Patents by Inventor Hsin-Yi Hsieh

Hsin-Yi Hsieh 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: 20240126027
    Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate, a waveguide layer, a first input grating, a first fold grating, and an isolation layer. The waveguide layer is disposed on the substrate. The first input grating is disposed in the waveguide layer. A first incident light passes through the first input grating to form a first light. The first fold grating is disposed in the waveguide layer. The first light passes through the first fold grating to form a first diffracted light in a first direction and a second diffracted light in a second direction. The isolation layer includes a first well array and is disposed on the waveguide layer. When the first diffracted light in the first direction travels to a first top portion corresponding to the first well array of the waveguide layer, the first diffracted light further passes through the first well array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Hsun CHENG, Wei-Ko WANG, Hsin-Yi HSIEH
  • Patent number: 11948531
    Abstract: A light source device, including a first light source, providing a first light beam in a first time period of a first period; and a second light source, providing a second light beam in a second time period of the first period, is provided. The first light beam and the second light beam have the same color temperature. The first light beam and the second light beam are emitted alternately in the first period, and a color rendering index of mixed light of the first light beam and the second light beam is greater than or equal to 85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzung-Te Chen, Hsin-Yun Tsai, Shih-Yi Wen, Chia-Fen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11940667
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has two surfaces being both aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Chun-Yen Chen, Chun-Che Hsueh, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11910550
    Abstract: A display includes a frame body and an optical film. Each of the first side wall and the third side wall of the frame body has a first positioning structure. Two end portions of each of the second sidewall and the fourth sidewall are bent toward the accommodating space to form second positioning structures. The optical film includes first positioning pieces and second positioning pieces. The first positioning pieces are respectively at the first side and the third side of the optical film, and each of the first positioning structures passes through a corresponding one of the first positioning pieces. The second positioning pieces respectively extend along a direction parallel to the first side or the third side of the optical film, and each of the second positioning pieces corresponds to a corresponding one of the second positioning structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AUO DISPLAY PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsin-Yi Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20240023257
    Abstract: A display includes a frame body and an optical film. Each of the first side wall and the third side wall of the frame body has a first positioning structure. Two end portions of each of the second sidewall and the fourth sidewall are bent toward the accommodating space to form second positioning structures. The optical film includes first positioning pieces and second positioning pieces. The first positioning pieces are respectively at the first side and the third side of the optical film, and each of the first positioning structures passes through a corresponding one of the first positioning pieces. The second positioning pieces respectively extend along a direction parallel to the first side or the third side of the optical film, and each of the second positioning pieces corresponds to a corresponding one of the second positioning structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Hsin-Yi Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20240009664
    Abstract: A bio-chip is provided. The bio-chip includes a substrate and a first organic photoelectric conversion element disposed on the substrate. The first organic photoelectric conversion element defines pixel units. The bio-chip also includes a polarizing array disposed on the first organic photoelectric conversion element. The polarizing array includes polarizing sets, each polarizing set corresponds to one pixel unit and has sub-polarizing units that have different polarizing angles. The bio-chip further includes reaction sites disposed on the polarizing array. Each reaction site corresponds to one sub-polarizing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Lai-Hung LAI
  • Publication number: 20230408335
    Abstract: A spectrometer includes a plurality of photodetectors, an anti-reflection layer, a grating layer, a distant layer, and a collimator. The anti-reflection layer is disposed on the plurality of photodetectors. The grating layer is disposed above the anti-reflection layer and includes a plurality of grating structures to spread a light into a spectrum to the plurality of photodetectors through the distant layer. The distant layer continuously extends from the grating layer to the anti-reflection layer, the distant layer has a thickness in a range from 400 ?m to 2000 ?m, and a refractive index of the grating layer is greater than a refractive index of the distant layer. The collimator is disposed above the grating layer, in which the collimator is configured to confine an incident angle of the light from a first micro-lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Wen-Yu SHIH, Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Lai-Hung LAI, Po-Han FU, Chin-Chuan HSIEH
  • Patent number: 11841270
    Abstract: The spectrometer includes a lightguide substrate, an upper grating layer, a lower grating layer, an image sensor, and a readout circuit. The upper grating layer is disposed on the lightguide substrate and configured to receive a light. The upper grating layer includes a first grating structure, a second grating structure, and a third grating structure, and the first, second, and third grating structures have different grating periods. The lightguide substrate is configured to diffract the light when the light propagates into the lightguide substrate, such that multiple diffraction lights are formed and each of the multiple diffraction lights has different wavelengths and different optical path. The lower grating layer is disposed under the lightguide substrate and configured to emit the multiple diffraction lights. The image sensor is disposed under the lower grating layer. The readout circuit is disposed under the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Lai-Hung Lai, Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Chin-Chuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20230384157
    Abstract: The spectrometer includes a lightguide substrate, an upper grating layer, a lower grating layer, an image sensor, and a readout circuit. The upper grating layer is disposed on the lightguide substrate and configured to receive a light. The upper grating layer includes a first grating structure, a second grating structure, and a third grating structure, and the first, second, and third grating structures have different grating periods. The lightguide substrate is configured to diffract the light when the light propagates into the lightguide substrate, such that multiple diffraction lights are formed and each of the multiple diffraction lights has different wavelengths and different optical path. The lower grating layer is disposed under the lightguide substrate and configured to emit the multiple diffraction lights. The image sensor is disposed under the lower grating layer. The readout circuit is disposed under the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Lai-Hung LAI, Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Chin-Chuan HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20230359031
