Patents by Inventor HSUEH-WEI YANG

HSUEH-WEI YANG 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: 12204163
    Abstract: An optical system affixed to an electronic apparatus is provided, including a first optical module, a second optical module, and a third optical module. The first optical module is configured to adjust the moving direction of a first light from a first moving direction to a second moving direction, wherein the first moving direction is not parallel to the second moving direction. The second optical module is configured to receive the first light moving in the second moving direction. The first light reaches the third optical module via the first optical module and the second optical module in sequence. The third optical module includes a first photoelectric converter configured to transform the first light into a first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng, Chia-Che Wu, Chien-Yu Kao, Hsiao-Hsin Hu, He-Ling Chang, Chao-Hsi Wang, Chen-Hsien Fan, Che-Wei Chang, Mao-Gen Jian, Sung-Mao Tsai, Wei-Jhe Shen, Yung-Ping Yang, Sin-Hong Lin, Tzu-Yu Chang, Sin-Jhong Song, Shang-Yu Hsu, Meng-Ting Lin, Shih-Wei Hung, Yu-Huai Liao, Mao-Kuo Hsu, Hsueh-Ju Lu, Ching-Chieh Huang, Chih-Wen Chiang, Yu-Chiao Lo, Ying-Jen Wang, Shu-Shan Chen, Che-Hsiang Chiu
  • Publication number: 20240402848
    Abstract: A control method for a touchpad is provided. When a vibration unit is driven, the touchpad enters a touch function restriction mode so that the touchpad undergoes various different controls compared to the normal mode. This helps to avoid erroneous capacitive sensing caused by the driving of the vibration unit, preventing determinations in touch operations and avoiding the accidental triggering of commands or gestures. As a result, it reduces or minimizes the influences on user operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Jie LIU, Hsueh-Wei YANG
  • Publication number: 20240370119
    Abstract: A control method of a touch pad is provided. The touchpad is designed to avoid misjudging a right-click command when the default conditions are met by not reporting information about a non-specific object, thereby preventing the electronic device from mistakenly interpreting a right-click command triggered by the user when multiple objects contact with the touchpad. As a result, the user is not interrupted by an unintentional right-click command during operation, thus improving the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Jie LIU, Hsueh-Wei YANG
  • Publication number: 20240241592
    Abstract: A touchpad with a force sensing function and force sensing method thereof are disclosed. In the force sensing method, a touch processing unit having a touch sensing procedure and a force reading procedure is provided. When the touch processing unit executes the touch sensing procedure, a force sensor is provided to sense a force applied on a touchpad body and a plurality of force sensing values are obtained. After that, a calculating unit is provided to accumulate the force sensing values to generate a force result. When the touch processing unit executes the force reading procedure, the touch processing unit reads the force result to determine whether a touch procedure is established or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hua-I LUO, Hsueh-Wei YANG
  • Patent number: 12032769
    Abstract: A force sensing processing method of a touchpad is provided. The comparison values obtained by subtracting the force induction quantities of different frames are used to determine whether the achievement conditions are met. If it is met, a processing step is executed to respond the event to be triggered by the changing trend of the user's force. When the force changes rapidly and the force sensing amount cannot be quickly returned to the originally set trigger threshold value, the force changing trend detected by the comparison values are be used to provide the processing steps in real time, so as to improve the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Ying-Jie Liu, Hsueh-Wei Yang
  • Publication number: 20240160303
    Abstract: A control method of a touchpad is provided. The touchpad has a determination module including a neural network. The determination module is used to determine the type of object. When the user uses the touchpad, the touchpad uses the captured object feature data of the touch object to update the determination module. Therefore, when determining the type of the touch object, the updated determination module can more accurately determine the touch object used by the user, so as to improve the determination accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chang-Ru CHEN, Tuan-Ying CHANG, Hsueh-Wei YANG
  • Publication number: 20240045535
    Abstract: A force sensing processing method of a touchpad is provided. The comparison values obtained by subtracting the force induction quantities of different frames are used to determine whether the achievement conditions are met. If it is met, a processing step is executed to respond the event to be triggered by the changing trend of the user's force. When the force changes rapidly and the force sensing amount cannot be quickly returned to the originally set trigger threshold value, the force changing trend detected by the comparison values are be used to provide the processing steps in real time, so as to improve the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Hao LIN, Ying-Jie LIU, Hsueh-Wei YANG
  • Patent number: 11836317
    Abstract: A touchpad and its force-sensing data correction method are provided. The touchpad has a force-sensing layer and a touch-sensing layer. The force-sensing layer has multiple force-sensing points. The touch-sensing layer has multiple touch-sensing points. One force-sensing point corresponds to n touch-sensing points. The force-sensing information received by the force-sensing layer is adjusted by using the touch-sensing information received by the touch-sensing layer, so that the resolution of the adjusted force-sensing information is higher than the resolution of the original received force-sensing information. In this way, the purpose of calibrating the force-sensing information is achieved, so as to improve the accuracy of determining the force applied by the object during the operation of the touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei Yang, Ying-Jie Liu
  • Publication number: 20230012281
    Abstract: A touchpad and its force-sensing data correction method are provided. The touchpad has a force-sensing layer and a touch-sensing layer. The force-sensing layer has multiple force-sensing points. The touch-sensing layer has multiple touch-sensing points. One force-sensing point corresponds to n touch-sensing points. The force-sensing information received by the force-sensing layer is adjusted by using the touch-sensing information received by the touch-sensing layer, so that the resolution of the adjusted force-sensing information is higher than the resolution of the original received force-sensing information. In this way, the purpose of calibrating the force-sensing information is achieved, so as to improve the accuracy of determining the force applied by the object during the operation of the touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei YANG, Ying-Jie LIU
  • Patent number: 11320927
    Abstract: A control system applicable to a touch device is provided. The touch device includes a touch sensor. The control system comprises a sensing circuit, configured to sense the touch sensor and generate a plurality of sensing values; a processor, configured to generate a sensing image according to the plurality of sensing values; and a convolutional neural network, configured to process the sensing image to generate feature information and generate identification information according to the feature information for determining a status of the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei Yang, Tuan-Ying Chang, Chang-Ru Chen, Tien-Wen Pao, Pin-Jung Chung
  • Patent number: 10969898
    Abstract: A method for determining a force of a touch object on a touch device and for determining its related touch event is provided. The touch object touched on the touch device is clustered into different object groups. Thus, multiple touch objects are simply grouped into two object groups to easily calculate the pressing force that is provided for determining follow-up touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei Yang, Ting-Jan Yang
  • Publication number: 20210089163
    Abstract: A touch device and an operation method thereof is provided. By determining whether the operating event of the touch device or its touchpad satisfies an exclusion condition, the command triggered when the touchpad is pressed is determined to be ignored or not. Therefore, the corresponding command triggered by pressing the touchpad downward is automatically excluded when it does not want to be triggered. Therefore, the user can naturally disable the function of the corresponding command, which is executed when the pressing module is triggered, during use without using other controls, thereby improving the convenience of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei YANG, Ting-Jan YANG, Sung-Lin Wang
  • Patent number: 10915209
    Abstract: A liquid detecting method and controller for a capacitive touch pad are disclosed. The method includes performing a first mutual capacitance measurement of sensing points of the capacitive touch pad to obtain multiple first sensing values, and then performing a second mutual capacitance measurement of the sensing points to obtain multiple second sensing values, wherein the first and the second mutual capacitance measurements using different frequency of driving signals or different sensing periods for sensing the multiple sensing points. According to the multiple first sensing values and the second sensing values, whether there is liquid on the capacitive touch pad can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tung-Ming Yang, Hsueh-Wei Yang, Tien-Wen Pao
  • Publication number: 20200356209
    Abstract: A control system applicable to a touch device is provided. The touch device includes a touch sensor. The control system comprises a sensing circuit, configured to sense the touch sensor and generate a plurality of sensing values; a processor, configured to generate a sensing image according to the plurality of sensing values; and a convolutional neural network, configured to process the sensing image to generate feature information and generate identification information according to the feature information for determining a status of the touch sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei YANG, Tuan-Ying CHANG, Chang-Ru CHEN, Tien-Wen PAO, Pin-Jung CHUNG
  • Patent number: 10691257
    Abstract: A method of changing the identified type of a touching object is provided. The touching object is on a touch pad. The method includes the following steps: (A) when the type of the touching object is determined as a palm, determining the type of the touching object again; (B) when the type of the touching object is determined as a finger in step (A), informing the operating system that the touching object has left the touch pad when the touching object does not leave the touch pad; and (C) after step (B) is done, informing the operating system that the type of the touching object is a finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tuan-Ying Chang, Hsueh-Wei Yang, Pin-Jung Chung
  • Publication number: 20200026407
    Abstract: A method of changing the identified type of a touching object is provided. The touching object is on a touch pad. The method includes the following steps: (A) when the type of the touching object is determined as a palm, determining the type of the touching object again; (B) when the type of the touching object is determined as a finger in step (A), informing the operating system that the touching object has left the touch pad when the touching object does not leave the touch pad; and (C) after step (B) is done, informing the operating system that the type of the touching object is a finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Tuan-Ying Chang, Hsueh-Wei Yang, Pin-Jung Chung
  • Publication number: 20190377455
    Abstract: A liquid detecting method and controller for a capacitive touch pad are disclosed. The method includes performing a first mutual capacitance measurement of sensing points of the capacitive touch pad to obtain multiple first sensing values, and then performing a second mutual capacitance measurement of the sensing points to obtain multiple second sensing values, wherein the first and the second mutual capacitance measurements using different frequency of driving signals or different sensing periods for sensing the multiple sensing points. According to the multiple first sensing values and the second sensing values, whether there is liquid on the capacitive touch pad can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tung-Ming YANG, Hsueh-Wei YANG, Tien-Wen PAO
  • Publication number: 20190369803
    Abstract: A method of detecting liquid on a capacitive touchpad and controller thereof are provided. The capacitive touchpad has multiple first sensing electrodes and multiple second sensing electrodes to form multiple sensing points located at crossings of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The method has steps of: (a) obtaining first sensing information by performing a self-capacitance measurement to the first sensing electrodes, wherein the first sensing information comprises a first sensing value of each first sensing electrode; (b) obtaining a second sensing value of each sensing point by performing a mutual-capacitance measurement to the multiple sensing points; (c) obtaining second sensing information by respectively accumulating the second sensing values of the sensing points corresponding to each first sensing electrode; and (d) determining whether liquid is present on the capacitive touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tung-Ming Yang, Hsueh-Wei Yang, Tien-Wen Pao
  • Publication number: 20190361563
    Abstract: A method for determining a force of a touch object on a touch device and for determining its related touch event is provided. The touch object touched on the touch device is clustered into different object groups. Thus, multiple touch objects are simply grouped into two object groups to easily calculate the pressing force that is provided for determining follow-up touch event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: HSUEH-WEI YANG, TING-JAN YANG
  • Patent number: 9557852
    Abstract: A method of identifying a palm area for a touch panel has steps of: receiving sensing frame information having multiple touching sensing points from the touch panel; selecting one of the touching sensing points; outwardly extending a distance from an outline of the selected touching sensing point to define a searching range; checking whether other touching sensing points are within the searching range; marking the touching sensing points in the searching range and expanding the searching range based on the currently marked touching sensing points; sequentially selecting and checking each touching sensing point if it is within the present searching range; and finally merging all the outlines of the marked touching sensing points to form a final outline as a palm area. Other unmarked touching sensing points are defined as touching reference points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Jen Tsai, Hsueh-Wei Yang