Patents by Inventor Yi-Rong Ko

Yi-Rong Ko 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: 9024903
    Abstract: A detection method for a capacitive touch device is provided. The detection method includes steps of: driving an Mth driving line among an m driving lines of the capacitive touch device, wherein M is a natural number smaller than or equal to m and greater than 1; selecting a plurality of sensing lines among n sensing lines; obtaining a plurality of sensing values by detecting voltage changes at the selected sensing lines; determining whether to perform a noise reduction operation on the sensing values; if yes, calculating respective differences between the sensing values and a baseline value, and generating a noise correction value corresponding to the sensing values by performing a statistical computation on the differences; and correcting the differences according to the noise correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectrics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Yi-Rong Ko, Shun-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 9013445
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device includes a capacitive touch panel, a driving control unit, k ADCs, a multiplex network and a processing unit. The capacitive touch panel has an m×n sensing point matrix formed by m driving line and n sensing lines. The driving control unit is coupled to the m driving lines. The multiplex network connects the n sensing lines and the k ADCs by time-domain multiplexing. The processing unit is coupled to the k ADCs. At least a part of the driving lines and at least a part of the sensing lines are assigned to be electrically connected. The processing unit senses according to multiple frequencies to obtain multiple signal strength values, and selects the frequency corresponding to a smallest signal value to be a sensing frequency of the capacitive touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Yi-Rong Ko, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20140015793
    Abstract: A detection method for a capacitive touch device is provided. The detection method includes steps of: driving an Mth driving line among an m driving lines of the capacitive touch device, wherein M is a natural number smaller than or equal to m and greater than 1; selecting a plurality of sensing lines among n sensing lines; obtaining a plurality of sensing values by detecting voltage changes at the selected sensing lines; determining whether to perform a noise reduction operation on the sensing values; if yes, calculating respective differences between the sensing values and a baseline value, and generating a noise correction value corresponding to the sensing values by performing a statistical computation on the differences; and correcting the differences according to the noise correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Chun-Hung CHEN, Yi-Rong KO, Shun-Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20130257790
    Abstract: A capacitive touch device includes a capacitive touch panel, a driving control unit, k ADCs, a multiplex network and a processing unit. The capacitive touch panel has an m×n sensing point matrix formed by m driving line and n sensing lines. The driving control unit is coupled to the m driving lines. The multiplex network connects the n sensing lines and the k ADCs by time-domain multiplexing. The processing unit is coupled to the k ADCs. At least a part of the driving lines and at least a part of the sensing lines are assigned to be electrically connected. The processing unit senses according to multiple frequencies to obtain multiple signal strength values, and selects the frequency corresponding to a smallest signal value to be a sensing frequency of the capacitive touch device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Yi-Rong Ko, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Publication number: 20130093692
    Abstract: A gesture detecting method capable of filtering a panel mistouch includes following steps is provided. First, an area of a touch region for a touch event on a touch panel is detected. Next, it is determined whether the area of the touch region is greater than a minimum predetermined area value and smaller than a maximum predetermined area value. When a result of the above determination is affirmative, whether a shape of the touch area is a mistouch shape is determined. Finally, when the shape of the touch region is the mistouch shape, a set of touch coordinates is not reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Wang, Yi-Rong Ko, Chih-Chang Lai