Patents by Inventor Shang Yu Su

Shang Yu Su 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).

  • Publication number: 20240078969
    Abstract: An image processing circuit includes a receiver, at least one memory, a recognition circuit, a calculation circuit and a compensation circuit. The receiver is configured to receive a current image frame and a plurality of previous image frames. The at least one memory is configured to store the plurality of previous image frames. The recognition circuit is configured to select a first previous image frame or a second previous image frame among the plurality of previous image frames from the at least one memory. The calculation circuit is configured to calculate a compensation value for the current image frame according to at least one of the first previous image frame and the second previous image frame by referring to a lookup table (LUT). The compensation circuit is configured to modify a current image data of the current image frame by using the compensation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Xuan-Yong Lin, Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11763776
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a processor. The processor is coupled to the display panel. The processor is configured to generate first output data according to first input data and a first compensation value, generate a stress reduction value and a compensation reduction value according to the first input data, calculate a final stress value according to the first output data, at least one first operating factor, and the stress reduction value, calculate a second compensation value according to the final stress value and the compensation reduction value, and output second output data according to second input data, the second compensation value, and at least one second operating factor. The display panel receives the second output data to display according to the second output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11749163
    Abstract: The invention provides a color calibration device, a color calibration method and a calibration table generation method. The color calibration device includes a calibration table circuit, a ratio circuit and an image processing circuit. The calibration table circuit provides a selected calibration table including a plurality of zone calibration parameters. Each of the zone calibration parameters corresponds to a corresponding zone among a plurality of zones of a display panel. The ratio circuit calculates a subpixel calibration parameter corresponding to a current subpixel according to at least one of the zone calibration parameters in the selected calibration table. The image processing circuit calibrates original subpixel data of the current subpixel according to the subpixel calibration parameter to generate calibrated subpixel data of the current subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wan-Nung Tsung, Jun-Yu Yang, Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11315486
    Abstract: An image processing circuit is configured to generate a first offset value according to second offset values in at least one look-up table corresponding to a starting voltage range of at least one illumination element in a display device. The image processing circuit is further configured to generate output image data according to an ending gray level value and the first offset value. The output image data is for overdriving the at least one illumination element. The second offset values correspond to a starting gray level value of a first frame and the ending gray level value of a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Xuan-Yong Lin, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Publication number: 20220108652
    Abstract: An image processing circuit is configured to generate a first offset value according to second offset values in at least one look-up table corresponding to a starting voltage range of at least one illumination element in a display device. The image processing circuit is further configured to generate output image data according to an ending gray level value and the first offset value. The output image data is for overdriving the at least one illumination element. The second offset values correspond to a starting gray level value of a first frame and the ending gray level value of a second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Shang-Yu SU, Xuan-Yong LIN, Feng-Ting PAI
  • Patent number: 11244608
    Abstract: An image processing method, comprising the following steps: obtaining a plurality of first luminance values, wherein the plurality of first luminance values corresponds to a first subpixel group comprising a target subpixel and a plurality of adjacent subpixels; and performing a subpixel rendering conversion on a target luminance value of the plurality of first luminance values corresponding to the target subpixel according to a weighting matrix and all of the plurality of first luminance values, so that the target luminance value is converted to a rendered luminance value, wherein the weighting matrix comprises a plurality of weighting parameters corresponding to the first subpixel group, and the weighting matrix is time-variant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11087673
    Abstract: An image apparatus and a method of preventing burn in are provided. The image apparatus includes a comparison circuit, a stress level circuit and an image processing circuit. The comparison circuit compares a difference between a current block in a current frame and the current block in a previous frame to obtain difference information corresponding to the difference, wherein the current block includes at least one pixel. The stress level circuit is coupled to the comparison circuit to receive the difference information corresponding to the current block of the current frame, and estimates a stress status of the current block of the current frame according to the difference information. The image processing circuit is coupled to the stress level circuit to receive the stress status, and determines whether to downgrade a stress of the current block according to the stress status to prevent occurrence of burn in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11049471
    Abstract: A display control circuit transforms a plurality of input points of an input image to a plurality of target subpixels of a display panel. In the display panel, a first row of the target subpixels and a second row of the target subpixels are non-aligned in a vertical direction. The display control circuit includes a subpixel rendering circuit. The subpixel rendering circuit maps a first row of the input points to the first row of the target subpixels, and maps a second row of the input points to the second row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the first row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the first row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the second row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the second row of the target subpixels being shifted in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jun-Yu Yang, Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Publication number: 20210118360
    Abstract: An image processing method, comprising the following steps: obtaining a plurality of first luminance values, wherein the plurality of first luminance values corresponds to a first subpixel group comprising a target subpixel and a plurality of adjacent subpixels; and performing a subpixel rendering conversion on a target luminance value of the plurality of first luminance values corresponding to the target subpixel according to a weighting matrix and all of the plurality of first luminance values, so that the target luminance value is converted to a rendered luminance value, wherein the weighting matrix comprises a plurality of weighting parameters corresponding to the first subpixel group, and the weighting matrix is time-variant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Shang-Yu SU, Feng-Ting PAI
  • Publication number: 20210035526
