Patents by Inventor Huan-Teng Cheng
Huan-Teng Cheng 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).
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Patent number: 11966525Abstract: A touch device with the FPR function includes a plurality of sensing regions, a plurality of first switch sets, a plurality of first shift register circuits, a plurality of second switch sets, and a plurality of second shift register circuits. The first switch sets are coupled to transmitting electrodes and to transmit a first signal. The first shift register circuits are to control the first switch sets according to a plurality of first reset signals and a plurality of first control signals respectively. The second switch sets are coupled to receiving electrodes and to receive a second signal. The second shift register circuits are to control the second switch sets according to a second reset signal and a plurality of second control signals. The first signal and the second signal are for a touch operation and a FPR operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Patent number: 11955051Abstract: A receiver of a display driver and an operating method of the receiver of the display driver are provided. The receiver of the display driver includes an input interface, an operational amplifier and a bias current control circuit. The input interface receives image data. The operational amplifier is coupled to the input interface and includes a bias current circuit. The bias current control circuit adjusts a bias current of the bias current circuit according to a data rate of the image data. The operating method is adapted to the receiver of the display driver.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Patent number: 11935452Abstract: An electronic circuit for operating with a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit generates display driving signals for driving the display panel. The second circuit receives fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors. The third circuit determines a touch information according to touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first switch units, each of the first switch units includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The control circuit controls the first switch circuit to transmit the display driving signals in a first time interval, controls the first switch circuit to transmit the fingerprint sensing signals in a second time interval, and controls the third circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals in a third time interval.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Patent number: 11854451Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to process fingerprint data from a panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit is configured to receive touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The second circuit is configured to receive fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to at least one fingerprint imprint from the fingerprint sensors via fingerprint sensing lines. The control circuit is configured to determine a fingerprint touch area according to the touch sensing signals, and select a subset of the fingerprint sensing lines to form a fingerprint sensing zone adapted for a fingerprint sensing operation and including at least one boundary based on the determined fingerprint touch area. The subset of fingerprint sensing lines is selected based on the at least one boundary of the fingerprint sensing zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20230316800Abstract: An imaging control circuit for collecting object image data for an object presented on a portion of a surface of a display panel is provided. The imaging control circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit is adapted to receive touch sensing signals from a set of touch sensors located in the display panel. The second circuit is adapted to receive object image sensing signals from a set of imaging sensors. The object image sensing signals are associated with the object detected on the surface of the display panel. The third circuit is adapted to determine a location of the object from the touch sensing signals and generate a variable sized object imaging zone based on a location and a size of an object image. The variable sized object imaging zone includes a variable subset of the imaging sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20230267762Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel is provided. The electronic circuit includes a touch sensing circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a display driving circuit. The touch sensing circuit senses a touch of a finger and determines a first area corresponding to the touch on the display panel. The fingerprint sensing circuit senses a fingerprint image of the finger corresponding to the first area. The display driving circuit drives pixels of the first area with respective first gray levels and pixels of a second area outside the first area with respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit processes respective third gray levels to obtain the respective first gray levels or the respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit generates gamma voltages corresponding to the respective first gray levels and the respective second gray levels according to a same gamma curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Wei-Lun Shih, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Huan-Teng Cheng, Huang-Chin Tang, Yueh-Teng Mai, Shi-Hao Huang, Jung-Chung Lee
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Patent number: 11721123Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel is provided. The display panel includes touch sensors and fingerprint sensors. The electronic circuit includes a touch sensing circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a display driving circuit. The touch sensing circuit senses a touch of a finger and determines a first area corresponding to the touch on the display panel. The fingerprint sensing circuit senses a fingerprint image of the finger corresponding to the first area. The display driving circuit drives pixels of the first area with respective first gray levels and pixels of a second area outside the first area with respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit processes respective third gray levels to obtain the respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit generates gamma voltages corresponding to the respective first gray levels and the respective second gray levels according to the same gamma curve.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Wei-Lun Shih, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Huan-Teng Cheng, Huang-Chin Tang, Yueh-Teng Mai, Shi-Hao Huang, Jung-Chung Lee
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Publication number: 20230215332Abstract: A receiver of a display driver and an operating method of the receiver of the display driver are provided. The receiver of the display driver includes an input interface, an operational amplifier and a bias current control circuit. The input interface receives image data. The operational amplifier is coupled to the input interface and includes a bias current circuit. The bias current control circuit adjusts a bias current of the bias current circuit according to a data rate of the image data. The operating method is adapted to the receiver of the display driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Patent number: 11694473Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a switch circuit and a control circuit. The switch circuit includes a plurality of first switch elements and a plurality of second switch elements. The control circuit is configured to generate control signals for controlling the switch circuit, so as to control the electronic circuit to transmit the display driving signals from the first circuit to the data lines through a first part of the first switch elements in a first time interval, and control the electronic circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors of the display panel through the second switch elements in a second time interval.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Yuan Heng Lu
