Patents by Inventor Hsu-Pin Kao

Hsu-Pin Kao 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: 9523887
    Abstract: A display device includes a housing, a backlight module and a heat dissipation assembly. A first hole is defined in the housing. A hook formed on the housing. The backlight module includes a light bar. The heat dissipation assembly includes a main body and a heat dissipation column. The main body is fixed on the housing via the hook. The heat dissipation column is formed on the main body and exposed through the first hole. The heat dissipation assembly configured to absorb heat generated by the backlight module and dissipate the heat external to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Lee, Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20150062481
    Abstract: A display device includes a housing, a backlight module and a heat dissipation assembly. A first hole is defined in the housing. A hook formed on the housing. The backlight module includes a light bar. The heat dissipation assembly includes a main body and a heat dissipation column. The main body is fixed on the housing via the hook. The heat dissipation column is formed on the main body and exposed through the first hole. The heat dissipation assembly configured to absorb heat generated by the backlight module and dissipate the heat external to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: CHENG-WEI LEE, HSU-PIN KAO
  • Patent number: 8970788
    Abstract: A gain-determining method for grayscale white balance of a display apparatus comprising a panel is provided. The method first displays a white, a red, a green, and a blue images on the panel respectively and measures the chromatic values and luminance of the images. Next, the chromatic values and luminance of a target white image is inputted. Following, according to the measured chromatic values and luminance of the white, the red, the green and the blue images, a first set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Then, according to the chromatic values and luminance of the target white image and the chromatic values and luminance of the red, the green and the blue images, a second set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Finally, according to the first set and the second set of color mixture ratios, a red gain, a green gain and a blue gain are calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chwan Chao, Yi-Sheng Yu, Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8519942
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module for displaying an image, a backlight module for providing backlight to the display module, a memory, a brightness computing module, a retrieving module, and a backlight adjusting module. The memory is used for storing a relationship between an image brightness and a backlight adjusting coefficient. The brightness computing module is used for computing the brightness of a current display image. The retrieving module is used for retrieving a backlight adjusting coefficient corresponding to the current display image from the memory according to the current display image brightness. The backlight adjusting module is used for adjusting backlight brightness provided by the backlight module according to the backlight adjusting coefficient retrieved by the retrieving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8497872
    Abstract: A method for correcting the white balance of a display by: setting a target color coordinates of a target white point at a predetermined color temperature and a group of gray levels in response to an user input command; constructing R, G, B images according to the group gray levels; measuring the luminance and corresponding color coordinates of the R, G, B based on the R, G, B images; selecting one color of R, G, B to be a base color and the other two colors to be adjustable colors; fixing the measured luminance of the base color; estimating target luminance of the two adjustable color based on the measured luminance of the base color; estimating the adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors based on estimated luminance of the adjustable colors and the Gamma table; and reconstructing the Gamma table based on the estimated adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8294735
    Abstract: A method for automatically detecting and adjusting grayscale/white balance of a display comprises the steps of: detecting a chromaticity coordinate and a brightness of a present white color of the display by a detector; selecting a chromaticity coordinate of three primary colors of red, green, and blue in a known chromaticity space for automatically calculating a present mixing ratio of the three primary colors of red, green, and blue of the present white color of the display according to Grassman's Law of color mixture in colormetry; calculating a desired mixing ratio of three primary colors of red, green, and blue of an ideal white color under a predetermined color temperature; and comparing the present mixing ratio with the desired mixing ratio to obtain a proportion therebetween which is used as a set of gain values of the three primary colors of red, green of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chwan Chao, Yi-Sheng Yu, Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 8294827
    Abstract: A method for correcting the white balance of a display by: setting a target color coordinates of a target white point of a target white point plane at a predetermined color temperature and a group of gray levels as the input gray levels in response to a user input command; constructing a white color image according to the group of the gray levels; measuring luminance and color coordinates of a measured white point of the white color image; estimating luminance of the R, G, B based on the standard color coordinates defined in a standard color space, the measured luminance and color coordinates of the measured white point; estimating gray levels of the R, G, B based on the estimated luminance of the R, G, B; and reconstructing the Gamma table based on the estimated adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsu-Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20120112993
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module for displaying an image, a backlight module for providing backlight to the display module, a memory, a brightness computing module, a retrieving module, and a backlight adjusting module. The memory is used for storing a relationship between an image brightness and a backlight adjusting coefficient. The brightness computing module is used for computing the brightness of a current display image. The retrieving module is used for retrieving a backlight adjusting coefficient corresponding to the current display image from the memory according to the current display image brightness. The backlight adjusting module is used for adjusting backlight brightness provided by the backlight module according to the backlight adjusting coefficient retrieved by the retrieving module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HSU-PIN KAO
  • Patent number: 7978927
    Abstract: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting lightness of an input image. The image processing apparatus includes a first processing module, a second processing module, a third processing module, and a fourth processing module. The first processing module is used for generating a lightness histogram with reference to the input image and determining a maximum lightness and an average lightness according to the lightness histogram. The second processing module is used for determining a first gain and a second gain according to the maximum lightness and a look-up table. The third processing module is used for selecting a lightness adjusting curve according to the average lightness. The fourth processing module is used for generating an output lightness corresponding to the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Chia Shan, Hsu-Chia Kao, Kai-Chiang Hsu
  • Patent number: 7916966
    Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for image signal contrast extension and overflow compensation. The system includes contrast extension and overflow compensation look-up tables, an image gray level boundary determining unit, a contrast extension unit, an overflow judging unit, and an overflow compensation unit. The image gray level boundary determining unit defines a maximum and a minimum among the gray levels of the pixels of an image signal and calculates the difference. The contrast extension unit selects corresponding parameter from the contrast extension table for contrast extension of a given image pixel. The overflow judging unit judges whether the pixels are overflowed. The overflow compensation unit compensates the pixel. When a pixel is overflowed, the overflow compensation unit selects, according to the gray level of the pixel, a corresponding overflow compensation parameter to reduce the gray level to overcome the problem of overflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Sheng Yu, Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Chia Shan, Tsan-Hung Tsai
  • Publication number: 20100259551
    Abstract: A method for correcting the white balance of a display by: setting a target color coordinates of a target white point at a predetermined color temperature and a group of gray levels in response to an user input command; constructing R, G, B images according to the group gray levels; measuring the luminance and corresponding color coordinates of the R, G, B based on the R, G, B images; selecting one color of R, G, B to be a base color and the other two colors to be adjustable colors; fixing the measured luminance of the base color; estimating target luminance of the two adjustable color based on the measured luminance of the base color; estimating the adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors based on estimated luminance of the adjustable colors and the Gamma table; and reconstructing the Gamma table based on the estimated adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HSU-PIN KAO
  • Publication number: 20100259686
    Abstract: A method for correcting the white balance of a display by: setting a target color coordinates of a target white point of a target white point plane at a predetermined color temperature and a group of gray levels as the input gray levels in response to a user input command; constructing a white color image according to the group of the gray levels; measuring luminance and color coordinates of a measured white point of the white color image; estimating luminance of the R, G, B based on the standard color coordinates defined in a standard color space, the measured luminance and color coordinates of the measured white point; estimating gray levels of the R, G, B based on the estimated luminance of the R, G, B; and reconstructing the Gamma table based on the estimated adjusted gray levels of the two adjustable colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HSU-PIN KAO
  • Patent number: 7692607
    Abstract: A method for adjusting an image on the basis of characteristics of a display system is provided. The image includes M horizontal lines. Each of the M horizontal lines respectively includes N pixels. Each pixel has an original gray level. A look-up table previously stores a plurality of conversion coefficients related to the characteristics of the display system. The method first calculates an ith loading according to the N original gray levels of the N pixels in the ith horizontal line. Based on the ith loading, an ith conversion coefficient corresponding to the ith loading is selected from the plurality of conversion coefficients in the look-up table. The method respectively multiplies the N original gray levels of the N pixels in the ith horizontal line by the ith conversion coefficient to generate N new gray levels for the N pixels in the ith horizontal line, whereby the image is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Sheng Yu, Yi-Chia Shan, Tsan-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 7684638
    Abstract: This invention provides a dynamic image adjusting apparatus for dynamically adjusting the contrast of a first image signal which includes a plurality of pixels. The adjusting apparatus includes a first transformation module, an operation module, and a second transformation module. The first transformation module receives the first image signal for generating a plurality of adjusting signals, wherein each pixel of the first image signal corresponds to one of the plurality of adjusting signals. The operation module is coupled to the first transformation module and receives a first set of adjusting signals of the plurality of adjusting signals to generate a first gain curve. The second transformation module is coupled to the operation module and the first transformation module, and generates a second image signal according to the first gain curve and the plurality of adjusting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Kai-Hsiang Hsu, Hsu-Hung Chen, Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 7609886
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for applying a dynamic contrast expansion technique to plasma display panels through performing a gamma conversion for the inputted image to convert the relationship of the brightness and gray level of the inputted image into a linear relation, performing a subtraction for the gray level value of the image to maintain the image at its smallest color deviation, analyzing the image property histogram to compute the maximum gray level and the minimum gray level required for carrying out the image contrast expansion and obtaining an image contrast expansion gain, and adopting an average of several previously inputted image contrast expansion gains and a current image contrast expansion gain as the contrast expansion gain used in the actual contrast expansion gain formula, so as to compute a new outputted gray level value after the image contrast expansion is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Sheng Yu, Yi-Chia Shan, Tsan-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 7597604
    Abstract: The present invention provides a PDP structure including a first substrate, a second substrate and a Waffle barrier rib structure located between the first and second substrate. The Waffle barrier rib structure includes three first barrier ribs having different width and a plurality of second barrier ribs perpendicular to the first barrier ribs. The second barrier ribs are located between the two first barrier ribs, and connect the wider structure of the two first barrier ribs. Therefore, discharge spaces are formed. Because of different width, the height difference of the barrier rib structure is formed after thermal process. Hence, gas can pass through the barrier ribs structure between the front and the back substrate sealed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Chung-Wang Chou, Ching-Hui Lin, Sheng-Wen Hsu
  • Patent number: 7564438
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method to automatically regulate brightness of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which resolves the overload and easy fatigue of human eyes and poor image contrast due to high brightness of the conventional LCD. The present invention includes use of four parts, including an image brightness regulating unit, an image brightness ratio computation and output controlling unit, an ambient light detection and brightness adaptation regulating unit and an image gray level expanding unit. The image signals of an LCD are processed in such a manner to enable automatic control of optical flux of LCD TV by regulating the gray level of output images. Also, optical flux of LCD TV can be automatically controlled with the change of images and ambient light, thus alleviating overburdening of human eyes and improving the contrast and comfort of images for a better visual effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Tsan-Hung Tsai, Yi-Chia Shan, Hsu-Chia Kao
  • Patent number: 7545539
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a target gray level of a target pixel based on a spatial mask is provided. The target pixel is surrounded with N adjacent pixels; each of the N adjacent pixels respectively has an adjacent gray level. The method first multiplies the target gray level with a sharpness index to generate an amplified target gray level and respectively multiplies each of the adjacent gray level with an adjacent index to generate N modified adjacent gray levels. Then, the amplified target gray level and the N modified adjacent gray levels are added up to generate a first gray level sum. The method multiplies the first gray level sum with a multiplying parameter to generate a second gray level sum. At last, the method divides the second gray level sum by a dividing parameter to generate an adjusted gray level for the target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Tsan-Hung Tsai, Yi-Chia Shan, Kai-Hsiang Hsu, Hsu-Chia Kao
  • Patent number: 7528805
    Abstract: The method to reduce image sticking in a plasma display panel (PDP) includes four steps. There is converting a relationship between gray level and brightness of an input signal into a linear relation by a converter. Next, there is recording an image with a static image detector at time t using a frame buffer, and after a period of time ?t, comparing the image at time t with the image at time t+?t, thereby identifying static or dynamic images in the pixel. Then, there is recording a gain of every pixel by a brightness regulator using an image gains memory buffer zone, the gain being regulated according to detection results of the static image detector. Finally, there is improving gray level performance of output images by a gray level promoter and brightness converter. Thus, method actively detects static pixels and reduces brightness in the static region for minimized image sticking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Marketech International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsu-Pin Kao, Yi-Chia Shan, Tsan-Hung Tsai, Hsu-Chia Kao
  • Patent number: 7529406
    Abstract: The invention provides an image adjusting apparatus for receiving a set of input signals transmitted from a video interface, which is used for receiving a plurality of sets of input signals. The image adjusting apparatus is further used for automatically adjusting the set of input signals to generate a set of output signals. The image adjusting apparatus includes an operation module, a storage module, an offset module and a gain module. The operation module receives a test image to generate a plurality of adjusting signals. The storage module stores the adjusting signals. The offset module transforms, according to the adjusting signals, the set of input signals into a set of temporary signals. Moreover, the gain module transforms, according to the plurality of adjusting signals, the set of temporary signals into the set of output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Hsu-Chia Kao, Hsu-Pin Kao, Chun-Yen Yang, Hsuan-Ku Chu