Patents by Inventor Tsung-Wen Sheng

Tsung-Wen Sheng 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).

  • Apparatus and method for storing and selecting radio stations
    Patent number: 7054601
    Abstract: A method of storing and selecting a radio station (104, 106) in a radio (102) having a plurality of tuner presets (130) and a plurality of memory locations (146) assigned to each of the plurality of tuner presets, includes storing a plurality of radio stations (104, 106) under a tuner preset (134), where each of the plurality of radio stations is stored as a record (148) in one of the plurality of memory locations assigned to the tuner preset. The record can include a radio station frequency (150) and a geographic position (152) of the radio at a time that the record is stored. In response to subsequent selection of the tuner preset (134), a radio station is selected from the plurality of radio stations stored under the tuner preset and includes identifying the record having the geographic position that is closest to a geographic position (253) of the radio at a time that the tuner preset is selected and tuning the radio to the radio station frequency (150) of the identified record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Heiderscheit, Michael Barnea, Steven G. Palmer, Tsung-Wen Sheng
  • Apparatus and method for storing and selecting radio stations
    Publication number: 20040198282
    Abstract: A method of storing and selecting a radio station (104, 106) in a radio (102) having a plurality of tuner presets (130) and a plurality of memory locations (146) assigned to each of the plurality of tuner presets, includes storing a plurality of radio stations (104, 106) under a tuner preset (134), where each of the plurality of radio stations is stored as a record (148) in one of the plurality of memory locations assigned to the tuner preset. The record can include a radio station frequency (150) and a geographic position (152) of the radio at a time that the record is stored. In response to subsequent selection of the tuner preset (134), a radio station is selected from the plurality of radio stations stored under the tuner preset and includes identifying the record having the geographic position that is closest to a geographic position (253) of the radio at a time that the tuner preset is selected and tuning the radio to the radio station frequency (150) of the identified record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: David D. Heiderscheit, Michael Barnea, Steven G. Palmer, Tsung-Wen Sheng