Patents Assigned to Rich IP Technology Inc.
  • Patent number: 10503314
    Abstract: An intelligent sensing touch display device capable of being responsive to an application program to selectively perform a touch detection procedure on a first electrode group and/or on an active array unit, where a controller is coupled with a touch and display driving unit, the controller has a wireless communication port and/or a switching circuit for controlling at least one external device, and is used for performing a switching control procedure, the switching control procedure including steps of: receiving information of at least one touched button icon provided by the touch and display driving unit; generating at least one switching command according to the information of at least one touched button icon; and transmitting the at least one switching command via the wireless communication port and/or the switching circuit to control the at least one external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: IC ARRAY (GUANG ZHOU) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Jen-Chieh Chang, Yen-Hung Tu
  • Patent number: 10437369
    Abstract: A software defined input operation sensing system, including: at least one input operation sensing device, each having at least two sensing functions; at least one driving unit, used for driving the at least one input operation sensing device according to at least one operation configuration command, each of the at least one operation configuration command including a sensing function selecting instruction for selecting a sensing function from the at least two sensing functions, and/or a sensing spec setting instruction for determining a sensing signal detection mode and a sensed data output format; and at least one processing unit for configuring the at least one driving unit according to an application program to determine at least one content of the at least one operation configuration command, and the at least one processing unit including at least one function library for use in determining the at least one operation configuration command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia
  • Patent number: 10401999
    Abstract: An intelligent sensing touch display device capable of being responsive to an application program to selectively perform a touch detection procedure on a first electrode group and/or on an active array unit, where a controller has a memory for storing background image data, and data of at least one object image, and is used for performing a local operation procedure including steps of: receiving location information of at least one touched GUI object provided by a touch and display driving unit and transmitting the location information to a main processing unit; receiving updated image data for at least one GUI object image from the main processing unit; combining the updated image data with the background image data to form locally updated display image data and transmitting the locally updated display image data to the touch and display driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: IC ARRAY (GUANG ZHOU) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Jen-Chieh Chang, Yen-Hung Tu
  • Patent number: 10241633
    Abstract: An intelligent sensing touch display device, including a first electrode group, a display material layer or a display and touch sensing material layer, an active array unit and a touch and display driving unit to provide at least one AC path touch sensing unit, and a plurality of the AC path touch sensing units being able to be connected to form a combined AC path touch sensing unit, so that the touch and display driving unit can be responsive to an application program to perform a first touch detection procedure on the first electrode group, or perform a second touch detection procedure on the active array unit, or perform the first touch detection procedure on the first electrode group, and then perform the second touch detection procedure on at least one area of the active array unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: IC ARRAY (GUANG ZHOU) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Jen-Chieh Chang, Yen-Hung Tu
  • Patent number: 10032061
    Abstract: An intelligent touch sensing device, including: a first electrode group having a first plurality of first electrodes; a second electrode group having a second plurality of second electrodes, each of the second electrodes being coupled with at least one active switch and the second plurality being larger than the first plurality; and a touch detection unit coupled with the first electrode group and with the second electrode group for performing a first touch detection procedure or performing the first detection procedure and then a second touch detection procedure as optionally required by an application program, the first touch detection procedure being acting on the first electrode group, and the second touch detection procedure being acting on at least one region of the second electrode group, wherein the at least one region is determined according to a detection result of the first touch detection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Jen-Chieh Chang, Yen-Hung Tu
  • Patent number: 9778784
    Abstract: A touch display driving circuit capable of responding to CPU commands, including: a first interface receiving touch configuration data from a CPU and outputting touch report data to the CPU; a second interface coupling with a touch display module; a control unit executing a touch detection procedure on the touch display module via the second interface to derive touch detected data, and processing the touch detected data to generate the touch report data, wherein the touch detection procedure is determined according to the touch configuration data determining a connection configuration of at least one multiplexer and a weighting configuration of at least one touch point, and the content of the touch report data include a sensed pressure profile, a finger print, a palm print, an ear image, characteristics of a finger print, characteristics of a palm print, or characteristics of an ear image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu, Yen-Hung Tu, Jen-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 9733753
    Abstract: A flat self-luminous touch switch, including: a self-luminous touch unit, including at least one flat self-luminous pixel and a pixel driving interface; and a switch control unit, including a first driving interface and a second driving interface, wherein, the first driving interface is coupled with the pixel driving interface to provide at least one pixel driving signal and transmit a touch detection signal; and the second driving interface provides an analog switch channel and/or at least one digital output signal according to a detection result of the touch detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu, Jen-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 9690421
    Abstract: A touch system using a processor to configure a touch detection architecture and including a sensor unit, a connection unit, a touch scan unit, a touch detection unit, and a processor unit. The sensor unit has a plurality of sensors. The connection unit determines a sensors-joined configuration of the plurality of sensors according to at least one connection control signal. The touch scan unit coupling at least one touch signal to the connection unit according to at least one scan configuration signal. The touch detection unit outputting the touch signal and deriving touch information from a parameter of the touch signal according to at least one operation mode configuration signal. The processor unit outputting the at least one connection control signal, the scan configuration signal, and the operation mode configuration signal according to a content of a control table, and receiving the touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh Chang, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9489125
    Abstract: A touch processing method and system using a GUI image, the method including the steps of: reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; performing a conversion procedure on a GUI to generate a GUI image; and performing a touch processing procedure according to the sensed data array and the GUI image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Patent number: 9477365
    Abstract: A touch display device having auxiliary capacitor, including: at least one touch operation area, each having two opposing substrates, between which are a first electrode, a first conductive line coupled with the first electrode, a second electrode, a second conductive line coupled with the second electrode, and a display layer neighboring both the first electrode and the second electrode; a display driver unit for outputting at least one display driving voltage; a touch detection unit having at least one touch signal sensing port; at least one auxiliary capacitor, each coupled with one of the at least one touch operation area; and at least one switch element; wherein, each of the at least one display driving voltage is coupled to one of the at least one touch operation area via one of the at least one switch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu, Jen-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 9430076
    Abstract: A driving circuit capable of enabling a display structure to provide a touch function, including: a first multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple gate driving lines; a second multiplexing interface for coupling with at least one storage capacitor driving line; a third multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple source driving lines; a fourth multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple transparent electrodes; and a control unit for driving the gate driving lines via the first multiplexing interface to form a capacitive network on a TFT display structure, and performing a capacitive touch detection procedure on the capacitive network via an interface selected from a group consisting of the second multiplexing interface, the third multiplexing interface, the fourth multiplexing interface, and any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9323406
    Abstract: An electronic paper touch device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer located on the first substrate; an electronic paper display layer located on the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer located on the electronic paper display layer and having plural transparent electrodes; a second substrate located on the transparent electrode layer; and a control unit having a touch mode and an electronic paper mode, wherein, when the control unit is in the touch mode, the control unit will couple a touch detection unit with the first electrode layer and with the transparent electrode layer to perform a capacitive touch detection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9307132
    Abstract: A control system for integrating multiple sets of sensing plane data, including: a plurality of driving units, used for driving a plurality of sensor arrays to receive multiple sets of sensing plane data; and at least one control unit, used for integrating the multiple sets of sensing plane data into a set of image data and outputting the set of image data to a central processing unit, wherein the central processing unit is used for executing an application software program to convert the set of image data into multiple sets of array data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Patent number: 9292121
    Abstract: An adaptive sensing apparatus, including: a sensor array, having N sensing points, wherein N is a positive integer; a driver unit, coupled with the sensor array; and a control unit, coupled with the driver unit; wherein the control unit has at least one adaptive sampling modes for controlling the driver unit to drive the sensor array and derive M sensed data, wherein M is a positive integer and M<N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Patent number: 9250755
    Abstract: A touch display having advanced-fringe-field-switching liquid crystal structure, including a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple the pixel cell with a source driver unit to provide a fringe-field-switching display function during a display period, and couple the pixel cell with a touch detection unit to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9176613
    Abstract: A touch display driving circuit capable of responding to CPU commands, including: a first interface for receiving pixel data and touch configuration data; a second interface for coupling with a touch display; and a control unit, which drives the touch display via the second interface to show an image according to the pixel data, and executes a touch detection procedure on the touch display via the second interface, wherein the touch detection procedure is determined according to the touch configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu, Yen-Hung Tu, Jen-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 9164633
    Abstract: A TFT liquid crystal display apparatus having a touch function, including: a first electrode layer, having multiple first electrodes and multiple thin film transistors, wherein each of the multiple thin film transistors has a source coupled to a source control unit, a gate coupled to a gate control unit, and a drain coupled to one of the multiple first electrodes and to one of multiple storage capacitors; a liquid crystal display layer, located above the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer, being located above the liquid crystal display layer and having multiple transparent strip electrodes; and multiple switches, of which each has a control end coupled with a mode control signal, a first contact coupled to one of the multiple transparent strip electrodes, a second contact coupled to a common voltage generation unit, and a third contact coupled to a touch detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia
  • Patent number: 9164617
    Abstract: An intelligent GUI touch control method and system, the method includes the steps of: generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein the GUI includes at least one option object, the masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to the at least one option object, the masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of the sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; and performing a weighting operation according to the at least one masking plane and the sensed data array, so as to make each of the at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among the at least one option object according to the at least one weighted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Patent number: 8957846
    Abstract: A touch display having in-plane-switching liquid crystal structure, comprising a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple a source driver unit with the pixel cell to provide an in-plane switching display function during a display period, and couple a touch control unit with the pixel cell to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Publication number: 20150009170
    Abstract: An electronic paper touch device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer located on the first substrate; an electronic paper display layer located on the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer located on the electronic paper display layer and having plural transparent electrodes; a second substrate located on the transparent electrode layer; and a control unit having a touch mode and an electronic paper mode, wherein, when the control unit is in the touch mode, the control unit will couple a touch detection unit with the first electrode layer and with the transparent electrode layer to perform a capacitive touch detection procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU