Cm Hk Limited

Cywee Group Limited

Realtek Semiconductor Inc.

Mediatek Corporation

Cyweemotion Hk Limited

Chin-Lung Li

Shun-Nan Liou

Zhou Ye

Chien-Chih Hsu

Ka-Un Chan

Ying-Ko Lu

Chin-Tang Weng

Feng-Jian Chou

A representative method involves: generating measured angular velocities and measured axial accelerations; calculating a resulting deviation associated with movements and rotations in a spatial reference frame by: providing a previous quaternion corresponding to time T&#x2212;1 based on the measured axial accelerations corresponding to time T&#x2212;1 and the measured angular velocities corresponding to time T&#x2212;1; converting the measured angular velocities corresponding to time T based on the previous quaternion into a current quaternion and predicted axial accelerations; comparing the predicted axial accelerations with the measured axial accelerations corresponding to time T to obtain a first comparison result; obtaining an updated quaternion associated with time T based on the current quaternion and the first comparison result, and using the updated quaternion as a next occurrence of the previous quaternion; and providing the resulting deviation based on the updated quaternion; and, providing content based on the resulting deviation in the spatial reference frame.

Electronic device for use in motion detection and method for obtaining resultant deviation thereof

A satellite signal receiving circuit includes an oscillator, two mixers, two phase shifters, two low-pass filters, two phase operation circuits, and a bandpass filter. When the frequency of the oscillator is between the center frequencies of the Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the GPS or the Galileo system, the GLONASS and GPS/Galileo satellite baseband signals are obtained through phase addition and subtraction performed by the phase operation circuits, while the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) baseband signal is obtained through the bandpass filter. When the frequency of the oscillator is between the center frequencies of the BDS and the GPS or the Galileo system, the BDS and GPS/Galileo satellite baseband signals are obtained through phase addition and subtraction performed by the phase operation circuits, while the GLONASS satellite baseband signal is obtained through the bandpass filter.

Satellite signal receiving circuit and satellite signal receiving method

An electronic device utilizing a nine-axis motion sensor module, capable of accurately outputting a resultant deviation including deviation angles in a 3D reference frame is provided. The present invention provides a novel comparison and compensation to accurately obtain a resultant deviation including deviation angles of the electronic device under the presence of external and/or internal interferences including the ones caused by undesirable electromagnetic fields and the ones associated with undesirable external forces and axial accelerations. The output of the nine-axis motion sensor module of the present invention including a rotation sensor, an accelerometer and a magnetometer can be advantageously obtained and compensated with a comparison comparing different states of the motion sensor module such that an updated state associated with the output and the resultant deviation angles of the nine-axis motion sensor module are preferably obtained in an absolute manner with the undesirable external interferences being effectively excluded.

Methods of motion processing and related electronic devices and motion modules are provided. A representative method of motion processing of an electronic device, which incorporates a motion sensor and a processor, the motion sensor having sensor circuitry including a sensor clock, the processor having processor circuitry including a processor clock, includes: providing one or more samples, including at least one of an accelerometer sample or a gyroscope sample associated with the electronic device, by the motion sensor at a sampling rate according to the sensor clock; storing each of the one or more samples in a buffer of the motion sensor; fetching the samples in batches from the buffer, by the processor, at a polling rate; and performing, by the processor, a numerical integration according to the sensor clock based on the samples fetched from the buffer.

Methods of motion processing and related electronic devices and motion modules

A location context managing method applied to an electronic device having at least one sensor, including: receiving positioning information from a plurality of positioning sources; receiving a value from the sensor; choosing a scenario from a scenario table based on the value received from the sensor and the positioning information received from the plurality of positioning sources, and calculating a location of the electronic device according to the scenario, wherein the scenario table lists a plurality of scenarios, each decides which positioning information from the plurality positioning sources to be adopted for the location calculation.

Location context managing method and electronic device

Methods of motion processing and related devices are provided. A representative method includes: generating a plurality of first sensor samples; generating a plurality of second sensor samples at a sampling rate according a first clock signal; storing the second sensor samples in a first buffer; fetching the first sensor samples; fetching the second sensor samples in batches from the first buffer; merging the first sensor samples and the second sensor samples to form a sensing merged signal; storing the sensing merged signal in a second buffer; providing a first preset processing signal; and selectively performing a second preset processing according to the first preset processing signal.

Method of motion processing and related mobile device and microcontroller unit

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a motion sensor and a processor. The motion sensor is configured to perform a sampling at a sampling rate. In each sampling, the motion sensor generates a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of the electronic device. The motion sensor is further configured to store each sample in a buffer of the motion sensor. The processor is coupled to the motion sensor and is configured to perform a polling at a polling rate. In each polling, the processor fetches a plurality of the samples from the buffer. The processor is further configured to perform a numerical integration based on the fetched samples.

Electronic device and method of motion processing

A microcontroller unit (MCU) characterized by including a buffer is provided. The MCU is a part of a mobile device. The MCU fetches a plurality of samples from a sensor of the mobile device, performs a preset processing according to the samples, stores the samples and/or a result of the preset processing in the buffer, and provides the result or a signal based on the result to the central processing unit (CPU) of the mobile device or an electronic device.

Mobile device and microcontroller unit

A method and an apparatus for providing a motion library, adapted to a service end device to provide a customized motion library supporting recognition of at least one motion pattern for a user end device. At least one sensing component disposed on the user end device is determined. At least one motion group is determined according to the determined sensing components, wherein each motion group comprises at least one motion pattern. The at least one motion pattern is selected and a motion database to is queried to display a list of the motion groups corresponding to the selected motion patterns and the motion groups are selected from the list. The motion patterns belonging to the motion groups are selected to re-compile the customized motion library, which is provided for the user end device, so as to enable the user end device to recognize the selected motion patterns.

Method and apparatus for providing motion library

A receiver/transmitter and related receiving/method capable of simultaneously receiving/transmitting discontinuous frequency band signal components of an input/output signal are provided. Phase swapping on in-phase/quadrature-phase local oscillation differential signals is applied to frequency down-conversion of the input signal or frequency up-conversion of a baseband signal to be outputted to radio domain, and thereby achieve simultaneously receiving discontinuous frequency bands of the input signal and simultaneously sending different baseband signal components on discontinuous frequency bands of the output signal.

Receiver/transmitter capable of simultaneously receiving/transmitting discontinuous frequency signals and method thereof

A 3D pointing device utilizing an orientation sensor, capable of accurately transforming rotations and movements of the 3D pointing device into a movement pattern in the display plane of a display device is provided. The 3D pointing device includes the orientation sensor, a rotation sensor, and a computing processor. The orientation sensor generates an orientation output associated with the orientation of the 3D pointing device associated with three coordinate axes of a global reference frame associated with the Earth. The rotation sensor generates a rotation output associated with the rotation of the 3D pointing device associated with three coordinate axes of a spatial reference frame associated with the 3D pointing device itself The computing processor uses the orientation output and the rotation output to generate a transformed output associated with a fixed reference frame associated with the display device above. The transformed output represents a segment of the movement pattern.

3D pointing device and method for compensating rotations of the 3D pointing device thereof

A three-dimensional (3D) pointing device capable of accurately outputting a deviation including yaw, pitch and roll angles in a 3D reference frame and preferably in an absolute manner is provided. Said 3D pointing device comprises a six-axis motion sensor module including a rotation sensor and an accelerometer, and a processing and transmitting module. The six-axis motion sensor module generates a first signal set comprising angular velocities and a second signal set comprising axial accelerations associated with said movements and rotations of the 3D pointing device in the 3D reference frame. The processing and transmitting module utilizes a comparison method to compare the first signal set with the second signal set to obtain an updated state of the six-axis motion sensor module based on a current state and a measured state thereof in order to output the resulting deviation in the 3D reference frame and preferably in an absolute manner.

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