Patents Assigned to Semisilicon Technology Corp.
  • Patent number: 10561005
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp string system with a sequencing function includes a light emitting diode driving apparatus and a light emitting diode lamp string. In a predetermined sequence testing mode, the light emitting diode driving apparatus sequentially sends a plurality of predetermined sequence testing signals to the light emitting diode lamp string to find out the damaged light emitting diode lamp. In an extended sequence testing mode, the light emitting diode driving apparatus respectively sends a plurality of extended sequence testing signals to the light emitting diode lamp string to find out the new light emitting diode lamp. A sequencing method performs a predetermined sequence testing mode to detect a failure address code, and performs an extended sequence testing mode to detect a replacement address code, and replaces the failure address code with the replacement address code in a testing sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10462866
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp receiving a contactless burning signal includes at least a light emitting diode and a light emitting diode driving apparatus. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a burning signal detector, an address burning controller, an address memory and a light emitting diode driving circuit. The burning signal detector wirelessly receives a wireless address signal from outside. The burning signal detector converts the wireless address signal into a local address signal. The burning signal detector transmits the local address signal to the address burning controller. The address burning controller burns the local address signal into the address memory, so that the address memory stores a local address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10433383
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a control unit, a switch control circuit, a signal switch unit and a control power unit. The control power unit, the signal switch unit and a plurality of light emitting diode units are connected in series. The control power unit supplies power to the control unit. The control unit controls the switch control circuit to turn on the signal switch unit, so that a direct current power is through the signal switch unit to form a high-level part of a lighting signal for driving the light emitting diode units. The control unit controls the switch control circuit to turn off the signal switch unit, so that a low-level part of the lighting signal is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Semisilicon Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10231303
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp receiving a contactless burning signal includes at least a light emitting diode and a light emitting diode driving apparatus. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a burning signal detector, an address burning controller, an address memory and a light emitting diode driving circuit. The burning signal detector wirelessly receives a wireless address signal from outside. The burning signal detector converts the wireless address signal into a local address signal. The burning signal detector transmits the local address signal to the address burning controller. The address burning controller burns the local address signal into the address memory, so that the address memory stores a local address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10187935
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp with a burnable function includes a light emitting diode and a light emitting diode driving apparatus. The light emitting diode driving apparatus receives a burn start signal and a burn address data sent through a first contact. The light emitting diode driving apparatus burns the burn address data as a local address data into the light emitting diode driving apparatus after the light emitting diode driving apparatus receives the burn start signal. A first signal is a plurality of pulse signals, and comprises a lighting data and an address data. The light emitting diode driving apparatus compares the address data with the local address data, and drives the light emitting diode to light, glimmer or flash colorfully or sparklingly, or light fade-in and fade-out, based on the lighting data if the address data is the same with the local address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10123383
    Abstract: A signal-adjusting module applied to a light emitting diode driving apparatus includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a switch-control unit, and a switch. The switch-control unit is electrically connected to the input terminal for receiving an illuminant-control signal, and the switch is electrically connected to the input terminal, the output terminal, and the switch-control unit. The switch-control unit is configured to turn on the switch when a level of the illuminant-control signal reaches a first threshold level and turn off the switch when the level of the illuminant-control signal reaches a second threshold level, thus a transition time of the illuminant-control signal transits from an upper limit level to a lower limit level is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 10039164
    Abstract: A sequencing method is applied to a light-emitting diode lamp string. The light-emitting diode lamp string includes a plurality of light-emitting diode units connected to each other in series. The light-emitting diode units have different parasitic capacitive reactance and resistance-capacitance time constant after being connected to each other in series. The sequencing method includes following steps. An address pulse wave signal is sent to the light-emitting diode units. A clamped voltage is sent to the light-emitting diode units when a voltage of the address pulse wave signal decreases. The light-emitting diode unit in a receiving status detects a receiving voltage of the light-emitting diode unit. The light-emitting diode unit detecting that the receiving voltage is less than a predetermined voltage due to an overshoot phenomenon stores the address pulse wave signal to have an address sequence data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9939117
    Abstract: A light emitting diode system includes a light emitting diode lamp string, a signal voltage unit and a control unit. The light emitting diode lamp string includes a plurality of light emitting diode units. The control unit drives the signal voltage unit to adjust a voltage of the light emitting diode lamp string continuously and repeatedly so the voltage of the light emitting diode lamp string is a predetermined voltage, to form a light signal comprising a plurality of pulse waves to send the light signal to the light emitting diode lamp string. When each of the light emitting diode units receives the light signal, each of the light emitting diode units performs a conversion and a decoding for the light signal to obtain a lighting mode of the light signal, and then each of the light emitting diode units lights based on the lighting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9930734
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp with a burnable function includes at least a light emitting diode and a light emitting diode driving apparatus with the burnable function. The light emitting diode driving apparatus is electrically connected to the light emitting diode. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a positive contact and a negative contact. The light emitting diode driving apparatus receives a burn start signal sent through the positive contact and a burn address data sent through the positive contact. The light emitting diode driving apparatus is configured to burn the burn address data into the light emitting diode driving apparatus after the light emitting diode driving apparatus receives the burn start signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9881546
    Abstract: A two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string system includes a controller, data capture converters, power lines and two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string sets. The controller sends a picture signal to the data capture converters. Each of the number-setting circuits sets a number of the data capture converter. According to the number, the data capture converter captures a captured part of the picture signal. The data capture converter converts the captured part of the picture signal to obtain a light signal. The data capture converter sends the light signal through the power line to the two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string set that the two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string set is in accordance with and electrically connected to the data capture converter, to drive the two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string set to light. Each of the two-pin LED pixel-controlled light string sets lighting together forms a picture representing the picture signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Semisilicon Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9807832
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving system includes a control unit, an output side switch unit, the fast voltage-adjusting circuit and a light signal voltage generation circuit. When the control unit does not turn on the output side switch unit, the control unit controls the fast voltage-adjusting circuit to process an output voltage, and the light signal voltage generation circuit combines the fast voltage-adjusting circuit to clamp the output voltage to meet a predetermined value. When the output voltage is processed to meet the predetermined value, the control unit turns on the output side switch unit so the output voltage recovers and a light driving signal is generated. According to the light driving signal, a plurality of two-pin point-controlled light emitting diode lamps is operated in a lighting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9648708
    Abstract: A light sensing sequence recording apparatus includes a plurality of light sensing components and a light sensing sequence recording unit. The light sensing sequence recording unit is electrically connected to the light sensing components. Each of the light sensing components sends a light sensing signal to the light sensing sequence recording unit respectively at different times. The light sensing sequence recording unit records a light sensing sequence that the light sensing sequence recording unit receives the light sensing signals sent by each of the light sensing components respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9585217
    Abstract: A rectifier rectifies an alternating current power to obtain a direct current power. The rectifier sends the direct current power to a driving power and carrier signal generation apparatus. The driving power and carrier signal generation apparatus generates a driving power. The driving power and carrier signal generation apparatus sends the driving power through a transmission line to at least a light emitting diode driving apparatus to drive at least a light emitting diode. The driving power and carrier signal generation apparatus generates a carrier signal. The driving power and carrier signal generation apparatus sends the carrier signal through the transmission line to the light emitting diode driving apparatuses. The light emitting diode driving apparatuses drive the light emitting diodes according to the carrier signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9572214
    Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp string driving system includes a plurality of light emitting diode driving apparatuses and a plurality of light emitting diode lamp strings. The light emitting diode lamp string includes a plurality of light emitting diodes. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a switch unit, a control unit and a voltage level generating unit. An anode of a last of the light emitting diodes of the light emitting diode lamp string connected to a first of the light emitting diode driving apparatuses is connected to the control unit of a second of the light emitting diode driving apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9510409
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving system is applied to a light emitting diode lamp string, such that the light signal is carried through a power line to reduce the signal transmission lines. The light emitting diode driving system includes a switch unit, a control unit and a light signal generating unit. The switch unit includes a power input side, a power output side and a controlled side. The power output side is electrically connected to the light emitting diode lamp string. The control unit is electrically connected to the switch unit. The light signal generating unit is electrically connected to the control unit and the power output side. The light signal generating unit generates a light signal when the control unit turns off the switch unit. The light signal generating unit sends the light signal to the light emitting diode lamp string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9497809
    Abstract: A light emitting diode system includes a first light emitting diode apparatus and a second light emitting diode apparatus. The first light emitting diode apparatus includes an alternating-current-to-direct-current and light-controlling unit, a plurality of first light emitting diode modules and a first connector. The second light emitting diode apparatus includes a second connector, a signal-converting unit and a plurality of second light emitting diode modules. The first light emitting diode apparatus outputs a drive direct current power and a light-controlling signal to the signal-converting unit through the first connector and the second connector. Therefore, the signal-converting unit is configured to control colors and intensities of the second light emitting diode modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9380662
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving system is applied to a light emitting diode lamp string, such that the light signal is carried through a power line to reduce the signal transmission lines. The light emitting diode driving system includes a switch unit, a control unit and a light signal generating unit. The switch unit includes a power input side, a power output side and a controlled side. The power output side is electrically connected to the light emitting diode lamp string. The control unit is electrically connected to the switch unit. The light signal generating unit is electrically connected to the control unit and the power output side. The light signal generating unit generates a light signal when the control unit turns off the switch unit. The light signal generating unit sends the light signal to the light emitting diode lamp string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9345077
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a first light emitting diode driving unit and a second light emitting diode driving unit. The first light emitting diode driving unit includes a plurality of first light emitting diode driving subunits in series. The second light emitting diode driving unit includes a plurality of second light emitting diode driving subunits in series. The first light emitting diode driving unit and the second light emitting diode driving unit are electrically connected in parallel to receive a direct current power. A light signal is transmitted between the first light emitting diode driving unit and the second light emitting diode driving unit in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Semisilicon Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9320096
    Abstract: A light emitting diode system includes a first light emitting diode apparatus and a second light emitting diode apparatus. The first light emitting diode apparatus includes an alternating-current-to-direct-current and light-controlling unit, a plurality of first light emitting diode modules and a first connector. The second light emitting diode apparatus includes a second connector, a signal-converting unit and a plurality of second light emitting diode modules. The first light emitting diode apparatus outputs a drive direct current power and a light-controlling signal to the signal-converting unit through the first connector and the second connector. Therefore, the signal-converting unit is configured to control colors and intensities of the second light emitting diode modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 9173259
    Abstract: A light emitting diode driving system includes a plurality of light emitting diode driving apparatuses and a transmission line. The transmission line is electrically connected to the light emitting diode driving apparatuses. The light emitting diode driving apparatus includes a voltage regulator, a synchronous signal generation circuit and a synchronous control logic circuit. The voltage regulator sends a first voltage to the synchronous signal generation circuit. The synchronous signal generation circuit generates a second voltage after the synchronous signal generation circuit receives the first voltage. The synchronous signal generation circuit subtracts the second voltage from the first voltage to obtain a synchronous signal. The synchronous signal generation circuit sends the synchronous signal to the synchronous control logic circuit. The light emitting diode driving apparatuses drive the light emitting diodes synchronously according to the synchronous signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SEMISILICON TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Peng