Patents by Inventor Shih-Chang Lai

Shih-Chang Lai 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: 8351739
    Abstract: A device for removing mosquito noise and associated method is provided to adaptively determine a proper strength for removing the mosquito noise according to image complexities, thereby removing the noise while maintaining the quality of image details. The device includes a buffer, a lookup table, and a strength determining unit. The buffer stores a pixel matrix having a target pixel. The lookup table stores a plurality of coefficients. The strength determining unit, coupled to the buffer and the lookup table, detects the image complexities of the pixel matrix and looks up the lookup table according to the image complexities of the pixel matrix, so as to output a strength coefficient for removing the mosquito noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductors, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Shih-Chang Lai
  • Patent number: 8116584
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an adaptively de-blocking circuit and associated method. A mean is derived according to the neighboring pixels surrounding a central pixel of an image. A blending factor is determined according to a flatness of the image. An updated pixel value of the central pixel is determined by blending the original pixel value of the central pixel and the mean according to the blending factor. Finally, alternatively output the updated pixel value and the original pixel value of the central pixel in response to a block border signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Chien-Chih Chen, Shih-Chang Lai, Hsiang-Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 8041130
    Abstract: A compressive overdrive circuit includes: a compression unit for compressing a current frame to generate compressed data for buffering, where the compressed data comprises pixel values of a plurality of non-encoded pixels and a plurality of index values associated with the non-encoded pixels; and a decompression unit for decompressing according to the pixel values of the non-encoded pixels and the index values to generate data of a previous frame. The overdrive circuit performs overdrive processing according to the current frame and the previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Shih-Chang Lai
  • Publication number: 20100239181
    Abstract: A device for removing mosquito noise and associated method is provided to adaptively determine a proper strength for removing the mosquito noise according to image complexities, thereby removing the noise while maintaining the quality of image details. The device includes a buffer, a lookup table, and a strength determining unit. The buffer stores a pixel matrix having a target pixel. The lookup table stores a plurality of coefficients. The strength determining unit, coupled to the buffer and the lookup table, detects the image complexities of the pixel matrix and looks up the lookup table according to the image complexities of the pixel matrix, so as to output a strength coefficient for removing the mosquito noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Shih-Chang Lai
  • Publication number: 20100091195
    Abstract: A de-ringing device and a method thereof are provided. The de-ringing device, operative with a lookup table for storing a plurality of intensity coefficients, comprises a buffer and a de-ringing intensity determining unit. The buffer stores an input pixel sequence. The lookup table stores a plurality of intensity coefficients. The de-ringing intensity determining unit, coupled to the buffer and the lookup table, detects a plurality of pixel complexity of a first pixel group and a second pixel group associated with a target pixel in the pixel sequence, and looks up the lookup table according to the pixel complexities of the first pixel group and the second pixel group to output a de-ring intensity coefficient for the target pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Shih-Chang Lai, Po-Ming Chen
  • Publication number: 20080212875
    Abstract: A compressive overdrive circuit includes: a compression unit for compressing a current frame to generate compressed data for buffering, where the compressed data comprises pixel values of a plurality of non-encoded pixels and a plurality of index values associated with the non-encoded pixels; and a decompression unit for decompressing according to the pixel values of the non-encoded pixels and the index values to generate data of a previous frame. The overdrive circuit performs overdrive processing according to the current frame and the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Shih-Chang Lai
  • Publication number: 20080166060
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an adaptively de-blocking circuit and associated method. A mean is derived according to the neighboring pixels surrounding a central pixel of an image. A blending factor is determined according to a flatness of the image. An updated pixel value of the central pixel is determined by blending the original pixel value of the central pixel and the mean according to the blending factor. Finally, alternatively output the updated pixel value and the original pixel value of the central pixel in response to a block border signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Chien-Chih Chen, Shih-Chang Lai, Hsiang-Chun Lin