Patents Assigned to Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11041824Abstract: A measurement device including: an ion-sensitive element; a reference electrode disposed in a state in which a measurement subject is interposed between the reference electrode and the ion-sensitive element; and a controller configured to: establish a first state at a predetermined interval, the first state being a state in which a current flows at the ion-sensitive element, and establish a second state within each period after the first state has been established and before the first state is next established, the second state being a state in which a potential difference between the ion-sensitive element and the reference electrode is greater than a potential difference between the ion-sensitive element and the reference electrode in the first state.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Kusano, Atsuhiko Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Masao Okihara
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Publication number: 20210183829Abstract: A light emitting device filament includes a substrate, light emitting device chips, two electrode pads, and connection lines. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate extends in a first direction and has a width in a second direction. The light emitting device chips are disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The two electrode pads are disposed on the substrate. The connection lines electrically connect the light emitting device chips and the electrode pads. At least one of the connection lines includes a first portion extending in the first direction and a second portion extending in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Hyun PARK, Seong Jin LEE, Jong Kook LEE
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Publication number: 20210183328Abstract: A source driver includes a data latch unit that outputs acquired pixel data, a gradation voltage conversion unit that acquires the pixel data outputted from the data latch unit and converts the pixel data to gradation voltages, an output unit that amplifies and outputs the gradation voltages to source lines, and a timing control unit that controls the timing of the output of the pixel data from the data latch unit. The timing control unit performs control such that the longer a source line is from a source driver to a pixel column, the smaller the timing difference is between acquisition of the pixel data by the data latch unit and the output of the pixel data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki TANIGUCHI, Hiroshi TSUCHI, Takashi OHNO
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Patent number: 11037876Abstract: A power network includes a plurality of power switch units disposed in a first semiconductor layer, arranged in a plurality of columns along a first direction and a plurality of rows along a second direction. The power switch units in even rows are aligned with a center point of a horizontal space between adjacent two of the power switch units in the same row of the odd rows of the power switch units in the first direction. The power switch units in even columns are aligned with a center point of a vertical space between adjacent two of the power switch units in the same column of the odd columns of the power switch units in the second direction. The power network further includes a plurality of second connecting lines disposed in a fourth semiconductor layer and extending in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jerming Lin, Lei Sun, Bing Li
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Patent number: 11037268Abstract: A method for improving image quality by using multi-resolution is provided. The method includes: receiving an image data; dividing the image data into areas corresponding to different resolutions according to first parameter information, wherein the resolutions correspond to different frequencies; rendering the areas with the different frequencies in a single pass and outputting a rendered image data; and resolving the rendered image data into a final output image data with a first resolution according to second parameter information.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Deming Gu
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Patent number: 11038697Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for trusted module execution are proposed, which provide secure boot and trusted execution of system software by using the China commercial cryptography algorithms to establish the SRTM/DRTM. Conventionally, the Intel TXT which uses RSA or SHA-256 cryptography algorithms only authenticates the trusted modules. By contrast, the present application uses the China commercial cryptography algorithms and is able to authenticate the trusted modules and their digital certificates or certificate chains (which has a higher security level than just authenticating the digital certificates).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Li, Yun Shen, Hui Li
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Patent number: 11035811Abstract: An object-characteristic determination device includes a calculation unit and a determination unit. The calculation unit calculates a first feature value and a second feature value differing from the first feature value according to a first signal at a first frequency and a second signal at a second frequency. The first signal and the second signal are received by a reception unit after passing through the object. The first feature value and the second feature value represent features of the first signal and the second signal. The determination unit determines a property of the object on the basis of a difference in the first feature values of the first signal and a difference in the second feature values of the second signal, a relationship between a plurality of properties of the object, and a plurality of differences in the first feature values and a plurality of differences in the second feature values.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroji Akahori
