Patents by Inventor HSIANG-YU LEE

HSIANG-YU LEE 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: 10180751
    Abstract: A sensing device for force and tactile-proximity sensing includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a first electrode layer having a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer having at least one second sensing electrode, a dielectric layer arranged between the upper substrate and the lower substrates, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In tactile-proximity sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a touch control capacitance-exciting signal to a selected first sensing electrode and obtains a tactile-proximity sensing signal therefrom, wherein an tactile-proximity auxiliary signal with same phase as the touch control capacitance-exciting signal is sent to the at least one corresponding second sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10156919
    Abstract: An in-cell touch display structure includes: an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a display material layer configured between the upper and lower substrates, and a thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer. The thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer includes a gate line sub-layer having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of connection segments separated by the gate lines, and a source line sub-layer having a plurality of source lines, a plurality of sensing conductor lines, and a plurality of sensing conductor segments separated by the source lines and the sensing conductor lines, wherein part of the sensing conductor segments and part of the connection segments are electrically connected together to form a plurality of sensing conductor blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 10156949
    Abstract: A force-touch sensor with multilayered electrodes includes an upper substrate, a first electrode layer arranged on one face of the upper substrate and having a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer arranged opposite to the first electrode layer and having a plurality of second sensing electrodes, each second sensing electrode being electrically connected with one corresponding first sensing electrode to constitute a touch-sensing electrode, a plurality of touching sensing traces, each electrically connected with one touch-sensing electrode and electrically isolated with other touch-sensing electrodes, a resilient dielectric layer arranged on one face of the second electrode layer and opposite to the upper substrate, and a third electrode layer arranged on the resilient dielectric layer and having at least one force-sensing electrode. The force-touch sensor with has enhanced performance due to the multilayered electrodes structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10146984
    Abstract: A mobile device with high-accuracy fingerprint identification includes a display panel, a transparent protection layer, and a fingerprint identification device. The transparent protection layer has one surface attached to the display panel. The fingerprint identification device is attached to the surface of the transparent protection layer for detecting a user fingerprint. The fingerprint identification device includes a flexible substrate, a fingerprint sensor, and a detector. The fingerprint sensor is disposed on the flexible substrate for sensing the user fingerprint to generate a fingerprint image. The detector is disposed on the flexible substrate and electrically connected to the fingerprint sensor for distinguishing a minute parasitic capacitance variation generated by the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Publication number: 20180321777
    Abstract: A self-capacitance organic light emitting touch display apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate, a common electrode layer, an organic light emitting material layer, at least a touch electrode layer including a plurality of touch sensing electrodes, a display controller, and a touch controller. During touch sensing, the touch controller sequentially or randomly applies a capacitance exciting signal to a selected touch sensing electrode, and senses a touch sensing signal at the selected touch sensing electrode. The touch controller applies a shielding reflection signal to the common electrode layer or a reference point of the display controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: HSIANG-YU LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Publication number: 20180321762
    Abstract: A mutual-capacitance touch apparatus and highly sensitive mutual-capacitance touch sensing method thereof, the method includes: providing a touch apparatus including: a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, a touch controller including a touch driving signal generator, a touch receiver, and an amplifier with gain larger than zero. The touch controller sequentially or randomly applies a touch driving signal to a selected first touch electrode, and senses a touch sensing signal at a second touch electrode by the touch receiver, and processes the touch sensing signal by the amplifier with gain larger than zero, then outputs the processed touch sensing signal to at least a conductor close to the second touch electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: HSIANG-YU LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Publication number: 20180321778
    Abstract: A mutual-capacitance organic light emitting touch display apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate, a common electrode layer, an organic light emitting material layer, and at least a touch electrode layer, including a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged along a first direction, and a plurality of second touch electrodes arranged along a second direction; a thin film encapsulation layer; a display controller having a display power source, and electrically connected to a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and the common electrode layer of the thin film transistor substrate; and a touch controller including a touch power source. The touch controller applies a touch driving signal to a selected first touch electrode, and senses a touch sensing signal at a second touch electrode, and outputs the touch sensing signal to the common electrode layer or a reference point of the display controller by a non-inverting amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: HSIANG-YU LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Patent number: 10120479
    Abstract: A capacitive pressure sensor includes an upper substrate having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, a first electrode layer with a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer having at least one second sensing electrode, a dielectric layer arranged between the first and the second electrode layers, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In pressure sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a capacitance-exciting signal to the at least one second sensing electrode and obtains a pressure sensing signal from the second sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10120476
    Abstract: A self-capacitance organic light emitting touch display apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate, a common electrode layer, an organic light emitting material layer, at least a touch electrode layer including a plurality of touch sensing electrodes, a display controller, and a touch controller. During touch sensing, the touch controller sequentially or randomly applies a capacitance exciting signal to a selected touch sensing electrode, and senses a touch sensing signal at the selected touch sensing electrode. The touch controller applies a shielding reflection signal to the common electrode layer or a reference point of the display controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin, Chia-Hsun Tu
  • Publication number: 20180307353
    Abstract: An in-cell OLED touch display panel structure includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged along a first direction, a plurality of isolation electrodes, and a plurality of second electrode connection lines. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged along a second direction. Each of the second electrodes extends to one edge of the in-cell OLED touch display panel structure through a corresponding second electrode connection line. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are both disposed at one side of a common electrode layer opposite to an OLED layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Publication number: 20180308902
