Patents by Inventor Meng-Huan Hsieh

Meng-Huan 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).

  • Patent number: 10379677
    Abstract: An operation method of an optical touch device includes: emitting, by a light emitting unit, a light beam to illuminate an object; capturing, by an image sensing device, an image of the object reflecting the light beam; selecting all pixels in the image having a brightness greater than or equal to a brightness threshold; sorting the selected pixels along a first coordinate axis of the image, a second coordinate axis of the image or based a pixel brightness; selecting the top first predetermined ratio of pixels from the sorted pixels as an object image of the object; and calculating a gravity center of the object image according to positions of the top first predetermined ratio of pixels or according to the positions of the top first predetermined ratio of pixels with a weight of pixel brightness. An optical touch device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, En-Feng Hsu, Yi-Yuan Chen, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20190221169
    Abstract: There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: EN-FENG HSU, MENG-HUAN HSIEH
  • Patent number: 10297208
    Abstract: There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20190108395
    Abstract: There is provided a pupil tracking device including an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball alternatively in a first brightness value and a second brightness value. The image sensor captures a first brightness image corresponding to the first brightness value and a second brightness image corresponding to the second brightness value. The processing unit identifies a brightest region at corresponding positions of the first brightness image and the second brightness image as an active light image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: YU-HAO HUANG, MING-TSAN KAO, YI-FANG LEE, EN-FENG HSU, MENG-HUAN HSIEH, NIEN-TSE CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190087014
    Abstract: Glasses with gesture recognition function include a glasses frame and a gesture recognition system. The gesture recognition system is disposed on the glasses frame and configured to detect hand gestures in front of the glasses thereby generating a control command. The gesture recognition system transmits the control command to an electronic device to correspondingly control the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: HORNG-GOUNG LAI, EN-FENG HSU, MENG-HUAN HSIEH, YU-HAO HUANG, NIEN-TSE CHEN
  • Patent number: 10198631
    Abstract: There is provided a pupil tracking device including an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball alternatively in a first brightness value and a second brightness value. The image sensor captures a first brightness image corresponding to the first brightness value and a second brightness image corresponding to the second brightness value. The processing unit identifies a brightest region at corresponding positions of the first brightness image and the second brightness image as an active light image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, Yi-Fang Lee, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 10175769
    Abstract: Glasses with gesture recognition function include a glasses frame and a gesture recognition system. The gesture recognition system is disposed on the glasses frame and configured to detect hand gestures in front of the glasses thereby generating a control command. The gesture recognition system transmits the control command to an electronic device to correspondingly control the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Horng-Goung Lai, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh, Yu-Hao Huang, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Publication number: 20190005895
    Abstract: There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: EN-FENG HSU, MENG-HUAN HSIEH
  • Patent number: 10127866
    Abstract: There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20180160079
    Abstract: A pupil detection device includes an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball. The image sensor captures at least one image frame of the eyeball to be served as an image to be identified. The processing unit is configured to calculate a minimum gray value in the image to be identified and to identify a plurality of pixels surrounding the minimum gray value and having gray values within a gray value range as a pupil area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Yu-Hao HUANG, Yi-Fang LEE, Ming-Tsan KAO, Meng-Huan HSIEH, En-Feng HSU, Nien-Tse CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180150185
    Abstract: An operation method of an optical touch device includes: emitting, by a light emitting unit, a light beam to illuminate an object; capturing, by an image sensing device, an image of the object reflecting the light beam; selecting all pixels in the image having a brightness greater than or equal to a brightness threshold; sorting the selected pixels along a first coordinate axis of the image, a second coordinate axis of the image or based a pixel brightness; selecting the top first predetermined ratio of pixels from the sorted pixels as an object image of the object; and calculating a gravity center of the object image according to positions of the top first predetermined ratio of pixels or according to the positions of the top first predetermined ratio of pixels with a weight of pixel brightness. An optical touch device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, En-Feng Hsu, Yi-Yuan Chen, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20180120949
