Patents Assigned to Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11507647
    Abstract: The fingerprint-based login method includes: waking up an operating system of a terminal device where a fingerprint sensor is disposed based on a detected non-press-type touch operation against the fingerprint sensor; controlling the fingerprint sensor to acquire fingerprint data based on a fingerprint data acquisition instruction sent by the waken-up operating system; storing the acquired fingerprint data to a designated security region in the terminal device by the waken-up operating system; and judging whether the fingerprint data stored in the designated security region matches fingerprint password data by the waken-up operating system upon detecting a press-type touch operation against the fingerprint sensor, such that a login operation is performed in the operating system if the stored fingerprint data matches the fingerprint password data, the problem that the fingerprint modules using the conventional MCUs failing to satisfy the requirements may not implement the system login function is effectively s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Li, Bing Wang, Wenbin Sun
  • Patent number: 11504065
    Abstract: A signal conversion circuit, a heart rate sensor, and an electronic device are provided, and the signal conversion circuit includes: a photoelectric conversion circuit, configured to convert an optical signal into a current signal; a differential signal conversion circuit, connected to the photoelectric conversion circuit, and configured to convert the current signal into a first differential signal and a second differential signal, where the first differential signal is an integration signal of the current signal in a first phase, and the second differential signal is an integration signal of the current signal in a second phase; and a subtraction amplifier, connected to the differential signal conversion circuit, and configured to amplify a difference value between the first differential signal and the second differential signal, to generate a third differential signal. The signal conversion circuit of embodiments of the present disclosure can effectively suppress ambient interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mengwen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11509847
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image sensing system (10), including a first pixel circuit (120), wherein the first pixel circuit includes a photosensitive device (PD); a first transmission gate (TG1), under the control of a first transmission signal and conducted during a first conduction time interval; and a collection gate (CG), coupled between the photosensitive device and the transmission gate and configured to receive a collecting signal (CX); and a control unit (14), configured to generate the collecting signal to the collection gate, wherein the collecting signal has a non-fixed voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Meng-Ta Yang
  • Patent number: 11501555
    Abstract: Provided are an under-screen biometric identification apparatus and an electronic device. The under-screen biometric identification apparatus includes: a lens disposed under a display screen for receiving an optical signal formed by reflection of a human finger on the display screen, where the optical signal is used to detect biometric information of the finger; a lens barrel, where the lens is fixed in the lens barrel; and a support, where the support is connected to the lens barrel by means of threaded connection for supporting the lens barrel. An under-screen biometric identification apparatus and an electronic device provided in embodiments of the present application can improve the efficiency of under-screen biometric identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Jiang, Zhongbo Luo, Zhiming Hou, Jun Cai
  • Publication number: 20220351541
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification method, includes: collecting a first fingerprint image according to a sampling parameter; determining a collection environment of the first fingerprint image according to the first fingerprint image and a pre-stored reference image, wherein the reference image is a fingerprint image obtained under a reference light environment; processing the first fingerprint image according to a processing parameter corresponding to the collection environment; and performing fingerprint identification according to the processed first fingerprint image. By pre-storing the reference image, the present application can quickly judge the collection environment of the fingerprint by collecting only one fingerprint image, which saves time for collecting the fingerprint image and judging the collection environment, and improves the identification efficiency of the fingerprint effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luming ZHOU, Siqiu CHENG
  • Patent number: 11486955
    Abstract: A test system is provided. The system includes a first test apparatus and a second test apparatus. A device power supply of the first test apparatus (ATE) is electrically connected with a device under test (DUT) through a driving branch (F) and a detecting branch (S), the driving branch (F) being configured to provide an original driving current to the DUT b the device power supply during testing, and the detecting branch (S) being configured to detect an effective driving current reaching the DUT. The second test apparatus includes a first voltage drop branch, the first voltage drop branch is connected to the detecting branch (S), and a voltage drop detected by the driving branch (F) is used to determine an effectiveness of an electrical connection formed between the driving branch and the device under test, and an electrical connection formed between the detecting branch (S) and the DUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tianya Tong, Danyu Shen, Haihong Song
  • Patent number: 11486749
    Abstract: The application discloses a time-of-flight generating circuit, coupled to a first transducer and a second transducer, wherein there is a distance greater than zero between the first transducer and the second transducer, and a fluid having a flow speed flows sequentially through the first transducer and the second transducer, wherein the time-of-flight generating circuit includes: a transmitter, coupled to the first transducer; a receiver, coupled to the second transducer; a signal processing circuit, coupled to the transmitter and the receiver; and a correlation circuit, a measuring circuit and a transformation circuit, coupled to the signal processing circuit. The application also discloses a chip, flow meter, and method of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yen-Yin Huang
  • Patent number: 11482969
    Abstract: Disclosed are a crystal oscillator, a chip, and an electronic device. The crystal oscillator includes: an oscillating circuit, including: a crystal, an amplification circuit, a first load capacitor, and a second load capacitor, where the first load capacitor and the second load capacitor are respectively connected to a first terminal and a second terminal of the crystal; and a first Miller multiplication circuit, where an input terminal and an output terminal of the first Miller multiplication circuit are respectively connected to two terminals of the first load capacitor, and the first Miller multiplication circuit is configured to increase a first load capacitance of the oscillating circuit, where the first load capacitance is a capacitance between the first terminal of the crystal and the ground. According to this technical solution, an area occupied by the load capacitor as well as circuit costs can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mengwen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11481072
    Abstract: Provided is a capacitance detection circuit, which has better detection performance. The capacitance detection circuit includes: a first charging and discharging circuit configured to perform charging or discharging on a capacitor to be detected; a second charging and discharging circuit configured to perform charging or discharging on a calibration capacitor; an analog-to-digital conversion circuit configured to continuously sample a voltage difference between the capacitor to be detected and the calibration capacitor in a charging or discharging process to obtain sampled data; and a digital processing circuit configured to detect a capacitance of the capacitor to be detected according to the sampled data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuo Fan
  • Patent number: 11483052
    Abstract: A receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes one or more antennas receiving signals from a transmitter including one or more antennas, and at least one RF chain generating digital samples based on the received signals. Either A) the signals are transmitted by a single antenna of the transmitter and are received by multiple antennas of the receiver, or B) the signals are transmitted by multiple antennas of the transmitter and are received by a single antenna of the receiver. The receiver also includes a controller determining a plurality of groups of digital samples to use for calculating estimates of an AoA or AoD of the received signals, calculate estimates of AoA or AoD based on the groups of digital samples, select a subset of the estimates, and calculate a measured AoA or AoD based on the selected subset of estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ranjbar, Amir Dezfooliyan, Waleed Younis
  • Patent number: 11483510
    Abstract: Techniques are described for implementing read-out architectures to support high-speed serialized read-out of a large number of digital bit values, such as for high-resolution pixel conversions in CMOS image sensor applications. For example, outputs from a large number of digital data sources (e.g., counters) are coupled with transmission gates of the read-out architecture, and the transmission gates are sequentially enabled, thereby shifting in bit data from the data sources one at a time. The transmission gates are grouped into gate groups. For each gate group, embodiments seek balance total path delay across the gate groups by controlling clock and data path delays to be inversely related, and ensuring that total path delays for all gate groups are within a single clock period. Some embodiments include a partitioned bus for further gate group-level control over the path delay and data bus capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohamed Elsayed, Scott D Willingham
  • Patent number: 11474636
    Abstract: The present application provides a synchronization method. The method includes: transmitting, by a first wireless communication chip of the electronic device, a synchronization signal to a second wireless communication chip of the active pen and simultaneously transmitting a first indication signal to a touch control chip of the touch screen; where the first indication signal is used to instruct the touch control chip to detect a driving signal transmitted by the active pen after from reception of the first indication signal, the second wireless communication chip is further configured to transmit a second indication signal to a driving chip of the active pen while receiving the synchronization signal, the second indication signal is used to instruct the driving chip to transmit the driving signal after from reception of the second indication signal, the second preset duration is less than the first preset duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianpeng Chen, Hai Li, Jintao Liu
  • Patent number: 11475706
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint identification device, a fingerprint identification method and an electronic device, which could improve security of fingerprint identification. The fingerprint identification device includes an optical fingerprint sensor including a plurality of pixel units; at least two filter units disposed above at least two of the plurality of pixel units, where each filter unit corresponds to one pixel unit, and the at least two filter units comprise filter units in at least two colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunzhan Li, Xiang Cheng, Qin Gu, Yonghui Wu
  • Patent number: 11467966
    Abstract: A cache memory is disclosed. The cache memory includes an instruction memory portion, a tag memory portion, and one or more peripheral circuits configured to receive a CPU address corresponding with an address of the RAM memory storing a particular CPU instruction. The one or more peripheral circuits are configured to receive a way quantity indication indicating of a number of ways into which the instruction memory portion and the tag memory portion are to be subdivided, the one or more peripheral circuits are configured to identify which bits of the CPU address form the tag portion based on the way quantity indication, and the one or more peripheral circuits are configured to determine whether the particular CPU instruction is stored in the cache memory based on the identified tag portion of the CPU address and tag data stored in the cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bassam S Kamand
  • Patent number: 11470270
    Abstract: Techniques are described for efficient staggered high-dynamic-range (HDR) output of an image captured using a high-pixel-count image sensor based on pixel binning followed by luminance-guided upsampling. For example, an image sensor array is configured according to a red-green-blue-luminance (RGBL) CFA pattern, such that at least 50-percent of the imaging pixels of the array are luminance (L) pixels. In each image capture time window, multiple (e.g., three) luminance-enhanced (LE) component images are generated. Each LE component image is generated by exposing the image sensor to incident illumination for a respective amount of time, using pixel binning during readout to generate appreciably downsampled color and luminance capture frames, generating an upsampled luminance guide frame from the luminance capture frame, and using the upsampled luminance guide frame to guide upsampling (e.g., and remosaicking) of the color capture frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Powell, Jinwen Xiao
  • Patent number: 11469168
    Abstract: A capacitor includes at least one multi-wing structure; a laminated structure, where the laminated structure clads the at least one multi-wing structure and includes at least one dielectric layer and a plurality of conductive layers, and the at least one dielectric layer and the plurality of conductive layers form a structure that a conductive layer and a dielectric layer are adjacent to each other; at least one first external electrode, where the first external electrode is electrically connected to some conductive layer(s) in the plurality of conductive layers; at least one second external electrode, wherein the second external electrode is electrically connected to the other conductive layer(s) in the plurality of conductive layers, and a conductive layer in the laminated structure adjacent to each conductive layer in the some conductive layer(s) includes at least one conductive layer in the other conductive layer(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Lu, Jian Shen
  • Patent number: 11470272
    Abstract: Techniques are described for sampled bandgap reference generation for CMOS image sensor (CIS) applications. For example, the CIS includes a pixel array, one or more pixel analog to digital converters (ADCs), and a sampled bandgap reference generator, all integrated in close proximity on a chip. The ADCs rely on stable reference levels from the bandgap reference generator for performing pixel conversions for the pixel array. Embodiments of the sampled bandgap reference generator can operate according to reference generation cycles. Each cycle can include a first portion, in which an active core dynamically stabilizes the bandgap reference level; and a second portion, in which the core is deactivated, and the bandgap reference level is output based on a sampled level obtained during the preceding first portion of the cycle. The cycle timing can be controlled to achieve sufficient dynamic stabilization of the reference levels, while mitigating photon emissions from the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwen Xiao, Scott D Willingham
  • Publication number: 20220319226
    Abstract: A method for fingerprint detection, which may more easily reduce an influence of a brightness change of a display screen on the fingerprint detection and improve performance of the fingerprint detection. The method for the fingerprint detection includes: receiving a synchronization signal of a display screen, the synchronization signal being configured to trigger a pixel array of a fingerprint sensor to expose, where a period of the synchronization signal is synchronized with a dimming period of the display screen, and the dimming period includes a bright period and a dark period; exposing each row of pixels in the pixel array in sequence based on triggering of the synchronization signal, so that a position of the pixel whose exposure time corresponding to the dark period in the pixel array is constant, where data of each row of the pixels after exposure is configured to obtain a fingerprint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaogang QING
  • Patent number: 11462609
    Abstract: A capacitor includes: at least one multi-wing structure including N axes and M wings, where the N axes extend along a first direction, and the M wings are a convex structure formed by extending from side walls of the N axes toward a direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first wing of the M wings and the N axes are formed of a first conductive material, and other wings are formed of a second conductive material; a conductive structure cladding the multi-wing structure; a dielectric layer disposed between the multi-wing structure and the conductive structure to isolate the multi-wing structure from the conductive structure; a first external electrode electrically connected to some or all multi-wing structures; and a second external electrode electrically connected to the conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Lu, Jian Shen
  • Patent number: 11462490
    Abstract: A security chip includes: a first medium layer; a second medium layer disposed on the first medium layer, where the first medium layer is an optically denser medium relative to the second medium layer, and a roughness of an upper surface of the first medium layer is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, so that light entering the second medium layer from the first medium layer is able to be totally reflected and/or scattered; and a semiconductor chip disposed on the second medium layer. Based on the above technical solution, light incident from a lower surface of the first medium layer is able to be totally reflected or scattered by the upper surface of the first medium layer, so that most of light cannot reach a logic or storage area on the front of the security chip, thereby achieving the purpose of resisting a laser attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Lu, Jian Shen