Patents by Inventor Chi-Fan Liou

Chi-Fan Liou 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: 11223779
    Abstract: An operating method of an image sensing device capable of detecting several light emitting diodes each having a flickering cycle time, the image sensing device includes several pixel circuits, each of the several pixel circuits includes a first sensing circuit and a second sensing circuit, the operating method including the following operations: operating the image sensing device in a first operating mode, including: sensing light by the first sensing circuit with a first exposure time longer than the flickering cycle time, thereby obtaining a first sensing result; sensing light, simultaneously by the first sensing circuit and the second sensing circuit with a second exposure time shorter than the flickering cycle time, thereby obtaining a second sensing result and a third sensing result; determining whether there is LED (light emitting diode) flickering or not according to the first sensing result, the second sensing result and the third sensing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Dong-Hai Huang, Chi-Fan Liou, Jie-Jung Huang
  • Publication number: 20210392260
    Abstract: An operating method of an image sensing device capable of detecting several light emitting diodes each having a flickering cycle time, the image sensing device includes several pixel circuits, each of the several pixel circuits includes a first sensing circuit and a second sensing circuit, the operating method including the following operations: operating the image sensing device in a first operating mode, including: sensing light by the first sensing circuit with a first exposure time longer than the flickering cycle time, thereby obtaining a first sensing result; sensing light, simultaneously by the first sensing circuit and the second sensing circuit with a second exposure time shorter than the flickering cycle time, thereby obtaining a second sensing result and a third sensing result; determining whether there is LED (light emitting diode) flickering or not according to the first sensing result, the second sensing result and the third sensing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Dong-Hai HUANG, Chi-Fan LIOU, Jie-Jung HUANG
  • Patent number: 10855931
    Abstract: A high dynamic range image sensing method for an image sensing device is provided. The high dynamic range image sensing method comprises: calculating a brightness sum value of a pixel block to obtain a long exposure value; calculating a brightness average value of the pixel block to obtain a short exposure value; calculating a block average value of a plurality of adjacent pixel blocks; obtaining a weight value according to the block average value; and outputting a high dynamic range pixel value of one pixel according to the long exposure value, the short exposure value and the weight value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chi-Fan Liou, Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 9530231
    Abstract: A method for generating masking image using general polygonal mask includes receiving a pixel of a raw image and a polygon vertices array corresponding to a polygonal mask, determining whether the pixel is inside the polygonal mask, labeling the pixel to be a masked pixel if the pixel is inside the polygonal mask, or labeling the pixel to be a visible pixel if the pixel is outside the polygonal mask, and outputting the masked pixel or the visible pixel to generate the masking image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jau-Hong Kao, Shiang-Fei Wang, Yi-Jen Wu, Chih-Huang Lin, Min-Hui Chu, Hong-Chu Chen, Chi-Fan Liou
  • Publication number: 20160260235
    Abstract: A method for generating masking image using general polygonal mask includes receiving a pixel of a raw image and a polygon vertices array corresponding to a polygonal mask, determining whether the pixel is inside the polygonal mask, labeling the pixel to be a masked pixel if the pixel is inside the polygonal mask, or labeling the pixel to be a visible pixel if the pixel is outside the polygonal mask, and outputting the masked pixel or the visible pixel to generate the masking image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jau-Hong Kao, Shiang-Fei Wang, Yi-Jen Wu, Chih-Huang Lin, Min-Hui Chu, Hong-Chu Chen, Chi-Fan Liou