Patents by Inventor Chih-Hsin Lin

Chih-Hsin 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).

  • Patent number: 10282036
    Abstract: An image processing method includes obtaining a background picture including a first and second pixel, wherein the first pixel has a first intensity value in response to that a first sensing element is operated by a fixed exposure time, and the second pixel has a second intensity value in response to that a second image sensing element is operated by the fixed exposure time; extracting the first and second intensity value from the first and second pixel, respectively; performing a computing operation including computing a first exposure time and a second exposure time; and operating the first image sensing element by the first exposure time and the second image sensing element by the second exposure time after the computing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Tzung Min Su, Ren Hau Gu, Chih Hsin Lin, Cheng Nan Tsai
  • Publication number: 20180228442
    Abstract: A heart rate detection module including a PPG measuring device, a motion sensor and a processing unit is provided. The PPG measuring device is configured to detect a skin surface in a detection period to output a PPG signal. The motion sensor is configured to output an acceleration signal corresponding to the detection period. The processing unit is configured to respectively convert the PPG signal and the acceleration signal to first frequency domain information and second frequency domain information, determine a denoising parameter according to a maximum spectrum peak value of the second frequency domain information to denoise the first frequency domain information, and calculate a heart rate according to a maximum spectrum peak value of the denoised first frequency domain information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: CHIH-HSIN LIN, Ren-Hau GU
  • Publication number: 20180210196
    Abstract: A light sensing method applied to a light sensing system comprising a first light sensor and at least one light source. The first light sensor comprises a plurality of light sensing units. The light sensing method comprises: (a) respectively controlling an exposure condition for each of the light sensing units according distances between each one of the light sensing units and the light source; and (b) controlling the light sensing units to sense the light from the light source according to the exposure condition. The light sensing system can have a better SNR via adjusting the exposure condition for each one of the light sensing units. Such light sensing method can be applied to compute physiological parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Ren-Hau Gu, Chih-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9974487
    Abstract: A heart rate detection module including a PPG measuring device, a motion sensor and a processing unit is provided. The PPG measuring device is configured to detect a skin surface in a detection period to output a PPG signal. The motion sensor is configured to output an acceleration signal corresponding to the detection period. The processing unit is configured to respectively convert the PPG signal and the acceleration signal to first frequency domain information and second frequency domain information, determine a denoising parameter according to a maximum spectrum peak value of the second frequency domain information to denoise the first frequency domain information, and calculate a heart rate according to a maximum spectrum peak value of the denoised first frequency domain information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsin Lin, Ren-Hau Gu
  • Publication number: 20180092604
    Abstract: There is provided a system architecture including a PPG hardware module and a MEMS hardware module. The PPG hardware module processes PPG raw data, which is generally composed of analog signals or digital signals. The PPG hardware module filters the raw data for later digital calculation to, for example, find out frequency signals with higher peak values. The PPG hardware module then outputs the selected frequency signals to an MCU for heart rate calculation. The MEMS hardware module receives MEMS raw data from a motion detector made of MEMS elements. The MEMS raw data represents motion status of a user that could possibly affect the heart rate determination result. The MEMS hardware module filters the raw data for later digital calculation to find out frequency signals with higher peak values caused by motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Ren-Hau GU, Yen-Min CHANG, Ming-Chang LI, Chih-Hsin LIN
  • Patent number: 9841846
    Abstract: An exposure mechanism of an optical touch system, which includes a plurality of image sensors and a plurality of active light sources each irradiating corresponding to the associated image sensor, includes: capturing image frames using the image sensors with a sampling cycle to allow each of the image sensors to capture a bright image, wherein the sampling cycle includes a plurality of working modes and in each of the working modes at least one of the image sensors captures the bright image in a sampling interval; simultaneously capturing a dark image using all the image sensors in a denoising sampling interval; and calculating a differential image between the bright image and the dark image captured by each image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan Kao, Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9799107
    Abstract: An image brightness information adjusting method, which comprises: computing background brightness information of an image; computing a first brightness information difference between brightness information for at least one pixel of a first image line of the image and background brightness information corresponding to the first image line; and adjusting brightness information for at least one pixel of a second image line according to the first brightness information difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Lin, Yu-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9766753
    Abstract: The present invention discloses embodiments for an optical touch systems and methods. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an optical touch system that includes at least two image sensors configured to detect a plurality of objects over a touch surface to generate a plurality of object images; a plurality of first light receiving elements, wherein the first light receiving elements are arranged on a side of the touch surface along a first direction and are configured to detect the objects; and a processing unit configured to calculate a plurality of candidate coordinate data, based on the object images, and select the coordinate data that represents coordinate data of the objects from the candidate coordinate data, based on detection data of the first light receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Tzung Min Su, Ming Tsan Kao, Chun-Sheng Lin, Chih Hsin Lin, Yi Hsien Ko
  • Patent number: 9582118
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin
  • Publication number: 20170052647
    Abstract: An image processing method includes obtaining a background picture including a first and second pixel, wherein the first pixel has a first intensity value in response to that a first sensing element is operated by a fixed exposure time, and the second pixel has a second intensity value in response to that a second image sensing element is operated by the fixed exposure time; extracting the first and second intensity value from the first and second pixel, respectively; performing a computing operation including computing a first exposure time and a second exposure time; and operating the first image sensing element by the first exposure time and the second image sensing element by the second exposure time after the computing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Tzung Min SU, Ren Hau GU, Chih Hsin LIN, Cheng Nan TSAI
