Patents by Inventor Tse-An CHEN

Tse-An 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).

  • Parameter calibration method and semiconductor device utilizing the same
    Publication number: 20220190937
    Abstract: Parameter calibration method for calibrating multiple parameters corresponding to multiple electronic components to be calibrated in a circuit, including steps: (A) turning off all of the electronic components to be calibrated and selecting a first electronic component from the electronic components to be calibrated as an electronic component being calibrated; (B) turning on the electronic component being calibrated and performing a calibration procedure on the electronic component being calibrated to determine a setting value of a parameter corresponding to the electronic component being calibrated; and (C) selecting a second electronic component from the electronic components to be calibrated as the electronic component being calibrated and performing step (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yun-Tse Chen, Yan-Guei Chen, Shi-Ming Lu, Liang-Wei Huang
  • MOTION DETECTING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE SENSORS
    Publication number: 20220179500
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: TING-YANG CHANG, YEN-MIN CHANG, NIEN-TSE CHEN
  • Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture
    Patent number: 11342181
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing using carbon nanotubes are provided. In embodiments a stack of nanotubes are formed and then a non-destructive removal process is utilized to reduce the thickness of the stack of nanotubes. A device such as a transistor may then be formed from the reduced stack of nanotubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tzu-Ang Chao, Gregory Michael Pitner, Tse-An Chen, Lain-Jong Li, Yu Chao Lin
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH GATE DIELECTRIC FORMED USING SELECTIVE DEPOSITION
    Publication number: 20220149177
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes source and a drain above a substrate and spaced apart along a first direction, and a semiconductor channel extending between the source and the drain. The semiconductor device further includes gate spacers, an interfacial layer, and a metal gate structure. The gate spacers are disposed on the semiconductor channel and spaced apart by a spacer-to-spacer distance along the first direction. The interfacial layer is on the semiconductor channel. The interfacial layer extends a length along the first direction, and the length is less than a minimum of the spacer-to-spacer distance along the first direction. The metal gate structure is over the interfacial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tung-Ying LEE, Tse-An CHEN, Tzu-Chung WANG, Miin-Jang CHEN, Yu-Tung YIN, Meng-Chien YANG
  • APERTURE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20220146717
    Abstract: The present application provides an aperture assembly. The aperture assembly is used in an optical lens system. The aperture assembly includes a plate including a hollow portion and a non-hollow portion. The hollow portion is configured to define an aperture of the optical lens system, wherein the contour of the hollow portion has a non-circular shape. The aperture assembly can prevent the size of the aperture from being reduced as the size of the plate is reduced in a case that a circular aperture is applied to the plate. The present application also realizes an aperture adjustment for a non-circular aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Chun-hung HUANG, Tsung-tse CHEN
  • Recognition system employing thermal sensor
    Patent number: 11328152
    Abstract: There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Nien-Tse Chen, Yi-Hsien Ko, Yen-Min Chang
  • Image processing method based on sensor characteristics
    Patent number: 11317069
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing method based on sensor characteristics. The method includes the following steps: obtaining a constant of a relation “c??(x)/?{square root over (x)}” between output signals “x” and the noise standard deviation “?(x)” of the output signals, in which the output signals are outputted by a sensor based on a sensor gain such as an ISO value of a camera; and calculating an output value of a target pixel according to pixel values within a sampling window, the constant, and a front-end gain such as an auto exposure gain, in which the pixel values include an input value of the target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang-Ting Chou, Tsung-Hsuan Li, Wan-Ju Tang, Shih-Tse Chen
  • Single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride layer and method forming same
    Patent number: 11289582
    Abstract: A method includes depositing a copper layer over a first substrate, annealing the copper layer, depositing a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) film on the copper layer, and removing the hBN film from the copper layer. The hBN film may be transferred to a second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tse-An Chen, Chih-Piao Chuu, Lain-Jong Li, Wen-Hao Chang, ChienChih Tseng, Chao-Kai Wen
  • Motion detecting system having multiple sensors
    Patent number: 11287897
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ting-Yang Chang, Yen-Min Chang, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Calculation method using pixel-channel shuffle convolutional neural network and operating system using the same
    Patent number: 11275966
    Abstract: A calculation method using pixel-channel shuffle convolutional neural network is provided. In the method, an operating system receives original input data. The original input data is pre-processed by a pixel shuffle process to be separated into multiple groups in order to minimize dimension of the data. The multiple groups of data are then processed by a channel shuffle process so as to form multiple groups of new input data selected for convolution operation. The unselected data are abandoned. Therefore, the dimension of the input data can be much effectively minimized. A multiplier-accumulator of the operating system is used to execute convolution operation using a convolution kernel and the multiple new groups of input data. Multiple output data are then produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Chang Wu, Shih-Tse Chen
  • Motion image integration method and motion image integration system capable of merging motion object images
    Patent number: 11270442
