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).

  • Publication number: 20150153901
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Chin-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8982074
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jung-Shou Huang, Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 8976121
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: ELAN Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 8866778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Jung-Shou Huang
  • Patent number: 8592698
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
  • Publication number: 20130222047
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung-Shou HUANG, Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen
  • Publication number: 20130215047
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Mu Wu, Tse-Lun Hung, Shun-Yi Chen, Chin-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20130181916
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUNG-SHOU HUANG, CHIA-MU WU, TSE-LUN HUNG, Shun-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 8368660
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 8350824
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Publication number: 20120299873
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: TSE-LUN HUNG, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 8022940
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
  • Publication number: 20090284494
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090251427
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
  • Publication number: 20090251428
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
  • Publication number: 20090251430
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen
  • Publication number: 20090251437
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090251429
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Hsin-Shieh Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090250269
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tse-Lun Hung, Jung-Shou Huang, Chang-Hsin Chen