    Abstract: A coordinate mapping method is applied to a plurality of input points of an input image and a plurality of target subpixels of a display panel. In the display panel, a first row of the target subpixels and a second row of the target subpixels are non-aligned in a vertical direction. The coordinate mapping includes the following steps. A first row of the input points are mapped to the first row of the target subpixels, and a second row of the input points are mapped to the second row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the first row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the first row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the second row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the second row of the target subpixels being shifted in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jun-Yu YANG, Shang-Yu SU, Feng-Ting PAI
  • Patent number: 10885827
    Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel repeating units is provided. The sub-pixel repeating units are repeatedly arranged on the display panel. Each of the sub-pixel repeating units includes at least one first color sub-pixel and at least one second color sub-pixel. On the display panel, the adjacent first color sub-pixels form a first polygon, and the adjacent second color sub-pixels form a second polygon. The area of the first polygon is at least twice the area of the second polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai, Hsueh-Yen Yang, Kai-Min Yang
  • Publication number: 20200211453
    Abstract: An image apparatus and a method of preventing burn in are provided. The image apparatus includes a comparison circuit, a stress level circuit and an image processing circuit. The comparison circuit compares a difference between a current block in a current frame and the current block in a previous frame to obtain difference information corresponding to the difference, wherein the current block includes at least one pixel. The stress level circuit is coupled to the comparison circuit to receive the difference information corresponding to the current block of the current frame, and estimates a stress status of the current block of the current frame according to the difference information. The image processing circuit is coupled to the stress level circuit to receive the stress status, and determines whether to downgrade a stress of the current block according to the stress status to prevent occurrence of burn in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10636386
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel arrays and each of sub-pixel arrays includes a plurality of first sub-pixels having a first color and forming a plurality of vertexes of a virtual quadrilateral, wherein there is not any other first sub-pixels having the first color located in the virtual quadrilateral; at least one second sub-pixel, having a second color different from the first color and located in the virtual quadrilateral; and at least one third sub-pixel, having a third color different from the first color and the second color and located in the virtual quadrilateral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Publication number: 20200118501
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering data conversion apparatus including an inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit and a sub-pixel rendering circuit is provided. The inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit receives the first sub-pixel rendering data converted from the first true image data and converting the first sub-pixel rendering data to the second true image data, and the first sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the first sub-pixel rendering arrangement. The sub-pixel rendering circuit converts the second true image data to the second sub-pixel rendering data and outputs the second sub-pixel rendering data to a display panel, the second sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement, and the display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in the manner of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Cheng-Wen Lin, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10621932
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering data conversion apparatus including an inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit and a sub-pixel rendering circuit is provided. The inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit receives the first sub-pixel rendering data converted from the first true image data and converting the first sub-pixel rendering data to the second true image data, and the first sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the first sub-pixel rendering arrangement. The sub-pixel rendering circuit converts the second true image data to the second sub-pixel rendering data and outputs the second sub-pixel rendering data to a display panel, the second sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement, and the display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in the manner of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Cheng-Wen Lin, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10558094
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups, wherein each of the plurality sub-pixel groups comprises eight sub-pixels disposed in a row direction or in a column direction and the eight sub-pixels comprise two red sub-pixels; two blue sub-pixels; two green sub-pixels; and two sub-pixels of a predetermined color, wherein in each of the plurality of sub-pixel groups, a distance between the red sub-pixels or between the blue sub-pixels is less than a distance between the green sub-pixels or between the sub-pixels of the predetermined color, and the sub-pixels of the predetermined color have a luminance higher than a luminance of the red sub-pixels and the blue sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Hsueh-Yen Yang, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10482820
    Abstract: A method of compensating luminance of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) operated with a transistor in a pixel cell of a display panel includes measuring a first parameter of the transistor and a parameter of the OLED, and generating a lookup table accordingly; converting original display data to target display data according to the lookup table; outputting the target display data to the pixel cell; and compensating a second parameter of the transistor when the target display data is received by the pixel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Hua-Gang Chang, Hsueh-Yen Yang, Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10444578
    Abstract: A mask storing method for a driving module of a display device includes encoding a mask of configuring a non-display area and a display area of a display module of the display device, to generate an encoded mask; and storing the encoded mask to a storage unit of the driving module of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Yang, Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Publication number: 20190228741
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel arrays and each of sub-pixel arrays includes a plurality of first sub-pixels having a first color and forming a plurality of vertexes of a virtual quadrilateral, wherein there is not any other first sub-pixels having the first color located in the virtual quadrilateral; at least one second sub-pixel, having a second color different from the first color and located in the virtual quadrilateral; and at least one third sub-pixel, having a third color different from the first color and the second color and located in the virtual quadrilateral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Publication number: 20190139513
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel arrays and each of sub-pixel arrays includes a plurality of first sub-pixels having a first color and forming a plurality of vertexes of a virtual quadrilateral, wherein there is not any other first sub-pixels having the first color located in the virtual quadrilateral; at least one second sub-pixel, having a second color different from the first color and located in the virtual quadrilateral; and at least one third sub-pixel, having a third color different from the first color and the second color and located in the virtual quadrilateral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai