Patents by Inventor Wen-Sheng Lin

Wen-Sheng Lin 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: 12287975
    Abstract: A control method of a memory device includes: controlling a flash memory controller to transmit a command to a flash memory module; determining whether the flash memory controller is in an idle state; in response to the flash memory controller being in the idle state, determining whether an idle time of the idle state exceeds a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is less than a time required for the flash memory module to complete executing a write command or an erase command; and in response to the idle time exceeding the threshold value, controlling the flash memory controller to enter a power saving mode to turn off a part of components in the flash memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20250094058
    Abstract: A control method of a memory device includes: updating a wear leveling related data temporarily stored in a buffer memory; obtaining multiple parameters; determining a write frequency according to the multiple parameters; and copying the wear leveling related data from the buffer memory to a flash memory module included in the memory device according to the write frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20240176517
    Abstract: A control method of a memory device includes: controlling a flash memory controller to transmit a command to a flash memory module; determining whether the flash memory controller is in an idle state; in response to the flash memory controller being in the idle state, determining whether an idle time of the idle state exceeds a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is less than a time required for the flash memory module to complete executing a write command or an erase command; and in response to the idle time exceeding the threshold value, controlling the flash memory controller to enter a power saving mode to turn off a part of components in the flash memory controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20230309245
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical sensor package assembly. The light shield is arranged in the groove of a package housing above the photosensitive chip. The connection wires between the substrate, the light emitting unit and the photosensitive chip can be printed or disposed on the surface of the substrate. Further, a distance between the photosensitive element and the chip edge is designed to reduce or avoid side leakage interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Sheng-Cheng Lee, Wen-Sheng Lin, Chao-Yang Hsiao, Chih-Wei Lin, Chen-Hua Hsi, Yueh-Hung Ho
  • Publication number: 20230258710
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a chip reliability test assembly, which comprises a motherboard and a daughter board. The motherboard is used to support the chips during an aging acceleration process at high temperature. The daughter board is used to measure the electricity of chip after the aging acceleration process. Each chip holder is removable off the motherboard. The daughter board does not go through the aging acceleration process and can be reusable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: CHAO-YANG HSIAO, SHENG-CHENG LEE, WEN-SHENG LIN, CHIH-WEI LIN, CHEN-HUA HSI, YUEH-HUNG HO
  • Patent number: 11703385
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light sensor with dark current elimination. A dark current from a covered photodiode and a sensed current from a photodiode are respectively transformed to a dark voltage and a sensed voltage by a controlled integration circuit. A reverse capacitor receives the dark voltage and the sensed voltage to cancel out for each other, and outputs a corrected sensing voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LUXSENTEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Wen-Sheng Lin, Sheng-Cheng Lee, Yueh-Hung Ho, Chih-Wei Lin, Chen-Hua Hsi
  • Patent number: 11664056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, and an apparatus for accessing to data in response to a power-supply event. The method, performed by a flash controller, includes steps for: reading a plurality of physical pages of data in a current block from a flash module during a sudden power off recovery procedure; determining whether a power-supply event has occurred according to an error correction result corresponding to read physical pages; reconstructing a first flash-to-host mapping (F2H) table to include physical-to-logical mapping (P2L) information from the 0th page to a page before a last valid page in the current block when the power-supply event has occurred; and programming the reconstructed first F2H table into a location of the flash module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20230102603
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adaptive proximity sensing device, which can adjust the lighting power of a light-emitting element according to the sensed intensity to extends the sensing range. Further, the device can normalize the final sensed intensity to return the normal sensed intensity. Moreover, the uses a linear model of the normal sensed intensity and the distance, so the device can quickly determine the distance of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: CHEN-HUA HSI, CHAO-YANG HSIAO, SHENG-CHENG LEE, WEN-SHENG LIN, CHIH-WEI LIN, YUEH-HUNG HOU
  • Patent number: 11611821
    Abstract: This invention provides an earphone with a low light transmittance and a non-porous sensor cover. Covering the sensing cover on the proximity sensing device can reduce the interference of most of the ambient light and improve measurement accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: LUXSENTEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Sheng-Cheng Lee, Wen-Sheng Lin, Chen-Hua Hsi
  • Publication number: 20230061606
    Abstract: This invention provides an earphone with a low light transmittance and a non-porous sensor cover. Covering the sensing cover on the proximity sensing device can reduce the interference of most of the ambient light and improve measurement accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Chih-Wei LIN, Sheng-Cheng LEE, Wen-Sheng LIN, Chen-Hua HSI
  • Publication number: 20230029995
    Abstract: The heart rate and blood oxygen monitoring device of the present invention utilizes two ambient light calibration DACs, which can quickly calibrate noise signals generated by ambient light. The heart rate and blood oxygen monitoring device can provide more accurate heart rate and blood oxygen values for optical measurement methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: SHENG-CHENG LEE, WEN-SHENG LIN, CHIH-WEI LIN, CHEN-HUA HSI, YUEH-HUNG HOU
  • Publication number: 20230020275
    Abstract: The present invention provides a proximity sensing device with linear electrical offset calibration, which can record electrical offsets caused by different dark currents under different settings of the pulse count or the pulse time, and the proximity sensing device uses these electrical offsets to obtain the linear electrical offset ratio. Then calculate and infer the electrical offset generated in actual use through the linear electrical offset ratio to calibrate sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: WEN-SHENG LIN, SHENG-CHENG LEE, CHIH-WEI LIN, CHEN-HUA HSI, YUEH-HUNG HOU
  • Publication number: 20220406666
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with different gate structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The a method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a thermal oxide layer on top and side surfaces of the fin structure, forming a polysilicon structure on the thermal oxide layer, doping portions of the fin structure uncovered by the polysilicon structure to form doped fin portions, forming a nitride layer on the polysilicon structure and the thermal oxide layer, forming an oxide layer on the nitride layer, doping the nitride layer with halogen ions, forming a source/drain region in the fin structure and adjacent to the polysilicon structure, and replacing the polysilicon structure with a gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chieh HUANG, Chen-Chieh Chiang, Wen-Sheng Lin, Hsun-Jui Chang, Yen-Han Chen
  • Publication number: 20220386877
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a packaging structure that integrates distance sensing device and temperature sensing device, and it is applied to small wearable devices such as earphones or watches. The combination of distance and temperature sensing allows the wearable device to accurately determine whether it is on the user's body, and then start temperature monitoring. It can collect ear temperature information more effectively and energy-saving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: WEN-SHENG LIN, SHENG-CHENG LEE, CHIH-WEI LIN, CHEN-HUA HSI, YUEH-HUNG HOU
  • Patent number: 11467268
    Abstract: Disclosures of the present invention describe an optical proximity sensor, which is particularly designed to have functionality of canceling an ambient light noise and/or an optical crosstalk noise by using light-to-frequency conversion technique, and comprises: a controlling and processing circuit, a lighting unit, a light receiving unit, an analog adder, a first DAC unit, a second DAC unit, and a light-to-digital conversion (LDC) unit. In the controlling of the controlling and processing circuit, the first DAC unit and the second DAC unit would respectively generate a first compensation current signal and a second compensation current signal to the analog adder, such that a noise signal of ambient light and a noise signal of optical crosstalk existing in an optical current signal of object reflection light would be canceled by the two compensation current signals in the analog adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: Dyna Image Corporation, Lite-On Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Sheng Lin, Sheng-Cheng Lee, Yu-Cheng Su, Peng-Han Chan, Chun-Hsien Lin
  • Patent number: 11432381
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensor device with temperature compensation, which can adjust or calibrate the number, time and power of luminescence of light emitting elements under different ambient temperatures, so that the light signal values received by the photosensor device can be kept consistent or within the error range, there are multiple applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LUXSENTEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Sheng-Cheng Lee, Wen-Sheng Lin, Chih-Wei Lin, Chen-Hua Hsi
  • Publication number: 20220246181
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, and an apparatus for accessing to data in response to a power-supply event. The method, performed by a flash controller, includes steps for: reading a plurality of physical pages of data in a current block from a flash module during a sudden power off recovery procedure; determining whether a power-supply event has occurred according to an error correction result corresponding to read physical pages; reconstructing a first flash-to-host mapping (F2H) table to include physical-to-logical mapping (P2L) information from the 0th page to a page before a last valid page in the current block when the power-supply event has occurred; and programming the reconstructed first F2H table into a location of the flash module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng LIN
  • Patent number: 11347592
    Abstract: The invention introduces a non-transitory computer program product for handling a sudden power off recovery (SPOR) to include program code to: drive a flash access interface to read pages of a current block in sequence after a power restart subsequent to a sudden power off (SPO); mark the last correct page of the current block according to page read statuses for the current block; configure n1 pages after the next page of the last correct page of the current block as dummy pages; and drive the flash access interface to store data of the last correct page and its previous n2-1 pages of the current block in empty pages after the last dummy page of the current block, wherein any of n1 and n2 is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11342008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, and an apparatus for accessing to data in response to a power-supply event. The method, performed by a flash controller, includes steps for: repeatedly detecting whether a voltage supplied to the flash controller is lower than a first threshold; and issuing a program command to a flash module for programming data into the flash module and performing a supervision procedure when the voltage is lower than the first threshold. The supervision procedure includes steps for: repeatedly detecting whether the voltage is lower than a second threshold during a time period when issuing the program command to the flash module until transmitting the data to the flash module completely; and cancelling the program command when the voltage is lower than the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
    Inventor: Wen-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20220121265
    Abstract: A low power operation method provides an apparatus with a data transmission rate. A power management unit (PMU), which is not influenced by voltage, process, and temperature, biases a high frequency oscillator (HOSC) and makes the HOSC generate a steady and high precision clock. The clock of the HOSC is used to modify a timing length of a timer which is referenced by a low frequency oscillator (LOSC) without PMU. At last, through the modified timing length, the apparatus achieves high precision periods and data transmissions with compensation for voltage, process, and temperature. Thus, the data transmission cycles of the apparatus maintain stable and robust even if the apparatus applies duty cycle usage of the HOSC and the PMU for reducing power consumption with actions of turning on and turning off. Consequently, the periodic apparatus maintains data transmission rate with the low power consumption advantage of non-periodic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: Dyna Image Corporation, Lite-On Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Peng-Han Chan, Chun-Hsien Lin, Sheng-Cheng Lee, Wen-Sheng Lin, Yu-Cheng Su