    Abstract: Glasses with gesture recognition function include a glasses frame and a gesture recognition system. The gesture recognition system is disposed on the glasses frame and configured to detect hand gestures in front of the glasses thereby generating a control command. The gesture recognition system transmits the control command to an electronic device to correspondingly control the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Horng-Goung LAI, En-Feng HSU, Meng-Huan HSIEH, Yu-Hao HUANG, Nien-Tse CHEN
  • Patent number: 9904369
    Abstract: Glasses with gesture recognition function include a glasses frame and a gesture recognition system. The gesture recognition system is disposed on the glasses frame and configured to detect hand gestures in front of the glasses thereby generating a control command. The gesture recognition system transmits the control command to an electronic device to correspondingly control the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Horng-Goung Lai, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh, Yu-Hao Huang, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 9530051
    Abstract: There is provided a pupil tracking device including an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball alternatively in a first brightness value and a second brightness value. The image sensor captures a first brightness image corresponding to the first brightness value and a second brightness image corresponding to the second brightness value. The processing unit identifies a brightest region at corresponding positions of the first brightness image and the second brightness image as an active light image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, Yi-Fang Lee, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 9529521
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gesture detecting apparatus which includes an image capturing device and a processing unit. The image capturing device is for capturing an object light beam reflected by an object and outputting corresponding image information accordingly. The processing unit is for processing the image information and generating a first command or a second command accordingly. The steps of generating the first command and the second command by the processing unit include: outputting a first command if an image size of the image information increases with a relatively higher velocity and decreases with a relatively lower velocity in a sequential time series; and outputting a second command if the image size of the image information increases with a relatively lower velocity and decreases with a relatively higher velocity in the sequential time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20160370859
    Abstract: There is provided a pupil tracking device including an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball alternatively in a first brightness value and a second brightness value. The image sensor captures a first brightness image corresponding to the first brightness value and a second brightness image corresponding to the second brightness value. The processing unit identifies a brightest region at corresponding positions of the first brightness image and the second brightness image as an active light image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Hao HUANG, Ming-Tsan KAO, Yi-Fang LEE, En-Feng HSU, Meng-Huan HSIEH, Nien-Tse CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160372056
    Abstract: There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: En-Feng HSU, Meng-Huan HSIEH
  • Patent number: 9363444
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a background model update method for image process. The accuracy of distinguishing a foreground image from the background model can be improved by adjusting the background model update level according to image variations such as brightness variation, motion variation, color variation, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, En-Feng Hsu, Ming-Tsan Kao, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9223078
    Abstract: A positioning signal transmitter module, adapted to use with a cursor-controlling device corporately for a cursor controlling, includes a light-guide element and at least one light source. The light-guide element has a light-emission surface and at least one light-incidence surface adjacent to the light-emission surface. The light source is disposed beside the light-incidence surface(s), and each light source is configured to provide a light signal to its corresponding light-incidence surface. The light signal emits out from the light-emission surface. Moreover, an electronic product with a cursor-controllable function using the aforementioned positioning signal transmitter module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Chien Huang, Chun-Yi Lu, Meng-Huan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9104910
    Abstract: A device for determining a gesture includes a light emitting unit, an image sensing device and a processing circuit. The light emitting unit emits a light beam. The image sensing device captures an image of a hand reflecting the light beam. The processing circuit obtains the image and determine a gesture of the hand by performing an operation on the image; wherein the operation includes: selecting pixels in the image having a brightness greater than or equal to a brightness threshold; sorting the selected pixels; selecting a first predetermined percentage of pixels from the sorted pixels; dividing the adjacent pixels in the first predetermined percentage of pixels into a same group; and determining the gesture of the hand according to the number of groups of pixels. A method for determining a gesture and an operation method of the aforementioned device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, Sen-Huang Huang, Nien-Tse Chen, En-Feng Hsu, Meng-Huan Hsieh, Yi-Yuan Chen