Patents by Inventor Chang-Cheng Lin
Chang-Cheng Lin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7656374Abstract: The method increases the output frame rate to p/q (p, q are both natural numbers and p>q) times of the input frame rate. In a period of time equal to the least common multiple of the input and output frame times, q input frames are output and (p?q) transient frames are generated and inserted at appropriate places before or after the q input frames in the output frame sequence so as to enhance the dynamic display effect of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Vastview Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Yu-Lin Lee, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 7611109Abstract: An electronic device hanging mechanism aims to hang an electronic device on a mounting rack mounted onto a wall. The hanging mechanism includes a holding dock located in the case of the electronic device and a bracing strut movably coupled on the holding dock. The bracing strut is extendable outside the holding dock at a hanging position to be hung on the mounting rack to hold the electronic device, and received in the holding dock and hidden in the case of the electronic device at a holding position to maintain the appearance of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Hannspree, Inc.Inventor: Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20080284775Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display driving system that uses at least one temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a LCD panel, and outputs a gamma compensation voltage value according to the detected temperature, and further uses an overdrive compensation unit to receive the gamma compensation voltage value, and obtains the overdrive compensation voltage value of two gamma overdrive compensation curves of a temperature gradient corresponding to a region of the LCD panel by a gamma mapping method, or uses an overdrive compensation unit to derive a corresponding partial compensation data table according to the temperature and the compensation data table, and at least one overdrive compensation table (OD compensation table) corresponding to the change of temperature gradient in a region of the LCD panel is derived, an outputted display image after being processed by an overdrive lookup table (OD LUT) is compensated, so as to adjust the overdrive voltage of the LCD panel and enhance theType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Yuhren Shen, Chang-Cheng Lin, Cheng-Chung Peng
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Publication number: 20080266236Abstract: A dynamic control method for controlling backlight module of liquid crystal display (LCD) comprises steps of: receiving a frame data which is transferred to the LCD and consists a plurality of raw grayscale level; processing a statistical analysis for distribution of the plurality of raw grayscale level; and transferring a plurality of corrected grayscale level which is resulted from the statistical analysis corresponding to the raw grayscale level to the backlight control unit and a data modification simultaneously, wherein the backlight control unit uses the plurality of corrected grayscale level to modify brightness of backlight module and the data modification uses the plurality of corrected grayscale level to compare with the plurality of raw grayscale level for accurate display performance, so that the electrical power consumption is reduced and image quality is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: VastView Technology Inc.Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Chang-Cheng Lin, Cheng-Chung Peng, Chih-Hao Wu
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Publication number: 20080224979Abstract: The Low-Temperature Poly-Silicon thin film transistor display device of the invention arrayed with a plurality of gate lines and data lines and a switch unit and a pixel unit are located in the intersection of scan line and the data line. The device comprises a gate driven unit a data driven unit and a control unit wherein the gate driven unit provides a plurality of gate voltages to the gate lines to drive the switch unit, the data driven unit sends the corresponding video data to the gate lines, and the control unit controls the transmitting sequence of the video data to the data lines. The method of the invention includes the steps of: gate driven unit providing every N scanning signals to the scan lines and then the data driven unit switching the transmitting sequence of the video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yu-Lin LEE, Chang-Cheng LIN, Ming-Jiun LIAW, Jan-Ruei LIN
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Publication number: 20080198115Abstract: An overdrive accuracy adjustment device and method for use in liquid crystal display panel is presented. According to a current grayscale value of a pixel in an awaiting to be displayed image and a previous grayscale value of the corresponding pixel in an already-displayed image, the corresponding overdrive grayscale value is found from the look-up table. In order to more efficiently use the limited storage capacity of the look-up table as well as improving the accuracy of the overdrive, in accordance to the physical characteristics of the liquid crystal display panel in particular (in particular to the grayscale values which often required the overdrive), the gap size between the current grayscale values and/or the previous grayscale values with each other should be adjusted in the look-up table, without having to increase the quantity of the overdrive grayscale values stored in the look-up table.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventors: Chang-Cheng Lin, Yuh-Ren Shen, Cheng-Chung Peng
