Patents by Inventor Chien-Lung Chou

Chien-Lung Chou 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).

  • Patent number: 9898063
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising an environment sensing device, a display, a touch sensing device, and a processing module comprising a main controller and a sub-controller is disclosed. The main controller performs a predetermined function based a touch input. The sub-controller computes a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus, and activates the touch sensing device without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, while the main controller is in the sleep mode. The processing module performs following steps when the display is off: determining the touch input is valid or invalid; keeping the display off if the touch input is invalid. The sub-controller wakes and activates the main controller to turn on the display and to control the electronic apparatus to perform the predetermined function according to a gesture formed by the touch input if the touch input is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Ti Chueh, Chia-Wei Chen, Ssu-Po Chin, Abhishek Saxena, Sheng-Yang Pan, Chien-Lung Chou, Chun-Hao Fan
  • Publication number: 20170228009
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising an environment sensing device, a display, a touch sensing device, and a processing module comprising a main controller and a sub-controller is disclosed. The main controller performs a predetermined function based a touch input. The sub-controller computes a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus, and activates the touch sensing device without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, while the main controller is in the sleep mode. The processing module performs following steps when the display is off: determining the touch input is valid or invalid; keeping the display off if the touch input is invalid. The sub-controller wakes and activates the main controller to turn on the display and to control the electronic apparatus to perform the predetermined function according to a gesture formed by the touch input if the touch input is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Hsin-Ti Chueh, Chia-Wei Chen, Ssu-Po Chin, Abhishek Saxena, Sheng-Yang Pan, Chien-Lung Chou, Chun-Hao Fan
  • Patent number: 9665162
    Abstract: A touch input determining method applied to an electronic apparatus with a touch sensing device, which comprises: (a) determining a size for a region of the touch sensing device that an object provides at least one touch input to; (b) if the size is larger than or equals to a first predetermined value, not determining the touch input is a valid touch input; and (c) if the size is smaller than or equals to a second predetermined value, not determining the touch input is a valid touch input, wherein the second predetermined value is smaller than the first predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Ti Chueh, Chia-Wei Chen, Ssu-Po Chin, Abhishek Saxena, Sheng-Yang Pan, Chien-Lung Chou, Chun-Hao Fan
  • Patent number: 9247281
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device having a universal remote control mechanism is provided. The electronic device comprises a touch display unit, a storage unit, a wireless transmission unit and a processing unit. The touch display unit receives device information and displays a user interface having virtual function keys. The storage unit stores a device code discrimination table. The processing unit retrieves the device code discrimination table and initiates a test procedure according to an order of the hit rate of the instruction codes of plural rows of device codes in the device code discrimination table. The processing unit further terminates the test procedure and controls the electronic device to be controlled by using a specific device code when the processing unit can control the electronic device to be controlled by using all the instruction codes of the specific device code through the wireless transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsien Wu, Chien-Lung Chou, Abhishek Saxena, Chen-Huang Fan, Chia-Wei Chen, Hsin-Ti Chueh
  • Publication number: 20150277539
    Abstract: A touch input determining method applied to an electronic apparatus with a touch sensing device, which comprises: (a) determining a size for a region of the touch sensing device that an object provides at least one touch input to; (b) if the size is larger than or equals to a first predetermined value, not determining the touch input is a valid touch input; and (c) if the size is smaller than or equals to a second predetermined value, not determining the touch input is a valid touch input, wherein the second predetermined value is smaller than the first predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Hsin-Ti Chueh, Chia-Wei Chen, Ssu-Po Chin, Abhishek Saxena, Sheng-Yang Pan, Chien-Lung Chou, Chun-Hao Fan
  • Publication number: 20150052319
    Abstract: Memory management methods and systems for page-out mechanism are provided. A page-out mechanism is performed via an OS (Operating System) based on a parameter of the page-out mechanism, wherein the page-out mechanism moves data from a memory to a storage unit. A usage of a page-out partition in the storage unit is monitored. The parameter of the page-out mechanism is dynamically set according to the usage of the page-out partition, wherein when the usage is increased, the parameter of the page-out mechanism is decreased, and when the usage is decreased, the parameter of the page-out mechanism is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek SAXENA, Chien-Lung CHOU, Chun-Hao FAN, Wei-Chun CHEN, Chia-Wei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140197932
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device having a universal remote control mechanism is provided. The electronic device comprises a touch display unit, a storage unit, a wireless transmission unit and a processing unit. The touch display unit receives device information and displays a user interface having virtual function keys. The storage unit stores a device code discrimination table. The processing unit retrieves the device code discrimination table and initiates a test procedure according to an order of the hit rate of the instruction codes of plural rows of device codes in the device code discrimination table. The processing unit further terminates the test procedure and controls the electronic device to be controlled by using a specific device code when the processing unit can control the electronic device to be controlled by using all the instruction codes of the specific device code through the wireless transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsien Wu, Chien-Lung Chou, Abhishek Saxena, Chen-Huang Fan, Chia-Wei Chen, Hsin-Ti Chueh
  • Patent number: 7990264
    Abstract: A method for acquiring location information of a communication device is disclosed. The method acquires the location information of a first communication device according to a request received from a second communication device, and then transmitting the location information of the first communication device to the second communication device A system for acquiring location information of a communication device is also provided. By utilizing the method and the system, another people may find a location of a user of the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Chien-Lung Chou
  • Publication number: 20090284371
    Abstract: A method for acquiring location information of a communication device is disclosed. The method acquires the location information of a first communication device according to a request received from a second communication device, and then transmitting the location information of the first communication device to the second communication device A system for acquiring location information of a communication device is also provided. By utilizing the method and the system, another people may find a location of a user of the first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: CHI MEI COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: CHIEN-LUNG CHOU
  • Publication number: 20090158209
    Abstract: An exemplary method for selecting objects from a user interface of an electronic device includes the following steps of: creating a two dimensional coordinate system to position a number of objects in the user interface; acquiring a 2D coordinate value of each of number of the objects; setting an index corresponding to each of the number of objects; creating a two dimensional array to store all indexes; identifying an input 2D coordinate value of a target object; confirming a position in the two dimensional array according to the input 2D coordinate value; acquiring a corresponding index from the two dimensional array according to the confirmed position; and acquiring the target object from the user interface according to the corresponding index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: CHI MEI COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: YU-CHUN CHEN, CHIEN-LUNG CHOU