Patents by Inventor Peng-Sen Chen
Peng-Sen Chen 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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Patent number: 11012085Abstract: A calibration loop method and technical solution capable of finding or searching for an optimum setting, which can be applied to mitigate or minimize clock harmonic interference, for each of different channel frequencies used by a wireless communication device such as Bluetooth device. The optimum setting for example may comprise an optimum setting of a supply voltage level provided from a voltage regulator to a frequency generating circuit such as phase-locked loop (PLL), an optimum setting of a capacitance of an adjustable capacitor circuit such as controllable switching capacitor coupled between the input of a phase frequency detector (PFD) of the PLL and the ground, or an optimum setting of a combination of the supply voltage level with capacitance of the controllable switching capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Audiowise Technology Inc.Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Patent number: 10447284Abstract: A method of a control circuit of a communication device comprises: receiving a data signal to generate a phase data signal to a digital phase-locked loop (DPLL); using the DPLL to receive the phase data signal, to dynamically lock a particular clock, and to generate a phase modulation signal based on the phase data signal; and determining or adjusting an equivalent capacitance of an inter-stage circuit which is coupled between the DPLL and a power amplifier and configured for processing the phase modulation signal and generating a processed phase modulation signal to the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Audiowise Technology Inc.Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Patent number: 9877291Abstract: A wireless transceiver apparatus includes a power detector, an analog signal receiving circuit at wireless signal reception side, and a processing circuit. The power detector is configured at wireless signal transmission side and used for detecting power of a power amplifier on a transmitting path of wireless signal transmission side. The analog signal receiving circuit is couple to the power detector and used for receiving a wireless signal form an antenna. Under signal reception mode, the analog signal receiving circuit transmits the received wireless signal to the processing circuit. Under interference detection mode, the analog signal receiving circuit transfers the received wireless signal (as interference) to the power detector, and the power detector is used for detecting the power of wireless signal to measure an interference power value and transmit the value to the processing circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Publication number: 20180014266Abstract: A wireless transceiver apparatus includes a power detector, an analog signal receiving circuit at wireless signal reception side, and a processing circuit. The power detector is configured at wireless signal transmission side and used for detecting power of a power amplifier on a transmitting path of wireless signal transmission side. The analog signal receiving circuit is couple to the power detector and used for receiving a wireless signal form an antenna. Under signal reception mode, the analog signal receiving circuit transmits the received wireless signal to the processing circuit. Under interference detection mode, the analog signal receiving circuit transfers the received wireless signal (as interference) to the power detector, and the power detector is used for detecting the power of wireless signal to measure an interference power value and transmit the value to the processing circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Patent number: 9667212Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of a method illustrates a gain control method executed in a wireless signal receiver. The gain control method has the following steps. A wideband channel is continuously monitored to check whether an interference signal exists in a wireless signal. When the interference signal exists in the wireless signal, an interference received signal strength indicator is obtained. A front end gain of the wireless signal receiver is controlled according to the interference received signal strength indicator. When the interference signal exists in the wireless signal, the wireless signal receiver is prohibited from using a maximum front end gain.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Patent number: 9288697Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a circuit with a wideband received signal strength indicator, used for multiple systems. By using the switches and the analog-to-digital converter and the demodulator, the circuit of the present invention has the advantages of auto gain control, circuit size reduction and power-saving.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Peng-Sen Chen, Mei-Show Chen, Jeng-Hong Chen
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Publication number: 20150303990Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless interference scanning method and device for adaptive frequency hopping. The wireless interference scanning method comprise detecting the overall signal magnitude over a wide-band; determining whether the overall signal magnitude over the wide-band is larger than a threshold; sequentially detecting a plurality of channels in the wide-band to determine whether there is an interference signal in the channels when the overall signal magnitude over the wide-band is larger than the threshold; and redetecting the overall signal magnitude over the wide-band for determining whether the overall signal magnitude over the wide-band is larger than the threshold when the overall signal magnitude over the wide-band is not larger than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventor: PENG-SEN CHEN
