Patents by Inventor Shih-Wen Chen

Shih-Wen Chen 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: 9075480
    Abstract: An optical touch device utilizes a weighting to integrate two coordinates of a touch point sensed by two sets of image sensing units, so as to calculate an output coordinate of the touch point performed on a central touch area. Accordingly, the invention can effectively prevent a touch trajectory from shifting on the central touch area, such that the touch trajectory will be much smoother on the central touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen, Ching-An Cho
  • Publication number: 20150153945
    Abstract: An optical touch device utilizes two images sensed by two image sensing units, which are diagonal to each other, to determine whether a number of touch points located at a central touch area is equal to 1. When the number of touch points are larger than 1, the optical touch device further utilizes another two images sensed by another two image sensing units, which are also diagonal to each other, to assist in determining the number of touch points located at the central touch area, so as to improve the accuracy of determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen, Ching-An Cho
  • Publication number: 20150153903
    Abstract: An optical touch device utilizes a weighting to integrate two coordinates of a touch point sensed by two sets of image sensing units, so as to calculate an output coordinate of the touch point performed on a central touch area. Accordingly, the invention can effectively prevent a touch trajectory from shifting on the central touch area, such that the touch trajectory will be much smoother on the central touch area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen, Ching-An Cho
  • Patent number: 9019243
    Abstract: An optical coordinate input device is disclosed. The optical coordinate input device includes a frame, a first touch detection area, a second touch detection area, a first detection module, a second detection module, and a processing module. The second touch detection area overlap the first touch detection area. The first detection module is disposed on the frame and adjacent to the second touch detection area for detecting the first touch detection area to generate a first touch coordinate signal. The second detection module is disposed on the frame and adjacent to the first touch detection area for detecting the second touch detection area to generate a second touch coordinate signal, wherein the first and second detection module are disposed on different surface of the frame. The processing is used for executing a coordinate calculation procedure base on the first and the second touch coordinate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: You-Xin Liu, Po-Liang Huang, Yu-Yen Chen, Shih-Wen Chen
  • Publication number: 20150109258
    Abstract: An optical touch system is provided. A reflecting unit is disposed beside a base plane. At least one light emitting module is disposed beside the base plane and provides a detecting light, wherein the detecting light is transmitted to the reflecting unit. At least one optical detecting module is disposed beside the base plane. A processing unit is coupled to the optical detecting module, wherein when a first object and a second object approach or touch the base plane, the processing unit determines which one of the intensity of a first portion of a signal corresponding to the first object OB1 and the intensity of a second portion of the signal corresponding to the second object OB2 from the optical detecting module is larger. Additionally, a method of touch detection and a computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20150100254
    Abstract: A testing method of a touch device and a system thereof are provided. The testing method includes following steps. A test sensing information generated by the touch device is received, and the test sensing information is physical characteristic information provided by sensors of the touch device. A test gesture signal and a test keypad signal generated by the touch device are received, the test gesture signal includes gesture coordinates provided by touch device, and the test keypad signal includes a keypad key triggering signal generated by the touch device. According to a preset table, in order to generate a test result, whether the test sensing information, the test gesture signal, and the test keypad signal match data of the preset table or not is determined, and whether the touch device works properly is determined according to the test result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Chun-Chieh Li, Ya-Ping Lin
  • Publication number: 20150070321
    Abstract: An optical coordinate input device is disclosed. The optical coordinate input device includes a frame, a first touch detection area, a second touch detection area, a first detection module, a second detection module, and a processing module. The second touch detection area overlap the first touch detection area. The first detection module is disposed on the frame and adjacent to the second touch detection area for detecting the first touch detection area to generate a first touch coordinate signal. The second detection module is disposed on the frame and adjacent to the first touch detection area for detecting the second touch detection area to generate a second touch coordinate signal, wherein the first and second detection module are disposed on different surface of the frame. The processing is used for executing a coordinate calculation procedure base on the first and the second touch coordinate signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: You-Xin LIU, Po-Liang HUANG, Yu-Yen CHEN, Shih-Wen CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150035788
