Patents by Inventor Yi-Wen CAI

Yi-Wen CAI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140035837
    Abstract: Information in a screen of another display device such as a television or a computer monitor can be captured by a display device including a display unit, an image sensing unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays images corresponding to a screen of another display device. The image sensing unit produces snapshot images corresponding to the screen. The input unit produces selection parameters in response to a selection operation corresponding to the images. The control unit determines objective(s) in the screen according to the snapshot images and the selection parameters. The control unit may transmit objective data corresponding to the objective(s) to the display unit, thereby enabling the display unit to display objective-related information corresponding to the objective according to the objective data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, CHUN-MING CHEN, CHUNG-I LEE
  • Publication number: 20130342427
    Abstract: Traffic obstacles or other objectives in front of a vehicle or a person can be monitored by using a monitoring system including a display device, a camera unit, and a control unit. The display device includes a transparent display which allows a user to view a scene through the transparent display. The camera unit produces images of the scene. The control unit determines objective(s) according to recognition of the scene images, and transmits objective data corresponding to the objective(s) to the display device. The transparent display of the display device displays objective information indicating virtual image(s) of the objective(s) projected on the transparent display according to the objective data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130342696
    Abstract: Traffic obstacles or other objectives in front of a person is monitored by using a monitoring system including a portable device, a camera unit, and a control unit. The portable device can be a helmet or glasses, which includes a display unit with a transparent display allowing a user to view a scene through the transparent display. The camera unit produces scene images of the scene. The control unit determines objective(s) according to the scene images, and transmits objective data corresponding to the objective(s) to the display unit. The transparent display of the display unit displays objective information indicating virtual image(s) of the objective(s) seen through the transparent display according to the objective data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Patent number: 8610568
    Abstract: An emergency response system is provided. The emergency response system includes an administrator information database capable of storing an administrator information, an emergency device information database capable of storing an emergency device information, a control unit, and a communication unit. The control unit searches the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to a report signal, thereby generating a notification signal according to the administrator information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the report signal, thereby generating a reply signal including a nearby emergency device information according to the emergency device information. In response to receiving the report signal from the user terminal, the communication unit transmits the notification signal to an administrator terminal, and transmits the reply signal to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Wen Cai, Shih-Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 8610559
    Abstract: An environmental hazard warning system is provided. The environmental hazard warning system includes a data unit, a comparison unit, and an alarm unit. The data unit is capable of storing a plurality protective suit tolerance data. The comparison unit receives a portable sensor parameter signal including a portable sensor parameter from a portable sensor, and compares the portable sensor parameter with the protective suit tolerance data corresponding to the portable sensor parameter. The alarm unit transmits an alarm signal corresponding to the comparison between the portable sensor parameter and the protective suit tolerance data. The disclosure further provides an environmental hazard warning method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Wen Cai, Shih-Cheng Wang
  • Publication number: 20130314554
    Abstract: An electronic decoration system is provided, including a third-party server cloud and display devices with a display disposed in a structure. The third-party server cloud includes an input unit, a conversion unit, a subscription unit, and an output unit. The conversion unit produces theme data according to input data received by the input unit. The subscription unit stores subscription information including a theme category name and subscriber identifications. When a category of the theme data corresponds to the theme category name and an identification of the display device corresponds to one of the subscriber identifications, the subscription unit enables the output unit to transmit the theme data to the display device, thereby enabling the display to display scenes according to the theme data. The disclosure further provides a server for the electronic decoration system and an electronic decoration method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130316767
    Abstract: An electronic display structure is provided. The electronic display structure includes a display structure, a camera unit, and a control unit. The display structure including a window portion can be a display case or a display window, which defines an inner space to accommodate objects. The objects in the inner space can be viewed from the exterior of the display structure through the window portion. The camera unit produces images in a direction toward the exterior of the display structure. The control unit determines an indicating direction of a user through the images, determines the object(s) indicated by the user according to the indicating direction, and transmits object data of the indicated object(s) to a transparent display or a portable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130305807
    Abstract: A gas detector test system is provided. The gas detector test system includes a test apparatus and a control apparatus. The test apparatus includes a housing, a baffle, an elastic device, a gas discharger, and a gas sensor. The housing defines an inner space communicating with an opening. The elastic device pushes the baffle disposed in the inner space toward the opening, thereby sealing the opening. The baffle can be moved against the opening to form an interval between the baffle and the opening. The gas sensor produces a gas parameter signal according to a gas detected in the inner space. The control apparatus controls the gas discharger of the test apparatus to discharge gas according to a control signal, and displays the information of the gas according to the gas parameter signal. The disclosure further provides a gas detector test apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SHIH-CHENG WANG, YI-WEN CAI
  • Publication number: 20130257901
    Abstract: An electronic display such as electronic paper can decorate a structure by using a display system. The display system includes a content minding unit and a conversion unit. The content minding unit produces content information according to reference parameters generated by sensing devices. The conversion unit converts the content information into theme information. The display system transmits the theme information to the electronic display disposed in the structure, such that the electronic display can display scenes according to the theme information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130257755
    Abstract: A display device for a structure is provided. The display device includes a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The display unit for displaying scenes is disposed in an opening or a surface of the structure, for example, a window, a door, or a wall. The control unit determines a circumstance according to input parameters received by the input unit, and changes the scenes to correspond to the circumstance. The control unit can change the scenes by modifying a color value of pixel data corresponding to pixels of each of the scenes according to values of the input parameters, or by selecting another scene according to the values of the input parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130179818
    Abstract: A communication device is provided. The communication device includes software modules include instructions: to display a floor plan diagram corresponding to a scene on a screen display; to display a personnel symbol on the floor plan diagram according to the location of the communication device; to display an equipment symbol on the floor plan diagram according to an equipment location information received from a command assignment system; to display a report interface and an intercommunication interface on the screen display; to transmit a report message for interacting with a command assignment interface of the command assignment system in response to detecting a submission operation with respect to the report interface; and to transmit a message for interacting with a communication interface of a neighboring communication device in response to detecting a submission operation with respect to the intercommunication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Cheng WANG, Yi-Wen CAI
  • Publication number: 20130179826
    Abstract: A command assignment device is provided. The command assignment device includes software modules which include instructions: to display a floor plan diagram corresponding to a scene on a screen display; to display a symbol on the floor plan diagram according to a responder device location information received from a responder device located at the scene; to generate a destination correlation information in response to detecting a correlation operation between the responder symbol and a destination on the floor plan diagram; to generate an action information in response to various actions taken; and to transmit a command signal comprising any commands given for display on the responder device(s). The disclosure further provides a command assignment method and a command assignment interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SHIH-CHENG WANG, YI-WEN CAI
  • Publication number: 20130154832
    Abstract: An emergency response system is provided. The emergency response system includes an administrator information database capable of storing an administrator information, an emergency device information database capable of storing an emergency device information, a control unit, and a communication unit. The control unit searches the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to a report signal, thereby generating a notification signal according to the administrator information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the report signal, thereby generating a reply signal including a nearby emergency device information according to the emergency device information. In response to receiving the report signal from the user terminal, the communication unit transmits the notification signal to an administrator terminal, and transmits the reply signal to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130154824
    Abstract: An environmental hazard warning system is provided. The environmental hazard warning system includes a data unit, a comparison unit, and an alarm unit. The data unit is capable of storing a plurality protective suit tolerance data. The comparison unit receives a portable sensor parameter signal including a portable sensor parameter from a portable sensor, and compares the portable sensor parameter with the protective suit tolerance data corresponding to the portable sensor parameter. The alarm unit transmits an alarm signal corresponding to the comparison between the portable sensor parameter and the protective suit tolerance data. The disclosure further provides an environmental hazard warning method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130116922
    Abstract: An emergency guiding system is provided. The emergency guiding system includes an emergency guiding server and a portable device. The emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme and an augmented reality information unit. The portable device transmits an image characteristic signal including image data produced according to an image to the emergency guiding server. The emergency guiding server transmits an augmented reality signal to the portable device, wherein the augmented reality signal includes an augmented reality data produced by the augmented reality information unit according to the guiding scheme, the image data, and a portable device location information in a location signal corresponding to the portable device. The portable device produces an augmented reality image according to the image and the augmented reality data. The disclosure further provides an emergency guiding server and an emergency guiding portable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130115587
    Abstract: An emergency command system is provided. The emergency command system selectively operated in a real time monitoring mode, a forecast mode, and a strategy inferring mode includes an input interface unit, a scene information unit, an emergency status providing unit, a strategy inferring unit, an output interface unit, and a commanding unit. The emergency status providing unit receives an alarm signal corresponding to an emergency, and produces scene simulation data according to the alarm signal and a set of scene information in the scene information unit corresponding to the emergency. The strategy inferring unit produces a strategy inference diagram according to the scene simulation data and/or strategy data input through the input interface unit, thereby displaying through the output interface unit. The commanding unit transmits command signals produced according to the strategy data to terminal devices. The disclosure further provides an emergency command method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SHIH-CHENG WANG, YI-WEN CAI
  • Publication number: 20130103309
    Abstract: An emergency guiding system includes an emergency guiding server and a portable device. The emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme in response to an emergency, a route providing unit producing a recommended route to reach a particular target according to the last guiding scheme and a device location information in a location signal in response to the production of the guiding scheme, and a scene location data unit including sets of scene location information. The portable device includes a location identification unit producing the device location information, which transmits the location signal including the device location information to the emergency guiding server. The emergency guiding server transmits a guiding signal including the recommended route to the portable device when the device location information corresponds to one set of the scene location information. The disclosure further provides an emergency guiding server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-WEN CAI, SHIH-CHENG WANG
  • Publication number: 20130099919
    Abstract: An emergency guiding system includes an emergency guiding server, a portable device, and short distance wireless identifiers. The emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme in response to an emergency and a route providing unit producing a recommended route according to the last guiding scheme and a location signal in response to the production of the guiding scheme. The short distance wireless identifiers detect the presence of the portable device through a short distance wireless communication unit of the portable device, thereby transmitting the corresponding location signal to the emergency guiding server. The emergency guiding server transmits a guiding signal to the portable device according to the location signal, wherein the guiding signal includes a portion of a recommended route adjacent to the portable device to reach a particular target. The disclosure further provides an emergency guiding server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Wen CAI, Shih-Cheng WANG