    Abstract: A waveguide structure is provided. The waveguide structure includes waveguide combiners stacked one upon the other. Each waveguide combiner includes a waveguide plate and an input coupler disposed on the waveguide plate. The input coupler of at least one waveguide combiner includes first grating pillars, and each first grating pillar has a gradually changing refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Po-Han FU, Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Wei-Ko WANG
  • Publication number: 20230350111
    Abstract: The optical system includes a projector, a deflector, a polarizer, a first grating coupler structure, and a second grating coupler structure. The projector emits three beams having different wavelengths. The deflector is disposed below the projector and is configured to change incident angles of the three beams and to focus the three beams at the same region of the first grating coupler structure. The first grating coupler structure is below the deflector and is configured to couple the three beams into a light-guide lens such that the three beams travel the same optical path within the light-guide lens. The light-guide lens is connected to the first grating coupler structure and is configured to transmit the three beams. The polarizer is disposed between the projector and the deflector and is configured to filter out transverse electric (TE) modes or transverse magnetic (TM) modes of the three beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Po-Han FU, Hsin-Wei MAO, Wei-Ko WANG, Chin-Chuan HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20230296521
    Abstract: A bio-detection device is provided. The bio-detection device includes a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes a substrate, one or more pairs of reflective sub-polarizing units, and a plurality of reaction sites. The pairs of reflective sub-polarizing units are disposed on the substrate. The difference of the absolute value between respective polarizing angles of the reflective sub-polarizing units in each pair of reflective sub-polarizing units is 90°. The reaction sites are defined above the one or more pairs of reflective sub-polarizing units. The reaction sites and the reflective sub-polarizing units are in one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Hsin-Yi HSIEH
  • Patent number: 11703445
    Abstract: A biosensor is provided. The biosensor includes a plurality of sensor units. Each of the sensor units includes one or more photodiodes, a first aperture feature disposed above the photodiodes, an interlayer disposed on the first aperture feature, a second aperture feature disposed on the interlayer, and a waveguide disposed above the second aperture feature. The second aperture feature includes an upper grating element and the first aperture feature includes one or more lower grating elements, and a grating period of the upper grating element is less than or equal to a grating period of the one or more lower grating elements. A difference of the absolute values between a first polarizing angle of the upper and lower grating elements in one of the sensor units and a second polarizing angle of the upper and lower grating elements in adjacent one of the sensor units is 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hsin-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11705472
    Abstract: A biosensor is provided. The biosensor includes a substrate, a first photodiode, a second photodiode, an angle-sensitive filter, and an immobilization layer. The first photodiode and the second photodiode are disposed in the substrate and define a first pixel and a second pixel, respectively. The first pixel and the second pixel receive a light. The angle-sensitive filter is disposed on the substrate. The immobilization layer is disposed on the angle-sensitive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Chin-Chuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20230185027
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light module, an optical element on a first grating coupler, and a second grating coupler. The light module emits three beams from different positions. The optical element is below the light module and is configured to change incident angles of the three beams and to focus the three beams at the same region of the first grating coupler. The first grating coupler is below the optical element and is configured to couple the three beams into a light-guide substrate. The light-guide substrate is connected to the first grating coupler and is configured to transmit the three beams. The second grating coupler is connected to the light-guide substrate and is configured to enable the three beams departing from the light-guide substrate after the three beams have traveled the same optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Chin-Chuan HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20230185028
    Abstract: An optical structure includes a grating coupler and a microlens. The grating coupler is configured to receive a laser light. The microlens is above the grating coupler, in which a metal shielding covers the microlens and has an opening to allow the laser light entering an effective coupling region of the grating coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Chin-Chuan HSIEH
  • Patent number: 11662526
    Abstract: An optical structure includes a grating coupler and a microlens. The grating coupler is configured to receive a laser light. The microlens is above the grating coupler, in which a metal shielding covers the microlens and has an opening to allow the laser light entering an effective coupling region of the grating coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Chin-Chuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11662525
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light module, an optical element on a first grating coupler, and a second grating coupler. The light module emits three beams from different positions. The optical element is below the light module and is configured to change incident angles of the three beams and to focus the three beams at the same region of the first grating coupler. The first grating coupler is below the optical element and is configured to couple the three beams into a light-guide substrate. The light-guide substrate is connected to the first grating coupler and is configured to transmit the three beams. The second grating coupler is connected to the light-guide substrate and is configured to enable the three beams departing from the light-guide substrate after the three beams have traveled the same optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Chin-Chuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11630062
    Abstract: A biosensor is provided. The biosensor includes a substrate, photodiodes, pixelated filters, an excitation light rejection layer and an immobilization layer. The substrate has pixels. The photodiodes are disposed in the substrate and correspond to one of the pixels, respectively. The pixelated filters are disposed on the substrate. The excitation light rejection layer is disposed on the pixelated filter. The immobilization layer is disposed on the excitation light rejection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Chin-Chuan Hsieh, Wei-Ko Wang, Yu-Jen Chen, Yi-Hua Chiu, Chung-Jung Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230067667
    Abstract: A biosensor structure is provided. The biosensor structure includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a gold disc. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the insulating layer, and a well is disposed in the semiconductor layer. The gold disc is disposed at bottom of the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yi-Hua CHIU, Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Wei-Ko WANG