Patents by Inventor Shao-Ping Hung
Shao-Ping Hung 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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Publication number: 20230072388Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The OLED display device includes an OLED panel, a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The non-volatile memory is coupled to the OLED panel and used for storing accumulated current data from the OLED panel. The volatile memory is coupled between the non-volatile memory and the OLED panel and used for storing a compensation value generated according to the accumulated current data stored in the non-volatile memory. When the OLED panel is directly compensated with the compensation value, the non-volatile memory receives and stores updated accumulated current data of the OLED panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: YUHE CHIOU, SHIH HSUN HUANG, SHAO-PING HUNG
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Patent number: 10608675Abstract: A method for performing polar decoding with aid of notation transformation and associated polar decoder are provided. The method includes: transforming input signals from a 2's complement notation to a signed magnitude notation to generate transformed input signals, wherein during the polar decoding, a plurality of first sub-operations and a plurality of second sub-operations are performed to generate decoding results of the transformed input signals; performing a first sign processing to generate a sign result of a first sub-operation within the plurality of first sub-operations; performing a first magnitude processing to generate a magnitude result of the first sub-operation within the plurality of first sub-operations; performing a second sign processing to generate a sign result of a second sub-operation within the plurality of second sub-operations; and performing a second magnitude processing to generate a magnitude result of the second sub-operation within the plurality of second sub-operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Wei-Yeu Chen, Tien-Shin Ho, Shao-Ping Hung, Chia-Wei Tai, Tien-Yu Lin
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Publication number: 20200083906Abstract: A method for performing polar decoding with aid of notation transformation and associated polar decoder are provided. The method includes: transforming input signals from a 2's complement notation to a signed magnitude notation to generate transformed input signals, wherein during the polar decoding, a plurality of first sub-operations and a plurality of second sub-operations are performed to generate decoding results of the transformed input signals; performing a first sign processing to generate a sign result of a first sub-operation within the plurality of first sub-operations; performing a first magnitude processing to generate a magnitude result of the first sub-operation within the plurality of first sub-operations; performing a second sign processing to generate a sign result of a second sub-operation within the plurality of second sub-operations; and performing a second magnitude processing to generate a magnitude result of the second sub-operation within the plurality of second sub-operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Wei-Yeu Chen, Tien-Shin Ho, Shao-Ping Hung, Chia-Wei Tai, Tien-Yu Lin
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Publication number: 20180374416Abstract: A display driving apparatus applied to a panel. The panel displays a first image with a first refresh rate. A first refresh cycle corresponding to the first refresh rate includes a refresh period and at least one non-refresh period. The display driving apparatus includes a real-time determination module and a data processing module. The real-time determination module is coupled to the panel and used to immediately determine whether the panel wants to replace the originally displayed first image with a second image during the first refresh cycle. The data processing module is coupled to the real-time determination module and the panel. If a determination result of the real-time determination module is yes, the data processing module immediately controls the panel to start to display the second image at a first time during the first refresh cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Chun-Lin HOU, Shao-Ping HUNG, Shang-Ping TANG
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Patent number: 10163400Abstract: A display driving apparatus including a lightness adjusting unit, a gamma adjusting unit, a pre-charging voltage adjusting unit and a source driving unit is disclosed. The lightness adjusting unit receives and adjusts a lightness of an image data. The gamma adjusting unit adjusts a gamma voltage corresponding to the image data to generate a source data voltage. The pre-charging voltage adjusting unit calculates a highest data voltage and a lowest data voltage which can be outputted by a source electrode and adjusts a pre-charging voltage accordingly to make the adjusted pre-charging voltage the same with the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage or only a shifted voltage different from the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage of the image data. The source driving unit outputs the adjusted pre-charging voltage and the source data voltage to a display panel respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Huang-Ren Chen, Cheng-Nan Lin, Shao-Ping Hung
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Publication number: 20170345381Abstract: A dynamic voltage controller applied to a display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a power supply. The power supply is coupled to the display panel. The dynamic voltage controller includes a data analyzing module and a voltage control module. The data analyzing module receives and analyzes an image data to obtain a maximum brightness, an average brightness and an average current to further estimate a minimum driving voltage needed for the display panel to display the image data. The voltage control module coupled between the data analyzing module and power supply is used to output a voltage control signal to the power supply according to the minimum driving voltage, so that the power supply is controlled by the voltage control signal to output the minimum driving voltage to the display panel to drive the display panel to display the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Chun-Lin Hou, Chien-Lin Huang, Shao-Ping Hung
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Publication number: 20170345356Abstract: A display driving apparatus includes a compression module, a storing module, a reading control module and a decompression module. The compression module performs 1-bit compression on an input data signal to generate a 1-bit compressed data and non-black data and store them in the storing module. The non-black data includes color information of each non-black bit in the input data signal. The reading control module reads the 1-bit compressed data from the storing module and the decompression module performs 1-bit decompression on the 1-bit compressed data to generate an output data signal. When the decompression module performs 1-bit decompression, the decompression module determines whether each bit of the 1-bit compressed data corresponds to black. If yes, the bit is displayed in black; if no, the reading control module reads a color corresponding to the bit from the non-black data stored in the storing module and the bit is displayed in the color.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: SHANG-PING TANG, CHIEN-LIN HUANG, SHAO-PING HUNG
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Publication number: 20170345374Abstract: A display driving apparatus including a lightness adjusting unit, a gamma adjusting unit, a pre-charging voltage adjusting unit and a source driving unit is disclosed. The lightness adjusting unit receives and adjusts a lightness of an image data. The gamma adjusting unit adjusts a gamma voltage corresponding to the image data to generate a source data voltage. The pre-charging voltage adjusting unit calculates a highest data voltage and a lowest data voltage which can be outputted by a source electrode and adjusts a pre-charging voltage accordingly to make the adjusted pre-charging voltage the same with the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage or only a shifted voltage different from the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage of the image data. The source driving unit outputs the adjusted pre-charging voltage and the source data voltage to a display panel respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: HUANG-REN CHEN, CHENG-NAN LIN, SHAO-PING HUNG
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Patent number: 9640476Abstract: A driving circuit and a pin output order arranging method are disclosed. The driving circuit includes (M*N) pins and an arranging module. A first pin˜an N-th pin of the (M*N) pins, a (N+1)-th pin˜an 2N-th pin of the (M*N) pins, . . . , a [(M?1)*N+1]-th pin˜a (M*N)-th pin of the (M*N) pins are arranged along a first direction in a specific distance spaced to form a first row of pins˜an M-th row of pins. The first row of pins˜the M-th row of pins are staggered along a second direction in a staggering way or an aligning way. M and N are integers larger than 1. The arranging module correspondingly arranges the pin output order of the (M*N) pins according to different application modes of the driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Raydlum Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Shin-Tai Lo, Cheng-Nan Lin, Shao-Ping Hung
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Publication number: 20170077024Abstract: A driving circuit and a pin output order arranging method are disclosed. The driving circuit includes (M*N) pins and an arranging module. A first pin ˜ an N-th pin of the (M*N) pins, a (N+1)-th pin ˜ an 2N-th pin of the (M*N) pins, . . . , a [(M?1)*N+1]-th pin ˜ a (M*N)-th pin of the (M*N) pins are arranged along a first direction in a specific distance spaced to form a first row of pins ˜ an M-th row of pins. The first row of pins ˜ the M-th row of pins are staggered along a second direction in a staggering way or an aligning way. M and N are integers larger than 1. The arranging module correspondingly arranges the pin output order of the (M*N) pins according to different application modes of the driving circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Shin-Tai LO, Cheng-Nan LIN, Shao-Ping HUNG
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Patent number: 9313057Abstract: A method and associated apparatus using delay correlation for determining whether an input signal is a target signal is provided. The method includes sampling the input signal to generate 2N sample values, the sample values having a period N, where N is a positive integer; calculating the 2N sample values to obtain a first value according to a first operation method; calculating the 2N sample values to obtain a second value according to a second operation method; obtaining a determination value according to the first value and the second value; and determining whether the input signal is the target signal according to the determination value and a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Ching-Hsiang Chuang, Shao-Ping Hung, Tien-Hsin Ho
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Patent number: 8737928Abstract: A method applied to a receiver of a wireless network for determining an unknown quantity of antennas of a transmitter according to a received network is provided. The method includes: delaying the network signal according to a sum of a reference period and an estimated shift interval to provide a delayed signal; calculating a correlation between the network signal and the delayed signal to generate a correlation index; comparing the correlation index and a threshold to provide a comparison result; and determining the unknown quantity of transmitting antennas according to the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Shao-Ping Hung, Tien-Hsin Ho, Tai-Lai Tung, Ching-Hsiang Chuang
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Patent number: 8705662Abstract: A soft decision method for determining a soft decision coordinate associated with a constellation is provided. The soft decision coordinate includes a first soft decision sub-coordinate and a second soft decision sub-coordinate. The method includes receiving an input signal including a coordinate value; defining a first coordinate range on a coordinate axis in the constellation, the first coordinate range having a first limit and a second limit; obtaining the first soft decision sub-coordinate according to the first coordinate range; defining a second coordinate range on the coordinate axis in the constellation, the second coordinate range having a third limit and a fourth limit; and obtaining the second soft decision sub-coordinate according to the second coordinate range; wherein the first and the third limit do not simultaneously equal to the second and the fourth limit.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Shao-Ping Hung, Ching-Hsiang Chuang, Tien-Hsin Ho
