Patents by Inventor Tse-Lun Hung
Tse-Lun Hung 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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Publication number: 20150153901Abstract: A scan method for a capacitive touch panel has steps of performing a relatively small first number of estimation scans on multiple sensing lines of a capacitive touch panel and recording results of the estimation scans, marking the sensing lines meeting a predetermined condition according to the results of the estimation scans, and performing a relatively large second number of practical scans on the marked sensing lines. Given the first-stage estimation scans and the second-stage practical scans, the sensing lines possibly touched by a touch object can be rapidly identified and marked, and the second-stage practical scans are performed on the marked sensing lines. Accordingly, noises and errors can be effectively reduced, accurate scan can be ensured, and higher frame rate can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Chin-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 8982074Abstract: A scan method for a touch panel has steps of: receiving a self-sensing frame; calculating sensing slopes between each sensing line and its neighboring sensing lines in the self-sensing frame; determining whether any sensing slope is larger than a slope threshold, and marking the sensing line if the sensing slope is larger than the slope threshold; and executing a mutual scan approach on the marked sensing lines to produce a mutual sensing frame without sensing point caused by noise. Further, the present invention also increases the frame rate since only a part of sensing lines need to be scanned.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Jung-Shou Huang, Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen
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Patent number: 8976121Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses two or more integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel in such a manner that each of the integrated circuits scans only a portion of the touch panel to retrieve a respective detected data by itself. All the detected data are used for computation by one of the integrated circuits or one other than the integrated circuits to determine a touch information. This approach enables axis intersect projected capacitance touch integrated circuits applicable to a large scale touch panel, without degrading the frame rate of a capacitive touch system.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: ELAN Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Patent number: 8866778Abstract: A method of detecting floating mode of a touch panel has steps of reading a sensing cluster and presetting a detection window; taking each sensing point of the sensing cluster as a center point of the detection window; after determining that the center point has a negative sensing value qualifying to be generated under a floating mode, further determining a count of the sensing points other than the center point having the sensing values generated under a grounding mode and incrementing an accumulative number by one if the count exceeds a first critical value; keeping incrementing the accumulative number until each sensing point in the sensing cluster has been taken as the center point of the detection window for scanning; and determining if the accumulative number exceeds a second critical value, and if positive, further determining that the current sensing cluster is generated under the floating mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Jung-Shou Huang
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Patent number: 8592698Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two first integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the first integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the touch panel to retrieve the sensed data from its responsible traces. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. A data transmission method transmits only the non-zero sensed values to a second integrated circuit where a calculation with the non-zero sensed values is executed, and thereby reduces the data transmission time.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
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Publication number: 20130222047Abstract: A driving method for charger noise rejection in a touch panel has steps of: reading the sensing frame of the touch panel with a self-capacitance sensing mode, marking at least one first-axis sensing line having a recognizable sensing value, and driving the at least one marked first-axis sensing line with a mutual-capacitance sensing mode to acquire at least one sensing value corresponding to at least one sensing point on each one of the at least one marked first-axis sensing line. Accordingly, the charger noise is rejected in the touch panel by the driving method of the present invention. Additionally, a frame rate is further increased since the sensing lines are partially driven under the mutual-capacitance sensing mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jung-Shou HUANG, Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen
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Publication number: 20130215047Abstract: A scan method for a capacitive touch panel has steps of performing a relatively small first number of estimation scans on multiple sensing lines of a capacitive touch panel and recording results of the estimation scans, marking the sensing lines meeting a predetermined condition according to the results of the estimation scans, and performing a relatively large second number of practical scans on the marked sensing lines. Given the first-stage estimation scans and the second-stage practical scans, the sensing lines possibly touched by a touch object can be rapidly identified and marked, and the second-stage practical scans are performed on the marked sensing lines. Accordingly, noises and errors can be effectively reduced, accurate scan can be ensured, and higher frame rate can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Chin-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yu Chen
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Publication number: 20130181916Abstract: A scan method for a touch panel has steps of: receiving a self-sensing frame; calculating sensing slopes between each sensing line and its neighboring sensing lines in the self-sensing frame; determining whether any sensing slope is larger than a slope threshold, and marking the sensing line if the sensing slope is larger than the slope threshold; and executing a mutual scan approach on the marked sensing lines to produce a mutual sensing frame without sensing point caused by noise. Further, the present invention also increases the frame rate since only a part of sensing lines need to be scanned.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: JUNG-SHOU HUANG, CHIA-MU WU, TSE-LUN HUNG, Shun-Yi Chen
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Patent number: 8368660Abstract: A capacitive touch system includes a touch panel and two touch integrated circuits connected to the touch panel to scan thereto. The touch panel has a boundary trace connected to both of the two touch integrated circuits. When one of the two touch integrated circuits charges/discharges the boundary trace, the other touch integrated circuit does not charges/discharges the boundary trace.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Patent number: 8350824Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two touch integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the touch integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the traces of the touch panel. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. Sensing methods are provided to determine a sensed value for a boundary trace which is the last one of the traces connected to a first touch integrated circuit and prior to the first one of the traces connected to a second touch integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Publication number: 20120299873Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two touch integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the touch integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the traces of the touch panel. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. Sensing methods are provided to determine a sensed value for a boundary trace which is the last one of the traces connected to a first touch integrated circuit and prior to the first one of the traces connected to a second touch integrated circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: TSE-LUN HUNG, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Patent number: 8022940Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each scanning only a portion of traces of the touch panel, and a second integrated circuit to receive sensed data from the first integrated circuits. The sensed data contains parameters representing a sum of the sensed values of all traces in a direction that one of the first integrated circuits is in charge of scanning, a sum of products obtained by multiplying the sensed value of each trace in the direction that the one of the first integrated circuits scans by the order number of that trace, a number of fingers in the direction detected by the one of the first integrated circuits, and whether or not the sensed values of the first and last traces in the direction that the one of the first integrated circuits scans are zero.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Elan Microelectronics CorporationInventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
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Publication number: 20090284494Abstract: A capacitive touch system includes a touch panel and two touch integrated circuits connected to the touch panel to scan thereto. The touch panel has a boundary trace connected to both of the two touch integrated circuits. When one of the two touch integrated circuits charges/discharges the boundary trace, the other touch integrated circuit does not charges/discharges the boundary trace.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Publication number: 20090251427Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the integrated circuits scanning only a portion of the touch panel. If any one of the integrated circuits has not detected any objects on its scanning zone for a long time, it will enter a suspend mode to lower the scanning frequency thereof for power saving.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
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Publication number: 20090251428Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each scanning only a portion of traces of the touch panel, and a second integrated circuit to receive sensed data from the first integrated circuits. The sensed data contains parameters representing a sum of the sensed values of all traces in a direction that one of the first integrated circuits is in charge of scanning, a sum of products obtained by multiplying the sensed value of each trace in the direction that the one of the first integrated circuits scans by the order number of that trace, a number of fingers in the direction detected by the one of the first integrated circuits, and whether or not the sensed values of the first and last traces in the direction that the one of the first integrated circuits scans are zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
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Publication number: 20090251430Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two first integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the first integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the touch panel. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. Each of the first integrated circuits transmits its sensed data to a second integrated circuit where a calculation with the received sensed data is executed. The second integrated circuit has at least a common pin connected to each of the first integrated circuits, and therefore the number of pins of the second integrated circuit is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
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Publication number: 20090251437Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses two or more integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel in such a manner that each of the integrated circuits scans only a portion of the touch panel to retrieve a respective detected data by itself. All the detected data are used for computation by one of the integrated circuits or one other than the integrated circuits to determine a touch information. This approach enables axis intersect projected capacitance touch integrated circuits applicable to a large scale touch panel, without degrading the frame rate of a capacitive touch system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Publication number: 20090251429Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two touch integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the touch integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the traces of the touch panel. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. Sensing methods are provided to determine a sensed value for a boundary trace which is the last one of the traces connected to a first touch integrated circuit and prior to the first one of the traces connected to a second touch integrated circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
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Publication number: 20090250269Abstract: A capacitive touch system uses at least two first integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel, each of the first integrated circuits only for scanning a portion of the touch panel to retrieve the sensed data from its responsible traces. Therefore, the capacitive touch system can maintain a good frame rate, even the touch panel is a large scale touch panel. A data transmission method transmits only the non-zero sensed values to a second integrated circuit where a calculation with the non-zero sensed values is executed, and thereby reduces the data transmission time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen