Patents by Inventor Chin Hua Kuo

Chin Hua Kuo 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: 10809858
    Abstract: A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes; a touch control chip; and an external device configured to transmit data to the touch control chip. In a position detection mode, the touch control chip drives the driving electrodes, reads a sensing signal from the sensing electrodes, and determines a position of a touch according to the sensing signal. In a data receiving mode, the touch control chip receives the data transmitted by the external device after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the position detection mode and the data receiving mode can be sequentially performed by delaying the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Yu, Jiun-Ying Yeh, Chin-Hua Kuo, Ying-Jyh Yeh
  • Patent number: 10761661
    Abstract: A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel; a touch control chip; and an active pen which includes a receiving part, a transmitting part, a control unit, and a pressure sensing element. The control unit controls the transmitting unit to output a pen driving signal according to a pen sensing signal. The pressure sensing element detects a pen pressure signal. The control unit outputs a voltage signal in responsive to the pen pressure signal after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the active pan is not required to be paired with the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Hua Kuo, Hsin-Hsuan Yu, Jiun-Ying Yeh, Ying-Jyh Yeh
  • Patent number: 10444903
    Abstract: A touch detection method is applied to a touch panel including sensing units and includes: detecting sensing values corresponding to the sensing units; selecting a first sensing value that is a local maximum among the sensing values; determining a first sensing unit corresponding to the first sensing value among the sensing units; selecting from the sensing units a second sensing unit located at the first side of the first sensing unit; selecting from the sensing values a second sensing value corresponding to the second sensing unit; and generating a touch coordinate according to the first sensing value, the second sensing value, a touch sensing value distribution model, and the coordinate of the first sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Yu, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20190050081
    Abstract: A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes; a touch control chip; and an external device configured to transmit data to the touch control chip. In a position detection mode, the touch control chip drives the driving electrodes, reads a sensing signal from the sensing electrodes, and determines a position of a touch according to the sensing signal. In a data receiving mode, the touch control chip receives the data transmitted by the external device after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the position detection mode and the data receiving mode can be sequentially performed by delaying the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: HSIN-HSUAN YU, JIUN-YING YEH, CHIN-HUA KUO, YING-JYH YEH
  • Publication number: 20190018520
    Abstract: A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel; a touch control chip; and an active pen which includes a receiving part, a transmitting part, a control unit, and a pressure sensing element. The control unit controls the transmitting unit to output a pen driving signal according to a pen sensing signal. The pressure sensing element detects a pen pressure signal. The control unit outputs a voltage signal in responsive to the pen pressure signal after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the active pan is not required to be paired with the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Chin-Hua KUO, Hsin-Hsuan YU, Jiun-Ying YEH, Ying-Jyh YEH
  • Publication number: 20180335860
    Abstract: A touch display system includes a touch panel; a touch control chip configured to transmit a driving signal to the touch panel; an active pen configured to transmit a signal based on the driving signal of the touch control chip, the signal including two signal segments that are called a position signal and an ID signal, the touch control chip resolving the signal transmitted by the active pen to obtain an ID data carried by the ID signal and inquiring a property of the active pen corresponding to the ID data; and a display panel configured to display traces in accordance with the property of the active pen. Similar to the usage of a traditional marker pen, such an active panel is easily to be used by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Chin-Hua KUO, Jiun-Ying YEH, Hsin-Hsuan YU, Ying-Jyh YEH
  • Publication number: 20180121021
    Abstract: A touch detection method is applied to a touch panel including sensing units and includes: detecting sensing values corresponding to the sensing units; selecting a first sensing value that is a local maximum among the sensing values; determining a first sensing unit corresponding to the first sensing value among the sensing units; selecting from the sensing units a second sensing unit located at the first side of the first sensing unit; selecting from the sensing values a second sensing value corresponding to the second sensing unit; and generating a touch coordinate according to the first sensing value, the second sensing value, a touch sensing value distribution model, and the coordinate of the first sensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan YU, Chin-Hua KUO
  • Patent number: 9898109
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an active stylus pen and signal transmission methods for the active stylus pen and a touch panel. The stylus has a touch module, a switching module, a signal comparison module, a control module and a pressure sensing module. The stylus determines a first signal generated by a touch panel, and compares an intensity of the first signal and a reference value through a first transmission path. When the intensity of the first signal exceeds the reference value, the stylus outputs a second signal to the touch panel. After the stylus outputs the second signal to the touch panel, the stylus switches to a second transmission path from the first transmission path. The stylus outputs a header signal to the touch panel. When determining a first time sequential distribution, the stylus outputs at least one bit of a pressure signal according to a second time sequential distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Min-Yan Ciou, Chin-Hua Kuo, Ying-Jyh Yeh
  • Publication number: 20160162044
