Patents Assigned to MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8442683
    Abstract: A cleaning robot including a roller unit, a sensing unit, a first control unit and a second control unit is disclosed. The roller unit includes a plurality of rollers. The sensing unit receives a reflection signal and generates a detection signal according to the reflection signal. When the detection signal is less than or equal to a reference signal, the first control unit controls the traveling direction of the rollers according to the detection signal such that a distance between the cleaning robot and a wall is equal to a first distance. When the detection signal is larger than the reference signal, the second control unit controls the traveling direction of the rollers according to the detection signal such that a distance between the cleaning robot and a wall is equal to a second distance larger then the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Shen Lee, Shui-Shih Chen
  • Patent number: 8437137
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism for fixing a thermal module on a base includes a U-shaped buckling component disposed on a side of the base for buckling a thermal fin and a heat conducting block of the thermal module, and a fixing component disposed on the other side of the base and connected to the U-shaped buckling component for clipping the base with the U-shaped buckling component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin-Yu Lee, Shang-Chih Yang
  • Patent number: 8421638
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for reminding of a battery power level, which generates a grading instruction according to the battery power level of an electronic device, and which controls the electronic device to present an obvious reminder corresponding to the grading instruction. The present invention uses a progressively intensified visual reminder to stepwise semi-compel the user to notice the insufficiency of the battery power and respond to the reminding. Thereby, the present invention can guarantee that the user indeed knows the status of the residual electric energy of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Li Ko, Chi-Hun Huang
  • Patent number: 8407843
    Abstract: A clean device for cleaning a goldfinger includes a positioning mechanism for transmitting a circuit board and fixing the circuit board on a predetermined position, a delivering mechanism for delivering a cleaning medium to the predetermined position, and a wiping mechanism for utilizing the cleaning medium to wipe a goldfinger of the circuit board after the positioning mechanism fixes the circuit board on the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8408981
    Abstract: An exhaust device applied to an electronic device is described. Memory deformable elements of the exhaust device are heated to shrink, and meanwhile, guide vanes located on an air outlet are driven to rotate and swing back and forth between a left outlet position and a right outlet position, such that the exhaust device reciprocatively changes an outlet position without requiring any external power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heng-Yung Su, Yao-Shih Leng
  • Patent number: 8390792
    Abstract: A distance measuring device is provided. The distance measuring device includes: a distance sensing unit, for sensing a distance value of a target object; a drive unit, for driving the distance sensing unit to rotate according to a rotation angle; and a compensation unit, for providing a compensation value according to the rotation angle and obtaining an actual distance according to the compensation value and the distance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bi-Jung Rung, Yi-Chih Yeh, Li-Lu Chen, Yung-Shen Lee
  • Patent number: 8387133
    Abstract: A power on certification method for a personal computer (PC) and a power on certification system thereof are described. The power on method includes the following steps. At least one booting certification device is connected to a PC. The PC is booted, and a basic input output system (BIOS) is run. The BIOS is made to retrieve recognition information of the booting certification device through a verification procedure, so as to judge whether the recognition information is consistent with verification information stored in the PC. After the booting certification device passes through the verification procedure, the PC completes other procedures in the BIOS, and enters an operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Chung Hsieh, Heng-Yung Su
  • Patent number: 8369075
    Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes a foldable casing and a flexible display. The flexible display is disposed in the foldable casing, and is connected to the foldable casing through an elastic member, and the elastic member provides the flexible display the extending flexibility when being unfolded or folded together with the foldable casing, such that the flexible display is capable of being used as a display screen of the foldable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Di Huang
  • Patent number: 8306349
    Abstract: A method for simulating dark-part exposure compensation of high dynamic range images using a single image includes steps of: performing bright-part-enhancing image processing and saturation-contrast-enhancing image processing to obtain images P1, P2, respectively; selecting one of the images P1, P2; performing bright and dark parts identifying image processing on a selected image; performing blurring image processing on the selected image, to obtain a weight-reference image P3; and performing mixed weight calculation on pixels of the image P1 and pixels of the image P2 according to weights of pixels of the weight-reference image P3, respectively, so as to mix the image P1 and the image P2 to obtain a mixed image P4, wherein the pixels of the images P1, P2 on which the mixed weight calculation is performed correspond to the pixels of the weight-reference image P3, respectively. Hence, excessively dark parts typical of an image of undesirably high contrast are improved by reference to a single.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yung-Chiu Liu
  • Patent number: 8299750
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a charging station and a main unit. The charging station has a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode form an angle therebetween, and the main unit has a third electrode and a fourth electrode. When the main unit is connected to the charging station, the main unit firstly contacts the second electrode with the fourth electrode, and then contacts the first electrode with the third electrode, so as to be recharged by the charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsin-Yi Pai
  • Patent number: 8301305
    Abstract: A moving device is provided. A first receiving device receives an emitted light from a base station and obtains a direction from a start position, which the moving device is in to the base station according to the emitted light to serve as a target direction. A driving device drives the moving device to move in the target direction from the start position. When the moving device meets a first obstacle which is disposed along the target direction and in the target area, a second receiving device obtains a distance between the moving device and the base station according to the received emitted light to serve as a middle distance. When a determination device determines that the middle distance is not equal to a predetermined distance, the driving device drives the moving device to detour around the first obstacle and move in the target direction continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuan-Ching Tsao, Yung-Shen Lee, Shih-Chieh Chou, Hong Lun Liu
  • Patent number: 8275218
    Abstract: A forward and backward image resizing method is used for resizing a low-resolution image into a high-resolution image. In the method, the low-resolution image is obtained first, and then a forward and backward image resizing process is performed, so as to resize the low-resolution image into the high-resolution image with an integral multiple resolution. The forward and backward image resizing process includes: resizing the low-resolution image by the integral multiple, so as to generate a first-resizing image with the integral multiple resolution; further increasing the resolution of the first-resizing image by 2-fold, so as to generate a second-resizing image; and reducing the resolution of the second-resizing image by 2-fold, thereby obtaining the high-resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Hsiang Lin, Pei-Chi Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8271770
    Abstract: A computer motherboard with automatically adjusted hardware parameter values restarts automatically and proceeds with overclocking or power-saving operation in case the computer motherboard hangs due to preceding overclocking or power-saving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chung-Hsing Chang, Tung-Jung Tsai, Yu-Tsung Kao
  • Patent number: 8258762
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer power measurement device, which comprises: a first inductor connected power supply, and the first inductor is provided with a first DC equivalent resistance; a second inductor connected power consumption components, and the second inductor is provided with a second DC equivalent resistance; an input measurement module, which is connected to the first inductor, and measures the input power based on the first DC equivalent resistance; and, an output measurement module, which is connected to the second inductor, and measures the output power based on the second DC equivalent resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tung Jung Tsai, Yu Tsung Kao, Chien Chi Hsu
  • Patent number: 8245075
    Abstract: A method for overclocking a central processing unit (CPU) of a computer motherboard is disclosed. Step A is to set a second frequency of front side bus (FSB) by an operating interface of BIOS. Step B is to determine FSB frequency Fn at each of N stages according to a difference between a first frequency and the second frequency. Step C is to load the CPU with an operating system by booting the CPU at the first frequency of FSB, and send an interruption signal to the CPU from a chipset at predetermined intervals upon completion of the loading of the operating system so as to allow the BIOS to gain control over the CPU, and execute step D by the CPU on each of N occasions of interruption until the FSB frequency of the CPU is changed to the second frequency. Step D is to execute the BIOS by the CPU on the nth occasion of interruption such that the CPU operates at the FSB frequency Fn, and allow the operating system to resume control over the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Chien
  • Patent number: 8243993
    Abstract: A method for moving object detection includes the steps: obtaining successive images of the moving object and dividing the successive images into blocks; selecting one block, calculating color feature values of the block at a current time point and a following time point; according to the color feature values, obtaining an active part of the selected block; comparing the color feature value of the selected block at the current time point with that of the other blocks at the following time point to obtain a similarity relating to each of the other blocks, and defining a maximum similarity as a local correlation part; obtaining a motion-energy patch of the block according to the active part and the local correlation part; repeating the steps to obtain all motion-energy patches to form a motion-energy map; and acquiring the moving object at the current time point in the motion-energy map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei-Chi Hsiao, Pang-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8224186
    Abstract: A transmission module including an emitter device, a first reflection device, and a second reflection device is disclosed. The emitter device emits a light. The first reflection device reflects the light to generate a first reflected light. The second reflection device reflects the light to generate a second reflected light. The energy of the first reflected light is different from the energy of the second reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Feng Li
  • Patent number: 8218087
    Abstract: A method for adjusting image is applied to an image output device. According to the method, the image output device firstly obtains a current image frame including plural pixels, and analyzes an intensity of an input image signal value of each pixel. The image output device defines each pixel having the input image signal value being smaller than a critical value as a dark pixel, and counts a number of the dark pixels to obtain a ratio of the dark pixels among all the pixels to serve as a dark pixel ratio. The image output device determines an image adjusting curve equation according to the dark pixel ratio, substitutes the input image signal values to the image adjusting curve equation, and obtains output image signal values of the pixels. Finally, the image output device combines all the output image signal values to obtain a final output image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Wen Lo, Ren-Jie Yang
  • Patent number: 8218864
    Abstract: A method maintaining an image background by multiple Gaussian models utilized to a device includes the following steps. First, the device captures an image frame having pixels to obtain background information, and then calculates the background information to establish a primary Gaussian model. Next, the device captures continuous image frames in a time period to obtain and calculate graphic information for establishing a secondary Gaussian model, and then repeates the steps to establish multiple secondary Gaussian models. Finally, the device compares two secondary Gaussian models, and then updates learning for the primary Gaussian model by the secondary Gaussian model if the graphic information of the secondary Gaussian models are attributable to the background information, or maintains the background information of the primary Gaussian model without updating the learning if anyone of the graphic information of the two secondary Gaussian models is unattributable to the background information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Ping Wang
  • Patent number: 8185239
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a moving route planning method for mobile robot device, which provides the moving route on a physical site for the mobile robot device. The method includes a first and a second steps; in which, the first step is to generate a relative mesh grid diagram based on a physical site, and the mesh grid map comprises a plurality of map grids containing hindrance parameter values, wherein the hindrance parameter values for each map grid are determined by the locations of hindrances within the physical site at relative locations; and, the second step is to continuously expand the map grid from the start point and the target point toward the neighbored map grids until the expanded map grids meet with each other, and to define each map grid in the expansion traces for meeting with each other as the moving route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: You-Wei Teng, Hung-Lun Liu