Patents by Inventor Chih-Huan Wu

Chih-Huan Wu 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: 11290671
    Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first temporal circuit, a second temporal circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first temporal circuit. Within a second interval, the photodiode detects second light energy to be stored in the second temporal circuit. Within an operation interval, the first temporal circuit outputs a first detection signal having a first pulse width according to the first light energy and outputs a second detection signal having a second pulse width according to the second light energy for being calculated by the operation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ren-Chieh Liu, Chih-Huan Wu, Yi-Hsien Ko, Han-Chi Liu
  • Publication number: 20220070404
    Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first temporal circuit, a second temporal circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first temporal circuit. Within a second interval, the photodiode detects second light energy to be stored in the second temporal circuit. Within an operation interval, the first temporal circuit outputs a first detection signal having a first pulse width according to the first light energy and outputs a second detection signal having a second pulse width according to the second light energy for being calculated by the operation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ren-Chieh LIU, Chih-Huan WU, Yi-Hsien KO, Han-Chi LIU
  • Publication number: 20220053158
    Abstract: There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: CHIH-HUAN WU, WEN-CHENG YEN
  • Patent number: 11212484
    Abstract: There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Wen-Cheng Yen
  • Publication number: 20210344881
    Abstract: A method of an image sensor circuit includes: providing an event camera comprising at least one pixel unit; using the event camera to sense at least one current pixel value of the at least one pixel unit to detect whether at least one pixel value changes; when the at least one pixel value changes, using the event camera to trigger the digital processing circuit when the digital processing circuit is in a power saving mode and transmit information of the at least one pixel value to the digital processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Wen-Han Yao
  • Publication number: 20210329193
    Abstract: A motion detection method applied into an image sensor device includes: providing a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) on at least one monitoring image; for each region of interest (ROI): detecting whether at least one motion event occurs within the each ROI; and determining a priority level of the each ROI according to at least one feature information of the at least one motion event; and determining an alarm schedule of the ROIs for a user according to a plurality of priority levels of the RIOs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Yi-Hsien Ko, Wen-Han Yao
  • Publication number: 20200404223
    Abstract: A motion detection method utilized for a motion sensor includes: capturing a monitoring image; entering a recording mode when one intensity change value between the monitoring image and a pre-stored background image is higher than a first threshold and a trigger signal is received from an auxiliary sensor; and entering the recording mode when the intensity change value is higher than a second threshold before the trigger signal is received; wherein the second threshold is higher than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Wen-Han Yao, Chih-Huan Wu
  • Publication number: 20200389619
    Abstract: There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: CHIH-HUAN WU, WEN-CHENG YEN
  • Patent number: 10805579
    Abstract: A motion detection method utilized for a motion sensor includes: capturing a monitoring image; entering a recording mode when one intensity change value between the monitoring image and a pre-stored background image is higher than a first threshold and a trigger signal is received from an auxiliary sensor; and entering the recording mode when the intensity change value is higher than a second threshold before the trigger signal is received; wherein the second threshold is higher than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMESENSOR TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Han Yao, Chih-Huan Wu
  • Patent number: 10757358
    Abstract: There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: PRIMESENSOR TECHNOLOGY INC., PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Wen-Cheng Yen
  • Patent number: 10750099
    Abstract: An image sensing method, comprising: (a) controlling an image sensor to apply a first frame rate to sense a first frame during a first frame period; (b) determining exposure variation in the first frame period; and (c) during one of the first frame period and a second frame period following the first frame period, switching the image sensor to apply a second frame rate different from the first frame rate to sense at least one third frame, when the step (b) determines the exposure variation exceeds a threshold level. A related image sensing system is also disclosed. Via such image sensing method, the frame switch delay of a conventional frame switch can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMESENSOR TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Han Yao, Chih-Huan Wu
  • Publication number: 20200244931
    Abstract: A motion detection method utilized for a motion sensor includes: capturing a monitoring image; entering a recording mode when one intensity change value between the monitoring image and a pre-stored background image is higher than a first threshold and a trigger signal is received from an auxiliary sensor; and entering the recording mode when the intensity change value is higher than a second threshold before the trigger signal is received; wherein the second threshold is higher than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Wen-Han Yao, Chih-Huan Wu
  • Publication number: 20200128190
    Abstract: An image sensing method, comprising: (a) controlling an image sensor to apply a first frame rate to sense a first frame during a first frame period; (b) determining exposure variation in the first frame period; and (c) during one of the first frame period and a second frame period following the first frame period, switching the image sensor to apply a second frame rate different from the first frame rate to sense at least one third frame, when the step (b) determines the exposure variation exceeds a threshold level. A related image sensing system is also disclosed. Via such image sensing method, the frame switch delay of a conventional frame switch can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Wen-Han Yao, Chih-Huan Wu
  • Publication number: 20130286210
    Abstract: A bird-view image capture system and a bird-view image capture method thereof. The system comprises a plurality of image capture modules, a processing module, a compositing module and a display module. Therein, each of the plurality of image capture modules captures an image respectively. The processing module analyzes the plurality of images to get a plurality of first images and a plurality of second images. The processing module converts the plurality of first images and the plurality of second images respectively to get a plurality of inboard images and a plurality of outboard images. The compositing module composes the plurality of inboard images and the plurality of outboard images as a plurality of compositing images. The compositing module composes each compositing image to produce a bird-view image. The display module displays the bird-view image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: ALTEK AUTOTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Chung-Fang Chien, Ching-Shyang Lo
  • Publication number: 20130093887
    Abstract: An obstacle detection system and a method thereof The obstacle detection system comprises an object detection module used to generate a detected distance and a detected direction of a external obstacle; a camera module used to capture a camera image including an obstacle image; a calculation module used to calculate a first region for the obstacle image in the camera image; and an object search module used to execute a first image processing on the camera image within the first region to obtain the obstacle image. If no obstacle is found within the first region, the calculation module is used to calculate a second region. The object search module is used to execute a second image processing within the second region to obtain the obstacle image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: ALTEK AUTOTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Huan Wu, Chung-Fang Chien