Patents Assigned to HIMAX
  • Patent number: 12107178
    Abstract: A sensor device provided in the disclosure includes a sensor substrate, a first transparent layer, a collimator layer, and a lens. The first transparent layer is disposed on the sensor substrate, wherein the first transparent layer defines an alignment structure. The collimator layer is disposed on the first transparent layer. The lens is disposed on the collimator layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu-Jui Hsieh, Po-Nan Chen, Ya-Jing Yang
  • Patent number: 12107549
    Abstract: An amplifier with enhanced slew rate includes an input stage including a first channel coupled to receive differential inputs and a second channel coupled to receive the differential inputs; a middle stage including a first current source coupled to receive outputs of the second channel and electrically connected to power, a second current source coupled to receive outputs of the first channel and electrically connected to ground, and a floating current source electrically connected between the first current source and the second current source; and an output stage coupled to the middle stage to generate an output voltage. A transit circuit is disposed in the input stage or the middle stage, controlled by the output stage, and configured to supply extra current during signal transition of the differential inputs, thereby enhancing the slew rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Yi-Lun Chiang, Jia-Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 12100240
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition driving device includes a plurality of light sensors and a plurality of signal processing circuits. The light sensors respectively generate a plurality of sensing signals. The signal processing circuits respectively coupled to the light sensors, for processing the sensing signals to generate a plurality of processed sensing signals. During each of a plurality of sensing periods, one of the signal processing circuits provides corresponding processed sensing signal with a first polarity, and each of the other signal processing circuits provides corresponding processed sensing signals with a second polarity, and the first polarity is different from the second polarity. The signal processing circuits generates an output signal according to the processed sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Jia-Ming He, Zong-You Hou
  • Publication number: 20240314471
    Abstract: An electronic device, a monitoring system and a monitoring method are provided. The electronic device includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor is configured to sense a sensing object and output a sensing data. The processor is coupled to the sensor, and configured to receive the sensing data. The processor generates a plurality of superimposed data according to the sensing data and a plurality of noise data. The processor analyzes the sensing data and the plurality of superimposed data to generate a plurality of recognition results and a plurality of confidence levels. The processor outputs one of the plurality of recognition results to a cloud device, and further determine whether to output the sensing data to the cloud device according to the plurality of recognition results or the plurality of confidence levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsung-Yau Huang, Wen-Jen Huang
  • Patent number: 12096557
    Abstract: A pad configuration adaptable to a display system includes a plurality of input bond pads, via which a driver of the display system is mounted and signals are inputted to the driver; and a plurality of output bond pads, via which the driver is mounted and signals are outputted to a display panel of the display system. Input and output bond pads corresponding to one of two neighboring drivers are point symmetric with input and output bond pads corresponding to the other of the two neighboring drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Hui-Min Wang, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Patent number: 12094386
    Abstract: A digital low color shift (DLCS) edge smoothing method, for a display panel having a plurality of pixels, includes determining an edge gain of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels of the display panel; and smoothing the edge of the first pixel and the other neighbor pixels of the plurality of pixels of the display panel according to a spatial filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Tung-Ying Wu
  • Patent number: 12093483
    Abstract: Circuit for performing a display driving function and a fingerprint and touch detecting function includes a unity gain buffer amplifier, an operational amplifier integrator, an ADC circuit, and a digital processing circuit coupled to the ADC circuit. An input terminal of the operational amplifier integrator is coupled to a touch sensor. When the circuit is operated under a display driving mode, an input terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier receives a gray level voltage and an output terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier is coupled to a display panel. When the circuit is operated under a fingerprint detecting mode, the input terminal and the output terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier are respectively coupled to a fingerprint sensor and the ADC circuit. When the circuit is operated under a touch detecting mode, an output terminal of the operational amplifier integrator is coupled to the ADC circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Publication number: 20240296771
    Abstract: A digital low color shift (DLCS) edge smoothing method, for a display panel having a plurality of pixels, includes determining an edge gain of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels of the display panel; and smoothing the edge of the first pixel and the other neighbor pixels of the plurality of pixels of the display panel according to a spatial filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Tung-Ying Wu
  • Publication number: 20240292094
    Abstract: The control circuit for controlling an image sensor of the disclosure includes a processor, a command circuit, a power management circuit and an image controller. The image sensor captures at least one image and generates at least one image data corresponding the at least one image in response to the controlling command. The power management circuit generates a driving power in response to a timing interrupt signal when the processor is in a low power mode. The command circuit is driven by the driving power when the processor is in the low power mode. The image controller is driven by the driving power to controls the command circuit to generate the controlling command when the processor is in the low power mode. The image controller controls the power management circuit to stop generating the driving power according to a data number of the at least one image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Shu-Chang Liang
  • Publication number: 20240256082
    Abstract: A touch event processing circuit includes receiving circuits and an average circuit. Each of the receiving circuits includes an operation amplifier, a current processing circuit, and a touch event detection circuit. The operation amplifier receives an input signal from a touch panel, and outputs a first current signal and a second current signal. The current processing circuit processes the first current signal and the second current signal according to a first current average signal and a second current average signal, to generate a processed current signal. The touch event detection circuit detects a touch event according to the processed current signal. The average circuit receives first current signals and second current signals from the receiving circuits; performs an average operation upon the first current signals, to generate the first current average signal; and performs an average operation upon the second current signals, to generate the second current average signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang, Yi-Yang Tsai
  • Patent number: 12047074
    Abstract: A driving circuit is provided, including first to second output stage circuits that output, respectively, first and second voltages of a first polarity. The driving circuit further includes a first switch having a first terminal receiving the first voltage from the first output stage circuit and a second terminal coupled to a first output channel through a switching circuit, and a second switch having a first terminal receiving the second voltage from the second output stage circuit and a second terminal coupled to a second output channel through the switching circuit. The driving circuit further includes a first charge sharing circuit having a first terminal coupled to the first output channel and a second terminal coupled to the second output channel. The first charge sharing circuit is turned on to provide charge sharing between the first output channel and the second output channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chia-Chu Chien
  • Patent number: 12039918
    Abstract: A voltage controller of a display system includes a gate high voltage detector for detecting a gate high voltage, and a gate low voltage detector for detecting a gate low voltage. The gate high voltage and the gate low voltage are supplied to a gate driver, and the gate high voltage is greater than the gate low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Han-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 12039943
    Abstract: A backlight control device for use in an electronic device includes a motion detecting unit, a sound matching unit and a controller. The motion detecting unit is configured to detect motion of a lid section of the electronic device to generate motion data. The sound matching unit is configured to match a soundprint derived from a sound sample that is captured by a sound capture unit, to one or more sound patterns stored within in a sound pattern database to generate a lid state indication signal if the motion data indicates the motion of the lid section corresponds to a predetermined state. The controller is configured to control a backlight module of a display device of the electronic device according to the lid state indication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Keng-Chih Chen, Yu-Chun Huang
  • Patent number: 12025789
    Abstract: A display system includes an image display device and a pair of shutter glasses. The image display device includes a display panel, a display communication circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the display communication circuit to transmit a shutter glasses control signal, and configured to control the display panel to alternately display a normal image and a compensate image according to a timing control signal. The pair of shutter glasses includes a pair of shutters, a glasses communication circuit and a shutter control circuit. The glasses communication circuit is configured to receive the shutter glasses control signal. The shutter control circuit is configured to alternately open and close the pair of shutters according to the shutter glasses control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Kuan-Sheng Yang, Ming-Hung Weng, Cheng-Che Tsai
  • Patent number: 12020725
    Abstract: An acoustic feature extraction (AFE) circuit includes a plurality of band-pass filters (BPFs) adaptable to a plurality of channels with different band-pass frequency ranges respectively for switchably receiving an amplified signal, thereby generating corresponding filtered signals, the plurality of BPFs including an operational amplifier that is shared among the plurality of channels; and a rectifier switchably coupled to receive the filtered signals, thereby generating a rectified signal. The amplified signal is time-division demultiplexed onto the BPFs in different phases, and the filtered signals are time-division multiplexed onto the rectifier in different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Meng-Ju Chiang, Soon-Jyh Chang
  • Patent number: 11990178
    Abstract: A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell includes a first inverter and a second inverter being cross-coupled; a first access transistor that accesses an output of the first inverter under control of a word line; a second access transistor that accesses an output of the second inverter under control of the word line; a first passage transistor that passes a common-mode voltage, controlled by the output of the first inverter; a second passage transistor that passes an input signal, controlled by the output of the second inverter; and a capacitor switchably coupled to receive the common-mode voltage and the input signal through the first passage transistor and the second passage transistor respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Wei-Li He, Soon-Jyh Chang
  • Patent number: 11983351
    Abstract: A touch data transmission method of present disclosure includes: generating a header information by a first controller according to a detected touch event; generating a first checksum information by the first controller according to the header information; storing the header information and the first checksum information to a memory by the first controller; and, storing a plurality of position information of the detected touch event to the memory by the first controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Chun-Kai Chuang, Jan-Ruei Lin, Yu-Hsiang Lin, I-Sheng Chao
  • Patent number: 11983942
    Abstract: A method for detecting a specific object based on a specific model includes: capturing a set of images, wherein objects in each image include a desired object; transmitting the set of images to a cloud server; in response to found objects being obtained from the set of images based on at least one object detection algorithm in the cloud server, displaying the found objects fora user to confirm which object is desired; in response to the desired object being confirmed from the found objects that are displayed, loading the specific model of the desired object from the cloud server, wherein the specific model of the desired object is trained on the cloud server based on at least the set of images and related CNN algorithm; and performing the specific model to detect the specific object on a captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Ti-Wen Tang, Kuan-Ting Lai, Chin-Kuei Hsu
  • Publication number: 20240155231
    Abstract: A method for performing light shaping with aid of an adaptive projector and associated apparatus are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Wu-Feng Chen, Ching-Wen Wang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Hsueh-Tsung Lu
  • Patent number: 11979661
    Abstract: A method for performing light shaping with aid of an adaptive projector and associated apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Wu-Feng Chen, Ching-Wen Wang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Hsueh-Tsung Lu