Patents by Inventor Teck Chee Lee

Teck Chee Lee 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: 20140086415
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device can include a processing portion and one or more audio output portions. Based on any of, or any combination of, the image signals, optical signals, voice input signals, movement of the electronic device and change in orientation of the electronic device, the processing portion can be configured to do one or both of varying/controlling at least a portion of the audio characteristics of the audio input signals and varying/controlling output of audio output signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Wong Hoo SIM, Teck Chee LEE, Thean Kuie Christopher CHANG
  • Patent number: 8667413
    Abstract: A method, and apparatus is disclosed for input of information in an electronic device having a display, the apparatus comprising a graphic processor for displaying a plurality of objects on the display representative of the information to be input, each object of the plurality of objects arranged around the perimeter of a portion of the screen area of the display; a control interface for a user to control movement of a cursor generated in the display by the graphic processor and responsive to the control interface for scrolling through the plurality of objects and selection of an object for input of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Kok Hoong Vincent Cheng, Teck Chee Lee
  • Patent number: 8627218
    Abstract: There is provided a host implemented method for redefining at least one user interface element on a secondary device. The method may include connecting the secondary device to the host for communication between the host and the secondary device; redefining the at least one user interface element using an application running on the host; reviewing the at least one user interface element as redefined using the application (possibly including a visual preview of the at least one user interface element as redefined when viewed on the secondary device); determining whether the secondary device is able to support the at least one user interface element as redefined using the application; and incorporating the at least one user interface element redefined using the application onto the secondary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee, Peng Kheong Lam, Aik Tat Tan
  • Publication number: 20130342554
    Abstract: A method for association based identification. The method includes providing at least one identifier and communicating identification information based on the at least one identifier. The method further includes receiving and processing identification information. Each of the at least one identifier can be associated with a color code. Identification information can be processed in a manner so as to produce association data. The association data can be associated with at least a characteristic data from a set of library data. The set of library data can correspond to a library of color codes and a characteristic data from the set of library data can correspond to a color code from the library of color codes. The association data is based upon to produce output signals. The output signals can be based on characteristic data associable with the association data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee, Toh Onn Desmond Hll
  • Patent number: 8359659
    Abstract: There is provided apparatus comprising a user interface for displaying a plurality of items. The apparatus is arranged: a) to receive at least one instruction, by which instruction or instructions, one or more of a plurality of items initially displayed on the user interface is or are categorized as an item or items to be hidden and the remaining one or more of the plurality of items initially displayed on the user interface is or are categorized as an item or items to be displayed; b) to receive an instruction to hide, from the user interface, the one or more items to be hidden; and c) to hide from the user interface, the one or more items to be hidden, such that the item or items categorized as items to be displayed are displayed on the user interface, and the item or items categorized as items to be hidden are not displayed on the user interface. In one preferred arrangement, the apparatus is an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee, Aik Tat Tan, Guan Chuan Choo
  • Patent number: 8271544
    Abstract: A data file having more than one modes of operation. The data file comprises an image component for storing an image as a representation of the data file and one or more data components appended to the image component. The image component comprises metadata associated with the one or more data components. In a first mode of operation, the image component of the data file is readable for viewing the image by an image viewer while the image component is part of the data file. The one or more appended data components are unreadable by the image viewer in the first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, the image component and the one or more appended data components are readable by a file reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wei Luen Chan, Fransiscus Jonas Salim, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20120229451
    Abstract: An electronic reader device configured to receive at least one set of source data for processing in a manner so as to display at least one electronic reading material. The electronic reader device includes a processing portion and a display portion coupled to the processing portion. The processing portion can be configured to process at least one set of source data in a manner so as to produce graphic data. Graphic data can be communicated to the display portion which can be configured to display graphic data as display data in a stereoscopic display mode. The display data can correspond to a graphic representation. In the stereoscopic display mode, the graphic representation is associable with a three dimensional imaging based graphic representation such that the display data correspond to a graphic representation where at least one portion of the at least one electronic reading material is visually perceivable to be projecting from the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Wong Hoo SIM, Teck Chee LEE, Qiang QIAN, Hon Wai CHOONG
  • Publication number: 20120026281
    Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus for segmental processing of input data. The apparatus includes a plurality of data processors connected in a series configuration, the plurality of data processors being able to transmit discrete data packets over a video bus to one another, with the plurality of data processors being divided into a plurality of data processing sets; and a central controller coupled to the plurality of data processors for controlling allocation of the input data to the plurality of data processing sets, the central controller being also for controlling transmission of output data from the apparatus. The apparatus incorporates several varying methods for data transmittal amongst data processors and has several applications which will be described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Nick Murphy, Philip Laws, Teck Chee Lee, Yew Teng Too, Paul Pontin
