Patents by Inventor Shih-Yuan Peng
Shih-Yuan Peng 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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Patent number: 11689822Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a privacy protection imaging method thereof are provided. The system is configured to control at least one color sensor and at least one IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions adapted for an imaging scene, adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that can reveal details of the imaging scene, detect a feature area with features of a target of interest in the color image, and fuse the color image and the IR image to generate a fusion image with the details of the imaging scene, and crop an image of the feature area of the fusion image to be replaced with an image not belonging to the IR image, so as to generate a scene image.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: 11568526Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and an imaging method thereof are provided. The method includes: identifying an imaging scene; controlling a color sensor and an IR sensor to respectively capture color images and IR images by adopting capturing conditions suitable for the imaging scene; calculating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difference between each color image and the IR images, and a luminance mean value of each color image; selecting the color image and IR image captured under capturing conditions of having the SNR difference less than an SNR threshold and the luminance mean value greater than a luminance threshold to execute a feature domain transformation to extract partial details of the imaging scene; and fusing the selected color image and IR image to adjust the partial details of the color image according to a guidance of the partial details of the IR image to obtain a scene image with full details.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: 11496694Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and an imaging method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: identify an imaging scene of the dual sensor imaging system; control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions suitable for the imaging scene; adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that can reveal details of the imaging scene; and fuse the selected color image and IR image to generate a scene image with details of the imaging scene.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: 11496660Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a depth map calculation method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions suitable for an imaging scene, adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that are comparable to each other from the color images and the IR images; and calculate a depth map of the imaging scene by using the selected color image and IR image.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: 11418719Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a calibration method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images of an imaging scene by adopting multiple capturing conditions; calculate multiple color image parameters of the color image captured under each capturing condition and multiple IR image parameters of the IR image captured under each capturing condition to be used to calculate a difference between a brightness of the color image and a brightness of the IR image; and determine an exposure setting suitable for the color sensor and the IR sensor according to the calculated difference.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20210243344Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a depth map calculation method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions suitable for an imaging scene, adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that are comparable to each other from the color images and the IR images; and calculate a depth map of the imaging scene by using the selected color image and IR image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20210217153Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and an imaging method thereof are provided. The method includes: identifying an imaging scene; controlling a color sensor and an IR sensor to respectively capture color images and IR images by adopting capturing conditions suitable for the imaging scene; calculating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difference between each color image and the IR images, and a luminance mean value of each color image; selecting the color image and IR image captured under capturing conditions of having the SNR difference less than an SNR threshold and the luminance mean value greater than a luminance threshold to execute a feature domain transformation to extract partial details of the imaging scene; and fusing the selected color image and IR image to adjust the partial details of the color image according to a guidance of the partial details of the IR image to obtain a scene image with full details.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20210218871Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a privacy protection imaging method thereof are provided. The system is configured to control at least one color sensor and at least one IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions adapted for an imaging scene, adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that can reveal details of the imaging scene, detect a feature area with features of a target of interest in the color image, and fuse the color image and the IR image to generate a fusion image with the details of the imaging scene, and crop an image of the feature area of the fusion image to be replaced with an image not belonging to the IR image, so as to generate a scene image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20210195087Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and an imaging method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: identify an imaging scene of the dual sensor imaging system; control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images by adopting multiple exposure conditions suitable for the imaging scene; adaptively select a combination of the color image and the IR image that can reveal details of the imaging scene; and fuse the selected color image and IR image to generate a scene image with details of the imaging scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Publication number: 20210195082Abstract: A dual sensor imaging system and a calibration method thereof are provided. The dual sensor imaging system includes at least one color sensor, at least one infrared ray (IR) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to load and execute a computer program stored in the storage device to: control the color sensor and the IR sensor to respectively capture multiple color images and multiple IR images of an imaging scene by adopting multiple capturing conditions; calculate multiple color image parameters of the color image captured under each capturing condition and multiple IR image parameters of the IR image captured under each capturing condition to be used to calculate a difference between a brightness of the color image and a brightness of the IR image; and determine an exposure setting suitable for the color sensor and the IR sensor according to the calculated difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shu-Chun Cheng, Hsu-Lien Huang, Yun-Chin Li, Kuo-Ming Lai
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Patent number: 10965877Abstract: An image generating method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining whether at least one object in a plurality of first images to be captured will generate a blur to generate a determination result; determining a first amount of at least one second image in the plurality of first images and a second amount of at least one third image in the plurality of first images according to the determination result, wherein a first setting for capturing the second image is different from a second setting for capturing the third image; capturing the second image according to the first setting; capturing the third image according to the second setting; using the first amount of the second image and the second amount of the third image to perform an image superposition operation to generate an output image; and outputting the output image.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Shih-Yuan Peng
