Patents by Inventor Shiang-Lun Kao

Shiang-Lun Kao 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: 8867672
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method of regulating a slicer for a communication receiver. A zero-crossing accumulator receives a slicer output from the slicer and accordingly determines a zero-crossing length of the slicer output. A threshold decision unit regulates at least one threshold value of the slicer according to the zero-crossing length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shiang-Lun Kao
  • Publication number: 20130266091
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method of regulating a slicer for a communication receiver. A zero-crossing accumulator receives a slicer output from the slicer and accordingly determines a zero-crossing length of the slicer output. A threshold decision unit regulates at least one threshold value of the slicer according to the zero-crossing length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventor: Shiang-Lun KAO
  • Patent number: 8514923
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method of regulating a slicer for a communication receiver. A zero-crossing accumulator receives a slicer output from the slicer and accordingly determines a zero-crossing length of the slicer output. A threshold decision unit regulates at least one threshold value of the slicer according to the zero-crossing length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shiang-Lun Kao
  • Patent number: 8488732
    Abstract: A communication receiver and a receiving method are disclosed. An analog front-end device samples a receiving signal and generates a sampled signal. A signal detector detects presence of the receiving signal according to the sampled signal. A symbol timing recovery (STR) unit determines an optimal symbol sampling point according to a zero-crossing point of the sampled signal when the receiving signal is present, and then generates a recovered symbol based on an optimally chosen sampled value according to the optimal symbol sampling point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsi Hung, Shiang-Lun Kao
  • Publication number: 20120170693
    Abstract: A communication receiver and a receiving method are disclosed. An analog front-end device samples a receiving signal and generates a sampled signal. A signal detector detects presence of the receiving signal according to the sampled signal. A symbol timing recovery (STR) unit determines an optimal symbol sampling point according to a zero-crossing point of the sampled signal when the receiving signal is present, and then generates a recovered symbol based on an optimally chosen sampled value according to the optimal symbol sampling point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsi HUNG, Shiang-Lun Kao
  • Publication number: 20120082267
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method of regulating a slicer for a communication receiver. A zero-crossing accumulator receives a slicer output from the slicer and accordingly determines a zero-crossing length of the slicer output. A threshold decision unit regulates at least one threshold value of the slicer according to the zero-crossing length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: HIMAX MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: SHIANG-LUN KAO
  • Publication number: 20110187937
    Abstract: A method for frequency compensation includes the following steps: detecting and checking if a desired frequency falls within a first detectable frequency range delimited by an initial frequency and a first specific frequency; and when the desired frequency exceeds the first detectable frequency range, utilizing a first frequency compensation step with a step size greater than a size of the first detectable frequency range for shifting the initial frequency to a first adjusted frequency beyond the first specific frequency in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Shiang-Lun Kao, Tien-Ju Tsai
  • Publication number: 20110004810
    Abstract: A method and system of receiving data with enhanced error correction is disclosed. One or more reliability bits associated with each received data bit are generated, for example, by a soft-decision slicer. Subsequently, one or more errors of the data bits may be corrected according to the associated reliability bit(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: HIMAX MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: TIEN-JU TSAI, SHIANG-LUN KAO
  • Publication number: 20090110044
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for deciding a channel impulse response for an OFDM system are provided. First, a channel frequency response is generated by using a plurality of pilot tones of a signal. A channel impulse response is generated by applying the IFFT to the channel frequency response. A plurality of selected channel taps are derived by comparing a plurality of channel taps related to the channel impulse response with a reference threshold. Finally, the channel impulse response is generated by calculating channel impulse respose according to the selected channel taps. This method calculates the channel impulse response in time domain and frequency domain so that the calculation complexity can be reduced, and the system efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wen-Rong Wu, Shiang-Lun Kao