Patents by Inventor Chih-Peng Hsia

Chih-Peng Hsia 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: 20200342196
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method for an optical fingerprint sensor. The optical fingerprint sensor includes a plurality of pixels, and each of the pixels has a first control signal line and a second control signal line. Each of the pixels is further coupled to a first voltage source line, a second voltage source line and a sensing line. The control method includes a plurality of steps, and the steps are applying a first anti-loading driving (ALD) signal on the second control signal line, and applying a second ALD signal on at least one of the first control signal line, the first voltage source line, the second voltage source line and the sensing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Tsen-Wei Chang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Wei-Lun Shih, Hong-Chu Chen, Su-Wei Lien, Sheng-Wen Hsiao, Liang-Chi Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200327301
    Abstract: A driving apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The driving apparatus includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The first driving circuit performs a first driving mode on a panel. The first driving circuit performs the first driving mode during a first frame period among a plurality of frame periods and skips the first driving mode during a first skip period between the first frame period and a second frame period among the frame periods. The first driving circuit outputs timing control signal including a timing that the first driving mode is skipped. The second driving circuit is coupled to the first driving circuit to receive the timing control signal. The second driving circuit performs a fingerprint sensing operation different from the first driving mode on the panel according to the timing control signal during the first skip period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Lun Shih, Tsen-Wei Chang, Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Cheng-Yu Chiang
  • Patent number: 10775926
    Abstract: An electronic device, capable of performing a touch sensing operation and a fingerprint sensing operation simultaneously, is provided. The electronic device comprises a touch sensing control circuit; and a fingerprint sensing control circuit; wherein the touch sensing control circuit senses a first touch on a sensing region of a panel, and the touch sensing control circuit provides a first location information corresponding to the first touch; wherein a fingerprint region is determined in the sensing region according to the first location information, and the fingerprint region encompasses a location of the first touch; wherein the fingerprint sensing control circuit performs the fingerprint sensing operation on the fingerprint region during a first sensing time, and the electronic device performs the touch sensing operation on the sensing region except the fingerprint region during the first sensing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chih-Peng Hsia, He-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20200275001
    Abstract: A display apparatus and an fingerprint sensing method thereof are provided. A display panel of the display apparatus has a pixel circuit array, an in-display touch sensor array, and an in-display fingerprint sensor array. A driving circuit drives the in-display fingerprint sensor array to read a fingerprint image. A current display frame period is divided into a plurality of unit periods, each of the unit periods includes at least one fingerprint sensing period and one or both of a display driving period and a touch sensing period. The driving circuit resets a current fingerprint sensor in the in-display fingerprint sensor array during a first fingerprint sensing period among these fingerprint sensing periods of the first display frame period. The driving circuit reads a sensing result of the current fingerprint sensor during a second fingerprint sensing period succeeding to the first fingerprint sensing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chao-Yu Meng, Shih-Cheng Chen, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20200241725
    Abstract: An electronic device, capable of performing a touch sensing operation and a fingerprint sensing operation simultaneously, is provided. The electronic device comprises a touch sensing control circuit; and a fingerprint sensing control circuit; wherein the touch sensing control circuit senses a first touch on a sensing region of a panel, and the touch sensing control circuit provides a first location information corresponding to the first touch; wherein a fingerprint region is determined in the sensing region according to the first location information, and the fingerprint region encompasses a location of the first touch; wherein the fingerprint sensing control circuit performs the fingerprint sensing operation on the fingerprint region during a first sensing time, and the electronic device performs the touch sensing operation on the sensing region except the fingerprint region during the first sensing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chih-Peng Hsia, He-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20200218871
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification apparatus including a touch and display integration circuit and a fingerprint identification device is provided. The touch and display integration circuit is configured to perform a touch and display function in each of a plurality of touch and display periods during a total contact time. An object touches a predetermined area of the display panel during the total contact time. The fingerprint identification device is configured to obtain a plurality of sample images of the object in each of a plurality of sensing periods during the total contact time. Two adjacent sensing periods have at least one of the touch and display periods therebetween. A fingerprint identification method of the fingerprint identification apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Wen-Shen Wuen
  • Publication number: 20200210065
    Abstract: An electronic device and a fingerprint sensing control method thereof are provided. A sensing region of a display panel is divided into a plurality of fingerprint zones. The electronic device determines at least one target fingerprint zone from the fingerprint zones according to a touched area. The electronic device scans the at least one target fingerprint zone for performing fingerprint sensing. The electronic device performs an accelerated reading operation. The accelerated reading operation includes: reading at least one sensing signal from the at least one target fingerprint zone; and skipping reading at least one of the fingerprint zones other than the at least one target fingerprint zone among the fingerprint zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Cheng Chen, Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Shiang-Fei Wang, Su-Wei Lien
  • Publication number: 20200210668
    Abstract: An electronic device and a fingerprint sensing control method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a touch control circuit and a fingerprint sensing control circuit. The touch control circuit is coupled to the display panel. The touch control circuit performs touch detection on the display panel to obtain a finger press area corresponding to the finger on the display panel. The fingerprint sensing control circuit is coupled to the touch control circuit to obtain a finger press area. The fingerprint sensing control circuit is coupled to the display panel to perform a fingerprint sensing control on a display panel. The fingerprint sensing control circuit scans the finger press area on the display panel in a first direction during a first period and scans the finger press area in a second direction different from the first direction during a second period after the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Shih-Cheng Chen, Su-Wei Lien, Chih-Peng Hsia, Shiang-Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 9389738
    Abstract: A touching apparatus and a touching detecting method thereof are provided. The touching detecting method is adapted for a touch panel. The touch panel has a plurality of touching rows and a plurality of touching columns. The touching detecting method includes: performing a mutual-capacitor touching detection and a self-capacitor touching detection alternatingly to the touch panel for obtaining a mutual-capacitor detection result and a self-capacitor detection result, respectively; and obtaining position information of at least one touch point on the touch panel by an operation based on the mutual-capacitor detection result and the self-capacitor detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Chang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Hui-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 9196210
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving module for a liquid crystal display device. The driving module includes a data line signal processing unit, for generating a plurality of data driving signals, a scan line signal processing unit, for generating a plurality of gate driving signals, and a control unit, for controlling the data line signal processing unit and the gate line signal processing unit, such that a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a data line are with different charging orders in different frames, or are charged with different charging periods in a same frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Pin Chang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Tsung-Yin Yu
  • Patent number: 9013445
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device includes a capacitive touch panel, a driving control unit, k ADCs, a multiplex network and a processing unit. The capacitive touch panel has an m×n sensing point matrix formed by m driving line and n sensing lines. The driving control unit is coupled to the m driving lines. The multiplex network connects the n sensing lines and the k ADCs by time-domain multiplexing. The processing unit is coupled to the k ADCs. At least a part of the driving lines and at least a part of the sensing lines are assigned to be electrically connected. The processing unit senses according to multiple frequencies to obtain multiple signal strength values, and selects the frequency corresponding to a smallest signal value to be a sensing frequency of the capacitive touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Yi-Rong Ko, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Patent number: 8963008
    Abstract: An electrode structure of a capacitive touch panel is provided, which includes a plurality of receiving electrodes and a plurality of driving electrodes. Each of the receiving electrodes has a hexagonal electrode structure. Each of the driving electrodes includes a main region. Each of the main regions has a quadrilateral electrode structure. The area of each driving electrode is larger than that of each receiving electrode. By using the foregoing electrode structure, the capacitive touch panel can not only provide sensing signals with less noise but also increase the intensity of input signals to enhance the signal to noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Shih-Ming Lin, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20140267146
