Patents by Inventor Heng-Chih Lin

Heng-Chih Lin 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: 20230387920
    Abstract: A phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes a PLL core circuit, at least one lookup table, and a control circuit. The PLL core circuit generates an output clock under an open-loop calibration phase and a closed-loop calibration phase. The control circuit loads PLL parameters that are derived from the at least one lookup table to the PLL core circuit, performs open-loop calibration upon a first part of the PLL parameters under the open-loop calibration phase of the PLL core circuit, and performs closed-loop calibration upon a second part of the PLL parameters under the closed-loop calibration phase of the PLL core circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Shu-Yu Lin
  • Publication number: 20230387919
    Abstract: A charge pump of a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes a current source circuit, a current sink circuit, and a biasing circuit. The biasing circuit includes a current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) and a low-pass filter (LPF). The IDAC provides a reference current in response to a current value setting, wherein a first voltage is established due to the reference current. The LPF applies low-pass filtering to the first voltage to generate a filter output as a second voltage, wherein bias voltages of the current source circuit and the current sink circuit are controlled by the second voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Shu-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 10606547
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an audio reception circuit, a processing circuit and at least one movable component. The audio reception circuit receives an audio data. The processing circuit performs an audio feature analysis on the audio data to obtain audio feature data, and determines a corresponding action event according to audio feature data to generate an action control signal corresponding to the action event. The movable component performs the action event in response to the action control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Wen-Sheng Hou, Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 10600769
    Abstract: An electronic component is provided. The electronic component includes a substrate, an III-V die and a silicon die. The III-V die is disposed on the substrate. The silicon die is stacked to the III-V and electrically connected to the III-V die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY GROUP
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee
  • Patent number: 10362397
    Abstract: A voice enhancement method for distributed system is disclosed. In the method of the present invention, a plurality of picking devices are disposed in a space for picking voice signal. The picking devices communicate with each other and have an enhancement operation on the voice information from each picking device to generate an enhanced voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Wen-Sheng Hou, Chien-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 10326192
    Abstract: An acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism is provided. The acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism includes at least one acoustic-wave duplexer, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a frequency discriminator and a control circuit. The acoustic-wave duplexer includes a TX filter and an RX filter. The voltage-controlled oscillator includes a calibration resonator and a tunable negative impedance circuit. The TX filter, the RX filter and the calibration resonator are disposed on the same piezoelectric substrate. The frequency discriminator generates a calibration signal according to a frequency deviation of the calibration resonator. The control circuit is connected to the acoustic-wave duplexer and the frequency discriminator. The control circuit adjusts an operating frequency of the TX filter or an operating frequency of the RX filter according to the calibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chin-Lung Yang
  • Publication number: 20190074269
    Abstract: An electronic component is provided. The electronic component includes a substrate, an III-V die and a silicon die. The III-V die is disposed on the substrate. The silicon die is stacked to the III-V and electrically connected to the III-V die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Heng-Chih LIN, Chien-Kuang LEE
  • Patent number: 10187108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low loss antenna switch. The antenna switch comprises a plurality of switch module and a plurality of transmitting/receiving terminals, wherein one end of each switch module is connected to an antenna unit and the other end of each switch module is connected to each transmitting and receiving end respectively. Further, each switch module comprises a plurality of switch units in series, wherein the width of at least one switch unit is smaller than other switch units of each switch module. Thus, the parasitic capacitance of the off-stage switch modules can be reduced, and VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) of the antenna switch also can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee, Ping-Han Ho
  • Patent number: 10181818
    Abstract: A low-noise amplifier (LNA), a folded low-noise amplifier (folded LNA) and an amplifier circuit module are provided. The LNA includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) input stages, at least one bias transistor and at least one radio frequency (RF) output stage. The bias transistor is connected to the RF input stages to provide a DC bias source to one of the RF input stages for isolating others of the RF input stages. The RF output stage is connected in parallel with the RF input stages, which share an adjustable input inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee, Yao-Te Chiu
  • Patent number: 10147444
    Abstract: A voice trigger method for an electronic apparatus is provided. The voice trigger method includes the following steps. Receive a current voice signal. Extract a current voice feature from the current voice signal. Determine whether a previous voice feature of a previous voice signal is stored. When the previous voice feature is stored, at least one of adjusting a confidence threshold and determining whether to wake up the electronic apparatus is performed according to whether the previous voice feature is corresponding to a false acceptance situation or a false rejection situation and the similarity between the current voice feature and the previous voice feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chien-Chieh Wang, Heng-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 10033085
    Abstract: An acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism is provided. The acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism includes at least one adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer, a frequency discriminator and a control circuit. The adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer has a first terminal point, a second terminal point and a third terminal point. The adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer includes a TX filter, an RX filter, a first loop switch and a second loop switch. The first loop switch is used for conducting a first loop. The second loop switch is used for conducting a second loop. The control circuit adjusts the operating frequency of the TX filter according to a first loop calibration signal. The control circuit adjusts the operating frequency of the operating frequency of the RX filter according to the second loop calibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chin-Lung Yang
  • Publication number: 20180123621
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) system including a transceiver and an RF front-end circuit is provided. The transceiver has a signal transmitting port, which selectively transmits a first RF signal or a second RF signal, wherein the first RF signal corresponds to a first communication mode and a first band, and the second RF signal corresponds to a second communication mode and a second band. The RF front-end circuit is coupled to the transceiver, and includes a transmission path switch and an antenna switch. The transmission path switch electrically couples the signal transmitting port to a selected signal transmission path of a plurality of signal transmission paths. The antenna switch is coupled to the signal transmission paths, and electrically couples the selected signal transmission path to the antenna module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee
  • Patent number: 9886286
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a communication device capable of self-detecting operation status and detecting method thereof. The communication device comprises at least one communication module and a control module. The communication module is capable of self-detecting operation status, so as to generate at least one status information. The control module is allowed to read out the status information of the communication module via a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI). When the need for the adjustment of operation status of the communication module is diagnosed by the control module, a control signal is generated, and the control signal is transmitted to the communication module via the MIPI, so as to adjust operation status of the communication module. As such, the communication module may be operated under its best status, and also reduce the probability of overheating or abnormal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee
  • Patent number: 9887712
    Abstract: A wideband front-end device comprises a wideband amplifying module and a plurality of narrow band filters. The wideband amplifying module comprises an input end, a plurality connecting ends and at least one receiving end. A wideband transmitting RF signal can be transmitted to one of the connecting ends from the input end according to the frequency band thereof. Thus, the wideband transmitting RF signal can be divided into several narrow band signals with different frequency bands. Each narrow band signal with different frequency bands is transmitted to different connecting ends and narrow band filters respectively. Therefore, each narrow band filter can be used to filter wideband transmitting RF signal or narrow band signals with different frequency bands respectively to reduce production costs of the wideband front-end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Kuang Lee, Heng-Chih Lin
  • Publication number: 20170331447
    Abstract: An impedance detecting and adjusting circuit includes an impedance adjusting unit, a frequency band detection source and a controller. The impedance adjusting unit is disposed in a radio frequency front end device. The radio frequency front end device includes one or more than one transmission port. The frequency band detection source is selectively coupled to the target transmission port of the one or more than one transmission port for transmitting the scan signals having different frequencies to the target transmission port to detect a corresponding operating frequency band of the target transmission port. The controller is coupled to the impedance adjusting unit for adjusting the impedance adjusting unit according to the measured operating frequency band and making the target transmission port achieve impedance matching at least in the operating frequency band thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Chien-Kuang Lee, Heng-Chih Lin
  • Publication number: 20170272056
    Abstract: An acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism is provided. The acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism includes at least one acoustic-wave duplexer, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a frequency discriminator and a control circuit. The acoustic-wave duplexer includes a TX filter and an RX filter. The voltage-controlled oscillator includes a calibration resonator and a tunable negative impedance circuit. The TX filter, the RX filter and the calibration resonator are disposed on the same piezoelectric substrate. The frequency discriminator generates a calibration signal according to a frequency deviation of the calibration resonator. The control circuit is connected to the acoustic-wave duplexer and the frequency discriminator. The control circuit adjusts an operating frequency of the TX filter or an operating frequency of the RX filter according to the calibration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chin-Lung Yang
  • Publication number: 20170271743
    Abstract: An acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism is provided. The acoustic-wave device with active calibration mechanism includes at least one adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer, a frequency discriminator and a control circuit. The adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer has a first terminal point, a second terminal point and a third terminal point. The adjustable acoustic-wave duplexer includes a TX filter, an RX filter, a first loop switch and a second loop switch. The first loop switch is used for conducting a first loop. The second loop switch is used for conducting a second loop. The control circuit adjusts the operating frequency of the TX filter according to a first loop calibration signal. The control circuit adjusts the operating frequency of the operating frequency of the RX filter according to the second loop calibration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chin-Lung Yang
  • Patent number: 9755593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for compensating a power amplification unit of a wireless RF module that includes a baseband unit, a RF transceiver unit, a power amplification unit and a control unit. The baseband unit is connected to the power amplification unit through the control unit and the RF transceiver unit. Based on the characteristic of the power amplification unit, the baseband unit provides a control signal to regulate the output signal characteristic of the power amplification unit, or provides a RF transceiver unit control signal to regulate the characteristics of the RF signal being transmitted by the RF transceiver unit to the power amplification unit, or to regulate the characteristics of the baseband signal being transmitted to the RF transceiver unit, enabling the characteristics of the output signal of the power amplification unit to meet the specifications of the related system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Kuang Lee, Heng-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 9722658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control method of an RF switch module. The RF switch module comprises a control device and a switch device. The control device is electrically connected to the switch device, and the control device is able to provide a control voltage to the switch device, and turn on or turn off the switch device. Further, the control device determines frequency or voltage value of the control voltage provided to the switch device according to the power or frequency of an RF signal transmitted by the switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Chien-Kuang Lee, Jui-Hung Wei, Sheng-Fu Yu
  • Patent number: 9716930
    Abstract: A wireless speaker system including one or more self-propelled speaker device is provided. The self-propelled speaker device includes a processing unit, a wireless audio transmitter/receiver unit, a speaker unit, a tracking unit, and an actuator. The wireless audio transmitter/receiver unit is coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive an audio signal via a wireless transmission interface. The speaker unit is coupled to the processing unit and configured to produce sound according to the audio signal. The tracking unit is coupled to the processing unit and configured to track a location of a mobile device. The actuator is coupled to the processing unit. The processing unit controls the actuator according to the location of the mobile device. The actuator drives the self-propelled speaker device to move along with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Wen-Sheng Hou, Chien-Chen Lin