Patents Assigned to Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11216407
    Abstract: A single communication interface between a master device and at least one slave device and a method with internal/external addressing mode using the single communication interface. In the single communication interface between a master device and at least one slave device, the master device includes a master interface and the slave device comprises a slave interface and a slave bus-system, whereas the slave interface is directly connected to the slave bus-system, wherein the master interface and the slave interface communicate on a packet based protocol by an internal and external addressing mode inside the slave interface, whereas the addressing mode, data transfer direction and data address location are coded by the packet based protocol inside a first 32-bit word of each transmission between the master device and slave device over the single communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Markus Krause, Martin Froehlich
  • Patent number: 11218858
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT UE. The object of the disclosure to find a method that prolongs the battery lifetime of IoT devices will be achieved by a method for predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT devices, the method comprising the following steps: estimating an expected number of repeated sub-frames required for a successful reception of a current encoded and in sub-frames rate-matched downlink transmission from a base station to an IoT device by applying a redundancy estimation function, using the estimated expected number of repeated sub-frames as input of a repetition reception control function, where a feedback-loop between the redundancy estimation function and the repetition reception control function is used for refining and adapting the predictive reception of physical layer downlink repetitions in NB-IoT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mathias Kurth, Chethan Venkatesan
  • Patent number: 11216647
    Abstract: Technology for devices, systems, techniques and processes to provide anti-spoofing features for facial identification with enhanced security against facial spoofing devices or technique by using optical sensing and other sensing mechanisms to explore certain unique characteristics of a face of a live person that lack in most spoofing devices made of artificial materials or are difficult to replicate, including optical sensing based on unique optical absorption or reflection features of biological parts of a person's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Bo Pi
  • Patent number: 11216543
    Abstract: A one-button power-on processing method and a terminal thereof are provided. The method includes: judging whether pressing a power button at a current time triggers one-button power-on of a terminal when it is detected that the power button is pressed at the current time; and sending the biometric feature data acquired by the biometric feature identification module to an operating system of the terminal for one-button power-on processing if pressing the power button at the current time triggers one-button power-on of the terminal. In this way, the terminal is powered on by a user by performing the press operation once. This enhances convenience, and effectively improves user experience of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liao, Bing Wang, Wenbin Sun, Xiaogang Qing
  • Patent number: 11210491
    Abstract: An optical fingerprint sensing module is configured to be disposed under a display screen that includes an array of LEDs. The optical fingerprint sensing module includes a light coupler disposed under the display screen, an array of light collimators coupled to the light coupler, a photodetector array, electronic circuitry coupled to the photodetector array, and a processor. The processor is configured to cause the electronic circuitry to capture a first frame while a first plurality of LEDs in the display screen are turned on and a second plurality of LEDs are turned off, and capture a second frame while the first plurality of LEDs are turned off and the second plurality of LEDs are turned on. The processor is further configured to construct a first fingerprint image and a second fingerprint image by combining the first frame and the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Bo Pi
  • Patent number: 11205412
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a hybrid adaptive active noise control unit (HAANCU) configured to provide an anti-noise signal to an ear speaker from a reference noise signal of a reference microphone and an error signal of an error microphone, a decimator configured to decimate the reference noise signal and error signal, an adaptive hybrid ANC training unit (AHANCTU) including at least one noise cancellation filter and a filter configured to provide a feedback signal to the at least one noise cancellation, which trains parameters of the AHANCTU based on the decimated reference noise signal, the decimated error signal, and the feedback signal. The apparatus further includes a rate conversion unit configured to up-sample the parameters and update the HAANCU with the up-sampled parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youhong Lu, Ching-Hua Yeh
  • Patent number: 11206019
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of touch technologies, and in particular, to a capacitance detection circuit, a capacitance detection method, a touch chip, and an electronic device. The capacitance detection circuit includes: a control module, a charge transfer module, a processing module, a drive module, and a cancellation module. The control module is configured to control the drive module to charge a capacitor to be detected. The cancellation module is configured to perform M times of charge cancellations on the capacitor to be detected. The charge transfer module is configured to convert a charge of the capacitor to be detected, subject to the M times of charge cancellations, to generate an output voltage. The processing module is configured to determine, according to the output voltage, a capacitance variation of the capacitor to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11206030
    Abstract: A transmitter circuit includes a phase locked loop circuit, having one or more operational characteristics indicative of an operating state of the phase locked loop circuit. The phase locked loop circuit is configured to generate a frequency signal. The transmitter circuit also includes a power amplifier configured to selectively drive an antenna with a drive signal according to the frequency signal, and a programmable delay circuit configured to controllably extend a propagation delay between the frequency signal and the drive signal of the power amplifier. The programmable delay circuit is programmed such that a first value of a particular operational characteristic of the phase locked loop circuit is substantially equal to a second value of the operational characteristic of the phase locked loop circuit. The first value is measured with the power amplifier not driving the antenna. The second value is measured with the power amplifier driving the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ahmed Emira, Faisal Hussien, Esmail Babakrpur Nalousi
  • Patent number: 11200400
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device applicable to an electronic device having a display screen, including: an optical function layer, disposed between the display screen and a middle frame of the electronic device, wherein the optical function layer includes a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer, and the polarizer is disposed under the quarter-wave plate; and an optical fingerprint module, disposed under the optical function layer, and configured to receive a fingerprint optical signal transmitted through the quarter-wave plate and the polarizer, wherein the fingerprint detecting signal is used for detecting fingerprint information of a finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengping Li, Canhong Du, Songjin Zhong
  • Patent number: 11194985
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for fingerprint detection, where the apparatus includes a sensor chip array and an MCU, the sensor chip array includes a first chip set in which chips multiplex a first signal line and a second chip set in which chips multiplex a second signal line, where the chips in the first chip set and the chips in the second chip set are alternately arranged in each row and each column, and the MCU is configured to: control one first chip in the first chip set to perform fingerprint detection on a finger on the display screen at a time; and/or, control one second chip in the second chip set to perform fingerprint detection on the finger at the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Xie, Jianyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11194988
    Abstract: Provided are an optical fingerprint apparatus and an electronic device, applied to an electronic device having a display screen, where the optical fingerprint apparatus is configured to be disposed under the display screen, and the optical fingerprint apparatus includes: an optical fingerprint chip, where the optical fingerprint chip is configured to receive a fingerprint light signal returned from a finger above the display screen, and the fingerprint light signal is used to obtain a fingerprint image of the finger; and a light blocking layer formed on an upper surface of an edge region of the optical fingerprint chip, where the light blocking layer partially blocks the edge region of the optical fingerprint chip and does not block a sensing region of the optical fingerprint chip, and the light blocking layer is configured to block interference light entering the sensing region from the edge region of the optical fingerprint chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weitian Xu, Shengbin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11194986
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection apparatus and a terminal device having a fingerprint identification function are disclosed. The terminal device includes: a glass cover, configured to provide a touch interface; a liquid crystal panel, located below the glass cover; a backlight module, located below the liquid crystal panel; and a light-emitting component, located below the glass cover, wherein the light-emitting component and the liquid crystal panel are staggered from each other, and the light-emitting component is configured to emit a light to illuminate the finger to generate a returned light, wherein the returned light is used for the terminal device to perform the fingerprint identification on the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunzhan Li, Wei Zhang, Xiaogang Qing
  • Patent number: 11194422
    Abstract: A method for preventing a misoperation on an edge of a touch screen includes: determining a first touch region according to touch operation on an edge of a touch screen; forming a second touch region according to coordinate information of touch points in the first touch region; forming a third touch region according to a longest column in the second touch region and a column on a left side of the longest column if the touch points in the second touch region are arranged as parallel to a right edge of the touch screen; judging whether a length-to-width ratio of the third touch region is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold; and determining that the touch operation is a misoperation if the length-to-width ratio is greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Zhang, Deng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11186258
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to vehicle technologies, and disclose a method and system for controlling a vehicle, and a fingerprint chip. The method comprises: collecting a fingerprint image of a user; authenticating the user according to the fingerprint image and acquiring identity information of the user after the authentication succeeds; acquiring a vehicle personalization parameter of the user according to the identity information of the user and setting up the vehicle according to the vehicle personalization parameter. The embodiments further provide a vehicle control system and a fingerprint chip. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can allow simple and quick personalized settings of a vehicle based on identity recognition, which can facilitate sharing a vehicle among family members in most cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Bing Wang, Wenbin Sun
  • Patent number: 11190351
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a key generation method applied to a chip storing an internal key, which includes: acquiring (101) a first and a second random number; generating (102) an initial private key of the chip according to the first random number and the internal key, and generating an update private key of the chip according to the second random number and the internal key; generating (103) an initial public key corresponding to the initial private key according to the initial private key, and generating an update public key corresponding to the update private key according to the update private key; and sending (104) the initial public key, the update public key, and the second random number to a server that sends the second random number to the chip when receiving a private key update request of the chip, to trigger a private key update of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Yan, Qingbin Li
  • Patent number: 11188486
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of a multi-chip system, and provides a master chip, a salve chip, and an inter-chip DMA transmission system. The master chip is connected to the slave chip through at least one first transmission channel (17) and a second transmission channel (18). The master chip includes a DMA controller (2) and an MCU (3). For each of the first transmission channels, when it is detected that any first transmission channel (17) is in an idle state, the MCU (3) configures one of a plurality of first peripherals (12) of the slave chip into a DMA mode. The DMA controller (2) is configured to receive, through the first transmission channel (17), a DMA request (req_s_0-req_s_N) generated by the first peripheral (12) in the DMA mode, and obtain a DMA data of the first peripheral (12) through the second transmission channel (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhibing Liang, Yifan Li, Zekai Chen
  • Patent number: 11190098
    Abstract: The present application discloses a voltage booster circuit and a related circuit, chip and wearable device. The voltage booster circuit has an output terminal, which provides an output voltage and a load current. The voltage booster circuit includes: a first charge pump, which provides a first bias current; a second charge pump, which provides the load current; an output voltage fixing circuit, which draws the first bias current from the first charge pump to the output terminal, wherein the output voltage fixing circuit fixes a first charge pump voltage of the first charge pump by fixing the first bias current and further fixes the output voltage based on the fixed first charge pump voltage; and a load current generation circuit, which draws the load current from the second charge pump to the output terminal based on a second charge pump voltage of the second charge pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-Chi Wang
  • Patent number: 11189261
    Abstract: An apparatus for canceling noise at an ear speaker includes a wideband active noise cancellation filter having a first bandwidth and configured to generate a wideband anti-noise signal from a received reference noise signal, a narrowband active noise cancellation filter having a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth and configured to generate a narrowband anti-noise signal from an error noise signal, a filter between the ear speaker and an error microphone and configured to generate a feedback noise signal, and a controller. The controller is configured to eliminate the error noise signal by modifying coefficients of the wideband active noise cancellation filter and the narrowband active noise cancellation filter in response to the wideband anti-noise signal, the narrowband anti-noise signal, and the feedback noise signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youhong Lu, Ching-Hua Yeh, Hsinmin Wang, Jian Mao
  • Patent number: 11190141
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using valley detection for supply voltage modulation in power amplifier circuits. Embodiments operate in context of a power amplifier circuit configured to be driven by a supply voltage generated by a supply modulator and to receive an amplitude-modulated (AM) signal at its input. The output of the power amplifier circuit can be fed to a valley detector that can detect a valley level corresponding to the bottom of the envelope of the AM signal. The detected valley level can be fed back to the supply modulator and compared to a constant reference. In response to the comparison, the supply modulator can vary the supply voltage to the power amplifier circuit in a manner that effectively tracking the envelope of the power amplifier circuit's output signal, thereby effectively seeking a flat valley for the output signal's envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ahmed Emira, Siavash Yazdi, Kaveh Moazzami
  • Patent number: 11188465
    Abstract: A cache memory is disclosed. The cache memory includes a plurality of ways, each way including an instruction memory portion, where the instruction memory portion includes a plurality of instruction memory locations configured to store instruction data encoding a plurality of CPU instructions. The cache memory also includes a controller configured to determine that each of a predetermined number of cache memory hit conditions have occurred, and a replacement policy circuit configured to identify one of the plurality of ways as having experienced a fewest quantity of hits of the predetermined number of cache memory hit conditions, where the controller is further configured to determine that a cache memory miss condition has occurred, and, in response to the miss condition, to cause instruction data retrieved from a RAM memory to be written to the instruction memory portion of the way identified by the replacement policy circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bassam S Kamand