Patents by Inventor Meng-Hsiang Chang
Meng-Hsiang Chang 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).
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Publication number: 20240073531Abstract: An automatic target image acquisition and calibration system for application in a defect inspection system is disclosed. During the defect inspection system working normally, the automatic target image acquisition and calibration system is configured to find a recognition structure from an article under inspection, and then determines a relative position and a relative 3D coordinate if the article. Therefore, a robotic arm is controlled to carry a camera to precisely face each of a plurality of inspected surfaces of the article, such that a plurality of article images are acquired by the camera. It is worth explaining that, during the defect inspection of the article, there is no need to modulate an image acquiring height and an image acquiring angle of the camera and an illumination of a light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: FENG-TSO SUN, YI-TING YEH, FENG-YU SUN, JYUN-TANG HUANG, RONG-HUA CHANG, YI-HSIANG TIEN, MENG-TSE SHEN
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Patent number: 9176629Abstract: A pixel unit, method for sensing touch of an object, and a display apparatus incorporating the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a data line. The pixel unit includes a first switch circuit electrically connected to the data line and a sensing circuit electrically connected to the first switch circuit. The sensing circuit generates a signal in response to the touch of the object, while the signal is transmitted through the data line with the first switch circuit turned on. In addition, the display apparatus further includes a readout line. The pixel unit further includes a second switch circuit electrically connected to the readout line. The sensing circuit is electrically connected to the second switch circuit. In a first time period, the sensing circuit receives a reference voltage via the first switch circuit. Then the signal generated by the touch of the object is transmitted through the readout line via the second switch circuit in a second time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chi-Wen Chen, Li-Wei Shih, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Chi-Mao Hung, Chien-Jen Chen, Kun-Hua Tsai
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Patent number: 8274493Abstract: A touch panel and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. The present invention can accurately determine a position touched by a user on the touch panel by judging whether or not a potential voltage value between a reference capacitor and a sensing capacitor of a pixel having a sensing area being changed, or to determine whether a switch of a pixel having the sensing area being conducted.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Yung-Hsien Ho, Heng-Sheng Chou, Chun-Huai Li, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Publication number: 20120154320Abstract: A touch panel and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. The present invention can accurately determine a position touched by a user on the touch panel by judging whether or not a potential voltage value between a reference capacitor and a sensing capacitor of a pixel having a sensing area being changed, or to determine whether a switch of a pixel having the sensing area being conducted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Yung-Hsien Ho, Heng-Sheng Chou, Chun-Huai Li, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 8159466Abstract: A touch panel and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. The present invention can accurately determine a position touched by a user on the touch panel by judging whether or not a potential voltage value between a reference capacitor and a sensing capacitor of a pixel having a sensing area being changed, or to determine whether a switch of a pixel having the sensing area being conducted.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Yung-Hsien Ho, Heng-Sheng Chou, Chun-Huai Li, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 8044473Abstract: A light sensor includes an intrinsic layer, a first ion doping area disposed one side of the intrinsic layer, a second ion doping area disposed at the other side of the intrinsic layer, an oxide insulating layer on the intrinsic layer, and a gate metal on the oxide insulating layer. The first and second ion doping areas have the same P type or N type doped ions. The intrinsic layer further includes a first light sensing region close to the first ion doping area. The first light sensing region is used for generating electron-hole pairs based on luminance of incident light.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Chi-wen Chen, Meng-hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 7952543Abstract: A display apparatus and a drive circuit for adjusting a screen refresh rate of the display apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The display apparatus comprises an OLED diode display array and a drive circuit. The drive circuit comprises a detection unit, a clock generating unit, and a timing control unit. The detection unit determines whether a plurality of frames displayed by the OLED diode display array are configured as a dynamic frame. The detection unit generates a first control signal when the displayed frames are not configured as a dynamic frame, and the detection unit generates a second control signal when the displayed frames are configured as a dynamic frame. The clock generating unit generates a clock signal, the frequency of which is a first frequency in response to the first signal, or a second frequency in response to the second signal. The first frequency is greater than the second frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.Inventors: Meng-Hsiang Chang, Chi-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 7924350Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a plurality of display units formed with a first substrate, a color matrix formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the color matrix, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a pixel electrode matrix formed on the second substrate, a liquid crystal material disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode matrix. The LCD includes a touch sensing member integrated onto the color matrix of the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: AU Optronics CorporationInventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Hsin-Hung Lee, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Yuan-Chun Wu
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Patent number: 7834862Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch sensing device. In one embodiment, the touch sensing device includes a plurality of sensor units arranged in the form of an M×N matrix having M rows and N columns. Each sensor unit has a first touch sensor, S1,1, a second touch sensor, S1,2, a third touch sensor, S2,2, and a fourth touch sensor, S2,1, arranged in the form of a 2×2 matrix, where the first touch sensor S1,1 is connected to the third touch sensor S2,2, and the second touch sensor S1,2 is connected to the fourth touch sensor S2,1, respectively. The touch sensing device further includes a number of control lines having M row control lines and N column control lines. Each row control line is adapted for connecting sequentially the sensor units of a corresponding row, and each column control line is adapted for connecting sequentially the sensor units of a corresponding column.