    Abstract: An OLED touch display device includes a TFT substrate and a touch electrode layer. The TFT substrate has a surface formed thereon plural switch devices, plural second touch traces and plural conductive pads. Each switch device has plural touch TFT switches. The touch electrode layer includes plural first touch traces and plural touch sense electrodes divided into plural groups each having at least one touch sense electrode, and each group is corresponding to one of the conductive pads. The touch sense electrodes are corresponding to the first touch traces one by on. Each touch sense electrode is connected to the corresponding first touch trace. Each first touch trace is connected to one touch TFT switch of the corresponding switch device, and each switch device is connected to one second touch trace and the corresponding conductive pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Patent number: 10108285
    Abstract: An in-cell OLED touch display panel structure includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged along a first direction, a plurality of isolation electrodes, and a plurality of second electrode connection lines. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged along a second direction. Each of the second electrodes extends to one edge of the in-cell OLED touch display panel structure through a corresponding second electrode connection line. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are both disposed at one side of a common electrode layer opposite to an OLED layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin, Chia-Hsun Tu
  • Publication number: 20180292930
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus with force and touch sensing includes a touch protection layer, a touch electrode layer, a resilient material layer, a force electrode layer, a thin-film-encapsulation layer, a common electrode layer, an organic light emitting material layer and a thin film transistor substrate from top to bottom. The thin film transistor substrate includes a pixel electrode layer, a thin film transistor layer and a transistor substrate from top to bottom. The organic light emitting display apparatus further includes a display controller to drive the organic light emitting material layer and a force touch controller for sensing touch position on the touch electrode layer and force exerted on the force electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: HSIANG-YU LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN, Chia-Hsun TU
  • Patent number: 10061460
    Abstract: A self-capacitance input device with hovering touch includes a sensing electrode layer, a reflection and deflection electrode layer, an insulation layer, and an amplifier with a gain greater than zero. The sensing electrode layer has a plurality of sensing electrodes on one side for sensing a touch or approach of an external object. The reflection and deflection electrode layer is disposed on the other side of the sensing electrode layer and has at least one reflection and deflection electrode. The insulation layer is disposed between the sensing electrode layer and the reflection and deflection electrode layer. The amplifier has an output coupled to the reflection and deflection electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-Touch Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10061959
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with multi-finger fingerprint identifying function includes at least one multi-finger fingerprint sensor having a sensing electrode matrix with a side length of at least two centimeters such that the multi-finger fingerprint sensor can sense the fingerprints of at least two fingers simultaneously or sense user gesture. The electronic apparatus can authenticate the user fingerprint and sense user gesture and execute a predetermined operation according to the authentication result and the sensed user gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shang Chin, Hsiang-Yu Lee, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10061966
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification apparatus includes a fingerprint identification IC chip, a polymer film substrate and a decorative layer. The fingerprint identification IC chip comprises a plurality of metal bumps arranged on one side of the fingerprint identification IC chip. The polymer film substrate comprises a plurality of conductive pads and arranged on one side of the fingerprint identification IC chip with the metal bumps. At least part of the conductive pads is corresponding to and electrically connected to the metal bumps. The decorative layer is arranged on one side of the polymer film substrate opposite to the fingerprint identification IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10055044
    Abstract: An integral sensing apparatus for touch and pressure includes an upper substrate having a first electrode layer with a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer having at least one second sensing electrode, a dielectric layer arranged between the first and the second electrode layers, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In touch sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a first capacitance-exciting signal to a selected first sensing electrode and obtains a touch sensing signal from the selected first sensing electrode, wherein an auxiliary signal with same phase as the first capacitance-exciting signal is sent to at least one corresponding second sensing electrode. In pressure sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a second capacitance-exciting signal to the corresponding second sensing electrode and obtains a pressure sensing signal from the second sensing electrode, wherein a counter exciting signal is also sent to the selected first sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10055060
    Abstract: An integral sensing apparatus includes an upper substrate having a first electrode layer with a plurality of polygonal touch sensing electrodes staggered to each other, a second electrode layer having at least one force sensing electrode, a dielectric layer, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In touch sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a touch capacitance-exciting signal to a selected touch sensing electrode and obtains a touch sensing signal therefrom, wherein an auxiliary signal with same phase as the touch capacitance-exciting signal is sent to at least one corresponding force sensing electrode. In force sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a force capacitance-exciting signal to the at least one corresponding force sensing electrode and obtains a force sensing signal from the force sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10055630
    Abstract: An electronic device with fingerprint recognition circuit powered by dedicated power source includes a functional circuit, a plurality of fingerprint sensing electrodes, and a fingerprint sensing control circuit. The functional circuit is powered by a first power source. The fingerprint sensing electrodes are provided for sensing a contact of a finger. The fingerprint sensing control circuit is powered by a second power source which is different from the first power source. The fingerprint sensing control circuit is connected to the fingerprint sensing electrodes for driving the fingerprint sensing electrodes to sense the fingerprint, wherein there is no common current loop between the first power source and the second power source during an operation of fingerprint sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10048795
    Abstract: A display device with fingerprint identification and touch detection includes a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to the first substrate, a display material layer configured between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer. The thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer is disposed at one surface of the first substrate facing the display material layer. The thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer has a plurality of sensing electrodes for performing fingerprint identification sensing and touch sensing at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin