Patents by Inventor Chao-Ling Hsu

Chao-Ling Hsu 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).

  • Patent number: 11955108
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus and an audio playback system using the same. The adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus shapes an error signal and a noise signal according to a shape of an ideal noise. After that, the shaped noise signal and the shaped error signal are sent into a parameter adjusting unit to perform an adaptive parameter adjustment. Thus, the adaptive noise filter unit is not only can adaptively suppress noise and minimize the error signal, but also can suppress specific frequencies that are sensitive to the human ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
  • Publication number: 20240112665
    Abstract: An active noise control (ANC) circuit is used for generating an anti-noise signal, and has a plurality of filters including at least one first filter and at least one second filter. The at least one first filter generates at least one first filter output, wherein each of the at least one first filter has at least one non-static filter and at least one static filter connected in a series fashion. The at least one second filter generates at least one second filter output, wherein each of the at least one second filter has at least one adaptive filter. The anti-noise signal is jointly controlled by the at least one first filter output and the at least one second filter output. The at least one first filter and the at least one second filter are connected in a parallel fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Shih-Kai He
  • Patent number: 11942068
    Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal for noise reduction, wherein the ANC circuit includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from the noise reduction, and performs a transfer function variation detection based on the first input signal and the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
  • Patent number: 11934027
    Abstract: An optical system affixed to an electronic apparatus is provided, including a first optical module, a second optical module, and a third optical module. The first optical module is configured to adjust the moving direction of a first light from a first moving direction to a second moving direction, wherein the first moving direction is not parallel to the second moving direction. The second optical module is configured to receive the first light moving in the second moving direction. The first light reaches the third optical module via the first optical module and the second optical module in sequence. The third optical module includes a first photoelectric converter configured to transform the first light into a first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng, Chia-Che Wu, Chien-Yu Kao, Hsiao-Hsin Hu, He-Ling Chang, Chao-Hsi Wang, Chen-Hsien Fan, Che-Wei Chang, Mao-Gen Jian, Sung-Mao Tsai, Wei-Jhe Shen, Yung-Ping Yang, Sin-Hong Lin, Tzu-Yu Chang, Sin-Jhong Song, Shang-Yu Hsu, Meng-Ting Lin, Shih-Wei Hung, Yu-Huai Liao, Mao-Kuo Hsu, Hsueh-Ju Lu, Ching-Chieh Huang, Chih-Wen Chiang, Yu-Chiao Lo, Ying-Jen Wang, Shu-Shan Chen, Che-Hsiang Chiu
  • Publication number: 20240069299
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism includes a movable assembly, a fixed assembly, and a driving assembly. The movable assembly is configured to be connected to an optical element. The movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly in a range of motion. The optical element driving mechanism further includes a positioning assembly configured to position the movable assembly at a predetermined position relative to the fixed assembly when the driving assembly is not operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Chao-Chang HU, Kuen-Wang TSAI, Liang-Ting HO, Chao-Hsi WANG, Chih-Wei WENG, He-Ling CHANG, Che-Wei CHANG, Sheng-Zong CHEN, Ko-Lun CHAO, Min-Hsiu TSAI, Shu-Shan CHEN, Jungsuck RYOO, Mao-Kuo HSU, Guan-Yu SU
  • Patent number: 11875772
    Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal, and includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from noise reduction, and performs a comparison operation based on a first characteristic value of the first input signal and a second characteristic value of the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
  • Publication number: 20230335100
    Abstract: An active noise control (ANC) circuit is used for generating an anti-noise signal, and has a plurality of filters including at least one first filter and at least one second filter. The at least one first filter generates at least one first filter output, wherein each of the at least one first filter has a first filter type. The at least one second filter generates at least one second filter output, wherein each of the at least one second filter has a second filter type different from the first filter type. The anti-noise signal is jointly controlled by the at least one first filter output and the at least one second filter output. The at least one first filter and the at least one second filter are connected in a parallel fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Shih-Kai He
  • Publication number: 20230335104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active noise cancellation integrated circuit for stacking at least one anti-noise signal and at least one non-anti-noise signal, an associated method, and an active noise cancellation headphone using the same. The method is applicable to an audio playback device with at least one ANC filtering unit and at least one non-ANC filtering unit. The method includes: acquiring a non-anti-noise signal from a non-ANC filtering unit; generating a decoupled signal by processing the non-anti-noise signal with the transfer function of a physical channel and operations of an ANC filtering unit; performing a signal superposition, wherein an anti-noise signal from the ANC filtering unit is superposed with the decoupled signal; and performing an audio playback based on the superposed signal and an audio signal such that noise is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Kai-Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20230298559
    Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal for noise reduction, wherein the ANC circuit includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from the noise reduction, and performs a transfer function variation detection based on the first input signal and the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
  • Publication number: 20230298560
    Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal, and includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from noise reduction, and performs a comparison operation based on a first characteristic value of the first input signal and a second characteristic value of the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