  • Patent number: 9575597
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical touch system and an object analyzation method thereof. The optical touch system includes a panel and an image sensing apparatus installed thereon. The object analyzation method includes the following steps: capturing a first image across a touch surface of the panel with an image sensing apparatus, wherein the first image has an object image formed corresponding to the position of a pointer on the touch surface; defining an image window that corresponds to the image position of the object image in the first image captured; determining whether the pointer is touching the touch surface or hovering over the touch surface by analyzing the brightness difference among the plurality of pixels in the image window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Lin, Chih-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9489077
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system, an optical sensing module, and an operation method using for the same system. The system recognizes a track of an object moving on or above a touch control surface to determine a corresponding gesture function; it includes a touch control surface, at least one image sensor, and a processor. The touch control surface includes at least two touch control areas. The image sensor captures a plurality of continuous pictures including the images of the objects. The processer determines which touch control area the object is moving on or above according to a starting position or a path of the track, and executes a gesture function corresponding to the track and the touch control area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin, Han-Ping Cheng, Ming-Tsan Kao, Yi-Hsien Ko
  • Patent number: 9471180
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system and a positioning method for positioning an object in a touch control area. The system includes: at least two reflective elements respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of the touch control area, wherein the sum of lengths of the first side and the second side is larger than the sum of lengths of the two reflective elements; two lighting elements respectively disposed on a third side and a fourth side of the touch control area; an image sensor forming projected images by capturing an image of the object and at least one mirror image of the object formed by the two reflective elements; and a processor calculating the coordinates of the object according to geometric information of the projected images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan Kao, Chi-Chieh Liao, Chih-Hsin Lin, Tzung-Min Su
  • Patent number: 9389731
    Abstract: There is provided an optical touch system including at least one lighting unit, at least one image sensing module and a processing unit. The image sensing module is configured to capture light of a pointer and the lighting unit to generate a two-dimensional image and to convert entire of the two-dimensional image to a one-dimensional feature. The processing unit positions the pointer according to the one-dimensional feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC
    Inventors: Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin, Yi-Hsien Ko, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Patent number: 9354749
    Abstract: There is provided an optical touch system including a touch surface, a plurality of image sensors and a plurality or compensation light sources, wherein each of the image sensors is adjacent to one of the compensation light sources. When one of the image sensors is capturing an image frame, the compensation light source not adjacent to and within a field of view of the image sensor which is capturing the image frame irradiates so as to compensate a brightness distribution of the image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin, Yaun-Yu Peng, Yu-Chia Lin, Chuan-Ching Lin, Teng Wei Hsu
  • Publication number: 20160132186
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan TSAI, Tzung-Min SU, Chih-Hsin LIN
  • Patent number: 9335525
    Abstract: An optical lens is configured in front of an image-capturing lens of an image-capturing device. A light-emitting unit of the image-capturing device emits a light beam. The optical lens includes a pair of peripheral compensation portions and a central diverging portion. Each peripheral compensation portion has a first convex surface and a first concave surface arranged opposite to the first convex surface. The central diverging portion is arranged between the peripheral compensation portions, and has a second concave surface and an oppositely arranged light incident surface. The second concave surface is arranged between the first convex surfaces. The light incident surface is arranged between the first concave surfaces. The optical axis of the light beam sequentially aligns with the light incident surface and the second concave surface. The light rays of the light beam pass through the first concave surface and the first convex surface in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsiang Huang, Chun-Yi Lu, Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin, Jia-Hong Huang
  • Publication number: 20160124577
    Abstract: An exposure mechanism of an optical touch system, which includes a plurality of image sensors and a plurality of active light sources each irradiating corresponding to the associated image sensor, includes: capturing image frames using the image sensors with a sampling cycle to allow each of the image sensors to capture a bright image, wherein the sampling cycle includes a plurality of working modes and in each of the working modes at least one of the image sensors captures the bright image in a sampling interval; simultaneously capturing a dark image using all the image sensors in a denoising sampling interval; and calculating a differential image between the bright image and the dark image captured by each image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan KAO, Tzung-Min SU, Chih-Hsin LIN
  • Publication number: 20160120422
    Abstract: There is provided a physiological detection system including a physiological detection device and a host. The physiological detection device is configured to transmit a physiological data series to the host according to a local oscillation frequency. The host is configured to calculate a physiological value according to the physiological data series and determine a correction parameter according to a receiving data parameter and a reference data parameter, wherein the correction parameter is configured to correct the physiological value, process the physiological data series or adjust the local oscillation frequency of the physiological detection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: REN-HAU GU, CHIH-HSIN LIN, YUNG-CHANG LIN, CHIEN-LUNG LIAO
  • Publication number: 20160092032
    Abstract: An optical touch screen system includes a sensing device and a processing unit. The sensing device includes first and second sensors, each generating an image. The images include the image information of a plurality of objects. The processing unit generates a plurality of candidate coordinates according to the image information and selects a portion of the candidate coordinates as output coordinates according to an optical feature of the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Tzung Min SU, Cheng Nan TSAI, Chih Hsin LIN