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Publication number: 20230196962Abstract: An electronic circuit for operating with a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit generates display driving signals for driving the display panel. The second circuit receives fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors. The third circuit determines a touch information according to touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first switch units, each of the first switch units includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The control circuit controls the first switch circuit to transmit the display driving signals in a first time interval, controls the first switch circuit to transmit the fingerprint sensing signals in a second time interval, and controls the third circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals in a third time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20230177996Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a fingerprint sensing circuit that is configured to receive fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to a fingerprint image from fingerprint sensors via fingerprint sensing lines. The fingerprint sensing circuit is further configured to select a subset of the fingerprint sensing lines to form a fingerprint sensing zone having at least one boundary and adapted for a fingerprint sensing operation based on a fingerprint touch area. The subset of fingerprint sensing lines is selected based on the at least one boundary of the fingerprint sensing zone. The fingerprint sensing circuit is further configured to generate the fingerprint image according to the fingerprint sensing signals by a remapping operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Patent number: 11631363Abstract: An display driver and an operating method of the display driver are provided. The display driver includes a receiver comprising a bias current control circuit. The receiver receives image data. The bias current control circuit computes a data bit rate of the image data, and adjusting a bias current of the receiver according to the data bit rate. The operating method is adapted to the display driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Patent number: 11625939Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit generates display driving signals for driving the display panel. The second circuit receives fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors. The first switch circuit is coupled to a second switch circuit on the display panel. The control circuit generates control signals for controlling the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit, so as to control the electronic circuit to transmit the display driving signals from the first circuit to the data lines through the first and the second switch circuits in a first time interval, and control the electronic circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors through the first and the second switch circuits in a second time interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20230072200Abstract: An display driver and an operating method of the display driver are provided. The display driver includes a receiver comprising a bias current control circuit. The receiver receives image data. The bias current control circuit computes a data bit rate of the image data, and adjusting a bias current of the receiver according to the data bit rate. The operating method is adapted to the display driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Publication number: 20230066902Abstract: A timing control circuit includes a receiving circuit and a line memory coupled to the receiving circuit. The line memory is configured for outputting a first data signal during a first frame period, and outputting a second data signal during a second frame period. An end time point of the first frame period coincides with the start time point of the second frame period. One of the first data signal and the second data signal is corresponding to a long H mode; the other of the first data signal and the second data signal is corresponding to a long V mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
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Patent number: 11551466Abstract: A control circuit configured to control a display panel includes a display driver circuit, a touch sensing circuit and a fingerprint sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit, coupled to the display driver circuit and the fingerprint sensing circuit, is configured to detect a finger touch on the display panel, determine a position of the display panel on which the finger touch is detected, and send information associated with the position to the fingerprint sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to perform fingerprint sensing on at least one zone corresponding to the position and receive fingerprint image signals from the at least one zone correspondingly.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20220344292Abstract: The disclosure provides a semiconductor chip suit for driving a display panel. The semiconductor chip includes a first pad group and a second pad group. The first pad group and the second pad group are disposed at a first long side of the semiconductor chip. The first distance from the first pad group to the edge of the first long side is different from the second distance from the second pad group to the edge of the first long side. The first pad group and the second pad group belong to a first pad row disposed at the first long side. The first pad group comprises a plurality of pads which are closer to the middle of the first pad row than the second pad group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Huang-Chin Tang, Chien-Chen Ko
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Publication number: 20220327311Abstract: A touch device with the FPR function includes a plurality of sensing regions, a plurality of first switch sets, a plurality of first shift register circuits, a plurality of second switch sets, and a plurality of second shift register circuits. The first switch sets are coupled to transmitting electrodes and to transmit a first signal. The first shift register circuits are to control the first switch sets according to a plurality of first reset signals and a plurality of first control signals respectively. The second switch sets are coupled to receiving electrodes and to receive a second signal. The second shift register circuits are to control the second switch sets according to a second reset signal and a plurality of second control signals. The first signal and the second signal are for a touch operation and a FPR operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventor: Huan-Teng CHENG
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Patent number: 11320928Abstract: An electronic circuit is adapted to drive a display panel having touch sensors and fingerprint sensors. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit processes touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The second circuit processes fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to a fingerprint from the fingerprint sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first terminals coupled to the first circuit and the second circuit and a plurality of second terminals configurable to be coupled to the display panel. The first switch circuit couples a part of the first terminals to the second terminals in a first time interval and couples the other part of the first terminals to the second terminals in a second time interval. The touch sensing signals and the fingerprint sensing signals are inputted to the electronic circuit through the second terminals.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Publication number: 20220130166Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel is provided. The display panel includes touch sensors and fingerprint sensors. The electronic circuit includes a touch sensing circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a display driving circuit. The touch sensing circuit senses a touch of a finger and determines a first area corresponding to the touch on the display panel. The fingerprint sensing circuit senses a fingerprint image of the finger corresponding to the first area. The display driving circuit drives pixels of the first area with respective first gray levels and pixels of a second area outside the first area with respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit processes respective third gray levels to obtain the respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit generates gamma voltages corresponding to the respective first gray levels and the respective second gray levels according to the same gamma curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Wei-Lun Shih, Tzu-Wen Hsieh, Huan-Teng Cheng, Huang-Chin Tang, Yueh-Teng Mai, Shi-Hao Huang, Jung-Chung Lee