  • Patent number: 11721315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active noise cancellation integrated circuit for stacking multiple anti-noise signals, an associated method, and an active noise cancellation headphone using the same. The method is applicable to an audio playback device with multiple ANC filtering units. The method includes: acquiring an anti-noise signal from an ANC filtering unit; generating a decoupled signal by processing the anti-noise signal with the transfer function of a physical channel and operations of other ANC filtering units; performing a signal superposition, wherein an anti-noise signal from another ANC filtering unit is superposed with the decoupled signal; and performing an audio playback based on the superposed signal and an audio signal such that noise is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Kai-Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20230206924
    Abstract: A voice wakeup method is applied to wake up an electronic apparatus. The voice wakeup method includes executing a speaker identification function to analyze user voice and acquire a predefined identification of the user voice, executing a voiceprint extraction function to acquire a voiceprint segment of the user voice, executing an on-device training function via the voiceprint segment to generate an updated parameter, and utilizing the updated parameter to calibrate a speaker verification model, so that the speaker verification model is used to analyze a wakeup sentence and decide whether to wake up the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Cheng-Kuan Wei
  • Publication number: 20230131573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active noise cancellation integrated circuit for stacking multiple anti-noise signals, an associated method, and an active noise cancellation headphone using the same. The method is applicable to an audio playback device with multiple ANC filtering units. The method includes: acquiring an anti-noise signal from an ANC filtering unit; generating a decoupled signal by processing the anti-noise signal with the transfer function of a physical channel and operations of other ANC filtering units; performing a signal superposition, wherein an anti-noise signal from another ANC filtering unit is superposed with the decoupled signal; and performing an audio playback based on the superposed signal and an audio signal such that noise is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling HSU, Li-Wen CHI, Kai-Sheng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230054927
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus and an audio playback system using the same. The adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus shapes an error signal and a noise signal according to a shape of an ideal noise. After that, the shaped noise signal and the shaped error signal are sent into a parameter adjusting unit to perform an adaptive parameter adjustment. Thus, the adaptive noise filter unit is not only can adaptively suppress noise and minimize the error signal, but also can suppress specific frequencies that are sensitive to the human ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling HSU, Li-Wen CHI
  • Patent number: 10394518
    Abstract: An audio synchronization method includes: receiving a first audio signal from a first recording device; receiving a second audio signal from a second recording device; performing a correlation operation upon the first audio signal and the second audio signal to align a first pattern of the first audio signal and the first pattern of the second audio signal; after the first patterns of the first audio signal and the second audio signal are aligned, calculating a difference between a second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal; and obtaining a starting-time difference between the first audio signal and the second audio signal for audio synchronization according to the difference between the second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Xin-Wei Shih, Chia-Ying Li, Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Shen-Kai Chang
  • Patent number: 10199029
    Abstract: An earpiece of a headset uses a first signal and a second signal received from an in-ear microphone and an outside microphone, respectively, to enhance microphone signals. The in-ear microphone is positioned at a proximal side of the earpiece with respect to an ear canal of a user, and the outside microphone is positioned at a distal side of the earpiece with respect to the ear canal. A processing unit includes a filter, which digitally filters out in-ear noise from the first signal using the second signal as a reference to produce a de-noised signal to thereby enhance the microphone signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Chih-Ping Lin, Chieh-Cheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 10176793
    Abstract: A method for performing active noise control upon a target zone includes: using an adaptive filtering circuit to receive at least one microphone signal obtained from a microphone; and, dynamically compensating at least one coefficient of the adaptive filtering circuit to adjust a frequency response of the adaptive filtering circuit according to an energy distribution of the at least one microphone signal, so as to make the adaptive filtering circuit receive the at least one microphone signal to generate a resultant anti-noise signal to the target zone based on the dynamically adjusted frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20180233122
    Abstract: A method for performing active noise control upon a target zone includes: using an adaptive filtering circuit to receive at least one microphone signal obtained from a microphone; and, dynamically compensating at least one coefficient of the adaptive filtering circuit to adjust a frequency response of the adaptive filtering circuit according to an energy distribution of the at least one microphone signal, so as to make the adaptive filtering circuit receive the at least one microphone signal to generate a resultant anti-noise signal to the target zone based on the dynamically adjusted frequency response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20170372691
    Abstract: An earpiece of a headset uses a first signal and a second signal received from an in-ear microphone and an outside microphone, respectively, to enhance microphone signals. The in-ear microphone is positioned at a proximal side of the earpiece with respect to an ear canal of a user, and the outside microphone is positioned at a distal side of the earpiece with respect to the ear canal. A processing unit includes a filter, which digitally filters out in-ear noise from the first signal using the second signal as a reference to produce a de-noised signal to thereby enhance the microphone signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Chih-Ping Lin, Chieh-Cheng Cheng
  • Publication number: 20170262255
    Abstract: An audio synchronization method includes: receiving a first audio signal from a first recording device; receiving a second audio signal from a second recording device; performing a correlation operation upon the first audio signal and the second audio signal to align a first pattern of the first audio signal and the first pattern of the second audio signal; after the first patterns of the first audio signal and the second audio signal are aligned, calculating a difference between a second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal; and obtaining a starting-time difference between the first audio signal and the second audio signal for audio synchronization according to the difference between the second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Xin-Wei Shih, Chia-Ying Li, Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Shen-Kai Chang