Patents by Inventor Chih-Sung Wang

Chih-Sung Wang 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: 8674920
    Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes receiving image data of each display unit of the LCD in every display period to determine gray levels of the display units, controlling a gate driver of the LCD to scan each of the display units at least twice every display period, controlling a source driver of the LCD to generate a switch signal, controlling the source driver to determine the gray levels of one row of the display units when the switch signal is at a first voltage level, and controlling the source driver to drive one row of the display units to a predetermined gray level status when the switch signal is at a second voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chih-Sung Wang, Yao Jen Hsieh, Huan Hsin Li
  • Patent number: 8643582
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The driving apparatus includes a plurality of data driving ICs and a control board. The data driving ICs are used for receiving and transmitting a clock signal, a plurality of data signals and a first reference voltage from the 1st data driving IC to the last data driving IC in series. The control board is used for providing the clock signal, the data signals and the first reference voltage, and changing the first reference voltage received by each data driving IC according to a variation of the clock signal and the data signals transmitted between the data driving ICs, so that the operation frequency of the data driving ICs is unrestricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tu, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 8570259
    Abstract: A scan method for use in a flat panel display comprising K groups of lines, comprising the following steps. First, K sequences S1 to SK are provided. A scan order is then determined according to the K sequences S1 to SK. Thereafter, the K groups of lines are synchronously scanned by the scan order. K is an integer not less than 2. Each group of lines comprises at least M lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Huan-Hsin Li, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 8537123
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus for accelerating a sensing signal processing operation is provided. The touch sensing apparatus includes a plurality of sets of horizontal sensing lines, a plurality of sets of vertical sensing lines, a plurality of processing circuits, and a plurality of sensing units. The plurality of sensing units output a plurality of sets of horizontal and vertical sensing signals via the plurality of sets of horizontal and vertical sensing lines respectively. Each processing circuit is coupled to corresponding sets of horizontal and vertical sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Hsiang Ho, Yu-Min Hsu, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 8378949
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The driving apparatus includes a plurality of data driving ICs and a control board. The data driving ICs are used for receiving and transmitting a clock signal, a plurality of data signals and a first reference voltage from the 1st data driving IC to the last data driving IC in series. The control board is used for providing the clock signal, the data signals and the first reference voltage, and changing the first reference voltage received by each data driving IC according to a variation of the clock signal and the data signals transmitted between the data driving ICs, so that the operation frequency of the data driving ICs is unrestricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tu, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 8203517
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 8199096
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 8199097
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 8194017
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 8149025
    Abstract: An exemplary gate driving circuit is adapted for receiving an external gate power supply voltage and an external control signal, sequentially generating multiple internal shift data signal groups and thereby sequentially outputting multiple gate signals. Each of the internal shift data signal groups includes multiple sequentially-generated internal shift data signals. The gate driving circuit includes multiple gate signal generating modules. Each of the gate signal generating modules includes a voltage modulation circuit and a gate output buffer circuit. The voltage modulation circuit modulates the external gate power supply voltage according to a corresponding one of the internal shift data signal groups and the external control signal, and thereby a modulated voltage signal is obtained. The gate output buffer circuit includes a plurality of parallel-coupled output stages. The output stages output the modulated voltage signal as a part of the gate signals during the output stages being sequentially enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chiang Huang, Chih-Sung Wang, Yu-Hsi Ho
  • Publication number: 20110273226
    Abstract: An exemplary gate driving circuit is adapted for receiving an external gate power supply voltage and an external control signal, sequentially generating multiple internal shift data signal groups and thereby sequentially outputting multiple gate signals. Each of the internal shift data signal groups includes multiple sequentially-generated internal shift data signals. The gate driving circuit includes multiple gate signal generating modules. Each of the gate signal generating modules includes a voltage modulation circuit and a gate output buffer circuit. The voltage modulation circuit modulates the external gate power supply voltage according to a corresponding one of the internal shift data signal groups and the external control signal, and thereby a modulated voltage signal is obtained. The gate output buffer circuit includes a plurality of parallel-coupled output stages. The output stages output the modulated voltage signal as a part of the gate signals during the output stages being sequentially enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Wen-Chiang HUANG, Chih-Sung WANG, Yu-Hsi HO
  • Patent number: 8026884
    Abstract: A system for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. The system receives a video signal including a first predetermined gray level signal and a second predetermined gray level signal. The system includes a memory, an impulse signal module, a first multiplexer and a detection unit. The memory stores the first predetermined gray level signal. The impulse signal module receives the first and second predetermined gray level signal to generate a plurality of impulse signals. The first multiplexer receives the plurality of impulse signals and outputs the second predetermined gray level signal or the plurality of impulse signals according to the first control signal. The detection unit generates a first control signal to be applied to the first multiplexer according to the first predetermined gray level signal and the second predetermined gray level signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yao-Jen Hsieh, Huan-Hsin Li, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 7903073
    Abstract: A display is provided. The display includes a first timing controller, a second timing controller and drivers. The first timing controller receives and transmits a first portion of pixel values, in which the first portion of the pixel values includes the pixel values of at least two non-adjacent pixels. The second timing controller receives and transmits a second portion of the pixel values, in which the second portion of the pixel values includes the pixel values of at least two non-adjacent pixels. Each of the drivers receives respectively a part of the first portion of the pixel values transmitted by the first timing controller and a part of the second portion of the pixel values transmitted by the second timing controller. A method of transmitting image data in the display is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Fan Chung, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng, Szu-Che Yeh, Li-Ru Lyu, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 7830351
    Abstract: An LCD gate driver circuitry having a control circuit to adjust the driving current according to a bias control signal, wherein the control circuit comprises a plurality of PMOS switching elements connected in parallel and a plurality of NMOS switching elements connected in parallel. These switching elements form a plurality of PMOS/NMOS switching element pairs. Each of the pairs serves as a current booster stage in the gate driver circuitry. The “ON”/“OFF” state of each switching element pair is controlled by a separate bias signal so that the switching element pairs can be selectively turned on in order to adjust the driver current as needed. As such, the same gate driver circuitry can be used with different LCD panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Yu-Min Hsu, Sheng-Kai Hsu
  • Publication number: 20100263918
    Abstract: A circuit board and a layout method therefor are provided. The circuit board is adapted for coupling between two circuits and includes multiple first pins, multiple second pins, a chip-disposing area for disposing a circuit chip, and a routing area including electrical routes. The first pins are coupled to one the circuit, and the second pins are coupled to the other one circuit. Two terminals of each of a first group of electrical routes of the electrical routes respectively are coupled to one of the first pins and the chip-disposing area, and two terminals of each of a second group of electrical routes of the electrical routes respectively are coupled to the chip-disposing area and one of the second pins. The second group of electrical routes and at least one of the first pins therebetween do not have any one of the first group of electrical routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yung-Hsu LIN, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Publication number: 20100045587
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The driving apparatus includes a plurality of data driving ICs and a control board. The data driving ICs are used for receiving and transmitting a clock signal, a plurality of data signals and a first reference voltage from the 1st data driving IC to the last data driving IC in series. The control board is used for providing the clock signal, the data signals and the first reference voltage, and changing the first reference voltage received by each data driving IC according to a variation of the clock signal and the data signals transmitted between the data driving ICs, so that the operation frequency of the data driving ICs is unrestricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tu, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Publication number: 20100039396
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus for accelerating a sensing signal processing operation is provided. The touch sensing apparatus includes a plurality of sets of horizontal sensing lines, a plurality of sets of vertical sensing lines, a plurality of processing circuits, and a plurality of sensing units. The plurality of sensing units output a plurality of sets of horizontal and vertical sensing signals via the plurality of sets of horizontal and vertical sensing lines respectively. Each processing circuit is coupled to corresponding sets of horizontal and vertical sensing lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Chen-Hsiang Ho, Yu-Min Hsu, Chih-Sung Wang
  • Publication number: 20090201240
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Publication number: 20090201284
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Sung Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: D1018537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Kuen Chang, Natalia Amijo, Ian James McGillivray, Chin-Wei Chou, Yi-Shen Wang, Chih-Sung Fang, Hung-Yu Chen