Patents by Inventor Chien-Yu Yi

Chien-Yu Yi 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: 9329742
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel provides a partially high-resolution by mixing multiple resolutions. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, an insulating layer, and a single one integrated circuit chip. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer respectively include multiple sensor electrodes disposed with uneven density, so that a part of the touch panel has higher resolution, and other part of the touch panel has lower resolution. The capacitive touch panel provides partially higher resolution by adjusting the distribution of the electrodes without increasing the number of pins of the integrated circuit chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Yi, Kuo-Liang Shen, Ching-Feng Chen
  • Publication number: 20150227233
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel provides a partially high-resolution by mixing multiple resolutions. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, an insulating layer, and a single one integrated circuit chip. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer respectively include multiple sensor electrodes disposed with uneven density, so that a part of the touch panel has higher resolution, and other part of the touch panel has lower resolution. The capacitive touch panel provides partially higher resolution by adjusting the distribution of the electrodes without increasing the number of pins of the integrated circuit chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu YI, Kuo-Liang SHEN, Ching-Feng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140333547
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a first sensing series, a second sensing series, a transmitting IC, a receiving IC, a plurality of first control-signal lines, a plurality of second control-signal lines, a flexible circuit board and a control unit. The transmitting IC is configured to transmit a signal to the first sensing series. The receiving IC is configured to receive a signal from the second sensing series. The flexible circuit board has a junction end bonded on a bonding area of the substrate, and is connected to the first and second control-signal lines. The control unit transmits a first control signal and a second control signal respectively to the transmitting IC and the receiving IC through the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Yi, Kuo-Liang Shen, Ching-Feng Chen
  • Publication number: 20140320758
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, which includes a first sensing substrate, a second sensing substrate and an anisotropic conducting film. The first sensing substrate includes at least one first sensing series, at least one first signal transmission line, and at least one second signal transmission line. The first sensing series extends in a first direction. The first signal transmission line is connected to the first sensing series. The second substrate faces the first substrate, and comprises at least one second sensing series extending in a second direction crossed with the first direction. The anisotropic conducting film is disposed between the first sensing substrate and the second sensing substrate, and is electrically connected to the second signal transmission line and the second sensing series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chee-Chun LEUNG, Ching-Chih CHEN, Chien-Yu YI, Chiung-Lun LIN
  • Patent number: 8502764
    Abstract: A gate driving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a gate driver thereof are provided. The LCD has a plurality of scan lines. The method starts by generating a gate driving signal. A correction signal is superposed to the gate driving signal to generate a corrected gate driving signal and to reduce a high voltage level of the gate driving signal, wherein a polarity of the correction signal is opposite to a polarity of the gate driving signal. The corrected gate driving signal is then outputted to drive one of the corresponding scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Fa Hsu, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 8390603
    Abstract: A method for driving a flat panel display is provided. The flat panel display has n scan lines, wherein n is a positive integer. Each of the scan lines is coupled to a plurality of pixels. The driving method according to the invention includes the steps as follows: when pixels coupled to a kth scan line are enabled, pixels coupled to the scan lines from the first to k?1th are disabled and pixels coupled to at least a part of scan lines from k+1th to nth are enabled, thus pre-charging the enabled pixels of scan lines from k+1th to nth is performed thereby, wherein k is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 8334828
    Abstract: A circuit for amplifying a display signal transmitted to a repair line by using a non-inverting amplifier is disclosed, which comprises a voltage follower, a non-inverting amplifier, a repair line, a thin film transistor (TFT) and a liquid crystal (LC) capacitor. The voltage follower is electrically connected to a data driver chip to thereby provide a display signal to the non-inverting amplifier. The non-inverting amplifier amplifies the display signal to thus obtain an amplified display signal, and transmits the amplified display signal to the TFT and the LC capacitor through the repair line. The amplified display signal is kept at a desired voltage level when the LC capacitor receives the amplified display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Feng-Shou Lin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Kuo-Liang Shen, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 8325119
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel module includes a display panel, a plurality of source drivers, a plurality of gate drivers, a gamma reference voltage generator and a timing controller, in which the timing controller controls operations of the gate drivers, of the source drivers and of the gamma reference voltage generator, so that the source drivers can, based on one set of gamma reference voltages, output single-color data groups to corresponding display sub-areas in the display panel, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 8139016
    Abstract: A method for improving the EMI performance of an LCD device is disclosed, adapting for a point-to-point transistor transistor logic interface of the LCD device. The disclosed method comprises the following steps: receiving a plurality of image data based on a data CLK signal; providing a first CLK signal and a second CLK signal to a plurality of source drivers by a timing controller, wherein the frequencies of the first CLK signal and the second CLK signal are smaller than the frequency of the data CLK signal, the phase of the first CLK signal is different from the phase of the second CLK signal; and the timing controller transmitting a plurality of first image data to the plurality of source drivers based on the first CLK signal, and the timing controller transmitting a plurality of second image data to the plurality of source drivers based on the second CLK signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Publication number: 20110279440
    Abstract: A circuit for amplifying a display signal transmitted to a repair line by using a non-inverting amplifier is disclosed, which comprises a voltage follower, a non-inverting amplifier, a repair line, a thin film transistor (TFT) and a liquid crystal (LC) capacitor. The voltage follower is electrically connected to a data driver chip to thereby provide a display signal to the non-inverting amplifier. The non-inverting amplifier amplifies the display signal to thus obtain an amplified display signal, and transmits the amplified display signal to the TFT and the LC capacitor through the repair line. The amplified display signal is kept at a desired voltage level when the LC capacitor receives the amplified display signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Feng-Shou LIN, Kuan-Yu Chen, Kuo-Liang Shen, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7999774
    Abstract: A circuit for amplifying a display signal transmitted to a repair line by using a non-inverting amplifier is disclosed, which comprises a voltage follower, a non-inverting amplifier, a repair line, a thin film transistor (TFT) and a liquid crystal (LC) capacitor. The voltage follower is electrically connected to a data driver chip to thereby provide a display signal to the non-inverting amplifier. The non-inverting amplifier amplifies the display signal to thus obtain an amplified display signal, and transmits the amplified display signal to the TFT and the LC capacitor through the repair line. The amplified display signal is kept at a desired voltage level when the LC capacitor receives the amplified display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Feng-Shou Lin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Kuo-Liang Shen, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Publication number: 20110122113
    Abstract: A gate driving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a gate driver thereof are provided. The LCD has a plurality of scan lines. The method starts by generating a gate driving signal. A correction signal is superposed to the gate driving signal to generate a corrected gate driving signal and to reduce a high voltage level of the gate driving signal, wherein a polarity of the correction signal is opposite to a polarity of the gate driving signal. The corrected gate driving signal is then outputted to drive one of the corresponding scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen-Fa Hsu, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7924255
    Abstract: A gate driving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a gate driver thereof are provided. The LCD has a plurality of scan lines. The method starts by generating a gate driving signal. A correction signal is superposed to the gate driving signal to generate a corrected gate driving signal and to reduce a high voltage level of the gate driving signal, wherein a polarity of the correction signal is opposite to a polarity of the gate driving signal. The corrected gate driving signal is then outputted to drive one of the corresponding scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Fa Hsu, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7893933
    Abstract: A panel module and the power saving method used thereon, which use a timing controller to receive and compare a first frame image data and a second frame image data in order to obtain an image data comparison result and accordingly determine whether a plurality of source drivers, a plurality of gate drivers and a DC-DC converter have to enter a power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Yi, Kuo-Liang Shen
  • Patent number: 7782289
    Abstract: A timing controller including a memory and a memory controller is provided. The memory includes an odd-field block and an even-field block. The memory controller is coupled to the memory and controls the memory. When two of a first, a second and a third gate output enable signals output by the timing controller are active, the memory is controlled to output the data of the (I?1)th scan line stored in the odd-field block. When one of the first, the second and the third gate output enable signals output by the timing controller is active, and the other two signals are inactive, the memory is controlled to output the data of Jth scan line stored in the even-field block and write an odd-field field data of the (J+1)th scan line to the odd-field block and write an even-field field data of the (J+1)th scan line to the even-field block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Liang Shen, Chien-Yu Yi
  • Publication number: 20100156960
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for gamma correction and a flat panel display using the same. Weighted values corresponding to red, green and blue of an image signal are respectively evaluated to determine the dominant color in the image signal, and a Gamma correction based on the dominant color is then performed, thereby obtaining displaying quality similar with that obtained by independently performing red, green, or blue Gamma correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7724225
    Abstract: A display panel for a liquid crystal display comprising a timing controller and a plurality of source drivers is provided. The timing controller receives a differential signal (LVDS/TMDS/DVI) to generate a plurality of TTL signals and a sync signal. Each of the source drivers comprises at least one bus directly connected to the timing controller to receive corresponding TTL signal. The timing controller comprises a clock line, coupled to the source drivers for transmission of the sync signal. Each TTL signal comprises a corresponding image information. The TTL signals, sequentially transmitted by the bus, conform to the transistor-to-transistor logic (TTL) standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7701473
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for gamma correction and a flat panel display using the same. Weighted values corresponding to red, green and blue of an image signal are respectively evaluated to determine the dominant color in the image signal, and a Gamma correction based on the dominant color is then performed, thereby obtaining displaying quality similar with that obtained by independently performing red, green, or blue Gamma correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi
  • Patent number: 7667677
    Abstract: A liquid crystal module for flat panel display comprising a glass substrate, a plurality of source drivers, a control board, and at least one bus. The source drivers coupled to the glass substrate utilize the chip on glass (COG) technology. The control board receives a plurality of data signals, a power signal and a gamma correction signal. The at least one bus coupled to the control board and at least one source driver, passes the data signals, the power signal and the gamma correction signal. The source drivers couple to the control board via the bus, each receiving a corresponding data signal. The data signals, conforming to transistor-transistor logic (TTL) standard, are transmitted sequentially on the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Yi, Wen-Fong Lin
  • Patent number: 7592992
    Abstract: An inversion method for use in a liquid crystal display having pluralities of pixels. First, at least one inversion signal is provided to determine a polarity. A data voltage is then generated according to the polarity and a data signal. Thereafter, a scan signal is provided to activate a pixel, such that the data voltage is converted to luminance. The inversion signal is a non-periodic signal. When the scan signal activates the pixel, the inversion signal provides the random alternative of a first level and a second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Yu Yi