Patents by Inventor Feng-Lin CHAN

Feng-Lin CHAN 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: 11726616
    Abstract: A touch control circuit, display-and-touch system, touch panel and touch sensing method are disclosed. The system includes a display panel, a touch panel having a plurality of touch sensors, a touch control circuit and at least one interference sensing capacitor configured to be insensitive to a touch on the touch panel and interference other than the interference from an interference layer of the display panel, the touch control circuit includes: at least one interference sensing channel configured to receive an interference sensing signal from the at least one interference sensing capacitor; and a plurality of touch sensing channels configured to receive touch sensing signals from at least part of touch sensors of the plurality of touch sensors; wherein a first electrode of each interference sensing capacitor is connected with the interference layer of the display panel, and a second electrode thereof is connected with a corresponding interference sensing channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11709565
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing apparatus includes a plurality of fingerprint sensors and a fingerprint readout circuit. The fingerprint sensors may be configured to operate in a fingerprint sensing cycle. The fingerprint readout circuit may be coupled to the plurality of fingerprint sensors via a plurality of sensing lines. The fingerprint readout circuit may be configured to control the fingerprint sensors to operate in the fingerprint sensing cycle. The fingerprint sensing cycle includes an initialization period, an exposure period and a readout period. A voltage of a reset node in each fingerprint sensor among the plurality of fingerprint sensors is reset to a first voltage in a reset period after the fingerprint sensing cycle ends. The voltage of the reset node in each fingerprint sensor is initialized to an initial voltage in the initialization period. The initial voltage is different from the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsien Lee, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Feng-Lin Chan, Wu Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20230229263
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20230221820
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch panel includes touch sensing units. The touch sensing method includes: in a first sensing period, applying touch excitation signals to a first group of the touch sensing units to obtain first touch sensing signals; applying touch reference signals to a second group of the touch sensing units to obtain a first reference sensing signal; in a second sensing period, applying the touch excitation signals to the second group of the touch sensing units to obtain second touch sensing signals; applying the touch reference signal to the first group of the touch sensing units to obtain a second reference sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of the touch sensing units according to the first touch sensing signals, the first reference sensing signal, the second touch sensing signals, and the second reference sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20230168282
    Abstract: An analog front-end (AFE) circuit, configured to be coupled to a sensor having a plurality of sensing units, includes a plurality of sensing circuits and a plurality of multiplexers. Each of the plurality of multiplexers is coupled between one of the plurality of sensing units and at least two of the plurality of sensing circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tzu-Wei Lin, Hung-Kai Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11650692
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch sensing method includes: selecting a portion of multiple touch sensing units as to-sense touch sensing units, applying first touch excitation signals to the those to obtain multiple first touch sensing signals, and obtaining multiple differential sensing signals based on multiple first touch sensing signals; selecting a touch sensing unit as a reference touch sensing unit, and applying a touch reference signal to it to obtain a reference sensing signal; selecting a to-sense touch sensing unit as a preprocessing touch sensing unit, and applying a second touch excitation signal to it to obtain a second touch sensing signal; obtaining a capacitance sensing signal from the reference sensing signal and the second touch sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of multiple to-sense touch sensing units according to the differential sensing signals and the capacitance sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11635853
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11550416
    Abstract: A touch display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch display panel, a power management circuit, a display driving circuit, and a touch circuit. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to display an image, and notifies the power management circuit to perform a voltage adjustment of a common voltage supplied to the touch display panel in a voltage adjustment period. The touch circuit individually performs a touch sensing operation on multiple sensing lines of a touch sensing layer of the touch display panel, so as to generate multiple touch sensing data corresponding to the sensing lines. The touch circuit ignores the touch sensing data corresponding to the voltage adjustment period, or the touch circuit suspends performing the touch sensing operation on the sensing lines of the touch sensing layer during the voltage adjustment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11531428
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: generating gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted based on the first clock signal (GCK); sequentially applying the gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted to the plurality of GLs; writing display data in a display driving period for each row of pixels, to the row of pixels, wherein a time length of the display driving period depends on a corresponding gate driving signal and is smaller than the clock cycle; and for a display driving period for each of at least one row of pixels, setting a touch detection period corresponding to the display driving period or corresponding to the display driving period for previous row of pixels at least partially overlapping with the display driving period in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Kai-Wen Shao, Feng-Lin Chan, Shuo-Wen Jang
  • Patent number: 11507221
    Abstract: An analog front-end circuit for a touch controller and an operating method thereof are provided. The analog front-end circuit includes an analog front-end, a first switch and a second switch. The analog front-end includes an input terminal and an output terminal. The first switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the first switch is coupled to the input terminal of the analog front-end, and the second terminal of the first switch is coupled to a panel routing. The second switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the second switch is coupled to the second terminal of the first switch, and the second terminal of the second switch is coupled to a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20220357832
    Abstract: A touch control circuit, display-and-touch system, touch panel and touch sensing method are disclosed. The system includes a display panel, a touch panel having a plurality of touch sensors, a touch control circuit and at least one interference sensing capacitor configured to be insensitive to a touch on the touch panel and interference other than the interference from an interference layer of the display panel, the touch control circuit includes: at least one interference sensing channel configured to receive an interference sensing signal from the at least one interference sensing capacitor; and a plurality of touch sensing channels configured to receive touch sensing signals from at least part of touch sensors of the plurality of touch sensors; wherein a first electrode of each interference sensing capacitor is connected with the interference layer of the display panel, and a second electrode thereof is connected with a corresponding interference sensing channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20220326834
