Abstract: An electronic device and associated method is provided. The electronic device includes: a plurality of subsystems including hardware resources; a battery coupled to the plurality of subsystems; and a processing unit, configured to allocate a virtual battery from the battery for each subsystem, wherein each virtual battery has a defined power budget from the battery.

Abstract: A method and a computer-readable medium for dynamically managing power of a multi-core processor of a computing system are provided. The multi-core processor generates a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) table, determines a first index by alternatively selecting either a power budget or a required performance thereof, determines a current thread level parallelism (TLP) of the computing system, selects one of entries according to the current TLP and the first index, and configure first cores and second cores thereof according to a first settings and a second settings of the selected entry.

Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel, at least one touch detection unit and a processing unit. The touch detection unit scans the touch panel, obtains an N-bit sensed data and compresses the N-bit sensed data to an L-bit sensed data. The processing unit receives the L-bit sensed data, decompresses the L-bit sensed data to the N-bit sensed data and calculates a coordinate of a touch according to the N-bit sensed data. The present invention is capable of decreasing the time for transmitting the sensed data, the power consumption and the requirements for the memory capacity of the touch detection unit and the memory capacity of the processing unit.

Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel and a plurality of touch detection units. The touch panel includes first sensing lines and second sensing lines. The position of a touch between a last one of the first sensing lines and a first one of the second sensing lines is calculated according to sensed values respectively corresponding to a first sensing line prior to the last one of the first sensing lines, the last one of the first sensing lines and the first one of the second sensing lines. The present invention is capable of avoiding the problem that the frame rate is reduced significantly because of the data transmission between the first and second touch detection units.

Abstract: An electronic device has a processing system and a management circuit. The processing system executes an application. The management circuit detects an operating behavior of the application during execution of the application, analyzes the detected operating behavior of the application to generate an application identification result, and configures an application-dependent task according to at least the application identification result.

Abstract: The invention provides a thermal control method and a thermal control system. The thermal control method comprises: detecting a temperature variance of a component of the electronic device to generate a detecting result; and determining a temperature threshold value for the integrated circuit as a throttling point according to the detecting result. The thermal control system comprises: a detecting unit, for detecting a temperature variance of a component of the electronic device to generate a detecting result; and a determining unit, for determining a temperature threshold value for the integrated circuit as a throttling point according to the detecting result.

Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel, at least one touch detection unit and a processing unit. The touch detection unit scans the touch panel, obtains an N-bit sensed data and compresses the N-bit sensed data to an L-bit sensed data. The processing unit receives the L-bit sensed data, decompresses the L-bit sensed data to the N-bit sensed data and calculates a coordinate of a touch according to the N-bit sensed data. The present invention is capable of decreasing the time for transmitting the sensed data, the power consumption and the requirements for the memory capacity of the touch detection unit and the memory capacity of the processing unit.

Abstract: A portable electronic device including a touch sensor and a processing unit is provided. The touch sensor is disposed on or under a display, and uses a power level to generate first touch data for a touch detected thereon when the display is in a sleep state. The processing unit configures the touch sensor to increase the power level to generate second touch data for the touch when determining that the touch corresponds to a predetermined gesture with a first similarity probability greater than a first threshold according to the first touch data, and wakes the display from the sleep state when determining that the touch corresponds to the predetermined gesture with a second similarity probability greater than a second threshold according to the second touch data, wherein the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel and a plurality of touch detection units. The touch panel includes first sensing lines and second sensing lines. The position of a touch between a last one of the first sensing lines and a first one of the second sensing lines is calculated according to sensed values respectively corresponding to a first sensing line prior to the last one of the first sensing lines, the last one of the first sensing lines and the first one of the second sensing lines. The present invention is capable of avoiding the problem that the frame rate is reduced significantly because of the data transmission between the first and second touch detection units.

Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel and a plurality of touch detection units. The touch panel includes first sensing lines and second sensing lines. The position of a touch between a last one of the first sensing lines and a first one of the second sensing lines can be calculated by the first touch detection unit, the second touch detection unit, or both. The present invention is capable of avoiding the problem that the frame rate is reduced significantly because of the data transmission between the first and second touch detection units.

Abstract: A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.

Abstract: A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.

Abstract: A method of reducing computation of palm rejection by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting maximum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost palm blocks can be wiped out from the multiple palm blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular palm block yet beyond a real palm block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the palm rejection of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.

Abstract: A projected capacitive touch panel has a plurality of bar shaped first electrodes arranged parallel to each other and a plurality of wiggly-shaped second electrodes separated from each other by a space and each including a plurality of sensing lines. The sensing lines of each second electrode are spaced from each other by an interval, electrically connected to each other and extend along an oriented direction perpendicular to the length direction of the first electrodes in a wiggly manner. The sensing lines that are separated from each other by a short interval improve touch sensing effect.