Patents by Inventor Chih-Jen Chen

Chih-Jen 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).

  • Patent number: 12253506
    Abstract: A method of building upstream-and-downstream configuration of sensors includes determining two sets of geographic position data of a target sensor and a candidate sensor, obtaining pollution-associated periods according to pieces of flow field data, the sets of geographic position data and pieces of target sensing data of the target sensor to determine a pollution-associated period, calculating a correlation between target sensing data obtained by the target sensor during the pollution-associated period and candidate sensing data obtained by the candidate sensor during the associated air pollution period to obtain sensor correlations, and determining the target sensor and the candidate sensor having a upstream-and-downstream relationship with the candidate sensor being used as a satellite sensor of the target sensor when a quantity ratio of sensor correlations being larger than or equal to a correlation threshold is larger than or equal to a default ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu-Lin Wang, Guang-Huei Gu, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 12254916
    Abstract: The memory device of the disclosure includes a fuse voltage generator, a fuse storage and a logic circuit. The fuse voltage generator generates a fuse voltage in response to an enable signal having a first logic level, and stop generating the fuse voltage in response to the enable signal having a second logic level. The fuse storage storages a setting data of the memory device. The fuse storage outputs the setting data in response to the fuse voltage. The logic circuit generates the enable signal in response to at least two operating signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20250078901
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a voltage regulator and a memory device. The voltage regulator includes a voltage generator and a bias circuit. The bias circuit dynamically adjusts a bias voltage based on a power saving mode signal of the memory device. The voltage generator adjusts a bias current of the voltage generator based on the bias voltage, wherein the bias current affects a slew rate of a target voltage. The voltage generator generates the target voltage to a driving circuit configured to drive a memory cell array in the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20250044600
    Abstract: A glasses assembly can include a front cover, a suspension, and a waveguide held by the suspension. The front cover and the waveguide can define a gap. The glasses assembly can include a shroud at least partially disposed in the gap. The shroud can define a first end and a second end. The shroud can include an elastomer body and a core coupled with the front cover at the first end of the shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Chenchen Shen, Nawaf Al-Baghly, Chih Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20250029523
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device can include displays and/or cameras that can be calibrated for accurate recording and visual output. Whereas some aspects of a wearable electronic device can be calibrated at the time of production, usage and wear of the wearable electronic device can result in certain components becoming misaligned. A calibration device can provide an output that serves as a reference for each of a pair of displays of the wearable electronic device. Each of the displays can be independently adjusted so their corresponding outputs are properly aligned with the view of the external environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Brian S. LAU, Michael J. OUDENHOVEN, Chih Jen CHEN, Dominic P. CINCIONE, Christopher PATTON
  • Patent number: 12152975
    Abstract: A particle sensing device, configured to detect a particulate concentration in a fluid, includes a detecting channel, a sensing space, a light source and a sensor. The detecting channel is configured for the fluid to flow therethrough. The sensing space is located on one side of the detecting channel and connected to the detecting channel, and the sensing space is surrounded by a surrounding wall. The light source and the sensing space are located on opposite sides of the detecting channel, and the light source is configured to emit light towards the detecting channel. The light is configured to hit at least one particle in the fluid. The sensor is disposed on an inner surface of the surrounding wall, and the sensor is configured to detect a scattered light energy generated when the light hits the particle. The sensor is a distance apart from the detecting channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Tsai, Guang-Huei Gu, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240194240
    Abstract: The memory device of the disclosure includes a fuse voltage generator, a fuse storage and a logic circuit. The fuse voltage generator generates a fuse voltage in response to an enable signal having a first logic level, and stop generating the fuse voltage in response to the enable signal having a second logic level. The fuse storage storages a setting data of the memory device. The fuse storage outputs the setting data in response to the fuse voltage. The logic circuit generates the enable signal in response to at least two operating signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240192508
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have display projectors that provide images. Waveguides may be used in conveying the images to eye boxes. Optical couplers such as prisms may be used to couple the images from the projectors into the waveguides. The waveguides may guide the images to output couplers that couple the images toward eye boxes for viewing by a user. During operation of the head-mounted device, sensor circuitry may be used to measure for potential misalignment between optical components such as projectors, couplers, and waveguides. Control circuitry may provide control commands to zero hold power piezoelectric actuators or other positioners based on the sensor measurements, thereby tilting and otherwise repositioning the optical components relative to each other to correct for optical component misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Chih Jen Chen, Brian S. Lau, Christopher Patton
  • Patent number: 11955196
    Abstract: A voltage generating device includes a clock signal generator, a voltage regulator and a pump circuit. The clock signal generator generates a clock signal according to an enable signal. The voltage regulator generates and adjusts a first voltage according to a reference voltage and the enable signal. The pump circuit receives the clock signal, the first voltage and a second voltage, wherein the pump circuit performs a voltage pump operation to generate an output voltage based on the clock signal according to the first voltage and the second voltage. The output voltage equals to a summation of the first voltage and the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting-Shuo Hsu, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240085703
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may include a housing having openings that receive lenses. Displays may output images. Waveguides that overlap the lenses may receive the images from the displays and may direct the images to eye boxes that are aligned with the lenses. Infrared light sources such as infrared light-emitting diodes or lasers may be used to supply infrared light to the waveguides. Each waveguide may have multiple localized output couplers that overlap the lenses. The localized output couplers of each lens each direct a beam of the infrared light out of the waveguide towards an eye surface in the eye box associated with that lens to produce an eye glint. A gaze tracker infrared camera may captured images of the eye glints to determine a user's point of gaze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chih Jen Chen, Brian S Lau, Cameron A Harder, David A Kalinowski
  • Patent number: 11908539
    Abstract: A voltage regulator for providing a word line voltage is provided. The voltage regulator includes a voltage divider, a comparator, a boost circuit and a bypass transistor. The voltage divider is coupled between the word line voltage and a low reference voltage. The voltage divider includes resistive elements connected in series at intermediate nodes. The comparator provides an enable signal according to a divided voltage value on a divided intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. The boost circuit boosts the word line voltage in response to the enable signal. A source terminal of the bypass transistor is connected to a first intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. A drain terminal of the bypass transistor is connected to a second intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. The bypass transistor is turned-off in response to the control signal having an intermediate voltage value on the first intermediate node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240027416
    Abstract: A method of building upstream-and-downstream configuration of sensors includes determining two sets of geographic position data of a target sensor and a candidate sensor, obtaining pollution-associated periods according to pieces of flow field data, the sets of geographic position data and pieces of target sensing data of the target sensor to determine a pollution-associated period, calculating a correlation between target sensing data obtained by the target sensor during the pollution-associated period and candidate sensing data obtained by the candidate sensor during the associated air pollution period to obtain sensor correlations, and determining the target sensor and the candidate sensor having a upstream-and-downstream relationship with the candidate sensor being used as a satellite sensor of the target sensor when a quantity ratio of sensor correlations being larger than or equal to a correlation threshold is larger than or equal to a default ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu-Lin WANG, Guang-Huei GU, Chih-Jen CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240021221
    Abstract: A voltage generating device includes a clock signal generator, a voltage regulator and a pump circuit. The clock signal generator generates a clock signal according to an enable signal. The voltage regulator generates and adjusts a first voltage according to a reference voltage and the enable signal. The pump circuit receives the clock signal, the first voltage and a second voltage, wherein the pump circuit performs a voltage pump operation to generate an output voltage based on the clock signal according to the first voltage and the second voltage. The output voltage equals to a summation of the first voltage and the second voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting-Shuo Hsu, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20230386524
    Abstract: A voltage regulator for providing a word line voltage is provided. The voltage regulator includes a voltage divider, a comparator, a boost circuit and a bypass transistor. The voltage divider is coupled between the word line voltage and a low reference voltage. The voltage divider includes resistive elements connected in series at intermediate nodes. The comparator provides an enable signal according to a divided voltage value on a divided intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. The boost circuit boosts the word line voltage in response to the enable signal. A source terminal of the bypass transistor is connected to a first intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. A drain terminal of the bypass transistor is connected to a second intermediate node among the intermediate nodes. The bypass transistor is turned-off in response to the control signal having an intermediate voltage value on the first intermediate node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11830540
    Abstract: An antifuse circuit includes a current generator and an antifuse sense unit. The current generator has at least one electronic device. The antifuse sense unit is electrically connected to the current generator, and the antifuse sense unit has at least one copied electronic device. An electronic device specification of the at least one electronic device of the antifuse sense unit is equal to an electronic device specification of the at least one copied electronic device of the current generator. The current generator supplies a current to the antifuse sense unit that senses an antifuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11818334
    Abstract: A thermal image-based temperature measurement calibration method applicable to a thermal image device is provided. The method includes a capturing stage, a processing stage and a calibration stage. During the capturing stage, the thermal image device captures a monitored environment to obtain a measured thermal image. During the processing stage, a processor processes on the measured thermal image to obtain a target information, wherein the target information corresponds to a target in the monitored environment, and the target information includes a target image block and a target measured temperature corresponding to the target image block. During the calibration stage, the processor obtains a distance compensation value according to a pixel number of the target image block, and the processor performs a calibration operation to the target measured temperature at least according to the distance compensation value to obtain a calibrated temperature value corresponding to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cheng Da Ko, Hung-Sheng Lin, Chun-Te Chuang, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11781917
    Abstract: This invention provides a temperature sensor circuit and its operation method. The temperature sensor circuit includes a temperature sensor, a temperature comparator, a plurality of temperature sensor enable clocks with different clock cycles and a clock selection circuit. The temperature sensor detects a temperature of an Integrated circuit and sending a signal indicative of the temperature. The temperature comparator executes a comparison between the temperature of the Integrated circuit and a predetermined temperature setting upon receiving the signal indicative of the temperature and sending an output according to the comparison. Upon receiving the output, the clock selection circuit provides one of the temperature sensor enable clocks according to the output to enable the temperature sensor. The temperature detection cycle of the temperature sensor is thus adjustable to save the temperature sensor power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20230186973
    Abstract: An antifuse circuit includes a current generator and an antifuse sense unit. The current generator has at least one electronic device. The antifuse sense unit is electrically connected to the current generator, and the antifuse sense unit has at least one copied electronic device. An electronic device specification of the at least one electronic device of the antifuse sense unit is equal to an electronic device specification of the at least one copied electronic device of the current generator. The current generator supplies a current to the antifuse sense unit that senses an antifuse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Chih-Jen CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230184732
    Abstract: A fluid quality tracing method includes obtaining pieces of fluid concentration distribution data of a detected region corresponding to detection time points respectively, generating pieces of concentration grid data respectively according to the pieces of fluid concentration distribution data, obtaining pieces of fluid moving data of the detected region corresponding to the detection time points respectively, obtaining estimated positions according to the fluid moving data and an initial position, and creating a fluid concentration trajectory according to the pieces of concentration grid data, the initial position and the estimated positions. The initial position and the estimated positions are located in the detected region. The fluid concentration trajectory includes line segments with terminals corresponding to the initial position and the estimated positions respectively, and the line segments indicate concentration representative values respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu-Lin WANG, Guang-Huei GU, Chih-Jen CHEN
  • Patent number: 11641160
    Abstract: A power providing circuit and a power providing method are provided. The power providing circuit includes at least one first charge pump circuit, at least one second charge pump circuit, a first control circuit, a signal latch, and a voltage detector. The first charge pump circuit is configured to receive a first clock to generate a first pump voltage. The second charge pump circuit is configured to receive the first clock to generate the first pump voltage. The first control circuit is configured to provide the first clock to the first charge pump circuit and the at second charge pump circuit according to a power-on detection signal. The signal latch is coupled to the second charge pump circuit. The voltage detector is configured to receive an operation voltage and generate the power-on detection signal by detecting the operation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Jen Chen