Patents Assigned to XIAOMI INC.
  • Information display method and device
    Patent number: 10303327
    Abstract: Information display methods and devices are disclosed. Because display screen of a device may not show a large information list, users may need to browse the information using browsing operations. The screen display a segment of the information list upon each browsing operation. In one embodiment, the identification information of each displayed information segment is recorded and the user may back navigate to a previously displayed information segment based on the recorded identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Ruixian Zhu, Guangjian Wang, Long Pan
  • Methods, apparatuses, and system for device management
    Patent number: 10298446
    Abstract: A device management method for use in a primary router, includes: establishing a management connection with a relay router; acquiring a management interface identifier from the relay router via the management connection, the management interface identifier being an identifier of an Application Programming Interface (API) in the relay router for providing a management function; and transmitting a management instruction to the relay router via the management connection, the management instruction carrying the management interface identifier and being configured to manage an electronic device connected to the relay router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Chen, Weiyang Chen, Bo Yu, Yidong Wang, Pengfei Zhang, Yu Guo
  • Method and device for changing display background
    Patent number: 10296191
    Abstract: A method for changing a display background is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a server. The method may comprise acquiring a user preference label set of a current user and a background label set of each candidate background; matching the current user with each candidate background based on the acquired user preference label set and the acquired background label set to obtain a match result; selecting one or more recommended backgrounds for the current user based on the match result; and pushing the selected one or more recommended backgrounds to a mobile terminal of the current user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventor: Junjie Dong
  • Methods, devices, and systems for accessing network
    Patent number: 10298513
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices and systems for accessing a network. The methods include: receiving a request message requesting for accessing a network, the request message being broadcast by a first communication device; detecting a current state of the network access device; when the network access device is in a device-access forbidding state, sending a state switching request to a terminal bound with the network access device, the terminal being configured to generate a reply message based on the state switching request; receiving the reply message sent by the terminal; and when the reply message instructs the network access device to switch to a device-access permitting state, switching the state of the network access device to the device-access permitting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Weiguang Jia, Qiang Fu, Enxing Hou
  • Method, device and computer-readable medium for identifying feature of image
    Patent number: 10297015
    Abstract: A method for identifying a feature of an image is provided. The method includes: segmenting an image into a plurality of blocks, wherein each block includes a plurality of cells; transforming pixels of each cell from a spatial domain to a frequency domain; and identifying a Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature of the image in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Long, Zhijun Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Method and apparatus for recommending multimedia resource
    Patent number: 10289621
    Abstract: A method for recommending a multimedia resource is provided. The method includes acquiring user viewing data of a to-be-recommended multimedia resource in a playing trial run. The user viewing data includes at least user audio and video data and user video depth data. The method further includes analyzing the user viewing data to obtain user action data corresponding to the to-be-recommended multimedia resource, calculating a first user preference score of the to-be-recommended multimedia resource based on the user action data, acquiring a plurality of second user preference scores of a plurality of recommended multimedia resources, and recommending the to-be-recommended multimedia resource based on the first user preference score and the second user preference scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Lin, Bo Zhang
  • Method, device, and system for determining spam caller phone number
    Patent number: 10291774
    Abstract: A method for determining a spam caller phone number is disclosed. The method may include obtaining N suspicious numbers in a call record set, wherein the N suspicious numbers are first N unknown numbers in a predetermined number of target call records that have the highest frequencies of appearance, determining whether a spam caller feature word recorded in a preset dictionary exists in keywords contained in a target call record of each suspicious number, and if a spam caller feature word recorded in the preset dictionary exists in keywords contained in the target call record of a suspicious number, determining the suspicious number to be a spam caller phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Qiuping Qin, Zhijun Chen, Fei Long
  • Smart device control method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10291713
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling smart device in a smart home. In the method, a control device receives a control instruction sent by an instruction sending device and including a set of working mode information, the set of working mode information including at least one working mode information of at least one smart device type. The control device sets a working mode of a target smart device connected to the control device via a local area network (LAN) based on the set of working mode information, where the set of working mode information is pre-stored in the instruction sending device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Enxing Hou, Hong Chen, Ziguang Gao
  • Method and device for establishing wireless connection
    Patent number: 10291608
    Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed for establishing a wireless connection. In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a first wired connection with a router, receiving connection information sent from the router via the first wired connection, wherein the connection information is configured to enable an electronic device to connect wirelessly to the router, and establishing a second wireless connection with the router based on the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Jialin Fan, Heng Qu, Qiuzhi Huang
  • Method and apparatus for preventing photograph from being shielded
    Patent number: 10284773
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for preventing a field of view of an image capturing device from being shielded when capturing an image. Accordingly, an image capturing device may capture an unobstructed image that is free from any object obstructing the field of view of the image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Long Pan, Guangjian Wang, Ruixian Zhu
  • Method and apparatus for realizing touch button and fingerprint identification, and terminal device using same
    Patent number: 10282586
    Abstract: An apparatus for realizing a touch button and fingerprint identification, includes: a fingerprint identification sensor, disposed below a cover glass of a touch screen of a terminal device; and a capacitive button sensor, disposed below the cover glass and located on at least one side of the fingerprint identification sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongsheng Jiang, Kun Yang, Jun Tao
  • Image classification method and device
    Patent number: 10282597
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image classification and clustering method and device. Two images containing human faces may be classified into one cluster or different clusters based on a cluster merging threshold adaptively determined according to the combinational face poses in the two images. The adaptive cluster merging threshold help reduce false positive and false negative classification of human face containing images into clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Fei Long, Zhijun Chen
  • Method and apparatus for managing application
    Patent number: 10282561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for managing an application. Whether an application is allowed to run in the background of a terminal device is determined based on a configuration file. When an application is allowed to run in the background, whether each of specific activities of the application is allowed be performed in the background is further determined based on the configuration file. The configuration file may be generated from a record information file used by the terminal device to keep track of the running data for applications. In particularly, whether an application or an activity of an application is allowed to run in the background of the terminal device may be determined by analyzing the record information file and tracked in the configuration file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Zifeng Qiu, Xiaoxian Liu, Feng Qiu
  • Method, device, and storage medium for image characteristic extraction
    Patent number: 10282637
    Abstract: A method for characteristic extraction includes dividing an image into a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of cells. The method also includes performing sparse signal decomposition for each cell to obtain a sparse vector corresponding to each cell. The method further includes extracting characteristics of Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) of the image according to the sparse vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Long, Zhijun Chen, Tao Zhang
  • Power line assembly and electronic device using same
    Patent number: 10276994
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power line assembly and an electronic device using the power line assembly. The power line assembly may include: a power line; a power plug disposed at a first end of the power line and configured to couple with a power outlet; and a power line base disposed at a second end of the power line and having a top surface and a bottom surface, each of the top and bottom surfaces having one or more power-delivery contacts, wherein when the power line base couples with a power-receiving assembly of an electronic device, at least one of the power-delivery contacts contacts with a power-receiving contact of the power-receiving assembly, to deliver power to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: Xiaomi Inc., Beijing Smartmi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Su, Yuya Omoto, Yi Wang, Mengnan Wang
  • Color adjustment method and device
    Patent number: 10269129
    Abstract: A color adjustment method and device are provided. The color adjustment method comprises: obtaining frame data from a frame buffer; mapping the frame data from an original color space to a linear original color space via a de-gamma correction process, so as to obtain frame data in the linear original color space; mapping the frame data in the linear original color space to a linear target color space, so as to obtain frame data in the linear target color space; and performing a gamma correction process on the frame data in the linear target color space by using a target gamma coefficient, so as to obtain frame data in a target color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Anyu Liu, Chuanshun Ji, Guosheng Li
  • Method for presenting list of access points and device thereof
    Patent number: 10271268
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for presenting a list of access points and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring at least one identifiers of at least one wireless access points; determining whether at least one predetermined identifier exists among the identifiers of the wireless access points, wherein the predetermined identifier is an identifier corresponding to an accessing record stored in the terminal, and the accessing record is for indicating historical information that the terminal has ever accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the predetermined identifier; and if a result of the determining is that the at least one predetermined identifier exists, presenting the at least one predetermined identifier in the list of access points according to the accessing record corresponding to the at least one predetermined identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Jialin Fan, Heng Qu, Huixing Jia
  • Screen module, fingerprint acquisition method, and electronic device
    Patent number: 10268861
    Abstract: A screen module, a fingerprint acquisition method, and an electronic device are provided. The screen module includes: a fingerprint unit comprising a plurality of fingerprint sensors, which are located in a content display area of the screen module and configured to perform fingerprint acquisition; a processing component connected with the fingerprint unit, the processing component being configured to, after a triggering operation of a user's finger on the content display area is detected, actuate fingerprint sensors in a scanning area corresponding to the triggering operation to acquire fingerprint data of the user in the scanning area; and data transmission lines connected to the plurality of fingerprint sensors, and configured to transmit fingerprint data acquired by the fingerprint sensors in the scanning area to the processing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Guosheng Li, Anyu Liu, Lei Tang
  • Power saving method and device for displaying content in display screen
    Patent number: 10269287
    Abstract: A display method and display device are provided. The method includes: detecting whether a displayed content in a display screen changes; in response to detecting that the displayed content does not change, controlling the display screen to update alternately display data respectively corresponding to odd pixels and even pixels in each row of display unit. The number of updated pixels of the display screen each time may be reduced, while the original refresh frequency is maintained, so the problem that the splash screen phenomena is caused in the display screen by reducing the refresh frequency of the display screen may be solved, thus achieving effects of avoiding the splash screen phenomena of the display screen and of reducing the power consumption of the display screen while maintaining the original refresh frequency of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Guosheng Li, Anyu Liu, Shanrong Liu
  • Method, device and storage medium for inputting characters
    Patent number: 10268371
    Abstract: A method, device and storage medium for inputting characters are provided. The method includes: presenting a user interface on the touch screen, the user interface comprising a soft keyboard; identifying a location of a first touch point upon detection of a first touch acted on the soft keyboard; judging, based on the location of the first touch point, whether it is needed to select a plurality of candidate characters from the soft keyboard; when it is needed to select the plurality of candidate characters, presenting the plurality of candidate characters on a currently provided user interface, wherein a first area occupied by each of the candidate characters on the currently provided user interface is larger than a second area occupied by each of the candidate characters on the soft keyboard; and determining a target character from the plurality of candidate characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventor: Fei Zhao