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: generating gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted based on the first clock signal (GCK); sequentially applying the gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted to the plurality of GLs; writing display data in a display driving period for each row of pixels, to the row of pixels, wherein a time length of the display driving period depends on a corresponding gate driving signal and is smaller than the clock cycle; and for a display driving period for each of at least one row of pixels, setting a touch detection period corresponding to the display driving period or corresponding to the display driving period for previous row of pixels at least partially overlapping with the display driving period in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Kai-Wen Shao, Feng-Lin Chan, Shuo-Wen Jang
  • Patent number: 11392246
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and the OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: dividing each display frame into at least one display period and at least one touch detection period which are alternated; during each display period, generating sequentially-shifted gate driving signals and sequentially-shifted light-emission control signals, and sequentially applying them to at least a part of gate driving lines of the plurality and corresponding light-emission control lines; during each touch detection period: suspending the generation of gate driving signals or also suspending the generation of light-emission control signals; adjusting the average display luminance of a plurality of rows of pixels within a predetermined time period, so that the display luminance is uniform, and the gate driving signal for each row of pixels and the light-emission control signal of the light-emission control line maintain a preset timing relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Kai-Wen Shao, Feng-Lin Chan, Shuo-Wen Jang
  • Publication number: 20220197469
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing apparatus includes a plurality of fingerprint sensors and a fingerprint readout circuit. The fingerprint sensors may be configured to operate in a fingerprint sensing cycle. The fingerprint readout circuit may be coupled to the plurality of fingerprint sensors via a plurality of sensing lines. The fingerprint readout circuit may be configured to control the fingerprint sensors to operate in the fingerprint sensing cycle. The fingerprint sensing cycle includes an initialization period, an exposure period and a readout period. A voltage of a reset node in each fingerprint sensor among the plurality of fingerprint sensors is reset to a first voltage in a reset period after the fingerprint sensing cycle ends. The voltage of the reset node in each fingerprint sensor is initialized to an initial voltage in the initialization period. The initial voltage is different from the first voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsien Lee, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Feng-Lin Chan, Wu Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11353991
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: generating gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted based on the first clock signal (GCK); sequentially applying the gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted to the plurality of GLs; writing display data in a display driving period for each row of pixels, to the row of pixels, wherein a time length of the display driving period depends on a corresponding gate driving signal and is smaller than the clock cycle; and for a display driving period for each of at least one row of pixels, setting a touch detection period corresponding to the display driving period or corresponding to the display driving period for previous row of pixels at least partially overlapping with the display driving period in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Kai-Wen Shao, Feng-Lin Chan, Shuo-Wen Jang
  • Publication number: 20220050544
    Abstract: A touch display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch display panel, a power management circuit, a display driving circuit, and a touch circuit. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to display an image, and notifies the power management circuit to perform a voltage adjustment of a common voltage supplied to the touch display panel in a voltage adjustment period. The touch circuit individually performs a touch sensing operation on multiple sensing lines of a touch sensing layer of the touch display panel, so as to generate multiple touch sensing data corresponding to the sensing lines. The touch circuit ignores the touch sensing data corresponding to the voltage adjustment period, or the touch circuit suspends performing the touch sensing operation on the sensing lines of the touch sensing layer during the voltage adjustment period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11250232
    Abstract: A fingerprint detecting system comprises a fingerprint module, for receiving a fingerprint driving signal and performing a frequency modulation on the fingerprint driving signal, to correspondingly outputting a fingerprint signal with a first frequency based on the fingerprint driving signal, and a signal processing circuit, coupled to the fingerprint module, for receiving the fingerprint signal with the first frequency, performing a frequency demodulation to shift the first frequency of the fingerprint signal to a second frequency, and filtering the fingerprint signal with the second frequency based on the first frequency, whereby the filtered fingerprint signal is used for a fingerprint data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Chih-Yuan Chang, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11194424
    Abstract: The driving apparatus for driving a touch display panel includes a first voltage generating circuit configured to generate a common reference voltage, a second voltage generating circuit configured to generate a touch driving signal, and a control circuit configured to generate a switching signal. The switching signal is at the first voltage level during display periods for providing the common reference voltage to the touch display panel. The switching signal is at the second voltage level during touch periods for providing the touch driving signal to the touch display panel. A first touch display period includes a first display period a first touch period adjacent to the first display period. A second touch display period includes a second display period and a second touch period adjacent to the second display period. The first touch display period and the second touch display period are different in time length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Feng-Lin Chan, Hung-Kai Chen, Yuan-Fu Hsueh, Chun-Yuan Pai
  • Publication number: 20210373738
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20210373736
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch sensing method includes: selecting a portion of multiple touch sensing units as to-sense touch sensing units, applying first touch excitation signals to the those to obtain multiple first touch sensing signals, and obtaining multiple differential sensing signals based on multiple first touch sensing signals; selecting a touch sensing unit as a reference touch sensing unit, and applying a touch reference signal to it to obtain a reference sensing signal; selecting a to-sense touch sensing unit as a preprocessing touch sensing unit, and applying a second touch excitation signal to it to obtain a second touch sensing signal; obtaining a capacitance sensing signal from the reference sensing signal and the second touch sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of multiple to-sense touch sensing units according to the differential sensing signals and the capacitance sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan