Patents by Inventor Chih-Wen Wu

Chih-Wen 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).

  • Publication number: 20160239145
    Abstract: A touch button system having externally programmable display, including: at least one touch display button, each having a touch display area, a button operation data output interface, and a display data input interface; and a control unit, including at least one touch display interface, at least one input interface, and at least one output interface, wherein, the at least one touch display interface is coupled with the display data input interface and the button operation data output interface of the at least one touch display button for transmitting display data and deriving button operation data; the at least one input interface is used for receiving image data from an external device, and the control unit generates the display data according to the image data; and the at least one output interface is used for outputting at least one operation code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chung-Lin CHIA, Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20160211842
    Abstract: A hybrid touch button, including: a touch display unit having a touch display area; a mechanical switch having a plurality of conductive contacts; and a control unit, having a power interface for coupling with a power source, a first interface coupled with the touch display area, a second interface coupled with the plurality of conductive contacts, and an output interface, wherein the control unit derives first input information from the first interface and second input information from the second interface, and determines an output configuration of the output interface according to the first input information and the second input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chung-Lin CHIA, Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20160170554
    Abstract: A touch system using processor to configure touch detection architecture, including: a sensor unit having a plurality of sensors; a connection unit for determining a sensors joined configuration of the plurality of sensors according to at least one connection control signal; a touch scan unit for coupling at least one touch signal to the connection unit according to at least one scan configuration signal; a touch detection unit for outputting the touch signal and deriving touch information from a parameter of the touch signal according to at least one operation mode configuration signal; and a processor unit for outputting the at least one connection control signal, the scan configuration signal, and the operation mode configuration signal according to a content of a control table, and receiving the touch information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chung-Lin CHIA, Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chih-Wen WU
  • Patent number: 9323406
    Abstract: An electronic paper touch device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer located on the first substrate; an electronic paper display layer located on the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer located on the electronic paper display layer and having plural transparent electrodes; a second substrate located on the transparent electrode layer; and a control unit having a touch mode and an electronic paper mode, wherein, when the control unit is in the touch mode, the control unit will couple a touch detection unit with the first electrode layer and with the transparent electrode layer to perform a capacitive touch detection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Publication number: 20160084486
    Abstract: A lighting device controllable by hover operation, including: a shell body; a light source unit; at least one conductive sensor; and a circuit board, which includes a capacitive touch detection circuit, a light source driver circuit, and a control unit; wherein, when a finger or a palm of an operator approaches at least one active region of the shell body during a control operation, each of the at least one active region being opposing one of the at least one conductive sensor, the capacitive touch detection circuit will detect a capacitance change signal via the at least one conductive sensor and generate an operation signal accordingly, and the control unit will control the light source driver circuit in response to the operation signal to determine a light emitting status of the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20160034096
    Abstract: A flat self-luminous touch switch, including: a self-luminous touch unit, including at least one flat self-luminous pixel and a pixel driving interface; and a switch control unit, including a first driving interface and a second driving interface, wherein, the first driving interface is coupled with the pixel driving interface to provide at least one pixel driving signal and transmit a touch detection signal; and the second driving interface provides an analog switch channel and/or at least one digital output signal according to a detection result of the touch detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU, Jen-Chieh CHANG
  • Patent number: 9250755
    Abstract: A touch display having advanced-fringe-field-switching liquid crystal structure, including a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple the pixel cell with a source driver unit to provide a fringe-field-switching display function during a display period, and couple the pixel cell with a touch detection unit to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Publication number: 20160026331
    Abstract: A touch display driving circuit capable of responding to CPU commands, including: a first interface receiving touch configuration data from a CPU and outputting touch report data to the CPU; a second interface coupling with a touch display module; a control unit executing a touch detection procedure on the touch display module via the second interface to derive touch detected data, and processing the touch detected data to generate the touch report data, wherein the touch detection procedure is determined according to the touch configuration data determining a connection configuration of at least one multiplexer and a weighting configuration of at least one touch point, and the content of the touch report data include a sensed pressure profile, a finger print, a palm print, an ear image, characteristics of a finger print, characteristics of a palm print, or characteristics of an ear image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU, Yen-Hung TU, Jen-Chieh CHANG
  • Publication number: 20150370400
    Abstract: A light guide device having touch function, including: a reflective plate having one or more conductive areas; a light source unit having a light output side; a light guide plate, located above the reflective plate and having a light input side and a light output face, wherein the light input side is adjacent to the light output side of the light source unit; and a control circuit having a touch detection unit, wherein, the touch detection unit is coupled with the one or more conductive areas of the reflective plate for detecting a touch event on the light output face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU, Jen-Chieh CHANG
  • Patent number: 9176613
    Abstract: A touch display driving circuit capable of responding to CPU commands, including: a first interface for receiving pixel data and touch configuration data; a second interface for coupling with a touch display; and a control unit, which drives the touch display via the second interface to show an image according to the pixel data, and executes a touch detection procedure on the touch display via the second interface, wherein the touch detection procedure is determined according to the touch configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu, Yen-Hung Tu, Jen-Chieh Chang
  • Publication number: 20150301654
    Abstract: A touch display device having auxiliary capacitor, including: at least one touch operation area, each having two opposing substrates, between which are a first electrode, a first conductive line coupled with the first electrode, a second electrode, a second conductive line coupled with the second electrode, and a display layer neighboring both the first electrode and the second electrode; a display driver unit for outputting at least one display driving voltage; a touch detection unit having at least one touch signal sensing port; at least one auxiliary capacitor, each coupled with one of the at least one touch operation area; and at least one switch element; wherein, each of the at least one display driving voltage is coupled to one of the at least one touch operation area via one of the at least one switch element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU, Jen-Chieh CHANG
  • Publication number: 20150153859
    Abstract: A TFT display touch device, including: a TFT array, including: a plurality of thin film transistors, each having a source, a gate, and a drain, the drain being coupled with a capacitor; a plurality of gate connecting lines; and a plurality of source connecting lines; and a control unit, having a gate control unit and a source control unit, wherein, at least one of the gate control unit and the source control unit provides a hybrid voltage generation function, and at least one of the gate control unit and the source control unit provides a touch detection function, wherein the hybrid voltage generation function is used to provide a hybrid voltage source having a DC voltage component and an AC voltage component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20150091855
    Abstract: An OLED touch device including at least one OLED and a controller, each of the at least one OLED having: a first substrate; a first electrode located on the first substrate; an organic material structure layer located on the first electrode; a second electrode located on the organic material structure layer; and a second substrate located on the second electrode; wherein, the control unit is used to apply a combined voltage source across the first electrode and the second electrode of at least one of the at least one OLED to provide a light emitting function and/or a touch detection function, wherein the combined voltage source has a DC voltage component and an AC voltage component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU
  • Patent number: 8957846
    Abstract: A touch display having in-plane-switching liquid crystal structure, comprising a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple a source driver unit with the pixel cell to provide an in-plane switching display function during a display period, and couple a touch control unit with the pixel cell to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Jen-Chieh Chang, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Publication number: 20150009170
    Abstract: An electronic paper touch device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer located on the first substrate; an electronic paper display layer located on the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer located on the electronic paper display layer and having plural transparent electrodes; a second substrate located on the transparent electrode layer; and a control unit having a touch mode and an electronic paper mode, wherein, when the control unit is in the touch mode, the control unit will couple a touch detection unit with the first electrode layer and with the transparent electrode layer to perform a capacitive touch detection procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20140362026
    Abstract: A touch display having advanced-fringe-field-switching liquid crystal structure, including a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple the pixel cell with a source driver unit to provide a fringe-field-switching display function during a display period, and couple the pixel cell with a touch detection unit to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20140320444
    Abstract: A touch display having in-plane-switching liquid crystal structure, comprising a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple a source driver unit with the pixel cell to provide an in-plane switching display function during a display period, and couple a touch control unit with the pixel cell to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Jen-Chieh CHANG, Chih-Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20140218310
    Abstract: A touch display driving circuit capable of responding to CPU commands, including: a first interface for receiving pixel data and touch configuration data; a second interface for coupling with a touch display; and a control unit, which drives the touch display via the second interface to show an image according to the pixel data, and executes a touch detection procedure on the touch display via the second interface, wherein the touch detection procedure is determined according to the touch configuration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU, Yen-Hung TU, Jen-Chieh CHANG
  • Publication number: 20140160058
    Abstract: A driving circuit capable of enabling a display structure to provide a touch function, including: a first multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple gate driving lines; a second multiplexing interface for coupling with at least one storage capacitor driving line; a third multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple source driving lines; a fourth multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple transparent electrodes; and a control unit for driving the gate driving lines via the first multiplexing interface to form a capacitive network on a TFT display structure, and performing a capacitive touch detection procedure on the capacitive network via an interface selected from a group consisting of the second multiplexing interface, the third multiplexing interface, the fourth multiplexing interface, and any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA, Chih-Wen WU
  • Patent number: 7919893
    Abstract: A motor rotor includes a hub having a peripheral wall. A metal ring includes an engaging portion. The metal ring is formed by bending a strip of metal plate to form a cylindrical ring. The metal plate includes first and second positioning portions on two ends thereof. The first and second positioning portions are coupled with each other to form the engaging portion. The metal ring is coupled to an inner peripheral face of the peripheral wall of the hub. A magnet ring is coupled to an inner peripheral face of the metal ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Chih-Wen Wu