    Abstract: A touch module includes a touch device, a stylus, and a processing unit. The stylus includes a body, a motor, an angle encoder, and a distance sensor. The angle encoder and the distance sensor are disposed on a rotating shaft of the motor. The distance sensor detects relative distances between itself and first, second, third, and fourth sides of a front frame of the touch device respectively. The processing unit is disposed in the body or the touch device for controlling the rotating shaft to rotate when a mark of the body points to the first side, calculating rotating angles of the rotating shaft and determining whether the rotating shaft makes one rotation according to encoded data of the angle encoder, and calculating four local minimum distances according to relationship of the rotating angles and the relative distances for positioning the stylus on a touch surface of the touch device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen, Po-Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 8898972
    Abstract: A quick assembling floor mat has multiple reinforced plastic bars and multiple connecting strips. Each reinforced plastic bar has a body, a mounting seat formed on the top surface of the body, at least one metal reinforcing sheet mounted in the body to enhance the structural strength of the body and two connecting grooves respectively formed in the sidewalls of the body. Each one of the connecting strips is connected to two adjacent reinforced plastic bars and has two enlarged ends respectively formed on and protruding from the sides of the connecting strip and corresponding to the connecting grooves of the two adjacent reinforced plastic bars. The reinforced plastic bars only use a small amount of a metal material to reinforce, and this can reduce the cost of materials and can maintain the rigidity and the intensity of the quick assembling floor mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Singform Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8890847
    Abstract: An optical touch system and a touch point calculation method thereof are provided. The optical touch system includes a first lens, a second lens and a screen. The first and second lenses are disposed on the same side of the screen and face to the other side of the screen. In the method, images of a touch object above the screen are captured and used to calculate a first and a second touch signal of the touch object touching the screen before and after a preset time. Then, it is determined whether a width difference of the first and second touch signals exceeds a predetermined threshold. If yes, a third touch signal corresponding to the first touch signal relative to the second touch signal is calculated. Finally, positions of the first touch signal and the third touch signal are taken as locations of two touch points on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Wistron Coporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Shang-Chin Su
  • Publication number: 20140320457
    Abstract: A method of determining a touch gesture is utilized for a touch control system. The method includes detecting at least one first touch point on a touch surface corresponding to the touch gesture at a first time point to generate a first detecting result; detecting at least one second touch point on the touch surface corresponding to the touch gesture at a second time point to generate a second detecting result; obtaining a moving vector and a distributing variation corresponding to the touch gesture according to a relationship of the first detecting result and the second detecting result; and determining the touch gesture on the touch surface according to the moving vector and the distributing variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Yu-Yen Chen, Chun-Chao Chang
  • Patent number: 8872803
    Abstract: An optical touch system and a touch object separating method thereof are provided. First, touch object images in a first and a second captured image of a first and a second lens are recognized. When the first captured image includes two touch object images and the second captured image includes a single touch object image, a first distance between a leftmost end and a rightmost end of the two touch object images in the first captured image, a second distance between centers of the two touch object images, and a third distance between a leftmost end and a rightmost end of the single touch object image in the second captured image are calculated. A fourth distance corresponds to the third distance is calculated according to a ratio of the first distance to the second distance and used to separate the single touch object images into two touch object images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Shang-Chin Su
  • Publication number: 20140139487
    Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure provides an operation method for an optical touch device. The optical touch device includes a panel, a left-side sensor and a right-side sensor. The operation method includes the steps of: sensing a sensing waveform on the panel; determining the number of peaks of the sensing waveform to control the optical touch device to be switched to a gesture mode or a touch mode; estimating a first variance according to a first sensing waveform sensed by the left-side sensor and a second variance according to a second sensing waveform sensed by the right-side sensor when the optical touch device is operating in the gesture mode; and determining the gesture made by the user according to the first variance and the second variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Shou-Te Wei
  • Publication number: 20140015799
