Patents by Inventor Yi-Chang Lin

Yi-Chang Lin 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: 7970265
    Abstract: A control system for compensating for image shake of an image capture device is provided, including a shake compensating module, a shake compensating switch, a control unit, and a shutter control element operated between a first operating stage and a second operating stage. The shake compensating switch is switched between an active state to enable the shake compensating module and an inactive state to disable the shake compensating module. The control unit enables the shake compensating module when the shake compensating switch is in the active state. The control unit produces a reset signal to disable the shake compensating module when the shutter control element is in the second operating stage before the shake compensating switch is switched to the inactive state. The control unit enables the shake compensating module after a specific period of time from when the shake compensating module was disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Asia Optical Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Yi-Chang Lin
  • Publication number: 20100134638
    Abstract: A gain-adjusting apparatus and method thereof are described. The gain-adjusting apparatus includes an integrator, a first register, a control unit, and a second register. The integrator integrates the gyro signal data to generate the integral data. The control unit is coupled to the first register and the second register, respectively. The control unit determines whether the gyro signal data is either greater than an upper gyro threshold or less than a lower gyro threshold to detect the gyro signal data and decrease the gain value stored in the second register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Asia Optical Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Yi-Chang LIN
  • Publication number: 20100123783
    Abstract: A gain calibration device includes an integrator, a first register, a controller, and a second register. When an optical image stabilizer is activated, the controller determines whether a current magnification of an image processing equipment is the same as a previous magnification. When the current magnification is not the same as the previous magnification, the controller reads the current magnification. Then the first registers stores a reference magnification, which is corresponding to a reference gain value of the optical image stabilizer. The second register temporarily stores a current gain value. Based on the reference magnification, the reference gain value and the current magnification, the controller calculates the current gain value corresponding to the current magnification for compensating the optical image stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Yi-chang LIN
  • Publication number: 20100067888
    Abstract: A control system for compensating for image shake of an image capture device is provided, including a shake compensating module, a shake compensating switch, a control unit, and a shutter control element operated between a first operating stage and a second operating stage. The shake compensating switch is switched between an active state to enable the shake compensating module and an inactive state to disable the shake compensating module. The control unit enables the shake compensating module when the shake compensating switch is in the active state. The control unit produces a reset signal to disable the shake compensating module when the shutter control element is in the second operating stage before the shake compensating switch is switched to the inactive state. The control unit enables the shake compensating module after a specific period of time from when the shake compensating module was disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Yi-Chang Lin
  • Publication number: 20090310952
    Abstract: A camera having a shutter button, a photo sensor array, an anti-shake module controlled by an anti-shake enable signal, and a mechanical shutter. By pressing the shutter button, a first operation and a second operation are provided to trigger an auto-focus enable signal and an image exposure control signal, respectively. The anti-shake enable signal is enabled when the auto-focus enable signal has been triggered and the image exposure control signal is disabled or has just been triggered. The photo sensor array performs image exposure according to the image exposure control signal. The mechanical shutter is disabled and closed after the image exposure control signal is triggered for exposure period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Chang Lin, Shuo-Chi Chia
  • Publication number: 20090185043
    Abstract: Image capture systems capable of ensuring clear images are provided, in which an image capture module senses at least one image, and an operational module performs a compensation to the image capture system according to a modulation transfer function (MTF) value corresponding to the image, such that the image capture system can be operated under an optimized total gain thereby ensuring clear images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kun-Chi LIAO, Yi-Chang LIN
  • Patent number: 6733342
    Abstract: A cigarette lighter plug includes a front housing and a rear housing, a positive contact end installed at a front end of the front housing for contacting a positive terminal of a cigarette lighter socket, and an elastic element encircling a connecting portion of the front housing and the rear housing for contacting a negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket. When the elastic element contacts the negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket, the elastic element is electrically connected with the negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Peng Wu, Yi-Chang Lin
  • Publication number: 20020177363
    Abstract: A cigarette lighter plug includes a front housing and a rear housing, a positive contact end installed at a front end of the front housing for contacting a positive terminal of a cigarette lighter socket, and an elastic element encircling a connecting portion of the front housing and the rear housing for contacting a negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket. When the elastic element contacts the negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket, the elastic element is electrically connected with the negative terminal of the cigarette lighter socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Chih-Peng Wu, Yi-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 6082394
    Abstract: A closed type water storage container with water level controller and air filtering device, wherein the closed type water container is linked to the water level controlling device by a connection tube and the connection tube is provided with filtering materials for filtering of the moving water at the water level controlling device, such that water and air within the storage container are filtered and clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Inventor: Yi-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 5718009
    Abstract: A continuous bedclothes apparatus includes a continuous bedclothes device which includes an elongated sheet and a delivery roller. The long sheet is made of disposable and recyclable material and one end of the sheet is attached to the delivery roller. The sheet is rolled on the delivery roller and has a plurality of transversal dividing lines parallelly and evenly positioned along the length of the sheet respectively. The dividing lines divide the elongated sheet into a plurality bedclothes units of same width. The continuous bedclothes device further comprises a delivery device including a housing and a pair of supporting axles. The housing has a delivery slit adapted for the delivery of the sheet via the delivery slit and the pair of supporting axles are affixed to two opposite sides of the housing so as to support the delivery roller in rotary manner and parallel to the delivery slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Inventor: Yi Chang Lin