Patents by Inventor Shih-Yu Ku

Shih-Yu Ku 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: 7181028
    Abstract: An audio converting device including a digital high-pass filter, an expander, a digital low-pass filter, a delta-sigma modulator, a digital-to-analog converter, an analog low-pass filter and a gain control unit is provided. The digital high-pass filter in this invention can filter out a direct-current component of digital audio data such that the production of noise is avoided when the volume is adjusted by users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Yu Ku, Wen-Chi Wang, Yi-Shu Chang, Chao-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 7129868
    Abstract: A sample rate converting device includes a noise shaper and a sample rate converter. The noise shaper is for receiving a digital input signal, noise-shaping the digital input signal, and then outputting an n-bit digital stream. The sample rate converter, which is coupled to the noise shaper, receives the n-bit digital stream and outputs a digital output signal. Since the n-bit digital stream is a digital signal with a smaller number of bits in each sample, the computation efforts of interpolation are reduced. Hence, less resource is needed to complete the conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Shih-Yu Ku
  • Patent number: 6911927
    Abstract: The present invention offers an over-sampling digital-to-analog converter with variable sampling frequencies to process input signals of variable sampling frequencies. The over-sampling digital-to-analog converter comprises an expander, which expands said input signals with a fixed rate of M to produce over-sampling signals; a digital low-pass filter, which filters out high-frequency ingredients of over-sampling signals and then outputs data with a first rate; a data buffer, which receives the outputted data by said digital low-pass filter with the first rate and outputs the data with a second rate; a modulator, which reads data in said data buffer with the second rate and modulates the data; a digital-to-analog converter, which converts the modulated data to analog signals; and an analog low-pass filter, which filters out high-frequency ingredients of said analog signals for producing output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chi Wang, Shih-Yu Ku, Jui-Cheng Huang, Yi-Shu Chang
  • Publication number: 20040239540
    Abstract: A sample rate converting device includes a noise shaper and a sample rate converter. The noise shaper is for receiving a digital input signal, noise-shaping the digital input signal, and then outputting an n-bit digital stream. The sample rate converter, which is coupled to the noise shaper, receives the n-bit digital stream and outputs a digital output signal. Since the n-bit digital stream is a digital signal with a smaller number of bits in each sample, the computation efforts of interpolation are reduced. Hence, less resource is needed to complete the conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Shih-Yu Ku
  • Publication number: 20030107507
    Abstract: The present invention offers an over-sampling digital-to-analog converter with variable sampling frequencies to process input signals of variable sampling frequencies. The over-sampling digital-to-analog converter comprises an expander, which expands said input signals with a fixed rate of M to produce over-sampling signals; a digital low-pass filter, which filters out high-frequency ingredients of over-sampling signals and then outputs data with a first rate; a data buffer, which receives the outputted data by said digital low-pass filter with the first rate and outputs the data with a second rate; a modulator, which reads data in said data buffer with the second rate and modulates the data; a digital-to-analog converter, which converts the modulated data to analog signals; and an analog low-pass filter, which filters out high-frequency ingredients of said analog signals for producing output signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Wen-Chi Wang, Shih-Yu Ku, Jui-Cheng Huang, Yi-Shu Chang
  • Publication number: 20030053710
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a device and a method of sample rate conversion for digital image. With the present invention, the alias effect caused by shrinking the image and the blurred effect caused by enlarging the image will be eliminated. The device of the present invention comprises a ratio-adjustable expander used to receive image signal, increase the sample rate of the image M times based on the adjusting ratio for the image to generate a expanding signal; a low pass filter (LPF) used to receive the expanding signal from the expander, filter out the high rate and output the filtered signal; and a fix ratio decimator used to receive the filtered signal, low down the sample rate by N times and generate the output signal. The value of M will be changed with the adjusting ratio while the value of the N is fixed. The LPF includes the factor 1+z−1+ . . . +z−(N−1) and the factor 1+z−1+ . . . +z−(M−1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Shih-Yu Ku, Wen-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20030002600
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an FSK/GFSK demodulator with digital frequency offset compensation, comprising: an FSK/GFSK signal demodulator, for receiving a transmission signal from an antenna and generating an inter-medium frequency (base-frequency) signal after amplification and filtering; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), for receiving the inter-medium frequency (base-frequency) signal from the FSK/GFSK signal demodulator and converting the signal into a digital signal; a digital frequency discriminator, for receiving the digital signal from the analog-to-digital converter and generating a discriminated signal; a digital band-pass filter, for filtering off a high-frequency component and a DC component of the discriminated signal and generating a demodulated signal; and a data slicer, for receiving the demodulated signal and generating a received signal. The digital band-pass filter is composed of a digital low-pass filter and a digital high-pass filter connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Dsun-Chie Twu, Shih-Yu Ku
  • Publication number: 20020136417
    Abstract: An audio converting device including a digital high-pass filter, an expander, a digital low-pass filter, a delta-sigma modulator, a digital-to-analog converter, an analog low-pass filter and a gain control unit is provided. The digital high-pass filter in this invention can filter out a direct-current component of digital audio data such that the production of noise is avoided when the volume is adjusted by users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Shih-Yu Ku, Wen-Chi Wang, Yi-Shu Chang, Chao-Cheng Lee