Patents by Inventor Yeong-Ming Chang

Yeong-Ming Chang 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: 20200215991
    Abstract: A movable carrier auxiliary system includes at least two optical image capturing systems respectively disposed on a left portion and a right portion of a movable carrier. Each optical image capturing system includes an image capturing module, an operation module, at least one warning module, and at least one displaying device, and has at least one lens group including at least two lenses having refractive power. The image capturing module captures and produces an environmental image surrounding the movable carrier. The operation module electrically connected to the image capturing module detects at least one moving object in the environmental image to generate a detecting signal. The warning module electrically connected to the operation module receives the detecting signal, and generates a warning signal when determines that the moving object approach to the movable carrier. The displaying device is electrically connected to the warning module to display the warning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: YEONG-MING CHANG, CHIEN-HSUN LAI, YAO-WEI LIU
  • Publication number: 20200215973
    Abstract: A movable carrier auxiliary system includes a first transparent assembly, a second transparent assembly, an electro-optic medium layer, a transparent electrode, a reflective layer, a transparent conductive layer, an electrical connector, a control member, and an optical image capturing module. A gap is formed between the second transparent assembly and the first transparent assembly. The electro-optic medium layer is disposed in the gap. The transparent electrode is disposed between the first transparent assembly and the electro-optic medium layer. The electro-optic medium layer is disposed between the first transparent assembly and the at least one reflective layer. The transparent conductive layer is disposed between the electro-optic medium layer and the at least one reflective layer. The electrical connector is electrically connected to the electro-optic medium layer, and transmits an electrical energy to the electro-optic medium layer to change a transparency of the electro-optic medium layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: YEONG-MING CHANG, CHIEN-HSUN LAI, YAO-WEI LIU
  • Publication number: 20200218945
    Abstract: A movable carrier auxiliary system includes at least two optical image capturing systems respectively disposed on a left portion and a right portion of a movable carrier, at least one image fusion output device, and at least one displaying device. Each optical image capturing system includes an image capturing module and an operation module. The image capturing module captures and produces an environmental image surrounding the movable carrier. The operation module electrically connected to the image capturing module detects at least one moving object in the environmental image to generate a detecting signal and at least one tracking mark. The image fusion output device is disposed inside of the movable carrier and is electrically connected to the optical image capturing systems, thereby to receive the environmental image to generate a fusion image. The displaying device is electrically connected to the image fusion output device to display the fusion image and the at least one tracking mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: YEONG-MING CHANG, CHIEN-HSUN LAI, YAO-WEI LIU
  • Patent number: 10698185
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10690883
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive power. The fifth lens can have negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Hung-Wen Lee, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10690889
    Abstract: The invention discloses a five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the five lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10670830
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens has a refractive power and the object side thereof may be convex. The second lens and the third lens have refractive power. The object side and the image side of the foregoing lenses may be aspheric. The fourth lens may have positive refractive power. The object side and the image side thereof are aspheric. At least one of surfaces of the fourth lens may have one inflection point. The four lenses have refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Kuo-Yu Liao, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10670828
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system with thin mounting components includes an optical imaging lens set providing at least two lenses with refractive power, an image plane, a first lens positioning element and a second lens positioning element. In certain conditions, the optical image capturing system with thin mounting components utilizes the member with a small thickness to design the positioning of the lenses, further effectively elevating the amount of light admitted into the optical image capturing system with thin mounting components and increasing the field of view thereof. The optical image capturing system with thin mounting components has an adequate illuminance and elevates the image quality in order to be applied to the small electronic products or the electronic products with slim border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10670831
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens has a refractive power and the object side thereof may be convex. The second lens and the third lens have refractive power. The object side and the image side thereof may be aspheric. The fourth lens may have positive refractive power. The object side and the image side thereof are aspheric. At least one of sides of the fourth lens may have one inflection point. The four lenses have refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Kuo-Yu Liao, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10656367
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module is provided, including a circuit assembly and a lens assembly. The circuit assembly may include a circuit substrate, a plurality of image sensor elements, a plurality of signal transmission elements, and a multi-lens frame. The image sensor elements may be connected to the circuit substrate. The signal transmission elements may be electrically connected between the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The multi-lens frame may be manufactured integrally, be covered on the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements, and surround the image sensor elements and the signal transmission elements. The lens assembly may include a lens base, a fixed-focus lens assembly, an auto-focus lens assembly, and a driving assembly. The lens base may be fixed to a multi-lens frame. The fixed-focus lens assembly and the auto-focus lens assembly may have at least two lenses with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10641997