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Patent number: 8633840Abstract: A determining method and apparatus thereof for a transition point of a sequence which can be applied to a decoder. The determining method determines the transition point of the sequence having N numbers, wherein the sequence is composed of a first value and a second value and N is a positive integer. The determining method includes determining the position the first value appearing consecutively in the sequence to determine a first interval; determining the position the second value appearing consecutively in the sequence to determine a second interval; and determining the longer interval between the first interval and the second interval, when the first interval is longer, determining an adjacency of the first interval and the second value as the transition point according to the first interval, and when the second interval is longer, determining an adjacency of the second interval and the first value as the transition point.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Po Lin Yeh, Chien-Hsing Lin, Jui-Hua Yeh, Shao Ping Hung, Chih-Tien Chang
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Patent number: 8605833Abstract: A signal processing apparatus for determining whether a receiving signal is a target signal is provided. The apparatus includes: a sampling device for sampling the receiving signal to generate a plurality of sampled values; a first calculation device, coupled to the sampling device, for generating a plurality of first values according to the sampled values and a plurality of reference values; a second calculation device, coupled to the first calculation device, for grouping the first values into a plurality of value groups, respectively calculating the value groups to generate a plurality of second values and generating a determination value by calculating the second values; and a determination device, coupled to the second calculation device, for determining whether the receiving signal is the target signal by comparing the determination value with a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Tien-Hsin Ho, Shao Ping Hung, Tai Lai Tung
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Patent number: 8531270Abstract: A communication device including a receiving unit and a signal processing module having a simulation unit and a decision unit is provided. The receiving unit receives a first burst of a paging message provided from a base station. Base on a reference burst code and an estimated channel impulse response of the communication channel, the simulation unit generates a simulation burst. The decision unit then determines if the paging message is a dummy message in accordance with the first burst and the simulation burst. The decision unit requests the receiving unit to stop receiving the paging message once the paging message is determined to be a dummy message.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Yu Tai Chang, Chia Sheng Peng, Shao Ping Hung, Chih Yu Chen
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Patent number: 8526549Abstract: A signal processing circuit is provided. The signal processing circuit, adjusting a received radio frequency (RF) signal according to a gain, and generating a digital signal accordingly, the signal processing circuit including a signal analysis circuit, for analyzing the digital signal to generate the gain, determining whether the received RF signal is a target signal, and generating a reference value according to the digital signal, and a baseband circuit, for performing a carrier frequency offset (CFO) compensation to the digital signal according to the reference value, wherein, the reference value is generated while the signal analysis circuit is determining whether the received RF signal is the target signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Ching-Hsiang Chuang, Tien Hsin Ho, Shao Ping Hung, Tai-Lai Tung
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Patent number: 8503585Abstract: A decoding method for determining a preferred survivor path in a decoding process is provided. The method includes calculating a first determination value of a first survivor path at a first time point, the first determination value being determined by a first sub determination value and a second determination value at a second time point, and the second time point being prior to the first time point; calculating a third determination value of a second survivor path at the first time point, the third determination value being determined by a second sub determination value and a fourth determination value at the second time point; and when a difference between the first determination value and the third determination value is equal to or less than a predetermined value, determining the preferred survivor path at the first time point according to the second and the fourth determination values, or the first and the second sub determination values.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Tung-Sheng Lin, Tien Hsin Ho, Shao-Ping Hung, Ching-Hsiang Chuang, Yu-Hsien Ku
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Publication number: 20130171943Abstract: A method applied to a receiver of a wireless network for determining an unknown quantity of antennas of a transmitter according to a received network is provided. The method includes: delaying the network signal according to a sum of a reference period and an estimated shift interval to provide a delayed signal; calculating a correlation between the network signal and the delayed signal to generate a correlation index; comparing the correlation index and a threshold to provide a comparison result; and determining the unknown quantity of transmitting antennas according to the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Shao-Ping Hung, Tien-Hsin Ho, Tai-Lai Tung, Ching-Hsiang Chuang
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Patent number: 8351548Abstract: A signal processing system is provided. The system includes a calculating apparatus, for calculating a phase error of a received signal and generating a weight according to the phase error; a signal adjusting apparatus, coupled to the calculating apparatus, for generating a plurality of soft values according to the weight and the received signal; and a decoder, coupled to the signal adjusting apparatus, for decoding the soft values to generate data.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Shao-Ping Hung, Tien-Hsin Ho, Ching-Hsiang Chuang