Patents by Inventor Chung-Lin CHIA

Chung-Lin CHIA 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: 9164617
    Abstract: An intelligent GUI touch control method and system, the method includes the steps of: generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein the GUI includes at least one option object, the masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to the at least one option object, the masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of the sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; and performing a weighting operation according to the at least one masking plane and the sensed data array, so as to make each of the at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among the at least one option object according to the at least one weighted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Patent number: 9063622
    Abstract: A touch module having a dynamic capacitance matching mechanism, including: a comparator, having a first input end and a second input end, the second input end being coupled with a reference voltage; a touch capacitive circuit, having a variable touch capacitor, a voltage source, and a second output end, wherein the voltage source is used to perform a charging procedure on the variable touch capacitor, and the variable touch capacitor is coupled to the first input end of the comparator via the second output end after the charging procedure; and a transferred-charge-storing capacitive circuit, having a variable transferred-charge-storing capacitor and a third output end, wherein the variable transferred-charge-storing capacitor is used to couple with the first input end of the comparator via the third output end to perform a charge transfer procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8892393
    Abstract: A method and system for object location detection in a space, the method including the steps of: configuring the resolution of a multi dimensional sensing apparatus to divide a multi dimensional space into M first sub spaces; scanning the multi dimensional space to generate M first sensed data and at least one first locked space; configuring the resolution of the multi dimensional sensing apparatus to divide each of the at least one first locked space into N second sub spaces; scanning the at least one first locked space to generate at least one group of second sensed data and at least one second locked space; and combining at least one of the M first sensed data that corresponds to the at least one first locked space, with the at least one group of second sensed data to form a set of output sensed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140104228
    Abstract: A TFT liquid crystal display apparatus having a touch function, including: a first electrode layer, having multiple first electrodes and multiple thin film transistors, wherein each of the multiple thin film transistors has a source coupled to a source control unit, a gate coupled to a gate control unit, and a drain coupled to one of the multiple first electrodes and to one of multiple storage capacitors; a liquid crystal display layer, located above the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer, being located above the liquid crystal display layer and having multiple transparent strip electrodes; and multiple switches, of which each has a control end coupled with a mode control signal, a first contact coupled to one of the multiple transparent strip electrodes, a second contact coupled to a common voltage generation unit, and a third contact coupled to a touch detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang CHEN, Yen-Hung TU, Chung-Lin CHIA
  • Publication number: 20140015549
    Abstract: A touch module having a dynamic capacitance matching mechanism, including: a comparator, having a first input end and a second input end, the second input end being coupled with a reference voltage; a touch capacitive circuit, having a variable touch capacitor, a voltage source, and a second output end, wherein the voltage source is used to perform a charging procedure on the variable touch capacitor, and the variable touch capacitor is coupled to the first input end of the comparator via the second output end after the charging procedure; and a transferred-charge-storing capacitive circuit, having a variable transferred-charge-storing capacitor and a third output end, wherein the variable transferred-charge-storing capacitor is used to couple with the first input end of the comparator via the third output end to perform a charge transfer procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen
  • Publication number: 20130271391
    Abstract: An electronic paper touch apparatus, including: a first electrode layer; an electronic paper display layer, located above the first electrode layer; a transparent electrode layer, located above the electronic paper display layer; and a control unit, having a touch mode and an electronic paper mode, wherein when in the touch mode, the control unit will have a touch voltage source coupled between the first electrode layer and the transparent electrode layer to execute a capacitive touch detection procedure; when in the electronic paper mode, the control unit will have an electronic paper voltage source coupled between the first electrode layer and the transparent electrode layer to execute an electronic paper image update procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia
  • Publication number: 20130194203
    Abstract: An adaptive sensing apparatus, including: a sensor array, having N sensing points, wherein N is a positive integer; a driver unit, coupled with the sensor array; and a control unit, coupled with the driver unit; wherein the control unit has at least one adaptive sampling modes for controlling the driver unit to drive the sensor array and derive M sensed data, wherein M is a positive integer and M<N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chien Pan
  • Publication number: 20130138387
    Abstract: A method and system for object location detection in a space, the method including the steps of: configuring the resolution of a multi dimensional sensing apparatus to divide a multi dimensional space into M first sub spaces; scanning the multi dimensional space to generate M first sensed data and at least one first locked space; configuring the resolution of the multi dimensional sensing apparatus to divide each of the at least one first locked space into N second sub spaces; scanning the at least one first locked space to generate at least one group of second sensed data and at least one second locked space; and combining at least one of the M first sensed data that corresponds to the at least one first locked space, with the at least one group of second sensed data to form a set of output sensed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Publication number: 20130100076
    Abstract: A control system for integrating multiple sets of sensing plane data, including: a plurality of driving units, used for driving a plurality of sensor arrays to receive multiple sets of sensing plane data; and at least one control unit, used for integrating the multiple sets of sensing plane data into a set of image data and outputting the set of image data to a central processing unit, wherein the central processing unit is used for executing an application software program to convert the set of image data into multiple sets of array data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Publication number: 20130088457
    Abstract: An intelligent GUI touch control method and system, the method includes the steps of: generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein the GUI includes at least one option object, the masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to the at least one option object, the masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of the sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; and performing a weighting operation according to the at least one masking plane and the sensed data array, so as to make each of the at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among the at least one option object according to the at least one weighted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Publication number: 20130091449
    Abstract: A touch processing method and system using a GUI image, the method including the steps of: reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; performing a conversion procedure on a GUI to generate a GUI image; and performing a touch processing procedure according to the sensed data array and the GUI image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Han-Chang Chen, Wen-Chieh Pan
  • Publication number: 20130050151
    Abstract: A dynamic control method for a touch panel, including the steps of: providing a dynamic resolution control circuit for configuring a touch panel to possess a first resolution and a second resolution; and providing an induced signal gain control circuit for configuring the touch panel to have a first gain corresponding to the first resolution, and a second gain corresponding to the second resolution, wherein, the resolution of the touch panel will change from the first resolution to the second resolution when an object is within a distance from the panel. In addition, the present invention further presents a touch panel system and a dynamic control method for adjusting the sensitivity of a touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Rich IP Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Wen-Chieh Pan