Patents Assigned to Semisilicon Technology Corp.
  • Patent number: 11968758
    Abstract: An LED light string control system includes an LED light string, a voltage generation apparatus, and a control module. The control module controls the voltage generation apparatus to change a signal provided to the LED light string to a first voltage level according to a first logic of a light command, and changes the signal to a second voltage level according to a second logic of the light command. The control module controls the voltage generation apparatus to change the signal to a distinction voltage level once the first logics and/or the second logics of the light command appear consecutively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11950338
    Abstract: A parallel sequenced LED light string includes a plurality of LED modules. The LED modules are connected in parallel through a power wire with a plurality of wire resistances. Each of the LED modules includes an impedance component capable of providing an impedance characteristic. The parallel-connected LED modules receive a supply power, and the LED modules respectively get different voltages through the wire resistances and the impedance components from the supply power so as to sequencing the LED modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11930578
    Abstract: A power line carrying signal pixel control light emitting diode system includes a micro-control circuit, an alternating-current power detector and a plurality of light emitting diode lamps. The micro-control circuit includes a first switch and a micro-control module. When the light emitting diode lamps are required to be controlled to light, the micro-control module detects a voltage status of an alternating-current power through the alternating-current power detector. The micro-control module continuously switches a conduction status of the first switch within a half-wave cycle along a voltage change of the alternating-current power to change a voltage transmitted to the light emitting diode lamps to generate a plurality of lighting control signals. The light emitting diode lamps are configured to receive the lighting control signals and light based on the lighting control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11758628
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes at least one LED and an LED driver. The LED driver includes at least two terminals, a burning processor, and an address memory. The at least two terminals have a power input terminal and a power output terminal. The power input terminal and the power output terminal are externally coupled to a power line. The burning processor receives a burning activation data of a burning signal through the power input terminal or the power output terminal, and directly and externally receives a burning address data of the burning signal without from the power line. When a burning function of the burning processor is activated by the burning activation data, the burning processor converts the burning address data into a local address data and burns the local address data into the address memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11725808
    Abstract: A carry-signal controlled LED light with low power consumption includes at least one LED and a drive unit. The drive unit is coupled to the at least one LED, and receives a carry light signal to control the at least one LED. The drive unit includes a light control unit. The light control unit drives the at least one LED according to a light command content of the carry light signal. When a voltage of the carry light signal is less than a low-level voltage, the light control unit enters an eco mode, and the light control unit detects and identifies signals within a time interval. After the time interval, the light control unit enters a sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11683869
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) light string control system using carrier signal control includes a control module and an LED light string coupled to the control module. The control module converts a DC voltage into a lighting drive signal according to a lighting command. The LED light string includes at least one LED module, and the at least one LED module includes a detection circuit, a logic circuit, and an oscillator. The detection circuit generates a detected signal corresponding to the lighting drive signal. The logic circuit determines a first level being a first logic signal, a second logic signal, or a latch signal according to a time duration of the detected signal at the first level. The oscillator provides a clock signal to the logic circuit for calculating the time duration according to the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11672061
    Abstract: An LED light string control system includes an LED light string, a voltage generation apparatus, and a control module. The control module controls the voltage generation apparatus to change a signal provided to the LED light string to a first voltage level according to a first logic of a light command, and to change the signal to a second to a second voltage level according to a second logic of the light command. The control module controls the voltage generation apparatus to change the signal to a distinction voltage once first logics and/or second logics of the light command appear consecutively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11617241
    Abstract: A pixel-controlled LED light includes a plurality of LED modules and a controller. Each LED module includes at least one LED and a LED drive apparatus. The LED drive apparatus burns an ordinal number according to connection sequence thereof. The controller defines the ordinal number of the LED module as a target number, and sequentially transmits a plurality of light mode data whose number is greater than or equal to the target number to each of the LED modules. Each of the LED drive apparatuses sequentially receives each of the light mode data and counts sequence of the light mode data. If the sequence of the light mode data is equal to the ordinal number of the LED drive apparatus, the LED drive apparatuses identify the light mode data, and after identifying the light mode data, the LED drive apparatuses control the corresponding at least one LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11578844
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) light string control system with carrier identification function includes a control module, a power capacitor, and an LED light string. The control module converts a DC voltage to carry signals on the DC voltage through a power switch according to a lighting command. The power capacitor performs a capacitive charge-discharge operation to the signals on the DC voltage to generate capacitive charge-discharge signals. The LED light string includes at least one LED module, and the at least one LED module identifies that a charge-discharge characteristic is a first logic, a second logic, or a latch indication, and to generate a drive command corresponding to the signals on the DC voltage according to one of the first logic, the second logic, and the latch identification to control lighting behavior of the LED light string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11570866
    Abstract: A pixel-controlled LED light includes a plurality of LED modules and a controller. Each LED module includes at least one LED and a LED drive apparatus. The LED drive apparatus burns an ordinal number according to connection sequence thereof. The controller defines the ordinal number of the LED module as a target number, and sequentially transmits a plurality of light data whose number is greater than or equal to the target number to each of the LED modules. Each of the LED drive apparatuses sequentially receives each of the light data and counts sequence of the light data. If the sequence of the light data is equal to the ordinal number of the LED drive apparatus, the LED drive apparatuses identify the light data, and after identifying the light data, the LED drive apparatuses control the corresponding at least one LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11546981
    Abstract: A method of automatically sequencing an LED light string. The LED light string includes a plurality of LED modules. The method includes steps of: (a) building a start reference time before the LED modules start to operate, (b) generating a plurality of time difference values from the start reference time when a working voltage of each of the LED modules rises to an identification voltage after the LED modules operate, (c) determining the sequence of the LED modules according to the time difference values to achieve an automatic sequencing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11432391
    Abstract: A light emitting diode system includes at least one light emitting diode and a light emitting diode driving apparatus. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a burning signal detector, a burning controller, a memory and a light emitting diode circuit. The burning signal detector includes an optical element, a signal trimmer and a signal detector. The burning signal detector wirelessly receives a wireless signal. The burning signal detector converts the wireless signal into a local stored signal. The burning signal detector transmits the local stored signal to the burning controller. The burning controller burns the local stored signal into the memory, so that the memory stores a local data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11297699
    Abstract: An LED module with sleep mode includes a detection circuit, a driver circuit, and at least one LED. A control unit of the driver circuit receives and stores a lighting command according to a lighting drive signal, and controls lighting behaviors of the at least one LED according to the lighting command. When the driver circuit detects that the voltage of the lighting drive signal decreases below a first threshold value, the driver circuit performs signal identifications of the lighting drive signal. When the driver circuit detects that the voltage of the lighting drive signal decreases below a second threshold value through a second detection signal provided by the detection circuit, the driver circuit enters a sleep mode from a working mode, and minimizes the discharge speed of the lighting drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11085620
    Abstract: A carry-signal controlled LED light with low power consumption includes at least one LED and a drive unit. The drive unit is coupled to the at least one LED, and receives a carry light signal to control the at least one LED. The drive unit includes a light control unit. The light control unit drives the at least one LED according to a light command content of the carry light signal. When a voltage of the carry light signal is less than a low-level voltage, the light control unit enters an eco mode, and the light control unit detects and identifies signals within a time interval. After the time interval, the light control unit enters a sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Semisilicon Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 11019695
    Abstract: A method of sequencing an LED light string includes steps of: (a) using a control module to provide a pulse signal to an LED light string having a plurality of LED lights, (b) obtaining an LED light with a current sequence characteristic of the LED light string at a first rising edge or a first falling edge of the pulse signal, (c) self memorizing, by the LED light, as a current sequence, and changing a self state of the LED light so that the current sequence characteristic is no longer generated, and (d) repeating to perform step (b) and (c) at next rising edge or next falling edge of the pulse signal so as to obtain the sequence of the LED lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10973099
    Abstract: A carry-signal controlled LED light with fast discharge includes at least one LED and a drive unit. The drive unit includes a signal detector, a fast discharge unit, a light control unit, and a capacitor. The signal detector receives the carry light signal and provides a discharging control signal according to the carry light signal. The fast discharge unit receives the discharging control signal and controls a voltage of the carry light signal to be fast lower than a low-level voltage. The light control unit drives the light behavior of the at least one LED according to light command content of the carry light signal. The capacitor receives a DC power source to be charged and provides the required work power to the LED light when the fast discharge unit fast discharges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10932348
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp includes a light emitting diode driving apparatus and at least one light emitting diode. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a radio frequency identification tag, an address burning controller, an address memory and a light emitting diode driving circuit. The radio frequency identification tag wirelessly receives a radio frequency identification signal. The radio frequency identification tag converts the radio frequency identification signal into a local address signal. The radio frequency identification tag sends the local address signal to the address burning controller. The address burning controller converts the local address signal into a local address data. The address burning controller burns the local address data into the address memory so the address memory stores the local address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10874010
    Abstract: A pixel-controlled LED light includes a plurality of LED modules and a controller. Each LED module includes at least one LED and a LED drive apparatus. The LED drive apparatus burns a counting ordinal number according to connection sequence thereof. The controller defines the counting ordinal number of the LED modules which need to be changed their light modes as a target value, and sequentially transmits light mode data whose number is greater than or equal to the target value to each of the LED modules. The LED drive apparatuses sequentially receive the light mode data for counting. If the sequence of the light mode data meets to the counting ordinal number of the LED drive apparatus, the LED drive apparatuses identify the light mode data that are met, and after identifying the light mode data, the LED drive apparatuses control the corresponding at least one LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10791604
    Abstract: A cascading LED lights with low power consumption includes a master light string and at least one slave light string. The master light string receives a carry light signal to control LED modules. The at least one slave light string cascades the master light string. A signal intensifier of the slave light string enhances the carry light signal to drive the LED modules. When a voltage of the carry light signal is less than a low-level voltage, the LED modules enter a low-power-consumption mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10779379
    Abstract: A carrier-controlled LED light includes at least one LED and a drive unit. The drive unit is coupled to the at least one LED, and receives a carrier light signal to control the at least one LED to proceed to light. The drive unit includes a light control unit and a comparison unit. The light control unit drives a light action of the at least one LED according to a light command content of the carrier light signal. The comparison unit receives a DC working electricity and compares the DC working electricity with a reference voltage value. When a voltage value of the DC working electricity is less than the reference voltage value, the light control unit enters a sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Semisilicon Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng