Patents Assigned to Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
  • Patent number: 11515817
    Abstract: A voice coil motor driving device and a method for providing control signals of the same are provided. The voice coil motor driving device includes a control module, a current driving module, and an input module. The current driving module outputs a plurality of digital current signals according to a driving signal, each of the plurality of digital current signals includes a plurality of current unit signals, and each of the plurality of digital current signals is arranged in a first time period, each of the plurality of digital current signals includes a plurality of reverse current unit signals, and the plurality of reverse current unit signals are arranged in a second time period, which is at a beginning of the first time period, or arranged in a third time period, which is at the end of the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 11467432
    Abstract: A multifunctional eyeglass device includes a control module, a lens group, a power supply module, a storage module, a communication module, and a frame. The lens group includes a first lens module and a second lens module, the first lens module includes a first liquid crystal lens unit and a first display unit, and the second lens module includes a second liquid crystal lens unit and a second display unit. The control module is electrically connected to the first and second lens module of the lens group, the power supply module, the storage module, and the communication module. The first and second liquid crystal lens units are adjusted in focal length according to at least one power source. The control module receives data via the communication module, and the data is displayed by the first and second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 11442331
    Abstract: A mobile communication apparatus, an optical assembly, and an aperture module thereof are provided. The aperture module includes a first liquid crystal (LC) aperture unit and a second LC aperture unit. The first LC aperture unit includes a first LC layer and two first transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the first LC layer. At least one of the first transparent electrode layers has a first opening. The second LC aperture unit includes a second LC layer and two second transparent electrode layers disposed on two sides of the second LC layer. At least one of the second transparent electrode layers has a second opening having a central axis overlapped with that of the first opening. The aperture module is configured to control each of the first switch region and the second switch region to be at a light permeable state or a light shield state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 10796630
    Abstract: A light emitting diode display system includes a first LED display module, a second LED display module, a control module, and a first driving module. The first LED display module includes a plurality of LED units for displaying an image. The first driving module is electrically connected to the control module and the first LED display module. The control module provides a plurality of control signals corresponding to the image to the first driving module for driving the LED units of the first LED display module, and displaying the image on the second LED display module. The image of the first light emitting diode display module is determined by a user according to the image displayed on the second light emitting diode display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen, Tao-Lun Darren Chin
  • Patent number: 10778958
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image capturing module includes a lens set, a light-filtering element, an image sensing unit and an image processing unit electrically connected with the image sensing unit. The lens set and the light-filtering element are disposed on the same side of the image sensing unit. The light-filtering element includes a substrate and a covering layer disposed thereon. The covering layer includes a first light-permeable section and a second light-permeable section. A first light beam having a first spectrum and a second light beam having a second spectrum pass through the first and second light-permeable sections, respectively, and are received by the image sensing unit, so the image sensing unit obtains a first image signal and a second image signal. The first and second spectrums are different from each other. The first and second image signals are processed by the image processing unit to form stereoscopic image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 10606136
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a variable focal length liquid crystal lens assembly and structure thereof. The liquid crystal lens structure includes a first electrode set, a second electrode set and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second electrode sets. The second electrode set includes first and second electrode structures, the first electrode structure including a first transparent insulating layer and a first electrode layer disposed on the first transparent insulating layer, the second electrode structure including a second transparent insulating layer and a second electrode layer disposed on the second transparent insulating layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first conductive lines and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second conductive lines. The first and the second conductive lines are separated from each other and are arranged alternately for providing a matrix electric field to the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 10515582
    Abstract: An LED driving circuit is provided in the present disclosure for driving an LED matrix module. The LED matrix module includes a plurality of LED units. The LED driving circuit includes a control module, a first driving module and a switch module. The first driving module is used for driving at least one column of the LED matrix module according to a first driving signal provided by the control module. The switch module is electrically connected to the control module for receiving a second driving signal from the control module to drive the at least one row of the LED units of the LED matrix module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 10510288