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Publication number: 20210174760Abstract: The disclosure includes bus wiring constituted by wiring lines; a gradation voltage generation circuit that generates M gradation voltages representing brightness levels with M gradations, and applies the M gradation voltages to an intermediate portion on M wiring lines belonging to the bus wiring; a plurality of decoders, each of which receives M gradation voltages via the M wiring lines and selects one of the M gradation voltages according to the pixel data pieces to output the selected gradation voltage; a plurality of output amplifiers that individually amplifies the voltages output from the plurality of decoders and generates the amplified voltages as the plurality of pixel drive voltages; and first and second inter-gradation short circuits that short-circuit one ends of each of the M wiring lines and the other ends of each of the M wiring lines according to a load signal for capturing the pixel data pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi SHIIBAYASHI, KEIGO OTANI
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Publication number: 20210173992Abstract: An FPGA chip-based handler simulation test system is provided. The FPGA chip-based handler simulation test system includes a handler simulator, a PC and a tester. The handler simulator includes an FPGA, an RS232 interface, a GPIB interface, a RAM, a LED, a keypad and a soft-core processor. The soft-core processor includes a CPU, an SDRAM, a PIO, a UART and a JTAG. The firmware of the soft-core processor establishes the communication of the RS232 interface and the GPIB interface, as well as the display of the LED and reception of the keypad. The test system of the present invention simulates handler communication by using a small-sized and low-cost hardware circuit, and is easy to carry. In this way, an operator can debug the handler in the laboratory without damaging the handler, thus protecting the expensive handler.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: ACETEC SEMICONDUCTOR CO. LTD.Inventor: Rui WANG
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Patent number: 11031380Abstract: A manufacturing method of micro LED display module is provided. The micro LED display module comprises a driver chip block, a LED block, a circuit board and a color layer. The driver chip block has a plurality of pixel electrodes. The LED block is disposed in the driver chip block and has two semiconductor layers and a plurality of trenches. One of the two semiconductor layers is electrically connected to the pixel electrodes and the other is electrically connected to the light transmissive conductive layer. The trenches define a plurality of micro LED pixels arranged in an array. Each trench at least penetrates through the light emitting layer and one of the semiconductor layers. Each micro LED pixel corresponds to one of the pixel electrodes. The circuit board is electrically connected to the driver chip block, and the color layer is disposed on the light transmissive conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignees: SYNDIANT INC., XDMICRO (ZHONGSHAN) OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun Chiu Daniel Wong, Hiap Liew Ong, Min Hwang Michael Lyu, Liming Wang
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Patent number: 11031523Abstract: A manufacturing method of micro LED display module is provided. The micro LED display module comprises a driver chip block, a LED block, a circuit board and a color layer. The driver chip block has a plurality of pixel electrodes. The LED block is disposed on the driver chip block and has two semiconductor layers and a plurality of trenches. One of the two semiconductor layers is electrically connected to the pixel electrodes and the other is electrically connected to the light transmissive conductive layer. The trenches define a plurality of micro LED pixels arranged in an array. Each trench at least penetrates through the light emitting layer and one of the semiconductor layers. Each micro LED pixel corresponds to one of the pixel electrodes. The circuit board is electrically connected to the driver chip block, the color layer is disposed on the light transmissive conductive layer, and one of the semiconductor layers has a common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignees: SYNDIANT INC., XDMICRO (ZHONGSHAN) OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun Chiu Daniel Wong, Hiap Liew Ong, Min Hwang Michael Lyu, Liming Wang
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Patent number: 11029949Abstract: A hardware processing unit is provided. The hardware processing unit includes: an accumulator; a multiplier-adder receives first and second factors and receives an addend, the multiplier-adder generates a sum of the addend and a product of the first and second factors and provides the sum; a first multiplexer receives a first operand, a positive one, and a negative one and selects one of them for provision as the first factor to the multiplier-adder; a second multiplexer receives a second operand, a positive one, and a negative one and selects one of them for provision as the second factor to the multiplier-adder; a third multiplexer, having an output, that receives the first operand and the second operand and selects one of them for provision on its output; and a fourth multiplexer receives the third multiplexer output and the sum and selects one of them for provision to the accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: G. Glenn Henry, Douglas R. Reed, Kim C Houck, Parviz Palangpour
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Patent number: 11029589Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser light source optical projection architecture, which comprises a laser light source group, a color control device, a phosphor device and an optical filter group. Accordingly, the laser light source optical projection architecture does not require to synchronize the phosphor device with the color field sequential display system, and the color control (ratios of the color duty) does not need to be determined in advance, i.e. at the time the color control device is manufactured. Various color field ratios can be achieved by adjusting positions of the specific color control device to obtain different red, blue and green color field durations, allowing easy electronic control of the color field duty cycles.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignees: SYNDIANT INC., XDMICRO (ZHONGSHAN) OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun Chiu Daniel Wong, Sheng Hsiung Chan