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Publication number: 20150303959Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a gain control method executed in a wireless signal receiver. The gain control method has the following steps. A wideband channel is continuously monitored to check whether an interference signal exists in a wireless signal. When the interference signal exists in the wireless signal, an interference received signal strength indicator is obtained. A front end gain of the wireless signal receiver is controlled according to the interference received signal strength indicator. When the interference signal exists in the wireless signal, the wireless signal receiver is prohibited from using a maximum front end gain.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventor: PENG-SEN CHEN
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Patent number: 9026071Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a multi-systems integrated modulation module. The modulation module includes a first modulation circuit and a second modulation circuit. The first modulation circuit includes a high frequency oscillator and high frequency mixers. The second modulation circuit includes a low frequency oscillator and low frequency mixers. The second modulation circuit couples to the first modulation circuit. The high frequency mixers couple to the high frequency oscillator and the low frequency mixers couple to the low frequency oscillator. The high frequency mixers and the low frequency mixers provide high frequency signals and low frequency signals separately. The frequency mixers mix radio frequency signals with the high frequency signals or low frequency signals. The modulation module forms a first signal path by the first modulation circuit, and forms a second signal path by the first modulation circuit and the second modulation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Publication number: 20150036725Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a multi-systems integrated modulation module. The modulation module includes a first modulation circuit and a second modulation circuit. The first modulation circuit includes a high frequency oscillator and high frequency mixers. The second modulation circuit includes a low frequency oscillator and low frequency mixers. The second modulation circuit couples to the first modulation circuit. The high frequency mixers couple to the high frequency oscillator and the low frequency mixers couple to the low frequency oscillator. The high frequency mixers and the low frequency mixers provide high frequency signals and low frequency signals separately. The frequency mixers mix radio frequency signals with the high frequency signals or low frequency signals. The modulation module forms a first signal path by the first modulation circuit, and forms a second signal path by the first modulation circuit and the second modulation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventor: PENG-SEN CHEN
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Patent number: 8718207Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive, high cost-performance efficient, and power-saving receiving method used for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) system, in particular to a method which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACT) before the scheduled starting time for receiving a Bluetooth packet, and accordingly set the receiver configurations including the filter's pass-band bandwidth (BW), filter's order, the sampling rate or the number of analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) output bits, and the automatic-gain-control (AGC) algorithm to determine the low noise amplifier (LNA) and variable gain amplifier (VGA) settings.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventors: Jeng-Hong Chen, Peng-Sen Chen, Hsiang-Te Ho, Kuang-Hu Huang, Zhi-Qing Huang, Chin-Chang Chang
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Patent number: 8693595Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive, cost-performance efficient, power-saving apparatus for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) receivers, and in particular to a packet-based receiver's decoding algorithm which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACI) before the scheduled starting time for receiving a Bluetooth packet, and accordingly set the receiver configurations including the filter's pass-band bandwidth (BW), filter's order, the sampling rate, the number of analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) output bits, and the automatic-gain-control (AGC) algorithm unit to determine the low noise amplifier (LNA) and variable gain amplifier (VGA) settings.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventors: Jeng-Hong Chen, Peng-Sen Chen, Hsiang-Te Ho, Kuang-Hu Huang, Zhi-Qing Huang, Chin-Chang Chang
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Publication number: 20140018011Abstract: The present invention discloses a direct-conversion transceiver with dc offset compensation, and method using the same. The transceiver mainly comprises an antenna, a first filter, a second filter, a third filter, a first variable gain amplifier with multi-stages, a second variable gain amplifier with multi-stages, a first analog-to-digital converter, a second analog-to-digital converter, a first dc offset loop, a second dc offset loop, a first digital-to-analog converter, a second digital-to-analog converter, a third digital-to-analog converter, a fourth digital-to-analog converter, a third mixer, a fourth mixer, a power amplifier, a local oscillator, and a baseband circuit. By using the second filters, the third filter, the first digital-to-analog converter and the second digital-to-analog converter for both in transmitting mode or receiving mode, the numbers of the filter and digital-to-analog converter can be reduced and thus the circuit area of the transceiver can be further miniaturized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Peng-Sen CHEN, Ming-Chou CHIANG, Kuei-Ju CHIANG
