Patents by Inventor Chien-Yueh Chen
Chien-Yueh Chen 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: 11947155Abstract: An electronic device with light emitting function includes a casing, a circuit board, a light-shielding member, a first light-guiding member, and a second light-guiding member. The casing has a light-guiding cover plate having a first partial block and a second partial block. The circuit board has a light-emitting element adjacent to the first partial block. The light-shielding member is blocked between the light-emitting element and the first partial block. The first light-guiding member has a first reflective inclination surface at a light-emitting direction of the light-emitting element and configured to reflect a light emitted by the light-emitting element to be a first reflected light which is transmitted toward a direction away from the first partial block. The second light-guiding member has a second reflective inclination surface configured to reflect the first reflected light to be a second reflected light which is irradiated to the second partial block.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Yu-Hsuan Lin
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Patent number: 11917747Abstract: A circuit board module includes a circuit board, a metal core printed circuit board, and a heating element. The circuit board includes a substrate, and a surface of the substrate has an assembling region. The metal core printed circuit board is on the assembling region and includes a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer. The first circuit layer and the second circuit layer are electrically connected to each other. The second circuit layer is electrically connected to the circuit board. The thermal conductivity of the metal core printed circuit board is greater than the thermal conductivity of the substrate. The heating element is on the metal core printed circuit board and is electrically connected to the first circuit layer. An electronic device having the circuit board module is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chien-Yueh Chen
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Patent number: 11800236Abstract: An image capturing device includes an image capturing module, a plurality of light emitting elements, and a processing module. The image capturing module captures an image of a field of view. The light emitting elements emit light that irradiates to the field of view, and form a plurality of speckle regions in the field of view, and the speckle regions are consecutively arranged in the field of view. The processing module is electrically connected to the image capturing module and the light emitting elements. The processing module receives the image of the field of view from the image capturing module. The processing module obtains a target position according to a target image, and adjusts brightness of the light emitting elements according to the target position.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Publication number: 20230209246Abstract: A camera with an accumulated water treatment function and a method of treating accumulated water thereof are disclosed. The camera includes a main body, a processing module, an image capturing module, a speaker, a first microphone, and a second microphone. The processing module has an image processing unit and an audio processing unit. The image capturing module is used for capturing an environmental image. The first microphone and the speaker are arranged on different sides of the main body. The second microphone and the first microphone are arranged on different sides of the main body. The audio processing unit controls the speaker to broadcast a first audio file and uses the first microphone or the second microphone to record to generate a second audio file so as to determine the difference between the second audio file and a first preset audio file.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: CHIEN-YUEH CHEN
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Publication number: 20230209208Abstract: An image capturing device includes an image capturing module, a plurality of light emitting elements, and a processing module. The image capturing module captures an image of a field of view. The light emitting elements emit light that irradiates to the field of view, and form a plurality of speckle regions in the field of view, and the speckle regions are consecutively arranged in the field of view. The processing module is electrically connected to the image capturing module and the light emitting elements. The processing module receives the image of the field of view from the image capturing module. The processing module obtains a target position according to a target image, and adjusts brightness of the light emitting elements according to the target position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: CHIEN-YUEH CHEN, JIN-KAE JANG
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Publication number: 20230132928Abstract: A circuit board module includes a circuit board, a metal core printed circuit board, and a heating element. The circuit board includes a substrate, and a surface of the substrate has an assembling region. The metal core printed circuit board is on the assembling region and includes a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer. The first circuit layer and the second circuit layer are electrically connected to each other. The second circuit layer is electrically connected to the circuit board. The thermal conductivity of the metal core printed circuit board is greater than the thermal conductivity of the substrate. The heating element is on the metal core printed circuit board and is electrically connected to the first circuit layer. An electronic device having the circuit board module is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventor: Chien-Yueh Chen
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Patent number: 11550204Abstract: A light adjustment module for a camera includes a light source unit and a light adjustment unit. The light source unit includes light emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light direction of each of the light emitting elements is parallel to the image capturing direction of the lens. The light adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes secondary optical elements, and the secondary optical elements respectively correspond to the light emitting elements. The light emitted by each of light emitting elements is deflected through the corresponding secondary optical element. Each of the secondary optical elements includes a first ring-shaped prism and a second ring-shaped prism, the width of the second ring-shaped prism is greater than the width of the first ring-shaped prism, and the second ring-shaped prism surrounds the outer circumference of the first ring-shaped prism.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Patent number: 11538314Abstract: A doorbell device includes a housing, a passive element, a battery module, and a thermal expansion element. The housing includes a mounting plate, and the mounting plate includes a through hole, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The passive element is movably disposed in the housing. The passive element includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface faces the mounting plate. The battery module is disposed on the first side surface and corresponds to the through hole. The thermal expansion element is disposed between the second side surface and the housing. The passive element allows a gap to be maintained between the battery module and the outer surface, or is driven, by the thermal expansion element, to allow at least a part of the battery module to be located in the through hole and at the same plane with the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chien-Yueh Chen
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Patent number: 11357210Abstract: A feeding apparatus, disposed in a detecting room having therein a target object, includes a fixing element, at least one target sensing unit, a rotating element, a driving module, and a control unit. The fixing element includes at least one lens disposed on a sidewall of the fixing element. The lens converges an infrared radiation in the detecting room onto the target sensing unit which then generates a position signal corresponding to the target object. The rotating element is disposed on one side of the fixing element. The rotating element includes a discharge channel. The driving module is connected to the rotating element. The control unit is coupled to the target sensing unit and the driving module to receive a position signal from the target sensing unit and control the driving module to drive the rotating element according to the position signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chien-Yueh Chen
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Publication number: 20220131224Abstract: A doorbell device includes a housing, a passive element, a battery module, and a thermal expansion element. The housing includes a mounting plate, and the mounting plate includes a through hole, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The passive element is movably disposed in the housing. The passive element includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface faces the mounting plate. The battery module is disposed on the first side surface and corresponds to the through hole. The thermal expansion element is disposed between the second side surface and the housing. The passive element allows a gap to be maintained between the battery module and the outer surface, or is driven, by the thermal expansion element, to allow at least a part of the battery module to be located in the through hole and at the same plane with the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Chien-Yueh CHEN
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Publication number: 20210341818Abstract: A light adjustment module for a camera includes a light source unit and a light adjustment unit. The light source unit includes light emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light direction of each of the light emitting elements is parallel to the image capturing direction of the lens. The light adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes secondary optical elements, and the secondary optical elements respectively correspond to the light emitting elements. The light emitted by each of light emitting elements is deflected through the corresponding secondary optical element. Each of the secondary optical elements includes a first ring-shaped prism and a second ring-shaped prism, the width of the second ring-shaped prism is greater than the width of the first ring-shaped prism, and the second ring-shaped prism surrounds the outer circumference of the first ring-shaped prism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Patent number: 11112680Abstract: A light-adjustment module for camera includes a light source unit and a light-adjustment unit. The light source unit includes light-emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light-emitting direction of each light-emitting element is parallel to the image-capturing direction of the lens. The light-adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes secondary optical elements respectively corresponding to the light-emitting elements. Each secondary optical element includes a light-transmitting cover, and each light-emitting element is accommodated inside the corresponding light-transmitting cover. An inner wall of each light-transmitting cover includes a first light-guiding inclined surface and a second light-guiding inclined surface. A first slope of the first light-guiding inclined surface is different from a second slope of the second light-guiding inclined surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Patent number: 11095826Abstract: A light adjustment module for camera includes a light source unit and a light adjustment unit. The light source unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light emitting direction of each light emitting element is parallel to the image capturing direction of the lens. The light adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes a plurality of secondary optical elements, and the secondary optical elements respectively corresponds to the light emitting elements. The light emitted by each light emitting element is deflected through the corresponding secondary optical element.