Patents Assigned to Apex Material Technology Corp.
  • Patent number: 9791961
    Abstract: A touch sensitive detecting method, applicable to a touch panel or screen, comprises: setting a sensing electrode to floating; after the sensing electrode is set to floating, setting at least one non-measuring sensing electrode to a sensing high voltage; measuring the voltage of the sensing electrode; setting the sensing electrode to a ground voltage and stopping measurement; and determining whether an externally conducted object is approximating or touching the touch panel or screen nearby the sensing electrode by comparing a difference between a threshold voltage and the measured voltage of the sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Li Lee, Zong-Bin Liao, Ke-Hao Ding
  • Patent number: 9746960
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control module and a method operable in a touch-sensitive apparatus for measuring noise, wherein the touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a touch-sensitive module having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that intersect in multiple regions of the touch sensitive module, said method comprising the steps of: disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source; and acquiring a plurality of voltage values of noise by measuring a plurality of voltage signals associated with the second electrodes over a plurality of measurement cycles at a predetermined operating frequency during the first electrodes without a driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Ke-hao Ding, Zong-Bin Liao, Zhong-peng Qiu, Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9746961
    Abstract: A background signal processing method and a background signal processing system are provided. The background signal processing method includes measuring a first conductive wire group, comparing a first background signal measurement value with a predetermined background signal threshold value to determine their difference, and executing the following steps according to the amount of the difference: (1) performing no updating; updating the background signal according to the first background signal measurement value; and further measuring a second conductive wire group and calculating a background signal speculating value of a third conductive wire group, other than the first and second conductive wire groups, based on the second background signal measurement value and the first background signal measurement value, to provide the complete background signals and ensure the quality of the captured signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9715309
    Abstract: A touch sensitive detecting method, applicable to a touch panel or screen, comprises: setting at least one dummy pad to a dummy high voltage; after setting the at least one dummy pad to the dummy high voltage, setting a sensing electrode nearby the at least one dummy pad to floating; after the sensing electrode is set to floating, setting the at least one dummy pad to a ground voltage and a driving electrode to a driving voltage; measuring the voltage of the sensing electrode; setting the sensing electrode to the ground voltage and stopping measurement; and determining whether an externally conducted object is approximating or touching the touch panel or screen nearby the sensing electrode by comparing a difference between a threshold voltage and the measured voltage of the sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Li Lee, Zong-Bin Liao, Ke-Hao Ding
  • Patent number: 9594420
    Abstract: The controlling method for a touch panel is disclosed. The controlling methods includes: executing a waking-up procedure to output a waking-up signal; comparing a measured value of the waking-up signal with a pre-determined threshold value; the touch panel staying in a power-saving mode if the measured value of the waking-up signal is smaller than the positive pre-determined threshold value or larger than the negative pre-determined threshold value; and the touch panel starting a detection procedure if the measured value of the waking-up signal is larger than the positive pre-determined threshold value or smaller than the negative default threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Li Lee, Zong-Bin Liao, Ke-hao Ding
  • Patent number: 9594456
    Abstract: A background signal processing method and a background signal processing system are provided. The background signal processing method includes: measuring a first background signal measurement value of a first conductive wire group according to a first background signal measurement value to determine whether a subsequent process is required, and measuring a second background signal measurement value of a second conductive wire group if the subsequent process is required, or ending in this step. A background signal speculating value of a third conductive wire group, other than the first conductive wire group and the second conductive wire group, in the conductive wires is calculated according to the second background signal measurement value and the first background signal measurement value. The background signal processing method greatly simplifies the updating steps for background signals, and ensures quality of the captured signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9569033
    Abstract: A background signal processing method and a background signal processing are provided. The background signal processing method includes measuring a first conductive wire group to determine whether a subsequent process is required according to a first background signal measurement value, and selecting a corresponding second conductive wire number interval according to first background signal measurement data if the subsequent process is required, or stopping measuring. A second background signal measurement value of a second conductive wire group in the conductive wires is detected according to the second conductive wire number interval. A background signal speculating value of a third conductive wire group, other than the first conductive wire group and the second conductive wire group, in the conductive wires is calculated according to the second background signal measurement value and the first background signal measurement value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9535551
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mutual capacitance touch sensitive sensing method, including: sequentially charging multiple driving electrode sets and detecting the electrical change of multiple sensing electrodes; sequentially charging multiple driving electrodes in a driving electrode set and detecting the electrical change of the sensing electrodes when the electrical change of at least one of the sensing electrodes is detected while driving the driving electrode set; and determining the touch location according to the detected electrical change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Li Lee, Zong-Bin Liao
  • Patent number: 9438216
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for computing compensation time for clock difference between a first chip and a second chip. The method comprises emitting, by the second chip, a pulse with a fixed pulse length to the first chip; measuring, by the first chip, a pulse length of the pulse; computing the compensation time according to the measure pulse length and the fixed pulse length; and setting the compensation time to the second chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Li Lee, Zong-Bin Liao
  • Patent number: 9367190
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for touch signal recognition adapted to be used in a capacitive touch panel or apparatus. In order to achieve an objection of enhancement of a touch signal for recognition and getting rid of noise impact simultaneously, the present invention discloses a touch recognition method that actually includes two different measurement cycles to acquire two different sample voltage values. Consequently, noise impact can be removed by calculation of a sample voltage value difference between two different sample voltage values, at the same time, and the sample voltage value difference can provide a double magnitude as disclosed in the prior art to enhance accuracy for recognizing a user touch input while preventing from influence of noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Ke-hao Ding, Zong-Bin Liao, Zhong-peng Qiu, Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9274649
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch-sensitive apparatus and a method for determining a coordinate position in response to a proximity detection for the touch-sensitive apparatus. The method comprises the steps of: evaluating a plurality of designed measurement modes by measuring noise over a plurality of measurement cycles when a proximity event on the touch-sensitive apparatus has been detected; selecting an optimal measurement mode from the plurality of designed measurement modes; assigning the optimal measurement mode to be a working measurement mode; performing the proximity detection for the touch-sensitive apparatus in use of the working measurement mode; and calculating the coordinates of the touched position based on results obtained with the working measurement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Ke-hao Ding, Zong-Bin Liao, Zhong-peng Qiu, Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9189119
    Abstract: A method for identifying a contact with a touch panel includes: performing a first measuring process for obtaining a baseline signal; performing a second measuring process for obtaining a contact signal if there are any contacts or approaches of the touch panel with objects; comparing the values of the baseline signal with the contact signal for generating the contact signal with a location information; performing a third measuring process for installing an exclusion area according to the baseline signal; determining whether the location information is in the exclusion area; and, discarding the location information if the location information is in the exclusion area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventors: Zong-Bin Liao, Hong-Lun Su, Zhong-peng Qiu
  • Patent number: 8395592
    Abstract: A sensing system is provided in the present application. The sensing system includes a plurality of input areas, by each of which an input is received and an input signal is generated; and a processing device electrically coupled with the each of the plurality of input areas and performing a validation criterion for determining a means processing the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Apex Material Technology Corp., Salt International Corp.
    Inventors: Su-Hwa Chao, Shang-Li Lee, Wei-Jen Tai
  • Publication number: 20100033440
    Abstract: A sensing system is provided in the present application. The sensing system includes a plurality of input areas, by each of which an input is received and an input signal is generated; and a processing device electrically coupled with the each of the plurality of input areas and performing a validation criterion for determining a means processing the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicants: APEX MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CORP., SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Su-Hwa CHAO, Shang-Li LEE, Wei-Jen TAI