic interaction apparatus for position adjustment of widget presentations is provided. In the electronic interaction apparatus, a touch screen comprising a first area and a second area is coupled thereto. A processing unit determines that an image of a widget ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023424 | Apparatuses and Methods for Generating Full Screen Effect by Widgets An electronic interaction apparatus with a touch screen coupled thereto is provided. In the electronic interaction apparatus, a processing unit executes a widget, and the widget generates a widget image and at least one display object. Also, the widget displays the widg... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021702 | INTELLIGENT TRANSMISSION ANTENNA SELECTION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME A communications apparatus. Multiple antennas are arranged to receive downlink signals and transmit uplink signals. A transceiver module is arranged to receive the downlink signals from the antennas and pass the uplink signals to an antenna selection device. The antenna... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021697 | RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND QUADRATURE POWER AMPLIFIER A quadrature power amplifier capable of operating in a single-output mode and a multiple-output mode. When operating in the single-output mode, a first quadrature coupler receives a first input signal, and splits and phase-shifts the first input signal into two first sp... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110280166 | Apparatuses and Methods for Coordinating Operations Between Circuit Switched (CS) and Packet Switched (PS) Services with Different Subscriber Identity Cards, and Machine-Readable Storage Medium A wireless communications device is provided with a Baseband chip capable of coordinating operations between circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) services with different subscriber identity cards. The Baseband chip is configured to receive a request for making... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279316 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING GNSS SATELLITE TRAJECTORY EXTENSION DATA IN MOBILE APPARATUS A method and device for predicting satellite trajectory extension data in a mobile apparatus. The device in accordance with the present invention comprises an I/O interface and a microprocessor. The input/output (I/O) interface is used for obtaining at least one satelli... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275434 | METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESS OF A GAME AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES UTILIZING THE SAME An electronic device comprises a microphone array, a signal processor and a game controller. The microphone array comprises at least a first microphone unit for capturing at least a first acoustic signal and a second microphone unit for capturing at least a second acous... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274080 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY COORDINATION IN MULTI-RADIO TERMINALS A wireless communication device is provided with a first radio module and a second radio module inside. The first radio module performs wireless transceiving according to a plurality of first traffic patterns which each indicates allocations of a plurality of first slot... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267931 | CONTROLLER FOR RECOVERING DISC MANAGEMENT INFORMATION OF A RECORDING MEDIUM A controller for recovering disc management information is provided. The controller controls a pickup head unit to search the TDMAs for readable disc management information which is included in an in-use TDMA of the TDMAs; then determines whether a piece of information ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261668 | DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF An apparatus for improving decoding accuracy of an equalized signal having a direct current (DC) level obtained from an optical disk is provided. A Viterbi decoder is configured to decode the equalized signal and output a Viterbi-decoded signal. A DC controller is confi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120016610 | Temperature Measurement Devices A temperature measurement device is provided to measure an environment temperature and includes a thermistor, a resistor, a determination circuit, and a measurement circuit. The thermistor is coupled to a first node. The thermistor has a specific impedance value at a sp... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011289 | FIFO SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF FIFO systems and operating method thereof are provided to transfer data between a first device and a second device. In the FIFO system, a memory controller serves as an interface to access a memory device for storage of the data, and a CPU processes instructions to cont... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008725 | TIMING RECOVERY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A multimedia processing system for processing a program stream containing a program clock reference information. The system comprises a clock generator, a timer, a modifier, a processing unit, a parser and a compensator. The clock generator generates a clock signal. The... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316858 | Apparatuses and Methods for Real Time Widget Interactions An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a touch screen and a processing unit. The processing unit executes a first widget and a second widget, wherein the first widget generates an animation on the touch screen and modifies the animation in response to an o... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314538 | Computing System Providing Normal Security and High Security Services A computing system and method providing normal security services and high security services are disclosed. The computing system includes hardware resources, a processor core and an access right checker. The hardware resources are grouped into resource security levels. T... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314198 | Wireless Peripheral Chips, Host Devices and Multi-Interface Communication Apparatuses A wireless peripheral chip operable to connect to a host device is provided. The wireless peripheral chip includes a first wireless communication module providing a first wireless communication service for the host device and a second wireless communication module provi... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310830 | Method for Coordinating Transmissions Between Different Communications Apparatuses and Communication Sapparatuses Utilizing the Same A communication apparatus is provided. A controller module generates a suggested sub-frame pattern describing suggested arrangement of one or more almost blank sub-frame(s) in one or more frame(s) and schedules control signal and/or data transmissions according to the s... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310741 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR COORDINATION BETWEEN PLURALITY OF CO-LOCATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULES VIA ONE WIRE The invention provides a mobile communication device having a Packet Traffic Arbitrator (PTA) module and a first wireless communication module, coupled to the PTA module via only one wire and configured to perform a first wireless transceiving. The first wireless commun... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299591 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD A video processing apparatus is provided. The video processing apparatus includes a decoder, a controller and a display device. The decoder decodes a bitstream, wherein the bitstream comprises a plurality of frames and each frame in the plurality of frames is sub-divide... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296095 | DATA MOVEMENT ENGINE AND MEMORY CONTROL METHODS THEREOF A data movement engine (DME) for an electronic device is disclosed. The DME has an address generating module and a direct memory access (DMA) module. When the memory is switched to a lower power consumption state, a refresh area of a memory of the electronic device is r... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294548 | METHODS FOR HANDLING AN APPARATUS TERMINATED COMMUNICATION REQUEST AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES UTILIZING THE SAME A communication apparatus is provided. A first subscriber identity card is with a first address and camps on a first cell. A second subscriber identity card is with a second address and camps on a second cell. A processor determines whether a first communication status ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291250 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PACKAGE A semiconductor chip package is provided. The semiconductor chip package includes a lead frame having a chip carrier. A semiconductor chip is mounted on the chip carrier, having a plurality of bonding pads thereon. A package substrate has a cavity therein to accommodate... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289352 | METHOD FOR DATA RECOVERY FOR FLASH DEVICES The invention provides a method for data recovery. In one embodiment, a memory comprises a plurality of pages for data storage. First, first data is obtained from a host. A first page for storing the first data is then selected from the pages of the memory. A start page... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286271 | MEMORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR READING DATA STORED IN A MEMORY CELL OF A MEMORY DEVICE A memory system is provided. A memory device includes multiple memory cells for storing data. A controller is coupled to the memory device for accessing the memory device. When reading the data stored in a memory cell, the controller receives a digital signal representi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285814 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO FRAMES TO STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO FRAMES An apparatus is provided for converting two-dimensional video frames to stereoscopic video frames, comprising a comparing unit, a temporal transform operator and a spatial transform operator. The comparing unit receives a sequence of two-dimensional video frames and pro... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110255414 | Communication Apparatus and Bluetooth ID Packet Recognition Method Thereof A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an RF module, a down converter coupled to the RF module and a detector coupled to the down converter. The RF module receives an RF signal. The down converter down converts the RF signal in respo... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255413 | Communication Apparatus and ID Packet Recognition Method Thereof A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an RF module and a scan module coupled to the RF module. The RF module receives an RF signal and generates an intermediary signal corresponding to the RF signal. The scan module recognizes a tim... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254635 | Oscillating circuit An oscillating circuit including a digital sigma-delta modulator and a controlled oscillator is disclosed. The digital sigma-delta modulator receives a fractional bit signal to generate a control signal. The controlled oscillator includes a varactor dynamically coupled ... | 10/20/2011 |