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dot correction method for a LED display device. The LED display device has a plurality of LED units arranged in an array. The method comprises providing driving currents to the plurality of LED units in columns or rows of the LED display device to make the LED units emit light; obtaining non-uniform brightness information corresponding to the LED units in columns or rows of the LED display device; and adjusting the driving current provided to each LED unit according to the non-uniform brightness information, in order to make the brightness of each LED unit be the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 10448475
    Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a light emitting diode module includes: a control module; a driving module electrically connected to the control module and the light emitting diode module for providing a plurality of driving signals to drive the light emitting diode module; and a detecting module electrically connected to the light emitting diode and the control module, the detecting module detecting a voltage or a current of the light emitting diode module and transmitting a detecting signal corresponding to the voltage or the current of the light emitting diode module to the control module. The control module adjusts a waveform of at least one driving signal of the driving signals for driving the light emitting diode module to illuminate uniformly at a driving time interval of the at least one driving signal of the driving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 10444594
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a multi-function lens device including a liquid crystal lens unit and a controller. Two liquid crystal lens structures of the liquid crystal lens unit respectively have a first matrix electric field and a second matrix electric field, and different electric field areas of the first and second matrix electric fields cooperate with each other according to a predetermined operation mode provided by the controller for generating at least two divisional scenes on a display screen of the multi-function lens device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Patent number: 10262611
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a display device. The displaying device comprises a display panel, at least one scan driving unit and a data driving unit. The display panel is divided into display regions respectively having pixel sets. At least one scan driving unit having scanning lines couples to the pixel sets. The at least one scan driving unit outputs scanning signals to corresponding display regions upon receiving a first control signal. The data driving unit outputs data signals to the corresponding display regions upon receiving a second control signal. In response to respectively receiving the first or second control signals, the scan driving unit outputs the scanning signals or the data driving unit outputs the data signals to the corresponding display regions, so as to simultaneously scan the display regions respectively having the pixel sets in sequence with corresponding scanning patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kuei-Jyun Chen, Tao-Lun Darren Chin
  • Patent number: 9897804
    Abstract: A crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer, a pair of alignment layers, a first electrode set, and a second electrode set. The alignment layers are positioned on different sides of the liquid crystal layer. The first and second electrode sets are positioned on different alignment layers. The first electrode set includes a first transparent insulating layer and a first electrode layer. The first electrode set attaches to one of the alignment layers. The second electrode set includes a second transparent insulating layer, a second electrode layer, and a dielectric film. The second electrode layer includes a hole-patterned electrode. The dielectric film attaches to the first transparent insulating layer. The hole-patterned electrode exposes the dielectric film. In addition, an external power supply provides a driving voltage to the hole-patterned electrode and the first electrode layer, so that the liquid crystal molecules inside the liquid crystal layer drive rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Lin Ping Zhang, Yong Cao
  • Patent number: 9868256
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system includes a light source unit, at least one image-capturing module, a processing unit and a printing device. The image-capturing module includes an image-capturing unit and a focus-adjusting lens group. The processing unit controls a zooming lens to change a shooting focal length and controlling multiple images of the object to be measured captured by the image-capturing unit under the different shooting focal lengths, wherein each of the plural images includes focused and unfocused local images therein, and the processing unit calculates out a three-dimensional profile data of the object to be measured according to the focused local images in the images and the shooting focal lengths corresponding to the focused local images. The printing device prints multiple cross-sectional profiles corresponding to the object to be measured. Further, a method for three-dimensional printing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Ling-Yuan Tseng
  • Patent number: 9804302
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens structure is disclosed, comprising a first substrate and a second substrate each having oppositely arranged sides, a first side and second side. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which first side of the first substrate and second side of the second substrate are proximate to the liquid crystal layer. A first transparent conductive layer is disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. A second transparent conductive layer is disposed on the second side of the second substrate, in which the second transparent conductive layer comprises a circular opening and a circular electrode in the circular opening. Thus, the invention can provide better response time and improve efficiency of the liquid crystal lens structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Lin Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 9735569
    Abstract: A driving circuit applied in a display system includes a node, a current control circuit, a protecting circuit and a timing controller, wherein the node is arranged to connect to a lighting element; the current control circuit is coupled to the node and arranged to selectively provide a current to the lighting element according to a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal; the protecting circuit is coupled to the node and arranged to be selectively enabled to limit the voltage of the node according to a control signal to make the voltage of the node maintain a predetermined voltage, wherein the lighting element does not have any current passed through when the voltage of the node maintains the predetermined voltage; and the timing controller is arranged to generate the PWM signal and the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 9684101
    Abstract: An optical zoom structure includes an amplifying set, a focusing set, and an image display region. The amplifying set resembles the diverging optical effect and includes a first fixed focal set and a first liquid crystal lens. The focusing set resembles a converging optical effect and includes a second fixed focal set and a second liquid crystal lens. The first liquid crystal lens and the second fixed focal set are disposed between the first fixed focal set and the second liquid crystal lens. The first distance is from the first fixed focal set to the first liquid crystal lens. The second distance is from the first liquid crystal lens to the second fixed focal set. The third distance is from the second fixed focal set to the second liquid crystal lens. The fourth distance is from the second first liquid crystal lens to the image display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Zhi Gao Xu, Lin Ping Zhang, Yong Cao
  • Patent number: 9609712
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal generating method and a circuit for controlling dimming of an LED. The method comprises generating a first pulse signal, the first pulse signal comprising information of P bits gray levels, P being an integer, wherein the minimum pulse-width of the first pulse is N, N is an integer; generating a second pulse signal after the first pulse signal, the second pulse signal comprising information of Q bits gray levels, Q being an integer, wherein the amplitude of the second pulse signal is different from the amplitude of the first pulse signal, the minimum pulse-width of the second pulse is the same as the minimum pulse-width of the first pulse; and utilizing the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal to represent gray levels information of the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 9325270
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving circuit for a vibration motor and a driving method for the vibration motor. The driving circuit comprises: a detecting unit, coupled to the vibration motor, for detecting rotating position and rotating speed of the vibration motor and accordingly generating a detecting result; and a control unit, coupled to the detecting unit and the vibration motor, for controlling acceleration and deceleration of the vibration motor according to the detecting result. The driving method comprises: providing a detecting unit for detecting rotating position and rotating speed of the vibration motor and accordingly generating a detecting result; and providing a control unit for controlling acceleration and deceleration of the vibration motor according to the detecting result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Yu-Chun Chuang
  • Patent number: 9274383
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer and at least two driving electrode plates. The liquid crystal layer is arranged between the driving electrode plates. Each of the driving electrode plates includes a transparent substrate, a circuit layer, an insulating layer, an electrode layer, at least a conducting pillar and an alignment layer. The transparent substrate has a surface, and the circuit layer is atop the surface. The conducting pillar is arranged in the insulating layer and connected to the electrode layer and the circuit layer. The alignment layer contacts the liquid layer. The electrode layer is interposed between the alignment layer and the insulating layer. The electrode layer in at least one of the driving electrode plates includes at least two ring-shaped electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Yan Wu, Rong-Li Liu, Ling-Yuan Tseng, Yong Cao, Cheng-Chieh Yang
  • Publication number: 20150081080
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system includes a light source unit, at least one image-capturing module, a processing unit and a printing device. The image-capturing module includes an image-capturing unit and a focus-adjusting lens group. The processing unit controls a zooming lens to change a shooting focal length and controlling multiple images of the object to be measured captured by the image-capturing unit under the different shooting focal lengths, wherein each of the plural images includes focused and unfocused local images therein, and the processing unit calculates out a three-dimensional profile data of the object to be measured according to the focused local images in the images and the shooting focal lengths corresponding to the focused local images. The printing device prints multiple cross-sectional profiles corresponding to the object to be measured. Further, a method for three-dimensional printing is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Ling-Yuan Tseng