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Patent number: 10798288Abstract: A multi-camera electronic device and a control method thereof are proposed. The method includes the following steps. At least one camera of the electronic device is used for scene detection to generate photographing analysis information. All the photographing analysis information is collected, and joint photographing information including a joint target is generated through a communication process among all the cameras. An individual photographing parameter of each camera is generated according to the joint photographing information. Each camera is controlled to capture an image of the scene by using its individual photographing parameter to respectively generate a corresponding output image.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Shih-Yuan Peng, Hsin-Te Wang, Kai-Yu Tseng, Wen-Yan Chang
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Publication number: 20200092452Abstract: An image generating method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining whether at least one object in a plurality of first images to be captured will generate a blur to generate a determination result; determining a first amount of at least one second image in the plurality of first images and a second amount of at least one third image in the plurality of first images according to the determination result, wherein a first setting for capturing the second image is different from a second setting for capturing the third image; capturing the second image according to the first setting; capturing the third image according to the second setting; using the first amount of the second image and the second amount of the third image to perform an image superposition operation to generate an output image; and outputting the output image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Shih-Yuan Peng
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Publication number: 20170272644Abstract: A multi-camera electronic device and a control method thereof are proposed. The method includes the following steps. At least one camera of the electronic device is used for scene detection to generate photographing analysis information. All the photographing analysis information is collected, and joint photographing information including a joint target is generated through a communication process among all the cameras. An individual photographing parameter of each camera is generated according to the joint photographing information. Each camera is controlled to capture an image of the scene by using its individual photographing parameter to respectively generate a corresponding output image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Shih-Yuan Peng, Hsin-Te Wang, Kai-Yu Tseng, Wen-Yan Chang
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Patent number: 8953903Abstract: A method of multi-frame image noise reduction suitable for an image-capturing device includes following steps: obtaining a current frame and multiple reference frames; defining a mask and a target point in the mask; judging whether the target point pixel of the current frame is on an edge according to an edge map of the frame; when the pixel is on the edge, using the pixels in the reference frames on the edge to calculate a replacement result; when the target point pixel is not on the edge, using the pixels in the reference frames surrounding the target point to calculate a replacement result; after that, generating a pixel corresponding to the position of the target point in an output image according to the replacement result; further, moving the mask and going back to judge whether the pixel of the target point of the current frame is on the edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Altek CorporationInventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Chung-Ta Wu
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Patent number: 8891867Abstract: An image processing method is provided and includes the following steps. A source image arranged in a Bayer pattern is captured. A first-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a first image in YCbCr format. A second-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a second image in YCbCr format. Then, a noise-reducing process is performed on the first image in YCbCr format to produce a noise-reduced image. A blending operation is performed on luminance image of the noise-reduced image and luminance image of the second image in YCbCr format, and thereafter a chrominance image is combined with the blended image to produce a processed image. A noise reducing degree of the noise-reduced image is higher than that of the second image in YCbCr format.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shan-Lung Chao, Hong-Long Chou
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Patent number: 8867843Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of image denoising and method of generating motion vector data structure thereof. The method comprises: providing an image sequential capturing module to capture and to receive the plurality of images; generating a global motion vector based on the plurality of images in accordance with a first algorithm; reducing each image as reduced images; dividing each of the first reduced images into a plurality of first areas and generating a first local motion vector based on each of the first areas in accordance with a second algorithm, and via the similar way for generating a second local motion vector; finally, obtaining motion vector data in the plurality of images according to the global motion vector, each of the first local motion vectors and each of the second local motion vectors.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Altek Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Chia-Yu Wu, Shih-Yuan Peng
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Publication number: 20140292637Abstract: A method for adjusting head mounted display adaptively and a head mounted display are provided. The method includes the following steps. Eye state parameters of a user wearing the head-mounted display are sensed by using a first sensing unit, and whether the user's eyes are discomfort or not is determined according to the eye state parameters. If yes, environmental parameters of the user's location are sensed by using a second sensing unit. The eyes state parameters and the environmental parameters are analyzed synthetically, such that the projection display setting of the head-mounted display could be adjusted adaptively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Chen-Hsuan Tai
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Publication number: 20140219578Abstract: An image processing method is provided and includes the following steps. A source image arranged in a Bayer pattern is captured. A first-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a first image in YCbCr format. A second-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a second image in YCbCr format. Then, a noise-reducing process is performed on the first image in YCbCr format to produce a noise-reduced image. A blending operation is performed on luminance image of the noise-reduced image and luminance image of the second image in YCbCr format, and thereafter a chrominance image is combined with the blended image to produce a processed image. A noise reducing degree of the noise-reduced image is higher than that of the second image in YCbCr format.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Shan-Lung Chao, Hong-Long Chou
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Patent number: 8786729Abstract: An entered image is divided into a plurality of windows and it is determined, on a per-window basis, whether the image data within an applicable window is indicative of the color white, based upon the position of each window in the image and the continuity to its surrounding divided windows. A white balance method is performed based upon data of a window determined to be indicative of the color white. The present invention conducts a white balance process through the addition of determining the light source type weight and calculating the continuity of each divided window and its surrounding divided windows. In order the white balance process to accurately obtain the colors of an entered image even under the conditions of specific scenes with distinctive colors.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Altek CorporationInventors: Shih-Yuan Peng, Hsin-Te Wang, Hong-Long Chou