    Abstract: An optical touch system and a touch point calculation method thereof are provided. The optical touch system includes a first lens, a second lens and a screen. The first and second lenses are disposed on the same side of the screen and face to the other side of the screen. In the method, images of a touch object above the screen are captured and used to calculate a first and a second touch signal of the touch object touching the screen before and after a preset time. Then, it is determined whether a width difference of the first and second touch signals exceeds a predetermined threshold. If yes, a third touch signal corresponding to the first touch signal relative to the second touch signal is calculated. Finally, positions of the first touch signal and the third touch signal are taken as locations of two touch points on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Shang-Chin Su
  • Publication number: 20140015800
    Abstract: An optical touch system and a touch object separating method thereof are provided. First, touch object images in a first and a second captured image of a first and a second lens are recognized. When the first captured image includes two touch object images and the second captured image includes a single touch object image, a first distance between a leftmost end and a rightmost end of the two touch object images in the first captured image, a second distance between centers of the two touch object images, and a third distance between a leftmost end and a rightmost end of the single touch object image in the second captured image are calculated. A fourth distance corresponds to the third distance is calculated according to a ratio of the first distance to the second distance and used to separate the single touch object images into two touch object images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wen Chen, Shang-Chin Su
  • Publication number: 20140004445
    Abstract: A bilayer complex proton exchange membrane and a membrane electrode assembly are provided. The bilayer complex proton exchange membrane includes a first complex structure and a second complex structure. The first complex structure includes 0.001-10 wt % of a graphene derivative with two dimension configuration, and 99.999-90 wt % of organic material. The organic material includes polymer material having sulfonic acid group or phosphate group. The second complex structure includes 0.5-30 wt % of inorganic material and 99.5-70 wt % of organic material, wherein a surface area of the inorganic material is 50-3000 m2/g, and the organic material includes polymer material with sulfonic acid group or phosphate group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Li-Duan Tsai, Chiu-Ping Huang, Li-Fu Huang, Shih-Wen Chen
  • Publication number: 20130298483
    Abstract: A quick assembling floor mat has multiple reinforced plastic bars and multiple connecting strips. Each reinforced plastic bar has a body, a mounting seat formed on the top surface of the body, at least one metal reinforced sheet mounted in the body to enhance the structural strength of the body and two connecting groove respectively formed in the sidewalls of the body. Each one of the connecting strips is connected to two adjacent reinforced plastic bars and has two enlarged ends respectively formed on and protruding from the sides of the connecting strip and corresponding to the connecting grooves of the two adjacent reinforced plastic bars. The reinforced plastic bars in the present invention only use a small amount of a metal material to reinforce, and this can reduce the cost of materials and maintain the rigidity and the intensity of the quick assembling floor mat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: Shih Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8569389
    Abstract: An organic/inorganic hybrid composite proton exchange membrane is provided. The proton exchange membrane includes an inorganic material of about 0.5-30 parts by weight and an organic material of about 99.5-70 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the proton exchange membrane. A surface area of the inorganic material is about 50-3000 m2/g. The organic material includes a sulfonated polymer or a phosphoric acid doped polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Li-Duan Tsai, Yong-Hong Liao, Shih-Wen Chen, Jiunn-Nan Lin, Chien-Ming Lai, Chiu-Ping Huang, Sung-Chun Chang
  • Publication number: 20130038577
    Abstract: An optical touch device and a coordinate detection method thereof are disclosed. The optical touch device includes a detection area, a first capture module, a second capture module, and a processing module. The detection area provides a first object and a second object to contact with. The first capture module captures a first captured image from the detection area and captures a first object image and a second object image. The second capture module captures a second captured image from the detection area and captures a third object image and a fourth object image. The processing module calculates coordinates of a plurality of touch point according to the first captured image and the second captured image and determines the plurality of touch point is a real point or a ghost point according to the relation between the first object image to the fourth object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yu-Yen CHEN, Shih-Wen CHEN, Kou-Hsien LU
  • Patent number: 8002354
    Abstract: A chair device for a person carrier includes a backrest unit formed by a front backrest and a rear backrest. The backrest unit is pivotally joined to a seat unit in which two opposite fan-shaped limit projecting members are provided at each pivot-joint end of the seat unit. The fan-shaped limit projecting members can be angularly displaced to a position to be engaged with fan-shaped recesses in the pivot-joint ends of the rear backrest. The fan-shaped limit projecting members have a position limited space for angular displacement within the fan-shaped recesses so that the backrest unit of the chair can move in the range between a collapsing state and an unfolding state. Furthermore, strength reinforcing edge ribs are provided at both sides where the front backrest is assembled to the rear backrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Freerider Corp.
    Inventor: Shih-Wen Chen