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Publication number: 20080165108Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for driving a liquid crystal display device for enhancing a picture quality. More specifically, a method for driving liquid crystal display in a multi-frame polarity inversion manner is disclosed. Based on standard liquid crystal display structure, hardware and specification, the method improves frame rate by increasing input rate of grayscale level with a better brightness performance and fewer loss of grayscale.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: VastView Technology Inc.Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20080129671Abstract: A color display system comprises a color signal source, a buffer unit, a storage unit, a recovering module, a comprising unit, and a multi-functional comparing unit. The multi-functional comparing unit is used for comparing a recovered OD value of the recovering module, a grayscale of the color signal source, and a comparison result of the comparing unit are compared and then outputs a result of either the grayscale of the current frame or the recovered OD value. By this way, the color display system can respond to display grayscales of colors fast and accurately. The color display system is suitable for a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display panel (PDP), a thin film transistor (TFT), an organic electro luminescence display (OLED), and a polymer light emitting diode (PLED).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: Yuhren Shen, Hanjon Ho, Chang Cheng Lin, Cheng Jung Chen
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Publication number: 20080100553Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same. The steps of the method contains: (1) upgrade the frame rate up to p/q times (p, q are natural numbers and p>q) and produce a series of output frames; (2) conduct grey level conversions for the series of output frames using different mapping curves based on different gamma values; (3) process the series of converted output frames by an appropriate gamma correction curve and presents the output frames on the LCD panel by an appropriate scanning method. In step (2) of the present invention, two grey level mapping curves, each specified by a specific gamma value, are applied alternately to the series of output frames and the two grey level mapping curves can be identical or different. Thus, the enhancement in brightness and high display performance and quality can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: VASTVIEW TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20080055229Abstract: The method increases the output frame rate to p/q (p, q are both natural numbers and p>q) times of the input frame rate. In a period of time equal to the least common multiple of the input and output frame times, q input frames are output and (p?q) transient frames are generated and inserted at appropriate places before or after the q input frames in the output frame sequence so as to enhance the dynamic display effect of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: VASTVIEW TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Yu-Lin Lee, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20080035812Abstract: An electronic device hanging mechanism aims to hang an electronic device on a mounting rack mounted onto a wall. The hanging mechanism includes a holding dock located in the case of the electronic device and a bracing strut movably coupled on the holding dock. The bracing strut is extendable outside the holding dock at a hanging position to be hung on the mounting rack to hold the electronic device, and received in the holding dock and hidden in the case of the electronic device at a holding position to maintain the appearance of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: HANNSPREE, INC.Inventor: Chang-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 7307611Abstract: A driving method for LCD panels is disclosed, wherein the driver circuit includes multiple data line drivers and at least two gate line drivers, and the first gate line driver produces a normal image with sequential line scanning starting from the beginning of a frame, and the second gate line driver produces a dimmed image starting from a predetermined number of lines below at the same time to emulate one full sweep across a CRT. Therefore, a dimmed image is inserted into every digitized image, where a dimmed image is defined to be a digitized image with each pixel having a fraction 1/N of the original pixel value. The LCD panel drive using this driving method achieves performance closer to the impulse approach used in CRT displays, and the flickering phenomenon can be significantly rectified.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: VastView Technology Inc.Inventors: Liang-Chen Chien, Cheng-Jung Chen, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 7292218Abstract: A shift-register circuit. The shift-register circuit has a plurality of shift-register units connected in series. Each of the shift-register units generates first and second pulse signals, wherein the first pulse signal is an output signal of the shift-register circuit and the second pulse signal is a trigger signal of a subsequent shift-register unit. A LCD panel driving circuit using the shift-register circuit is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Jan-Ruei Lin, Chang-Ho Liou, Chang-Cheng Lin, Yu-Lin Lee
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Publication number: 20070075945Abstract: A double-frame-rate method for reducing the time lapse of a LCD pixel between its two consecutive scans within a frame is provided. The method horizontally partitions the scan lines into (k) non-overlapping regions, each containing m1, m2, . . . , mk scan lines. The method then scans each of the regions twice before continuing to the next region and, as such, completes two passes of scanning of the entire frame. For a pixel in a region (j), the time lapse between the pixel's two consecutive scans during the frame's frame time is (mj/n) of the time lapse of conventional double-frame-rate methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Yu-Lin Lee, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20070046842Abstract: The invention provides a TV structure which can arrange its outer components to fit the cabinets size accommodate the largest screen and maintain the best audio and visual quality and design by refitting the screen, loudspeakers, sound box and stand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2005Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventor: Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20060266898Abstract: An electronic device hanging mechanism aims to hang an electronic device on a mounting rack mounted onto a wall. The hanging mechanism includes a holding dock located in the case of the electronic device and a bracing strut movably coupled on the holding dock. The bracing strut is extendable outside the holding dock at a hanging position to be hung on the mounting rack to hold the electronic device, and received in the holding dock and hidden in the case of the electronic device at a holding position to maintain the appearance of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2005Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventor: Chang-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 7081881Abstract: The present invention relates a time-sharing multiplexing driving method and framework for image signals. By means of a plurality of wiring paths, the turned-on orders of the signal switches of the pixel units in a liquid crystal panel (LCD) are sequentially controlled so that the pixel units of two adjacent phases in the panel can have the same turned-on order. This not only can avoid the situation where the switch control signal serial connecting path in the panel is so long that the control signal of the end switch will be seriously distorted for the excessively great load, but also make the variation amounts of the adjacent pixel data voltages the same. Therefore, the objective of the invention can be achieved. Namely, no joint space is generated during the image signal time-sharing multiplexing driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Jan-Ruei Lin, Ming-Daw Chen, Jun-Ren Shin, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20060082602Abstract: A color display system comprises a color signal source, a buffer unit, a storage unit, an enlarging module, a comprising unit, and a multi-functional comparing unit. By the multi-functional comparing unit comparing an OD enlarged value of the enlarging module, a grayscale of the color signal source, and a signal for OD technique free of the comparing unit and then submitting a result, either the grayscale of the now-frame or the OD enlarged value, the color display system can fast and accurate response and display grayscales of colors. The color display system is applicable to use for LCD (liquid crystal display), PDP (Plasma Display Panel), TFT, OLED (Organic Electro Luminesence Display), and PLED (Polymer OLED).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2004Publication date: April 20, 2006Inventors: Yuh-Ren Shen, Han-Jon Ho, Chang-Cheng Lin, Cheng-Jung Chen
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Publication number: 20060082530Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal screen display method, such that when displaying the images each composed of the temporal sequence of frames on the liquid crystal screen, the darkening frames are inserted between the said frames, and each darkening frame is darker than the previous frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2004Publication date: April 20, 2006Inventors: Cheng-Jung Chen, Liang-Chen Chien, Chang-Cheng Lin
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Publication number: 20060007081Abstract: A driving method for LCD panel is disclosed, wherein the driver circuit includes multiple data line drivers and at least two gate line drivers, and the first gate line driver produces a normal image with sequential line scanning starting from one area, and, the second gate line driver produces a dimmed image starting from anther area at the same time, but a predetermined number of unused lines are always maintained in between, until all the gate lines are finished to emulate one full sweep across the CRT. Therefore, a dimmed image is inserted into every digitized image, where a dimmed image is defined to be a digitized image with a fraction 1/N of the original pixel value. The LCD panel drive using this driving method can be brought much closer to the impulse approach used in CRT displays, and the flickering phenomenon can be significantly rectified.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2004Publication date: January 12, 2006Inventors: Liang-Chen Chien, Cheng-Jung Chen, Chang-Cheng Lin