Patents by Inventor Chih-Hung Lu

Chih-Hung Lu 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).

  • Publication number: 20110299086
    Abstract: A sensing device includes a housing and an image sensing system disposed in the housing and used for detecting a reflected light from an object. The image sensing system includes a substrate, a light sensing element, and a reflection and redirection element. The light sensing element is disposed on the substrate. The reflection and redirection element is disposed between the light sensing element and the object, and used for reflecting and redirecting the reflected light from the object to a receiving direction of the light sensing element, such that the light sensing element receives the reflected light and generates a corresponding sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Hui Hsuan Chen, Cheng Nan Tsai, Chih Hung Lu, Wei Chung Wang
  • Publication number: 20110285643
    Abstract: An optical touch display device includes a display unit and at least one light sensing module. The display unit includes a first substrate and a display layer. The first substrate has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display layer is disposed on the display area of the first substrate. The light sensing module is disposed on an upper surface of the non-display area of the first substrate. A side surface of the light sensing module has a light sensing window, and at least a portion of the light sensing window is adapted to receive light above the display unit. The optical touch display device has a thin thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Lu, Hui-Hsuan Chen, Wei-Chung Wang
  • Publication number: 20110261015
    Abstract: An optical touch device includes a display panel and at least a light emitting and receiving unit. The display panel includes a transparent substrate having a touch surface and a plurality of side surfaces adjacent to the touch surface. At least one of the side surfaces is a first light incidence surface and at least one of the side surfaces is a first light emitting surface. Each light emitting and receiving unit includes a linear light source and a light sensing component. The linear light source is disposed beside the first light incidence surface and is configured for providing optical signals into the transparent substrate. The light sensing component is disposed beside the first light emitting surface. The light sensing component is configured for receiving the optical signals from the linear light source. The optical touch display device has advantages of low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: CHIH-HUNG LU, Wei-Chung Wang, Hui-Hsuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20110236805
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a MEMS lithography mask with improved tungsten deposition topography and a method for making the same. The MEMS lithography mask includes: a pattern including at least two sections forming a conjunction with each other, each of the at least two sections having a width not less than a minimum width, the conjunction having a center and a plurality of corners, wherein at least one of the corners is inwardly recessed to reduce a width of the conjunction, the sections being for defining trenches on a substrate to be filled with tungsten as apart of a MEMS device, whereby the lowest height of the tungsten surface is not lower than 80% of the trench height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hsin-Hui Hsu, Chuan-Wei Wang, Sheng-Ta Lee, Chih-Hung Lu
  • Publication number: 20110194097
    Abstract: An optical ranging sensor includes a light emitting unit for projecting a light beam on an object to be measured, a light receiving unit on which a light spot of reflected light of the light beam from the object is formed, and a processing circuit unit for processing output signals from the light receiving unit and detecting a distance to the object. The light receiving unit includes an effective light receiving part having light receiving cells arranged in matrix form in a first direction in which a position of the light spot moves as the object moves along a direction of an optical axis of the light emitting unit, and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A size of the effective light receiving part in the second direction is not smaller than a radius of the light spot but not larger than a diameter thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Akifumi YAMAGUCHI, Hideo Wada, Masaru Kubo, Jason Lu/ Chih-Hung Lu
  • Publication number: 20110134078
    Abstract: A distance-measuring device includes a light-emitting/sensing controlling circuit, a light-emitting component, a light-sensing group, a background-calculating circuit, a frequency-adjusting circuit, and a distance-calculating circuit. The light-emitting component emits a detecting light to a measured object. The light-emitting/sensing controlling circuit controls the light-sensing group receiving and accumulating the energy of a reflective light generated by the measured object reflecting the detecting light, so that the distance-calculating circuit can calculate a measured distance between the measured object and the distance-measuring device according the accumulated energy of the light-sensing group. In addition, the distance-measuring device calculates the energy accumulated by the light-sensing group sensing the background light per unit time, by means of the background-calculating circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Han-Chi Liu, Chih-Hung Lu, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Publication number: 20110126623
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical MEMS detector, comprising: a substrate; at least one photo diode in a region within the substrate; an isolation wall above the substrate and surrounding the photo diode region; and at least one movable part having an opening for light to pass through and reach the photo diode, wherein when the at least one movable part is moved, an amount of light reaching the photo diode is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Chuan-Wei Wang, Hsin-Hui Hsu, Chih-Hung Lu
  • Publication number: 20110098088
    Abstract: A multimedia processing system is provided for communicating among a baseband module, an image sensor module, and at least one display module in a mobile phone. The system comprises: a serial baseband interface that transmits and receives processing data from the baseband module; an image sensor interface that transmits and receives image data from the image sensor module; a display interface that transmits and receives display data from the display module, wherein the display interface comprises a display write enable output, a display read enable output, and a display transceiver means to transmit and receive the display data; and at least one register that includes a clock phase control bit, a clock polarity control bit for assisting the serial baseband interface to accommodate different interface standards, and a burst read mode control bit for bursting the serial baseband interface to read sequential processing data from a multimedia module or from the baseband module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Lu, Chien-Chang Pan, Cho-Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20110095983
    Abstract: An optical input device includes at least two bodies for being moved on a surface, and a processing unit for obtaining a relative motion between the bodies and for updating the picture shown by the image display according to the relative motion. The present invention further provides an image system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih Hung LU, Cho Yi LIN, Yao Ching HSU
  • Patent number: 7917173
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multimedia processing system for communicating data among a baseband module, an image sensor module, and at least one display module in a wireless mobile phone. The multimedia processing system further comprises a serial baseband interface, an image sensor interface, and a display interface which transmits and receives different kinds of data, including processing data, image data and display data, among each others. Several hardware implementations for the serial interface, including a serial peripheral interface and a universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter interface, are disclosed according to certain embodiments of the invention. Moreover, another embodiment comprises a bypass mechanism which bypasses signals to other components because under certain circumstances it is reasonable to bypass incoming data signals directly from one device to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Lu, Chien-Chang Pan, Cho-Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20110069299
    Abstract: A distance-measuring device is utilized for measuring a measured distance between a measured object and the distance-measuring device. The distance-measuring device reduces the effect of a background light and a flicking light by removing the part corresponding to the background light and the flicking light from light-sensed signals generated by an image sensor of the distance-measuring device. In addition, the distance-measuring device calculates a calibrating parameter for calibrating an assemble-error angle of the distance-measuring device, according to an imaging location of a reflective light obtained by measuring a calibrating object with a predetermined distance. In this way, the distance-measuring device can correctly calculate out the measured distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Chi-Chieh Liao, Chih-Hung Lu, Tsung-Yi Su
  • Publication number: 20110052007
    Abstract: A gesture recognition method for an interactive system includes the steps of: capturing image windows with an image sensor; obtaining information of object images associated with at least one pointer in the image windows; calculating a position coordinate of the pointer relative to the interactive system according to the position of the object images in the image windows when a single pointer is identified according to the information of object images; and performing gesture recognition according to a relation between the object images in the image window when a plurality of pointers are identified according to the information of object images. The present invention further provides an interactive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Hsin Chia CHEN, Tzung Min SU, Chih Hung LU
  • Publication number: 20110050644
    Abstract: A pointer coordinate detection method for a touch system includes the steps of: capturing an image window looking across a plate surface with at least one image sensor; identifying a height coordinate of a pointer relative to the touch system according to a variation of each column of pixels in the image window; and calculating a plane coordinate of the pointer relative to the touch system according to an image position of the pointer in the image window. The present invention further provides a touch system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: T zung Min SU, Hsin Chia CHEN, Chih Hung LU
  • Publication number: 20100309154
    Abstract: A two-dimensional input device, a control device and an interactive game system are provided. The control device is suitable for communicating with a game console which performing a game program. The control device includes a two-dimensional input device and a remote controller. The two-dimensional input device includes a touch panel which showing a pattern corresponding to the game program. The two-dimensional input device outputs a two-dimensional coordinate data when the pattern was touched. The remote control receives the two-dimensional coordinate data by a first communication method and outputs the two-dimensional coordinate data by a second communication method. Wherein, the game console receives the two-dimensional coordinate data and performs it with the game program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Cho-Yi LIN, Chih-Hung Lu
  • Publication number: 20100309155
    Abstract: A two-dimensional input device, control device and interactive game system are provided. The control device is suitable for communicating with a game console which performs a game program. The control device includes a two-dimensional input device and a remote controller. The two-dimensional input device outputs a two-dimensional coordinate data when being touched. The remote controller receives the two-dimensional coordinate data by a first communication method and outputs the two-dimensional coordinate data by a second communication method. Wherein, the game console receives the two-dimensional coordinate data and performs it with the game program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Chih-Hung LU, Cho-Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20100295457
    Abstract: A light control system includes at least one illumination module and a remote controller. Each illumination module includes an identification signal generator, at least one light source, a receiving unit and a control circuit. When the receiving unit receives a first wireless control signal, the control circuit controls the identification signal generator to emit an identification signal; when the receiving unit receives a second wireless control signal, the control circuit controls the ON/OFF of the light source. The remote controller sends the first and second wireless control signals to the illumination module, acquires the identification signal emitted from the identification signal generator to generate a plurality of images, and identifies the illumination module according to the images. The present invention further provides a control method of a light control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih Hung LU, Cho Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20100295785
    Abstract: An integrative image system includes an image display, a first input device, a second input device and a host. When at least one key of the first input device is pressed, the first input device sends a control signal to the host to enable the host to compare a characteristic parameter detected by the second input device with a plurality of predetermined rules and to control the image display to execute a corresponding function according to the predetermined rule that the characteristic parameter matches. The present invention further provides an operating method of an interactive image system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih Hung LU, Cho Yi LIN
  • Publication number: 20100289773
    Abstract: A controlling method applied to a sensing system includes the following step. Whether a specific function is started is determined according to the size of a total pattern acquired. In an embodiment of the present invention, the step of determining whether the specific function is started according to the size of the total pattern acquired is the step of determining whether the specific function is started according to the size of the total pattern acquired and the length of time to successively acquire the total pattern. Accordingly, it is more convenient for a user to use the sensing system having the said controlling method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Cho-Yi Lin, Chih-Hung Lu
  • Publication number: 20100284548
    Abstract: A 3-point positioning device senses a scene including an auxiliary positioning module by means of an image sensor, and accordingly generates a sensed image. The auxiliary positioning module comprises a first, a second, and a third auxiliary positioning units. By means of the sensed image, the 3-point positioning device recognizes a first, a second, and a third sensing units of the image sensor corresponding to the first, the second, and the third auxiliary positioning units. In this way, the 3-point positioning device can calculate out an absolute location of the auxiliary positioning module according to the locations or the received power of the first, the second, and the third sensing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Hsin-Chi Cheng, Chih-Hung Lu, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Publication number: 20100265180
    Abstract: A mouse wheel assembly is provided according to the present invention. The mouse wheel assembly includes a member and an optical module. The member has a pattern formed thereon. The optical module is adapted to illuminate the pattern on the member, capture an image of the pattern as a result of the illumination and recognize a feature change of the image of the pattern to obtain the change direction and change speed of the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chih Hung LU, Wei Chung WANG