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Shi-Yi Liao, Hsin-Hung Lee, Heng-Sheng Chou, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 7816174Abstract: A control element of an organic electro-luminescent display includes a first transistor, a second transistor and a capacitor. The first gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a scan line, and the first source/drain electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a data line. The second gate electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second source/drain electrode of the first transistor. The third source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a working voltage, and the fourth source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a light emitting diode. One end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The material of the dielectric layer of the capacitor is different from the material of the gate dielectric of one of the first transistor and the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Jen-Chien Peng, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 7812795Abstract: A control circuit for use in an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel comprising a memory unit and a voltage control unit is provided. The operating time of the AMOLED panel is counted and saved by the memory unit. According to the memory unit's information, the voltage control unit decides a common voltage. The purpose of the present invention is to reduce the common voltage when the turn-on time of the AMOLED panel is increased so that the increase in the voltage difference between the two terminals of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) of the AMOLED panel may be compensated. Thus, the present invention may provide a stable driving current for the OLED and a stable picture definition for the AMOLED panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Chi-Wen Chen, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Publication number: 20100160090Abstract: One embodiment of the invention sets forth a method, which includes receiving a first position on the golf course, searching for a first predetermined code representative of a first region on the golf course on a first image, and determining a first minimum distance and a first maximum distance between the first position and the first region after having identified the first predetermined code.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Tzu-Wei Lin, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Lung Chen, Chi-Wen Chen
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Publication number: 20100160089Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of collecting data associated with a golfing activity, comparing a condition associated with a first golfing event with the data associated with the golfing activity to determine an occurrence of the first golfing event, and performing an action in response to at least the first golfing event and a second golfing event occurring at a specified sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Tzu-Wei Lin, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Lung Chen, Chi-Wen Chen
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Publication number: 20090305476Abstract: A control element of an organic electro-luminescent display includes a first transistor, a second transistor and a capacitor. The first gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a scan line, and the first source/drain electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a data line. The second gate electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second source/drain electrode of the first transistor. The third source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a working voltage, and the fourth source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a light emitting diode. One end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The material of the dielectric layer of the capacitor is different from the material of the gate dielectric of one of the first transistor and the second transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jen-Chien Peng, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Publication number: 20090280930Abstract: A method and system are provided to facilitate interaction between players on a golf course. More specifically, one embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile computing device, also called Personal Golf Game Assistant (PGGA). The PGGA is adapted to assist a player to track game-related data during a round of golf and establish communication with one or more compatible PGGAs carried by other players on the golf course. As various types of information data can be exchanged among the PGGAs of the players on the golf course, interaction between the players is thus facilitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Tzu-Wei Lin, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Lung Chen
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Publication number: 20090278810Abstract: A touch panel and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. The present invention can accurately determine a position touched by a user on the touch panel by judging whether or not a potential voltage value between a reference capacitor and a sensing capacitor of a pixel having a sensing area being changed, or to determine whether a switch of a pixel having the sensing area being conducted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Yung-Hsien Ho, Heng-Sheng Chou, Chun-Huai Li, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 7595503Abstract: A control element of an organic electro-luminescent display includes a first transistor, a second transistor and a capacitor. The first gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a scan line, and the first source/drain electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a data line. The second gate electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second source/drain electrode of the first transistor. The third source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a working voltage, and the fourth source/drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a light emitting diode. One end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The material of the dielectric layer of the capacitor is different from the material of the gate dielectric of one of the first transistor and the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Jen-Chien Peng, Meng-Hsiang Chang
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Publication number: 20090096760Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a plurality of display units formed with a first substrate, a color matrix formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the color matrix, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a pixel electrode matrix formed on the second substrate, a liquid crystal material disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode matrix. The LCD includes a touch sensing member integrated onto the color matrix of the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Mei-Sheng Ma, Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Hsin-Hung Lee, Meng-Hsiang Chang, Yuan-Chun Wu
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Publication number: 20090085036Abstract: A light sensor includes an intrinsic layer, a first ion doping area disposed one side of the intrinsic layer, a second ion doping area disposed at the other side of the intrinsic layer, an oxide insulating layer on the intrinsic layer, and a gate metal on the oxide insulating layer. The first and second ion doping areas have the same P type or N type doped ions. The intrinsic layer further includes a first light sensing region close to the first ion doping area. The first light sensing region is used for generating electron-hole pairs based on luminance of incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chi-wen Chen, Meng-hsiang Chang
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Publication number: 20090084611Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch sensing device. In one embodiment, the touch sensing device includes a plurality of sensor units arranged in the form of an M×N matrix having M rows and N columns. Each sensor unit has a first touch sensor, S1,1, a second touch sensor, S1,2, a third touch sensor, S2,2, and a fourth touch sensor, S2,1, arranged in the form of a 2×2 matrix, where the first touch sensor S1,1 is connected to the third touch sensor S2,2, and the second touch sensor S1,2 is connected to the fourth touch sensor S2,1, respectively. The touch sensing device further includes a number of control lines having M row control lines and N column control lines. Each row control line is adapted for connecting sequentially the sensor units of a corresponding row, and each column control line is adapted for connecting sequentially the sensor units of a corresponding column.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: AU Optronics CorporationInventors: Shi-Yi Liao, Hsin-Hung Lee, Heng-Sheng Chou, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Meng-Hsiang Chang