Patents by Inventor Ying-Ru Chen

Ying-Ru Chen 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: 20110013853
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for determining a first motion vector for a first block in a first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru CHEN
  • Publication number: 20100319752
    Abstract: A solar cell pack includes a solar cell for converting light into electricity, a circuit layer attached to the solar cell for transferring the electricity from the solar cell to a storage apparatus and radiating apparatus for radiating heat from the solar cell and the circuit layer. The radiating apparatus includes a radiator and a multi-purpose layer. The multi-purpose layer attaches the radiator to the circuit layer, isolates the radiator from the circuit layer and transfers heat to the radiator from the circuit layer in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Hwen-Fen Hong, Zun-Hao Shih, Ying-Ru Chen, Hwa-Yuh Shin, Cherng-Tsong Kuo
  • Publication number: 20100289964
    Abstract: A memory access system and method for efficiently utilizing memory bandwidth is disclosed. A data arrangement unit arranges video data into at least a primary block and a supplemental block, which are then stored in a memory device. The video data are arranged such that the video data of the primary block stored in the memory device can be sequentially read by a device, thereby increasing efficiency in memory bandwidth usage and memory data access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Sheng-Chun Niu, Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20100177241
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for motion adaptive de-interlacing with chroma up-sampling error remover are provided. Wherein, a motion detector determines moving pixels and static pixels in a target scan line. A first CUE remover and a second CUE remover remove the CUE of the target scan line in the previous field and the CUE of the adjacent scan lines in the current field, respectively. A de-interlace unit de-interlaces the adjacent scan lines to obtain a de-interlaced second scan line. A selector selects output data of the first CUE remover or the de-interlace unit as data of the target scan line according to a result of motion detection of the motion detector. A merging unit merges the adjacent scan line output by the second CUE remover and the target scan line output by the selector to output two scan lines of an output field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Ying-Ru Chen, Ling-Hsiu Huang
  • Publication number: 20100177935
    Abstract: A method of motion detection using an adaptive threshold, adaptive for determining whether a plurality of target pixels in a current scan line are moving pixels or not, is provided. First, a first threshold is given for determining whether the target pixels in the current scan line are moving pixels. Then, a number of moving pixels in a previous scan line of the current scan line is calculated and determined whether larger than a second threshold. If the number of moving pixels is larger than the second threshold, the first threshold is adjusted by a decrement, and then whether the target pixels in the current scan line are moving pixels is determined by using the adjusted first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20100177199
    Abstract: A method for motion detection of a horizontal line is provided. First, a horizontal motion area of the horizontal line is detected according to differences between corresponding target scan lines in adjacent fields. Next, the horizontal line within a horizontal motion area in a current field and in a previous field are respectively detected. Then, the horizontal motion of the horizontal line is detected if the horizontal line is detected in both the current field and the previous field. Finally, pixels of the horizontal line in the current field are set as static pixels and data of the horizontal line is calculated through de-interlacing of corresponding horizontal lines in the previous field and in a next field if the horizontal motion of the horizontal line is detected. As a result, the flickers occurred in the generated field data can be removed and the quality of vision can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20100177934
    Abstract: A method of motion detection using motion information of neighboring pixels, adaptive for determining whether a plurality of target pixels in a current field are moving pixels, is provided. First, it is determined whether a neighboring pixel in a previous field corresponding to the target pixel in the current field is the moving pixel. If the neighboring pixel in the previous field is the moving pixel, the target pixel is determined as the moving pixel and otherwise it is further determined whether the neighboring pixels around the target pixel in the current field are the moving pixels. If the neighboring pixels in the current field are the moving pixels, then the target pixel is determined as the moving pixel. Accordingly, the mistakenly judged static pixels can be found and modified to moving pixels, such that the accuracy of motion detection can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Patent number: 7751002
    Abstract: A pixel structure of a transflective LCD panel includes a substrate, a data line and a scan, a thin film transistor containing an extending electrode, a first common electrode and a second common electrode, a transmissive pixel electrode, and a reflective pixel electrode forming a first coupling capacitor with the extending electrode and a second coupling capacitor with the second common electrode. The first and second common electrodes and the data line overlap with each other in an overlapping area, wherein the first common electrode is disposed between the second common electrode and the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Chia Hsu, Ying-Ru Chen, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Ching-Huan Lin
  • Publication number: 20100158320
    Abstract: A for motion detection using a content adaptive penalty function, adaptive for determining whether a target pixel in a current field is a moving pixel or not, is provided. First, a penalty function is determined according to characteristics of a plurality of neighboring pixels of the target pixel. Next, a plurality of differences between the corresonding neighboring pixels of the target pixel in adjacent fields are calculated. The difference is then weighted by the penalty function according to the magnitude of the difference and the weighted differences are summed together. Finally, the sum of the weighted differences is compared with a sum threshold, so as to determine whether the target pixel is the moving pixel or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20100142843
    Abstract: A method for adaptively selecting filters to interpolate video data is provided. In the present method, when receiving video data encoded by a 4:2:2 sampling format, a plurality of filters having different weights are adaptively selected to convert the color components in the video data to a 4:4:4 sampling format based on the differences of luminance and color components among a target pixel and neighboring pixels thereof. Accordingly, the blurs occurred in an area with large color variation can be removed or reduced, such that the interpolated color components can be accepted by human eyes more easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20100142812
    Abstract: A method of color components compression is provided. In the present method, when receiving video data encoded by a 4:4:4 sampling format, color components of each set of neighboring pixels in the video data is down-sampled and a first difference of the color components between the video data before and after down-sampling in a down-sampling mode is calculated. Then, the color components of each pixel in the video data are truncated and a second difference of the color components between the video data before and after truncation in a truncation mode is calculated. The first difference and the second difference are compared and the down-sampling mode or the truncation mode that has a smaller difference is selected to compress the video data into a 4:2:2 sampling format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Patent number: 7719649
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The active device array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel units. The scan lines, the data lines and the pixel units are disposed on the substrate. Each of the pixel units is electrically connected to one of the scan lines and one of the data lines correspondingly and crosses over two sides of the corresponding scan line. The opposite substrate includes a plurality of alignment protrusions. The alignment protrusions are located over the scan lines. Besides, the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the opposite substrate and the active device array substrate. The above-mentioned liquid crystal display panel has higher aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang, Ping-Ju Jiang, Ying-Ru Chen, Ching-Huan Lin, Chih-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 7683976
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data patterns, a plurality of connecting patterns, a plurality of active devices, a plurality of transparent pixel electrodes, a plurality of common lines, at least one polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The opposite substrate is disposed above the active device array substrate. The scan lines, the data patterns and the connecting patterns are disposed on the active device array substrate, and the data patterns and the connecting patterns form data lines via contact holes. The common lines are disposed between the transparent pixel electrodes and the data lines, and a part of each common line overlaps the corresponding data pattern. The polymer layer is disposed on at least one of the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Ru Chen, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Ching-Huan Lin, Chih-Ming Chang
  • Publication number: 20100002131
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of de-interlacing are disclosed. A flicker bit is assigned to each line of a frame to indicate a flicker characteristic of each line. A de-interlaced line is then generated by duplicating a neighboring scan line in a current frame according to an active flicker bit of a previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: YING-RU CHEN
  • Patent number: 7615492
    Abstract: A solar cell is prepared. The solar cell is photo-sensitized. The solar cell has a semiconductor layer. And carbon nanotubes are deposited on the semiconductor layer with an arrangement. The solar cell is prepared with a reduced amount of fabrication material, a lowered fabrication cost and a prolonged lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council - Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Tsun-Neng Yang, Shan-Ming Lan, Ying-Ru Chen, Chin-Chen Chiang, Wei-Yang Ma, Chien-Te Ku
  • Publication number: 20090213142
    Abstract: A coding system and method for a bit-plane is disclosed. A bit-plane is decomposed or segmented into at least a background area and a foreground area. A number of encoders are provided for efficiently encoding the background area and the foreground area respectively. Accordingly, the performance of compression is substantially improved by this data or texture segmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20090214128
    Abstract: A compression system and method for a bit-plane is disclosed. A run-length encoder is used to compress a first block of an image, which includes at least a first line in the image. An offset encoder is used to compress a second block of the image, which includes a number of lines different from the first line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Publication number: 20090141222
    Abstract: A pixel structure of a transflective LCD panel includes a substrate, a data line and a scan, a thin film transistor containing an extending electrode, a first common electrode and a second common electrode, a transmissive pixel electrode, and a reflective pixel electrode forming a first coupling capacitor with the extending electrode and a second coupling capacitor with the second common electrode. The first and second common electrodes and the data line overlap with each other in an overlapping area, wherein the first common electrode is disposed between the second common electrode and the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Shih-Chia Hsu, Ying-Ru Chen, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Ching-Huan Lin
  • Publication number: 20090109160
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixel unit sets, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The scan lines, data lines, and pixel unit sets are disposed on the first substrate. A first gap is formed between two adjacent pixel unit sets. Each of the pixel unit sets includes pixel units, and a second main space is formed between two adjacent pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes an active device electrically connected to a scan line and a data line, and a transparent pixel electrode has slits and electrically connected to the active device. The width of the first gap is greater than that of the second gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Ru Chen, Ching-Huan Lin, Chih-Ming Chang
  • Publication number: 20090109386
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data patterns, a plurality of connecting patterns, a plurality of active devices, a plurality of transparent pixel electrodes, a plurality of common lines, at least one polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The opposite substrate is disposed above the active device array substrate. The scan lines, the data patterns and the connecting patterns are disposed on the active device array substrate, and the data patterns and the connecting patterns form data lines via contact holes. The common lines are disposed between the transparent pixel electrodes and the data lines, and a part of each common line overlaps the corresponding data pattern. The polymer layer is disposed on at least one of the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Ru Chen, Hsiang-Lin Lin, Ching-Huan Lin, Chih-Ming Chang