    Abstract: The invention discloses a five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power, and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the five lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10642003
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module includes a lens assembly and a circuit assembly. The circuit substrate has a through hole. A lower surface of the circuit substrate has multiple circuit contacts. A sensing surface of an image sensing component has multiple image contacts. Each image contact is electrically connected to one of the circuit contacts via a signal transmission element, thereby the sensing surface directly faces the through hole. The lens base made of an opaque material has a receiving hole. The lens assembly includes a lens base disposed on an upper surface of the circuit substrate and a lens group, thereby the sensing surface directly faces the receiving hole via the through hole. The image sensing component is located in the receiving hole. The lens group includes at least two lenses having refractive power, and is disposed on the lens base and is located in the receiving hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10620403
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive power. The seventh lens has negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof can be aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Publication number: 20200112678
    Abstract: A panoramic image system includes at least two camera modules, at least two display elements, and an image processor. Each of the camera modules takes a rear field of view or side field of view to obtain a view image. Each of the display elements displays each of the view images, and each of the view images is configured to have an overlapping region. The image processor receives each of the view images and pieces each of the view images into a panoramic image according to each of the overlapping regions. Each of the display elements selectively displays the panoramic image partially or displays the panoramic image entirely according to a region of interest by a user's observation. The panoramic image system may be applied to a vehicle-monitoring system to assist the driver in viewing the traffic conditions behind the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming CHANG, Chien-Hsun LAI, Yi-Chi CHENG, Tzu-Hsuan WEI, Yao-Wei LIU
  • Publication number: 20200111440
    Abstract: An anti-glare display system is provided, including: at least one camera unit disposed on a moving device, at least disposed on a rear side of the moving device, and photographing a major image in a direction opposite to a moving direction; a processing unit electrically connected to the at least one camera unit to receive the major image and dividing the major image to obtain at least one sub-image; at least one display unit comprising an electrochromic element and electrically connected to the processing unit to receive and display the sub-image from the processing unit; and a microcontroller electrically connected to the processing unit and the at least one display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming CHANG, Chien-Hsun LAI, Yi-Chi CHENG, Shou-Chih CHENG, Tzu-Hsuan WEI, Yao-Wei LIU
  • Patent number: 10609264
    Abstract: An optical imaging module, including a circuit assembly and a lens assembly, is provided. The circuit assembly includes a base, a circuit substrate, image sensor elements, conductors, and a multi-lens frame. The image sensor elements are disposed in the accommodation space of the base. The conductors are disposed between circuit contacts of the circuit substrate and image contacts of the image sensor elements. The multi-lens frame can be integrally formed and covered on the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The lens assembly includes a lens base, a fixed lens assembly, an auto lens assembly, and a drive assembly. The lens base is disposed on the multi-lens frame. Each of the auto lens assembly and the fixed lens assembly has lenses having refractive power. The driving assembly drives the auto lens assembly to move in the direction of the normal line of the sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10606033
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10606021
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module is provided, including a circuit assembly and a lens assembly. The circuit assembly may include a circuit substrate, a plurality of image sensor elements, a plurality of signal transmission elements, and a multi-lens frame. The image sensor elements may be connected to the circuit substrate. The signal transmission elements may be electrically connected between the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The multi-lens frame may be manufactured integrally and be covered on the circuit substrate and the image sensing elements. The signal transmission elements may be embedded in the multi-lens frame. The lens assembly may include a lens base and a fixed-focus lens assembly. The lens base may be fixed to a multi-lens frame. The fixed-focus lens assembly may have at least two lenses with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Publication number: 20200096722
    Abstract: An optical imaging module utilizes conductive lines and electric conductors to reduce the overall thickness of an image sensor element. With the configuration of a fixed lens assembly and a multi-lens frame, incident light passes through the fixed lens assembly and is accurately focused on the image sensor element. Hereby, the image sensor element is thus fully imaged. Besides, the invention can ensure the image quality and prevent the element from deforming during encapsulation and causing the problems such as short circuit, and can reduce the size of the optical image capturing module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming CHANG, Chien-Hsun LAI, Yao-Wei LIU
  • Publication number: 20200096735
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module includes a lens assembly and a circuit assembly including a circuit substrate, a sensor holder disposed on the circuit substrate, and a surface of an image sensing component facing the circuit substrate has a plurality of image contacts. Each image contact is connected to one of the circuit contacts via a signal transmission element disposed on the image contact. The lens assembly includes a lens base disposed on the sensor holder and a lens group. The lens base has a receiving hole penetrating through two ends of the lens base and directly facing the image sensing component, thereby the lens base is hollow. The lens group is disposed on the lens base and is located in the receiving hole, so that a light could pass through the lens group and project onto a sensing surface of the image sensing component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: YEONG-MING CHANG, CHIEN-HSUN LAI, YAO-WEI LIU