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Patent number: 11031408Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a nonvolatile memory cell disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The nonvolatile memory cell includes a field-effect transistor for data writing, and a field-effect transistor for data readout that is adjacent to the field-effect transistor for data writing. Each of the field-effect transistor for data writing and the field-effect transistor for data readout includes a gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, a floating gate formed on the gate insulating film, and diffusion layers configuring a source region and a drain region on respective sides of the floating gate viewed in the thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The thickness of the gate insulating film of the field-effect transistor for data readout, and the thickness of the gate insulating film of the field-effect transistor for data writing, are different.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Taku Shibaguchi
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Patent number: 11031974Abstract: A method is provided for controlling communication in wireless charging. The method comprises: controlling wireless power transfer with a device; receiving a communication signal from the device; generating a jamming signal based on the communication signal from the device; and applying the jamming signal to the communication signal to obtain a jammed communication signal. A device is also provided for controlling communication in wireless charging. The device is configured to control wireless power transfer and receive a communication signal. The device comprises: a jamming circuit configured to generate a jamming signal based on the received communication signal, wherein the device is further configured to apply the jamming signal to the received communication signal to obtain a jammed communication signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: CHENGDU CONVENIENTPOWER SEMICONDUCTOR CO. LTD.Inventors: Tun Li, Siming Pan, Dawei He, Tao Wang
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Publication number: 20210167258Abstract: A light emitting device is adapted to realize white light and includes a first light emitting diode chip emitting light having a first peak wavelength in the range of 400 nm to 420 nm, a second light emitting diode chip emitting light having a second peak wavelength in the range of 420 nm to 440 nm, and a wavelength converter covering the first and second light emitting diode chips. The wavelength converter including a blue phosphor, a green phosphor, and a red phosphor. When a maximum value of a spectral power distribution of the light emitting device or a maximum of a reference spectral power distribution of black body radiation is 100%, a difference between the spectral power distribution of the light emitting device and the reference spectral power distribution is less than 20% at each wavelength in the wavelength range of 440 nm to 640 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Bo Yong HAN
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Publication number: 20210168916Abstract: A multi-segment linear LED drive circuit, device and method. A Multi-segment linear LED drive circuit includes a reference voltage input module, current source module, voltage control module, current regulation module, at least two LED light strings connected in series and at least two driving modules correspondingly. The reference voltage input module provides reference voltage for each of driving module; the current source module provides DC current for voltage control module; the voltage control module controls input voltage of driving module according to DC current; the driving module lights corresponding LED light string on or off according to reference voltage, input voltage and line voltage constant current; the current adjusting module adjusts constant current; constant current of rear driving module is greater than that of front driving module, and when current passes through rear driving module, front driving module stops driving, harmonic influence and circuit implementation cost are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: SHENZHEN SENDIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTDInventors: Yanquan MAI, Bo CHEN, Xunsheng DENG
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Patent number: 11022274Abstract: A light emitting module including a light emitting device, and a lens disposed above the light emitting device to disperse light emitted from the light emitting device, in which the lens includes a light incident portion through which light emitted from the light emitting device enters the lens and a light exit portion through which the light exits the lens, in which each of the light incident portion and the light exit portion has a major axis and a minor axis in plan view, the major axis of the light incident portion is disposed at a right angle with respect to the major axis of the light exit portion, and a lower surface of the lens includes a horizontal surface and a slanted surface downwardly slanted from the horizontal surface in an outward direction of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae Eun Park
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Patent number: 11024786Abstract: A display apparatus including a panel substrate including a TFT drive circuit for active matrix driving, a plurality of light emitting diodes, and an anisotropic conductive film electrically connecting the light emitting diodes to the panel substrate, in which the anisotropic conductive film includes an adhesive organic insulation material and conductive particles dispersed in the adhesive organic insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motonobu Takeya, Young Hyun Kim, Jong Ik Lee, Kwang Yong Oh
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Patent number: 11024665Abstract: An imaging device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate; and pixels. Each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into electric charge; a diffusion region provided in the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the photoelectric converter; a first transistor including a gate, and the diffusion region as one of a source and a drain; and a plug that is directly connected to the diffusion region, is electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, and includes a semiconductor. The height of the plug and the height of the gate from the surface of the semiconductor substrate are equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, TOWERJAZZ PANASONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Sakaida, Yoshihiro Sato, Kosaku Saeki, Hideki Doshita, Takeshi Yamashita