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Publication number: 20200355987Abstract: A light-adjustment module for camera includes a light source unit and a light-adjustment unit. The light source unit includes light-emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light-emitting direction of each light-emitting element is parallel to the image-capturing direction of the lens. The light-adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes secondary optical elements respectively corresponding to the light-emitting elements. Each secondary optical element includes a light-transmitting cover, and each light-emitting element is accommodated inside the corresponding light-transmitting cover. An inner wall of each light-transmitting cover includes a first light-guiding inclined surface and a second light-guiding inclined surface. A first slope of the first light-guiding inclined surface is different from a second slope of the second light-guiding inclined surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Publication number: 20200358941Abstract: A light adjustment module for camera includes a light source unit and a light adjustment unit. The light source unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements disposed around a lens of the camera, and the light emitting direction of each light emitting element is parallel to the image capturing direction of the lens. The light adjustment unit is disposed above the light source unit and includes a plurality of secondary optical elements, and the secondary optical elements respectively corresponds to the light emitting elements. The light emitted by each light emitting element is deflected through the corresponding secondary optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang
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Publication number: 20200236900Abstract: A feeding apparatus, disposed in a detecting room having therein a target object, includes a fixing element, at least one target sensing unit, a rotating element, a driving module, and a control unit. The fixing element includes at least one lens disposed on a sidewall of the fixing element. The lens converges an infrared radiation in the detecting room onto the target sensing unit which then generates a position signal corresponding to the target object. The rotating element is disposed on one side of the fixing element. The rotating element includes a discharge channel. The driving module is connected to the rotating element. The control unit is coupled to the target sensing unit and the driving module to receive a position signal from the target sensing unit and control the driving module to drive the rotating element according to the position signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventor: CHIEN-YUEH CHEN
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Patent number: 10657781Abstract: A smart doorbell includes a case set, a circuit board, a lens, a vibration sensing module, a locking unit, a vibration unit and a vibration transferring unit. The case set includes a first case and a second case. The first case is combined with the second case. The circuit board is located in the case set. The lens is disposed on the circuit board. The vibration sensing module is connected to the circuit board. The locking unit locks the first case and the second case. The vibration unit is connected to the locking unit and includes a plurality of crests and a plurality of troughs. The crests and troughs are aligned alternatingly. The vibration transferring unit touches the vibration unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Yueh Chen, Jin-Kae Jang, Mei-Yi Tsai
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Publication number: 20200126376Abstract: A smart doorbell includes a case set, a circuit board, a lens, a vibration sensing module, a locking unit, a vibration unit and a vibration transferring unit. The case set includes a first case and a second case. The first case is combined with the second case. The circuit board is located in the case set. The lens is disposed on the circuit board. The vibration sensing module is connected to the circuit board. The locking unit locks the first case and the second case. The vibration unit is connected to the locking unit and includes a plurality of crests and a plurality of troughs. The crests and troughs are aligned alternatingly. The vibration transferring unit touches the vibration unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: CHIEN-YUEH CHEN, JIN-KAE JANG, MEI-YI TSAI
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Publication number: 20170255008Abstract: A self-cleaning surveillance device and a method using the same are provided. The self-cleaning surveillance device includes a surveillance device and a fan. The surveillance device includes an image capturing device and a processor. The image capturing device captures a surveillance image. The processor receives the captured surveillance image, compares the captured surveillance image with a preset condition, and then generates a drive signal corresponding to a mismatch between the surveillance image and the preset condition. The fan is disposed at an edge of a front end of the surveillance device and receives the drive signal. The fan blows air towards the front end of the surveillance device according to the drive signal in order to clean the front end of the surveillance device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: HUANG-JEN CHIEN, CHIEN-YUEH CHEN
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Patent number: 8807791Abstract: An illuminating device with adjustable light beams and a method for assembling the same. The light-emitting units are disposed on the substrate. The optical element is disposed in the path of a light emitted by at least one of the light-emitting units. The driving unit drives a first or second set of the light-emitting units, wherein a light beam formed by light that is emitted by the first set of the light-emitting units and passes through the optical element has a different shape or projection angle from a light beam formed by light that is emitted by the second set of the light-emitting units and passes through the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Av Tech Corp.Inventors: Chun-Ru Huang, Chien-Yueh Chen