Patents by Inventor Tai-Ann Chen

Tai-Ann 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: 8427410
    Abstract: A display device including a gate driver, a data driver and a plurality of sub-pixels is disclosed. The gate driver sequentially asserts a first scan signal and a second scan signal. The data driver provides a first data signal and a second data signal. When the first scan signal is asserted, the first scan signal and the first data signal respond with a first response signal. When the second scan signal is asserted, the second scan signal and the second data signal respond with a second response signal. The pulse of the first response signal is different from the pulse of the second response signal. A first sub-pixel among the sub-pixels displays a first color according to the first response signal. A second sub-pixel among the sub-pixels displays a second color according to the second response signal, and the first color is different from the second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chiao-Nan Huang, Tai-Ann Chen, Heng-Yin Chen, An-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8350794
    Abstract: In a multi layer display device, at least two display material layers are concurrently driven while cross talk prevention and/or image quality adjustment is achievable by adjusting at least one of voltage, pulse width or repetition rate of the driving waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yun-Shuo Chang, Heng-Yin Chen, Tai-Ann Chen, Chiao-Nan Huang
  • Patent number: 8286782
    Abstract: An information display system for a conveying device, the information display system comprising a driving mechanism, a flexible display loop driven by the driving mechanism to travel in a closed loop, and an image forming module configured to provide media to at least a section of the flexible display loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jia-Xing Lin, Tai-Ann Chen, Da-Wei Lee, Jung-Ya Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20120218176
    Abstract: A display system including a first set of conductive electrodes, a second set of conductive electrodes, and a display medium. The first set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a selection signal. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to interact with the first set of conductive electrodes for activating the reading or writing of display data. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a data signal and to activate the reading or writing of a target area of the display device, in response to the selection signal to the first set of conductive electrodes and the data signal to the second set of conductive electrodes. The display medium is movably coupled with the first and second sets of conductive electrodes. One or both of the first and the second sets of conductive electrodes have at least two electrically independent regions having an independent signal input for each region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Da-Wei LEE, Jia-Xing Lin, Tai-Ann Chen
  • Patent number: 8208109
    Abstract: A display system including a first set of conductive electrodes, a second set of conductive electrodes, and a display medium. The first set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a selection signal. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to interact with the first set of conductive electrodes for activating the reading or writing of display data. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a data signal and to activate the reading or writing of a target area of the display device, in response to the selection signal to the first set of conductive electrodes and the data signal to the second set of conductive electrodes. The display medium is movably coupled with the first and second sets of conductive electrodes. One or both of the first and the second sets of conductive electrodes have at least two electrically independent regions having an independent signal input for each region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Da-Wei Lee, Jia-Xing Lin, Tai-Ann Chen
  • Patent number: 8115718
    Abstract: This invention provides a color passive matrix bistable liquid crystal display system, in which one respective scan line corresponds to sub-pixels of same color and neighboring scan lines correspond to sub-pixels of different colors. The scan lines are grouped in accordance with the colors of the sub-pixels corresponding thereto such that different scan driving voltages can be provided to the sub-pixels of different colors when the scan lines are scanned. By way of the arrangement of the sub-pixels, different scan driving voltages are switched to the respective scan lines in accordance with the colors of the sub-pixels corresponding thereto. As a result, a demand that the sub-pixels of different colors require different scan driving voltages is satisfied. The image quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chih-Jen Chen, Chih-Chiang Lu, Tai-Ann Chen, Chung-Yi Chang
  • Publication number: 20110013103
    Abstract: A display system including a first set of conductive electrodes, a second set of conductive electrodes, and a display medium. The first set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a selection signal. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to interact with the first set of conductive electrodes for activating the reading or writing of display data. The second set of conductive electrodes is configured to receive a data signal and to activate the reading or writing of a target area of the display device, in response to the selection signal to the first set of conductive electrodes and the data signal to the second set of conductive electrodes. The display medium is movably coupled with the first and second sets of conductive electrodes. One or both of the first and the second sets of conductive electrodes have at least two electrically independent regions having an independent signal input for each region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Da-Wei LEE, Jia-Xing Lin, Tai-Ann Chen
  • Patent number: 7852963
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting a signal power to interference metric for a communication channel in a coverage area of a phase sweep diversity communication system are provided. In the method, a signal power to interference metric for the communication channel is predicted based on a sweep frequency for transmissions in the coverage area. The signal power to interference metric predicted may be a carrier-to-interference ratio or a signal-to-noise plus interference ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Martin Howard Meyers, Susan Wu Sanders, Carl Francis Weaver
  • Publication number: 20100309180
    Abstract: In a multi layer display device, at least two display material layers are concurrently driven while cross talk prevention and/or image quality adjustment is achievable by adjusting at least one of voltage, pulse width or repetition rate of the driving waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yun-Shuo CHANG, Heng-Yin Chen, Tai-Ann Chen, Chiao-Nan Huang
  • Publication number: 20100295875
    Abstract: A display device including a gate driver, a data driver and a plurality of sub-pixels is disclosed. The gate driver sequentially asserts a first scan signal and a second scan signal. The data driver provides a first data signal and a second data signal. When the first scan signal is asserted, the first scan signal and the first data signal respond with a first response signal. When the second scan signal is asserted, the second scan signal and the second data signal respond with a second response signal. The pulse of the first response signal is different from the pulse of the second response signal. A first sub-pixel among the sub-pixels displays a first color according to the first response signal. A second sub-pixel among the sub-pixels displays a second color according to the second response signal, and the first color is different from the second color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chiao-Nan HUANG, Tai-Ann CHEN, Heng-Yin CHEN, An-Cheng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20100156878
    Abstract: A system is configured to drive a display device having a number of cholesteric liquid crystal (CHLC) pixels. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a first set of gray levels for a first image frame and a second set of gray levels for a second image frame, wherein the first set of gray levels is related to a first intensity state of each of the CHLC pixels in the first image frame and the second set of gray levels is related to a second intensity state of each of the CHLC pixels in the second image frame, and a look-up table (LUT) configured to output a third set of gray levels based on the first set of gray levels and the second set of gray levels, wherein the third set of gray levels is related to an addressing voltage to be written to each of the CHLC pixels so as to change each of the CHLC pixels from the first intensity state to the second intensity state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Chih-Jen Chen, Chiao-Nan Huang, Chao-Ching Liang
  • Publication number: 20100122890
    Abstract: An information display system for a conveying device, the information display system comprising a driving mechanism, a flexible display loop driven by the driving mechanism to travel in a closed loop, and an image forming module configured to provide media to at least a section of the flexible display loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Jia-Xing Lin, Tai-Ann Chen, Da-Wei Lee, Jung-Ya Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100026634
    Abstract: A display unit comprises a display medium which is writable, erasable and displayable of an image and a rotatable writehead with a number of loop conductors parallel with each other. The display medium is capable of maintaining a written image without power. In operating of writing on the display medium, the loop conductors apply an electric field to a particular area of the display medium, changing the optical state of the particular area of the display medium. In operating of writing on the display medium, there is no relative motion between the display medium and the writehead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tzeng-Shii TSAI, Jia-Xing LIN, Da-Wei LEE, Tai-Ann CHEN
  • Patent number: 7603140
    Abstract: In the method, a phase of at least one signal transmitted from a transmit antenna of a base station is shifted based on a sweeping frequency having a differentiating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Martin H. Meyers, Susan Wu Sanders
  • Publication number: 20090096738
    Abstract: This invention provides a driving circuit for simultaneously driving three-color bistable liquid crystals, which employs a voltage-shift circuit to provide different-color bistable liquid crystals with respective level-shift voltages. A grey-scale voltage is respectively added to the respective level-shift voltages. By this invention, the whole grey-scale voltages are capable of falling in the voltage ranges for displaying grey scales for the different-color bistable liquid crystals. The grey-scale display can be optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Chih-Jen CHEN, Chih-Wen HSIAO, Tai-Ann CHEN
  • Publication number: 20080150868
    Abstract: This invention provides a color passive matrix bistable liquid crystal display system, in which one respective scan line corresponds to sub-pixels of same color and neighboring scan lines correspond to sub-pixels of different colors. The scan lines are grouped in accordance with the colors of the sub-pixels corresponding thereto such that different scan driving voltages can be provided to the sub-pixels of different colors when the scan lines are scanned. By way of the arrangement of the sub-pixels, different scan driving voltages are switched to the respective scan lines in accordance with the colors of the sub-pixels corresponding thereto. As a result, a demand that the sub-pixels of different colors require different scan driving voltages is satisfied. The image quality is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Chih-Jen Chen, Chih-Chiang Lu, Tai-Ann Chen, Chung-Yi Chang
  • Publication number: 20060264183
    Abstract: In the method, a phase of at least one signal transmitted from a transmit antenna of a base station is shifted based on a sweeping frequency having a differentiating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Martin Meyers, Susan Sanders
  • Publication number: 20050195924
    Abstract: In the method, a signal power to interference metric for a communication channel in a coverage area of a phase sweep diversity communication system is predicted based on a sweep frequency for transmissions in the coverage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Martin Meyers, Susan Sanders, Carl Weaver
  • Patent number: 6646979
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, unique methods are presented to dynamically assign channel codes of different lengths in a manner to maintain orthogonality among assigned channels. In one embodiment, channel codes that require relatively long-lengths are assigned from a first end of a list of unassigned channel codes and channel codes of a shorter length are assigned from an opposing end of a list of unassigned channel codes. Assignment of a shorter length code sequence is made if the longer-length channel codes that depend from the proposed shorter length code sequence are available. In another embodiment, the availability of short length channel codes is derived directly from the availability of the longest length channel codes. In this embodiment, a group of longest-length channel codes that contain a common shorter-length code of the desired length are checked for availability. If all the codes of the group are available then the common shorter-length code may be assigned to transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Tai-Ann Chen, Wen-Yi Kuo