Patents Assigned to AutoChips Inc.
  • Patent number: 12159147
    Abstract: A program startup method, an electronic system, and a non-transitory storage medium are disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes detecting a startup requirement for a program, startup codes of the program being at least partially stored in an external memory, and a part of the startup codes stored in the external memory comprising a plurality of code segments; and performing an operation of loading one of the code segments of the external memory to a RAM and running the one of the code segments multiple times. The one of the code segments loaded each time is different with each other. A size of each code segment is less than or equal to a size of an area of the RAM capable of executing each code segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Zhengpeng Li
  • Patent number: 10687013
    Abstract: A proxy-pattern-based multimedia displaying method is disclosed in the present disclosure, the multimedia displaying method is applied to a chip where an embedded system is built in. The embedded system includes a display application layer, a surface proxy body, a surface entrusting body and a surface realizing component. The surface proxy body is an proxy for the surface entrusting body. The surface proxy body and the surface entrusting body are independent of the display application layer. The multimedia displaying method includes: receiving to-be-displayed multimedia data from the display application layer and sending the to-be-displayed multimedia data to the surface entrusting body by the surface proxy body; and sending the to-be-displayed multimedia data to the surface realizing component or the display application layer for display on a display screen by the surface entrusting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Shuhui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10328754
    Abstract: A method for self-positioning tires and a tire pressure monitoring system are provided. The method for self-positioning tires includes: acquiring first position information detected by the first positioning circuit; acquiring second position information of each emitter respectively via corresponding second positioning circuit; and acquiring corresponding relative position information respectively between the receiver and each emitter based on the first position information of the receiver and the second position information of each emitter. In this way, compared with the method for achieving self-positioning function in the art, extra wires may not be needed and the origin wires of a vehicle may not be altered in the method of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20180165232
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a communication method for a slave device connected to a master device via an I2C bus. The method includes detecting the condition of a byte end flag when the slave device is in a transmission mode, and clearing the byte end flag to stop transmitting data to the master device as the slave device is in the transmission mode when the byte end flag is detected to be in a first condition. The first condition indicates all data requested by the master device has been transmitted by the slave device. The present disclosure further discloses a slave device using the above-mentioned communication method. When the slave device is in the transmission mode, it is unnecessary to switch the operation mode of the slave device to stop the slave device from continuing transmitting data when the last byte of data has been transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventors: Shujie LU, Zhe WU
  • Publication number: 20170337012
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of compensating for delays of a storage device are disclosed. The method includes: performing a communication operation a preset number of times with the storage device through the extension line, each time if a correct response is received from the storage device, recording a status value of the current communication operation as a first value, otherwise recording as a second value, to obtain a resultant data string; searching, in the resultant data string, for a longest data segment comprised of the continuous first values; taking a delay value of the communication operation corresponding to the status value at the middle position of the longest data segment as an optimal delay value; and setting the optimal delay value as a phase difference between a source clock and a sampling clock of the storage device to compensate for the delays caused by the extension line of the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Songlin Chen
  • Publication number: 20170234989
    Abstract: A quick positioning method and a vehicle-mounted system are disclosed. The quick positioning method includes: acquiring position information from an external positioning terminal the same time when the vehicle-mounted system is started, and determining continuously whether position information is available from a local GPS positioning module; and using the position information acquired from the external positioning terminal until position information is available from the local GPS positioning module. By the above method, there would be available position information before the GPS module of the vehicle-mounted system is fully activated, thus effectively enhancing the positioning efficiency of the vehicle-mounted system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventors: Xiong Duan, Naiqian JIANG
  • Patent number: 9691427
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting tightness of a pick-up head, and a method and apparatus for controlling the moving of the pick-up head are disclosed. The method for detecting the tightness of the pick-up head includes moving the pick-up head to an inner area of the disc reading device when then disc reading device is powered on, moving the pick-up head to an outer area of the disc reading device within a predetermined time period, moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at a constant speed by a first fixed force, and recording the moving duration for moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at the constant speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20170032818
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting tightness of a pick-up head, and a method and apparatus for controlling the moving of the pick-up head are disclosed. The method for detecting the tightness of the pick-up head includes moving the pick-up head to an inner area of the disc reading device when then disc reading device is powered on, moving the pick-up head to an outer area of the disc reading device within a predetermined time period, moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at a constant speed by a first fixed force, and recording the moving duration for moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at the constant speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20150019854
    Abstract: Booting display control method and associated apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor chip, wherein the processor chip includes a processor and a display. After the processor chip is activated, the processor loads the leading program and displays control program; the processor detects whether a vehicle backing indicator indicates vehicle backing; when the vehicle backing indicator indicates vehicle backing, the processor controls the display controller to realize the vehicle backing video display function through the display control program; and when the vehicle backing indicator does not indicate vehicle backing, the processor loads the operating system program. Through the method, the present invention is capable of displaying vehicle backing video display when loading the operating system program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: WEIBIN ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20140337692
    Abstract: An error detection method of a variable-length coding (VLC) code stream includes at least the following steps: decoding a data frame of the VLC code stream; and determining whether the data frame is erroneous according to length information of the data frame and a bit number of decoded data of the data frame. According to the method, the present invention realizes the objective of performing error detection upon data frames during the decoding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: JINGJIAN YU