  • Publication number: 20110007911
    Abstract: In a first aspect, there is provided a method for locating a position of at least one sound generating object using at least one audio pulse, with the at least one audio pulse being detected by a plurality of stationary microphones located at a first position being spaced apart by a pre-determined distance. In a second aspect, there is provided a method for locating a position of a microphone using audio pulses emitted from a plurality of sound generating objects. The at least one audio pulse may preferably be in a form of a logarithmic swept sine (LSS) signal, as the LSS signal is detectable at both low volumes and amidst background noises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Creative Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun XU, Boon Swee Low, Huayun Zhang, Yew Teng Too, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20100281070
    Abstract: A data file having more than one modes of operation. The data file comprises an image component for storing an image as a representation of the data file and one or more data components appended to the image component. The image component comprises metadata associated with the one or more data components. In a first mode of operation, the image component of the data file is readable for viewing the image by an image viewer while the image component is part of the data file. The one or more appended data components are unreadable by the image viewer in the first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, the image component and the one or more appended data components are readable by a file reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wei Luen CHAN, Fransiscus Jonas Salim, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20100281121
    Abstract: There is provided a dynamic digitized visual icon appearing on a sender's and recipient's display with the icon being used to represent at least one word in a language that is being used by the sender during text messaging. The icon may include a static base image; and at least one component image overlaid onto the base image. The at least one component image may vary in accordance with determining an aspect selected from the group consisting of, for example, the at least one word, a preferred characteristics of the sender/recipient or a combination of both the aforementioned aspects. It is advantageous that the icon alters appearance whenever the at least one word is used by the sender/received by the recipient during text messaging. Corresponding methods to generate the aforementioned icons are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Kok Hoong Vincent Cheng, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20100268539
    Abstract: A method and system for distributed text-to-speech synthesis and intelligibility, and more particularly to distributed text-to-speech synthesis on handheld portable computing devices that can be used for example to generate intelligible audio prompts that help a user interact with a user interface of the handheld portable computing device. The text-to-speech distributed system 70 receives a text string from the guest devices and comprises a text analyzer 72, a prosody analyzer 74, a database 14 that the text analyzer and prosody analyzer refer to, and a speech synthesizer 80. Elements of the speech synthesizer 80 are resident on the host device and the guest device and an audio index representation of the audio file associated with the text string is produced at the host device and transmitted to the guest device for producing the audio file at the guest device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20100253764
    Abstract: There is provided a method of customising live media content with the live media content including at least one dewarped panoramic view of a monitored area. The panoramic view may have a plurality of portions for selection by a user, the method comprising: receiving the live media with audio and video interleaved and/or compressed as a single stream data, receiving a selection of one of the plurality of portions of the panoramic view; and customising the live media based on the selection of the a portion of the panoramic view for display. A system to customise live media content is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee
  • Publication number: 20100115021
    Abstract: There is provided a method for generating a user interface for enabling access to data on a server. The method comprises updating metadata in a metadata server, the metadata server being functionally connected to the server; processing the metadata on the metadata server; sending a request to the server to perform a task; and generating the user interface on a client device based on the processed metadata for enabling access to data on the server. The user interface may preferably be used to send the request to the server. The task being performed by the server may include, for example, browsing a collection of files, organizing files, selecting files, editing files, uploading files, downloading files and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Seh Eing LIM, Jin Foong LUI, Xin WU, Teck Chee LEE
  • Publication number: 20090210815
    Abstract: A method, and apparatus is disclosed for input of information in an electronic device having a display, the apparatus comprising a graphic processor for displaying a plurality of objects on the display representative of the information to be input, each object of the plurality of objects arranged around the perimeter of a portion of the screen area of the display; a control interface for a user to control movement of a cursor generated in the display by the graphic processor and responsive to the control interface for scrolling through the plurality of objects and selection of an object for input of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Kok Hoong CHENG, Teck Chee LEE
  • Publication number: 20090055758
    Abstract: There is provided a host implemented method for redefining at least one user interface element on a secondary device. The method may include connecting the secondary device to the host for communication between the host and the secondary device; redefining the at least one user interface element using an application running on the host; reviewing the at least one user interface element as redefined using the application (possibly including a visual preview of the at least one user interface element as redefined when viewed on the secondary device); determining whether the secondary device is able to support the at least one user interface element as redefined using the application; and incorporating the at least one user interface element redefined using the application onto the secondary device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Wong Hoo SIM, Teck Chee LEE, Peng Kheong LAM, Aik Tat TAN