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an active stylus pen and signal transmission methods for the active stylus pen and a touch panel. The stylus has a touch module, a switching module, a signal comparison module, a control module and a pressure sensing module. The stylus determines a first signal generated by a touch panel, and compares an intensity of the first signal and a reference value through a first transmission path. When the intensity of the first signal exceeds the reference value, the stylus outputs a second signal to the touch panel. After the stylus outputs the second signal to the touch panel, the stylus switches to a second transmission path from the first transmission path. The stylus outputs a header signal to the touch panel. When determining a first time sequential distribution, the stylus outputs at least one bit of a pressure signal according to a second time sequential distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Min-Yan CIOU, Chin-Hua KUO, Ying-Jyh YEH
  • Patent number: 9262026
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel, at least one touch detection unit and a processing unit. The touch detection unit scans the touch panel, obtains an N-bit sensed data and compresses the N-bit sensed data to an L-bit sensed data. The processing unit receives the L-bit sensed data, decompresses the L-bit sensed data to the N-bit sensed data and calculates a coordinate of a touch according to the N-bit sensed data. The present invention is capable of decreasing the time for transmitting the sensed data, the power consumption and the requirements for the memory capacity of the touch detection unit and the memory capacity of the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Jih-Ming Hsu, Chia-Yi Chu, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150261342
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel, at least one touch detection unit and a processing unit. The touch detection unit scans the touch panel, obtains an N-bit sensed data and compresses the N-bit sensed data to an L-bit sensed data. The processing unit receives the L-bit sensed data, decompresses the L-bit sensed data to the N-bit sensed data and calculates a coordinate of a touch according to the N-bit sensed data. The present invention is capable of decreasing the time for transmitting the sensed data, the power consumption and the requirements for the memory capacity of the touch detection unit and the memory capacity of the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP
    Inventors: JIH-MING HSU, CHIA-YI CHU, CHIN-HUA KUO
  • Patent number: 8976146
    Abstract: A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Jih-Ming Hsu, Chin-hua Kuo
  • Patent number: 8674962
    Abstract: A method for calculating a touch coordinate on a touch panel is provided, the touch panel having a plurality of points, said method comprising: determining a group of candidate points when a touch occurs on the touch panel, each candidate point having one sensing value; assigning weights to the sensing values of the respective candidate points to obtain weighted sensing values; and calculating a coordinate by utilizing the weighted sensing values and positions of the respective candidate points. By using said method, the calculation result of the touch coordinate will be more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chiang, Chin-hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130278543
    Abstract: A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Jih-Ming Hsu, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130265271
    Abstract: A method of reducing computation of palm rejection by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting maximum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost palm blocks can be wiped out from the multiple palm blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular palm block yet beyond a real palm block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the palm rejection of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Jih-Ming Hsu, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130135216
    Abstract: A method for calculating a touch coordinate on a touch panel is provided, the touch panel having a plurality of points, said method comprising: determining a group of candidate points when a touch occurs on the touch panel, each candidate point having one sensing value; assigning weights to the sensing values of the respective candidate points to obtain weighted sensing values; and calculating a coordinate by utilizing the weighted sensing values and positions of the respective candidate points. By using said method, the calculation result of the touch coordinate will be more stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Chung-Lin Chiang, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130106711
    Abstract: A hierarchical sensing method for a touch panel is disclosed. The touch panel has a matrix of points for detecting a touch or touches. The method includes dividing the points into a plurality of blocks; selecting several points in each one of the blocks as designated points; sensing first data from each one of the designated points; determining a set of possible touched points according to the first data sensed from each one of the designated points; sensing second data from the set of possible touched points; and determining if each one of the possible touched points is an actual touched point according to the second data sensed from said one possible touched point. By using the present invention method, a faster sensing speed and a greater sensing accuracy can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Hou, Chin-Hua Kuo
  • Publication number: 20120287054
    Abstract: A touch position detecting method for a touch screen is disclosed. In the method, a specific point is detected by comparing a sensed data thereof with a first threshold and by comparing a sum of sensed values of a group of points which include the specific point with a second threshold. Furthermore, the sensed value of the specific point is checked to see if it is the maximum among the group of points. By using such a method, accuracy of touch position detection can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Chin Hua Kuo, R-Ming Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120261199
    Abstract: A hierarchical sensing method for a touch panel is disclosed. The touch panel has a matrix of points for detecting a touch or touches. The method includes dividing the points into a plurality of blocks; sensing first data from the respective blocks; determining which one or ones of the blocks are touched blocks according to the first data; sensing second data from each point of the touched blocks; and determining which one or ones of the points are touched points according to the second data. By using the method of the present invention, fast sensing speed and high sensing accuracy can be both achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Chin Hua Kuo, R-Ming Hsu