    Abstract: A touching apparatus and a touching detecting method thereof are provided. The touching detecting method is adapted for a touch panel. The touch panel has a plurality of touching rows and a plurality of touching columns. The touching detecting method includes: performing a mutual-capacitor touching detection and a self-capacitor touching detection alternatively to the touch panel for obtaining a mutual-capacitor detection result and a self-capacitor detection result, respectively; and obtaining position information of at least one touch point on the touch panel by an operation based on the mutual-capacitor detection result and the self-capacitor detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Chang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Hui-Hung Chang
  • Publication number: 20130277091
    Abstract: An electrode structure of a capacitive touch panel including a plurality of receiving electrodes and driving electrodes is provided. Each of the receiving electrodes has at least one opening. Each of the driving electrodes includes a main region and a plurality of elongation regions. The area of each driving electrode is larger than that of each receiving electrode. Parts of the receiving electrodes surround a corresponding one of the driving electrodes, and the elongation regions of the surrounded driving electrode correspondingly stretch into the openings of the receiving electrodes which surround the driving electrode. By using the foregoing electrode structure, the capacitive touch panel is not only capable of providing sensing signals with less noise but is also capable of increasing input signals to enhance the signal to noise ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Chang, Chih-Chang Lai, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20130264095
    Abstract: An electrode structure of a capacitive touch panel is provided, which includes a plurality of receiving electrodes and a plurality of driving electrodes. Each of the receiving electrodes has a hexagonal electrode structure. Each of the driving electrodes includes a main region. Each of the main regions has a quadrilateral electrode structure. The area of each driving electrode is larger than that of each receiving electrode. By using the foregoing electrode structure, the capacitive touch panel can not only provide sensing signals with less noise but also increase the intensity of input signals to enhance the signal to noise ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Shih-Ming Lin, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20130257790
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device includes a capacitive touch panel, a driving control unit, k ADCs, a multiplex network and a processing unit. The capacitive touch panel has an m×n sensing point matrix formed by m driving line and n sensing lines. The driving control unit is coupled to the m driving lines. The multiplex network connects the n sensing lines and the k ADCs by time-domain multiplexing. The processing unit is coupled to the k ADCs. At least a part of the driving lines and at least a part of the sensing lines are assigned to be electrically connected. The processing unit senses according to multiple frequencies to obtain multiple signal strength values, and selects the frequency corresponding to a smallest signal value to be a sensing frequency of the capacitive touch device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Yi-Rong Ko, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20120287109
    Abstract: A data driver and a display module using the same are provided. The data driver includes a data line driving circuit and a power control circuit. The data line driving circuit drives data lines of the display module. The power control circuit controls an external power generating circuit connected to the data driver to generate a scan voltage for a scan driver of the display module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng CHANG, Jie-Jung Huang, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20120249446
    Abstract: A touch-sensing apparatus including a touch panel and a touch-sensing controller is provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch blocks. Each of the touch blocks includes a first portion and a second portion. The touch-sensing controller includes a driving line and a plurality of sensing lines. The driving line is coupled to the first portions of the touch blocks, and the sensing lines are respectively coupled to the second portions of the touch blocks. The touch-sensing controller outputs a driving signal to the first portions through the driving line and receives a plurality of sensing signals generated by the second portions according to the driving signal through the sensing lines, so as to determine a touch coordinates corresponding to one of the touch blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Chih-Peng Hsia, Chih-Yuan Chang, He-Wei Huang, Chun-Ching Huang
  • Publication number: 20110279443
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving module for a liquid crystal display device. The driving module includes a data line signal processing unit, for generating a plurality of data driving signals, a scan line signal processing unit, for generating a plurality of gate driving signals, and a control unit, for controlling the data line signal processing unit and the gate line signal processing unit, such that a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a data line are with different charging orders in different frames, or are charged with different charging periods in a same frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Yu-Pin Chang, Chih-Peng Hsia, Tsung-Yin Yu