    Abstract: A motion image integration method includes acquiring a raw image, detecting a first motion region image and a second motion region image by using a motion detector according to the raw image, merging the first motion region image with the second motion region image for generating a motion object image according to a relative position between the first motion region image and the second motion region image, and cropping the raw image to generate a sub-image corresponding to the motion object image according to the motion object image. A range of the motion object image is greater than or equal to a total range of the first motion region image and the second motion region image. Shapes of the first motion region image, the second motion region image, and the motion object image are polygonal shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Hsun Yang, Shang-Lun Chan, Chun-Chang Wu, Shih-Tse Chen
  • Package on package structure and method for forming the same
    Patent number: 11264342
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor device package, which includes a substrate with a contact pad. A non-solder ball is coupled to the contact pad at a contact pad interface surface. A layer of solder is disposed over an outer surface of the non-solder ball, and has an inner surface and an outer surface which are generally concentric with the outer surface of the non-solder ball. An intermediate layer separates the non-solder ball and the layer of solder. The intermediate layer is distinct in composition from both the non-solder ball and the layer of solder. Sidewalls of the layer of solder are curved or sphere-like and terminate at a planar surface, which is disposed at a maximum height of the layer of solder as measured from the contact pad interface surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen-Hua Yu, Chung-Shi Liu, Ming-Da Cheng, Mirng-Ji Lii, Meng-Tse Chen, Wei-Hung Lin
  • ELECTRONIC SYSTEM WITH EYE PROTECTION IN RESPONSE TO USER DISTANCE
    Publication number: 20220060618
    Abstract: An electronic system including a display device, an image sensor, a face detection engine, an eye detection engine and an eye protection engine is provided. The image sensor captures an image. The face detection engine recognizes a user face in the image. The eye detection engine recognizes user eyes in the image. The eye protection engine turns off the display device when the user eyes are recognized in the image but the user face is not recognized in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: HAN-CHANG LIN, GUO-ZHEN WANG, NIEN-TSE CHEN
  • Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 11245024
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure comprising alternately stacked first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over the fin structure. Spacers are formed on either side of the sacrificial gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure is removed to form a trench between the spacers. The first semiconductor layers are removed from the trench, while leaving the second semiconductor layers suspended in the trench. A self-assembling monolayer is formed on sidewalls of the spacers in the trench. Interfacial layers are formed encircling the suspended second semiconductor layers, respectively. A high-k dielectric layer is deposited at a faster deposition rate on the interfacial layers than on the self-assembling monolayer. A metal gate structure is formed over the high-k dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tung-Ying Lee, Tse-An Chen, Tzu-Chung Wang, Miin-Jang Chen, Yu-Tung Yin, Meng-Chien Yang
  • Low dimensional material device and method
    Patent number: 11244866
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a device includes: a dielectric fin on a substrate; a low-dimensional layer on the dielectric fin, the low-dimensional layer including a source/drain region and a channel region; a source/drain contact on the source/drain region; and a gate structure on the channel region adjacent the source/drain contact, the gate structure having a first width at a top of the gate structure, a second width at a middle of the gate structure, and a third width at a bottom of the gate structure, the second width being less than each of the first width and the third width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Tse Hung, Chao-Ching Cheng, Tse-An Chen, Hung-Li Chiang, Lain-Jong Li, Tzu-Chiang Chen
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING FERROUS AMINO ACID PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR TREATING OR AMELIORATING PANCRES-RELATED DISEASE USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20220031651
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition, comprising ferrous amino acid chelate particles sintered from ferrous amino acid chelate, wherein the average particle size of the ferrous amino acid chelate particles ranges from 500 nm to 2600 nm, and the average molecular weight of the particles ranges from 1,500 Dalton to 600,000 Dalton. Besides, the present invention can be used for manufacturing a medicament for treating or ameliorating a pancreas-related disease, wherein the medicament comprises an effective amount of the composition and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tsun-Yuan LIN, Mu-Kuei CHEN, Tsang-Tse CHEN, Hsun-Jin JAN, Chai-Hui FU, Kai-Ting WANG
  • BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE AND WEARABLE ACCESSARY FOR MEASURING BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE
    Publication number: 20210406517
    Abstract: There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nien-Tse Chen, Yi-Hsien Ko, Yen-Min Chang
  • MEDICAL MONITORING SYSTEM EMPLOYING THERMAL SENSOR
    Publication number: 20210406518
    Abstract: There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: NIEN-TSE CHEN, YI-HSIEN KO, YEN-MIN CHANG
  • GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM EMPLOYING THERMAL SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20210406519
    Abstract: There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: NIEN-TSE CHEN, YI-HSIEN KO, YEN-MIN CHANG
  • DETECTING DAMAGED SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS UTILIZING A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER SORTER TOOL OF AN AUTOMATED MATERIALS HANDLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210407832
    Abstract: A device may detect a semiconductor wafer to be transferred from a source wafer carrier to a target wafer carrier, and may cause a light source to illuminate the semiconductor wafer. The device may cause a camera to capture images of the semiconductor wafer after the light source illuminates the semiconductor wafer, and may perform image recognition of the images of the semiconductor wafer to determine whether an edge of the semiconductor wafer is damaged. The device may cause the semiconductor wafer to be provided to the source wafer carrier when the edge of the semiconductor wafer is determined to be damaged, and may cause the semiconductor wafer to be provided to the target wafer carrier when the edge of the semiconductor wafer is determined to be undamaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Chen Min LIN, Hsien Tse CHEN