Patents by Inventor Hung Wei Wu

Hung Wei Wu 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: 8791907
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus utilizes the characteristics of orthogonal vectors is disclosed. A random spread spectrum (RSS) signal or a periodic wave is used to modulate a driving signal so as to driving a row of a sensing array, and the RSS signal or periodic wave is also use to extract touch information of a node from a sensing signal measured from a column of the sensing array. The node is an intersection of the driven row and the measured column. When different RSS signals and/or periodic waves are used to drive multiple rows simultaneously, multipoint touching information can be obtained from the same sensing signal at the same time by respectively using the RSS signals and/or periodic waves to extract touching information of multiple points which are the intersections of the driven rows and the measured column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: U-Pixel Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Hung Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 8503732
    Abstract: An image generating device and a method thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The image generating device and method may find out true motion for static text strings. The image generating device and method detect static text angles from consecutive frames and use a 3D-static text filter to recover correct motion vector fields. After our Static Text Detector fixing, the static text strings like subtitles can get more accurate motion vector and improve video quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 8467453
    Abstract: A motion vector calibration circuit includes a select circuit, a local minimum detection circuit, a sine wave detection circuit, a threshold value detection circuit and a decision circuit. Correct motion vectors are passed using a recursive method, thereby achieving high accuracy and reducing computational volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chih-Yu Chang, Ming-Jen Tai, Yu-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 8314884
    Abstract: An adaptive blending MCI method and device thereof are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The adaptive blending MCI method uses adjacent four motion vectors to get the corresponding pixels, and uses linear interpolation equation to blend four pixels to reduce block artifacts. The method uses adaptive weighting coefficient to favor reliable motion vector to avoid bad motion vector degrade image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chiung-Fu Chen, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 8305352
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel, a driving circuit, and a sensing circuit. The driving circuit generates a driving signal, and superposes phase information on the driving signal. The touch panel includes multiple crossing conductors, for providing a sensing signal in response to a contact of an object on one of the sensing conductors and to a driving signal applied on the sensing element. The sensing circuit includes a signal extractor and a tag detector. The signal extractor generates a demodulation signal based on the period of the driving signal, width of the phase information, and for demodulating the sensing signal by using the demodulation signal to determine a sensing value. The tag detector enables the signal extractor as soon as a magnitude of the sensing signal is over a predetermined threshold. The signal demodulates the sensing signal by using a demodulation signal whose period is the same as the driving signal to determine the sensing value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: u-Pixel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Ying-Jyh Yeh, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 8300145
    Abstract: A frame rate up-conversion apparatus comprises a motion vector detecting circuit, a dynamic quality control circuit, a motion compensation circuit and a pull-down recovery circuit. According to quality of motion vectors, a corresponding image output mode is determined dynamically. A visual impact due to incorrect motion vectors is reduced and the visual experience is also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chih-Yu Chang, Wen-Yen Huang
  • Patent number: 8194051
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for detecting positions of touching is disclosed. In the present invention, a reference touch profile is provided. A variable ideal combination profile indicating multiple touches is obtained by synthesizing a plurality of reference touch profiles at different positions. The variable ideal combination profile is matched with a sensing signal. Actual touch positions can be identified from the sensing signal when the matching of the variable ideal combination profile with the sensing signal is optimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chiung-Fu Chen, Shao-Sheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20110075027
    Abstract: A frame rate up-conversion apparatus comprises a motion vector detecting circuit, a dynamic quality control circuit, a motion compensation circuit and a pull-down recovery circuit. According to quality of motion vectors, a corresponding image output mode is determined dynamically. A visual impact due to incorrect motion vectors is reduced and the visual experience is also improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Hung Wei WU, Chih-Yu CHANG, Wen-Yen HUANG
  • Publication number: 20110063227
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel, a driving circuit, and a sensing circuit. The driving circuit generates a driving signal, and superposes phase information on the driving signal. The touch panel includes multiple crossing conductors, for providing a sensing signal in response to a contact of an object on one of the sensing conductors and to a driving signal applied on the sensing element. The sensing circuit includes a signal extractor and a tag detector. The signal extractor generates a demodulation signal based on the period of the driving signal, width of the phase information, and for demodulating the sensing signal by using the demodulation signal to determine a sensing value. The tag detector enables the signal extractor as soon as a magnitude of the sensing signal is over a predetermined threshold. The signal demodulates the sensing signal by using a demodulation signal whose period is the same as the driving signal to determine the sensing value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: u-Pixel Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Ying-Jyh Yeh, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Publication number: 20110042153
    Abstract: A touch sensing device and method for detecting a touch event of a sensing array are disclosed. In the present invention, a random duration square wave signal is used to modulate a current or voltage signal so as to generate a modulated driving signal for driving a row of the sensing array. The random duration square wave signal has cycles of different durations so that the modulated driving signal also has the same cycles with the different durations. A sensing signal is measured from a column, for example, of the sensing array. Touching information is extracted by using the random duration square wave signal to demodulate the sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: u-Pixel Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Publication number: 20100328532
    Abstract: An image generating device and a method thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The image generating device and method may find out true motion for static text strings. The image generating device and method detect static text angles from consecutive frames and use a 3D-static text filter to recover correct motion vector fields. After our Static Text Detector fixing, the static text strings like subtitles can get more accurate motion vector and improve video quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hung Wei Wu, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Publication number: 20100329343
    Abstract: A motion vector calibration circuit includes a select circuit, a local minimum detection circuit, a sine wave detection circuit, a threshold value detection circuit and a decision circuit. Correct motion vectors are passed using a recursive method, thereby achieving high accuracy and reducing computational volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hung Wei WU, Chih-Yu Chang, Ming-Jen Tai, Yu-Chieh Chen
  • Publication number: 20100245664
    Abstract: An adaptive blending MCI method and device thereof are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The adaptive blending MCI method uses adjacent four motion vectors to get the corresponding pixels, and uses linear interpolation equation to blend four pixels to reduce block artifacts. The method uses adaptive weighting coefficient to favor reliable motion vector to avoid bad motion vector degrade image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hung Wei WU, Chiung-Fu Chen, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 7554557
    Abstract: An image compression device includes a floating-point texture-loading unit, a shader, a RGB to YCrCb compressor, and a parameter adjusting unit. The floating-point texture-loading unit receives raw image data that includes N number of RGB pixels. The shader receives the raw image data and shades the N number of RGB pixels. The RGB to YCrCb compressor receives the shaded image data and calculates the brightness/chroma value of each of the RGB pixels, wherein the chroma value of the RGB pixel having the smallest brightness value among all the RGB pixels is selected as a common chroma value for all the RGB pixels. The parameter adjusting unit receives and adjusts N number of brightness values of the RGB pixels and the common chroma value and stores them in a form of compressed image data into a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Hung Wei Wu