Gogoro Inc.

Htc Corporation

I-Fen Shih

Yun-Chun Lai

Chien-Chung Chen

Sheng-Chin Chuang

Hok-Sum Horace Luke

Daniel Vickery

Chih-min Fu

Bo-Yu Chu

Yi-Chia Lin

Jian-Chyn Liu

Chun-Chen Chen

Drew Bamford

Hsu-Jung Chen

I-Fang Li

Yu-Lin Wu

Wen-Shu Chien

Wei-Ting Hsieh

I-Fei Chen

Yi-Shan Lin

Mao-Hung Lee

Shih-Hao Yeh

Chih-Min Fu

An image capturing method has: providing an image capturing area on a display screen of a user device; providing an indication area in the image capturing area; identifying each license plate in the indication area; calculating a license plate area of said each license plate in the indication area; calculating a center point difference from a center point of said each license plate in the indication area to a center point of the indication area; marking a license plate that has a license plate area larger than half of a largest license plate area and has a smallest center point difference; and capturing an image including the marked license plate in the image capturing area.

Image capturing method

An image capturing method has: providing an image capturing area on a display screen of a user device; providing an indication area in the image capturing area; marking a license plate after identifying the license plate based on at least one license plate feature in the image capturing area; determining whether the marked license plate is located in the indication area and presented in a predetermined ratio; and capturing an image including the license plate in the image capturing area after the marked license plate is located in the indication area and presented in a predetermined ratio.

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for operating a battery exchange station. The present technology (1) receives battery information from a memory attached to each of a plurality of exchangeable batteries positioned in the battery exchange station; (2) receives a battery demand prediction associated with the battery exchange station; and (3) identifying one or more uninterruptible-power-supply (UPS) batteries from the plurality of exchangeable batteries at least partially based in part on the battery demand prediction and individual state of charges (SoCs) of the plurality of exchangeable batteries.

Systems and methods for managing batteries in a battery exchange station

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for providing two energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving a request for retrieving two energy storage devices in the device-exchange station; (2) selecting a first energy storage device from a plurality of energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station based on characteristic information of each of the energy storage devices; (3) selecting a second energy storage device from the rest of the plurality of energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station based on the characteristic information of the first energy storage device and the rest of the plurality of energy storage devices; and (4) releasing the first and second energy storage device.

Systems for managing batteries and associated methods

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for maintaining energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) periodically sending, by the device-exchange station, a request to a battery management system (BMS) associated with an energy storage device positioned in the device-exchange station; (2) receiving, by the device-exchange station, maintenance information from the BMS; and (3) in response to the maintenance information, determine whether to perform a maintenance action.

Systems and methods for maintaining batteries based on usage

Methods and associated systems for managing a battery-exchange station are provided. The method includes (1) receiving, from a server, demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a first time period; and (2) forming a charging plan for a plurality of batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period based on a first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information corresponding to the first time period. The first instruction set includes one or more charging rules and information indicative of assigning the one or more charging rules to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station. The charging plan comprises one or more assigned charging rules for each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

Systems and methods for managing exchangeable energy storage device stations

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for charging exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving demand information; (2) determining a charging plan for the device-exchange station at least partially based on a state-of-charge (SoC) of each of the exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station, the demand information, and an available power of the device-exchange station; (3) generating a charging command for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices based on the charging rule for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices; and (4) transmitting the charging commands to the device-exchange station.

Systems and methods for determining and managing battery charging rules

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for managing energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving, by the device-exchange station from a server, information indicative of at least one characteristic associated with the energy storage devices; (2) selecting, by the device-exchange station, at least one energy storage device based on the at least one characteristic; and (3) adjusting the swapping priority of the at least one selected energy storage device.

Systems and methods for managing batteries based on usage

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for charging exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving demand information; (2) determining a charging plan for the device-exchange station at least partially based on a state-of-charge (SoC) of each of the exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station, the demand information, and a charging threshold for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station; (3) generating a charging command for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices based on the charging rule for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices; and (4) transmitting the charging commands to the device-exchange station.

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for managing a plurality of device-exchange stations. The method includes, for example, (1) determining a score for each of the plurality of device-exchange stations based on an availability of energy storage devices positioned in each of the device-exchange stations; (2) determining a sequence of the plurality of device-exchange stations based on the score of each of the device-exchange stations; and (3) determining a price rate for each of the device-exchange stations by mapping the sequence of the device-exchange stations to a characteristic curve corresponding to a distribution of the price rate.

Systems and methods for dynamically allocating energy among exchangeable energy storage device stations

The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for managing a plurality of device-exchange stations. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving empirical information regarding exchanges of energy storage devices from each of the plurality of device-exchange stations in an initial time period; (2) determining a target time period; (3) identifying a plurality of reference factors and associated weighting values based on empirical information regarding exchanges of energy storage devices; (4) determining demand information during the target time period for each of the plurality of device-exchange stations during the target time period for each of the device-exchange stations; and (5) forming a plurality of charging plans for each of the plurality of device-exchange stations according to demand information during the target time period.

Systems and methods for predicting demands for exchangeable energy storage devices

The invention provides a method for displaying photos. The method of the present invention comprises displaying a photo marked with a burst shooting icon, wherein the displayed photo corresponds to a photo group having a plurality of photos successively taken in a burst mode. A selection signal is received through the burst shooting icon. Upon the received selection signal, one of the photos in the photo group is displayed accompanying with a tool bar, wherein the tool bar at least includes a seek bar and a play key. An operating signal is received through the tool bar and upon the received operating signal, the photos in the photo group are displayed.

Method for displaying photos and electronic device for using the same

A constant speed display method applied in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device is in a full screen view for illustrating images in a photograph. The method has the following steps of: determining whether consecutive swiping touch actions matching specific criteria have been received by the electronic device; and displaying an aligning animation of the images in the photograph at a constant speed without being affected by a next swiping action after the consecutive swiping touch actions matching the specific criteria have been received by the electronic device.

Constant speed display method of mobile device

Name management and group recovery methods and systems for burst shot are provided. In name management, a burst shot is performed to continuously capture a group of images in sequence. Each of the images in the group is named with a same prefix, and a respective infix, wherein the infixes of the respective images are progressively increased along the period of the burst shot. One of the images within the group is selected as a cover image of the group, and a specific postfix is added to the name of the selected image. In group recovery, if a specific image having a name comprising the specific postfix is in the electronic device, images having a name comprising at least one predefined text in an infix corresponding to the specific image are retrieved and grouped, and the burst bit of each grouped image is enabled.

Name management and group recovery methods and systems for burst shot

A system and method for accessing multimedia items using an electronic device determines a set of first level categories based on multimedia items associated with the electronic device. The system determines second level category graphics and first level category graphics corresponding to the set of first level categories. The first level category graphics are generated based on one or more second level category graphics associated with the first level category. The system displays a first view that comprises some or all of the first level category graphics. In response to a user input selecting a particular first level category graphic, the system shows a second view that simultaneously displays first level category graphics and second level category graphics associated with the selected first level category. In response to a user input selecting a second level category, the system displays accesses a multimedia item associated with the selected second level category.

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I-Fen Shih