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Publication number: 20140016489Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a circuit with a wideband received signal strength indicator, used for multiple systems. By using the switches and the analog-to-digital converter and the demodulator, the circuit of the present invention has the advantages of auto gain control, circuit size reduction and power-saving.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Peng-Sen CHEN, Mei-Show CHEN, Jeng-Hong CHEN
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Patent number: 8582629Abstract: A wireless signal transceiving apparatus is provided. The wireless signal transceiving apparatus includes a signal transceiving-end circuit, a transceiving amplify module, an output amplify module, a mixer, a frequency selecting filter, switch modules a first base-band signal transceiver and a second base-band signal transceiver. The transceiving amplify module receives and amplifies a signal from an antenna or the mixer. The output amplify module amplifies the signal from the mixer. The frequency selecting filter filters the signal from the mixer, the first base-band signal transceiver or the second base-band signal transceiver according to the mode selecting signal. The first base-band signal transceiver and the second base-band signal transceiver receive the signal generated by the frequency selecting filter and/or respectively transmit the first and the second base-band output signal. The switch modules turn on or turn off transmission paths for the signal according to the mode selecting signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventors: Peng-Sen Chen, Ming-Chou Chiang
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Publication number: 20130287071Abstract: A wireless signal transceiving apparatus is provided. The wireless signal transceiving apparatus includes a signal transceiving-end circuit, a transceiving amplify module, an output amplify module, a mixer, a frequency selecting filter, switch modules a first base-band signal transceiver and a second base-band signal transceiver. The transceiving amplify module receives and amplifies a signal from an antenna or the mixer. The output amplify module amplifies the signal from the mixer. The frequency selecting filter filters the signal from the mixer, the first base-band signal transceiver or the second base-band signal transceiver according to the mode selecting signal. The first base-band signal transceiver and the second base-band signal transceiver receive the signal generated by the frequency selecting filter and/or respectively transmit the first and the second base-band output signal. The switch modules turn on or turn off transmission paths for the signal according to the mode selecting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: ISSC TECHNOLOGIES CORP.Inventors: Peng-Sen Chen, Ming-Chou Chiang
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Publication number: 20120288042Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive, high cost-performance efficient, and power-saving receiving method used for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) system, in particular to a method which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACI) before the scheduled starting time for receiving a Bluetooth packet, and accordingly set the receiver configurations including the filter's pass-band bandwidth (BW), filter's order, the sampling rate or the number of analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) output bits, and the automatic-gain-control (AGC) algorithm to determine the low noise amplifier (LNA) and variable gain amplifier (VGA) settingsType: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Jeng-Hong Chen, Peng-Sen Chen, Hsiang-Te Ho, Kuang-Hu Huang, Zhi-Qing Huang, Chin-Chang Chang
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Publication number: 20120288043Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive, cost-performance efficient, power-saving apparatus for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) receivers, and in particular to a packet-based receiver's decoding algorithm which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACI) before the scheduled starting time for receiving a Bluetooth packet, and accordingly set the receiver configurations including the filter's pass-band bandwidth (BW), filter's order, the sampling rate, the number of analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) output bits, and the automatic-gain-control (AGC) algorithm unit to determine the low noise amplifier (LNA) and variable gain amplifier (VGA) settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Jeng-Hong CHEN, Peng-Sen Chen, Hsiang-Te Ho, Kuang-Hu Huang, Zhi-Qing Huang, Chin-Chang Chang
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Patent number: 8208234Abstract: The present invention discloses a circuit with ESD protection and high voltage conversion for a switching regulator. It mainly comprises a non-overlap circuit, a power P-type MOS device, a parasitic diode, a digital logic AND gate, a pair of resistance and capacitance, a power N-type MOS device, an ESD N-type MOS device, a Lx pin and an ESD protection cell. The present invention can effectively decrease the on-resistance of MOS device and then improve the circuit efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: ISSC Technologies Corp.Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen
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Publication number: 20120075757Abstract: The present invention discloses a circuit with ESD protection and high voltage conversion for a switching regulator. It mainly comprises a non-overlap circuit, a power P-type MOS device, a parasitic diode, a digital logic AND gate, a pair of resistance and capacitance, a power N-type MOS device, an ESD N-type MOS device, a Lx pin and an ESD protection cell. The present invention can effectively decrease the on-resistance of MOS device and then improve the circuit efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventor: Peng-Sen Chen