Patents by Inventor Yu-Huang Chen

Yu-Huang 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: 20240128341
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same. The semiconductor structure includes a base pattern including a channel region and a drain region, a first semiconductor layer on the channel region of the base pattern, and a gate structure on the first semiconductor layer. The gate structure includes a first stack disposed on the first semiconductor layer and a second stack disposed on the first stack. The first stack includes a first sidewall adjacent to the drain region and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the base pattern. The first sidewall is at a first distance from the second stack in the first direction, and the second sidewall is at a second distance from the second stack in the first direction. The first distance is greater than the second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Chang, Jih-Wen Chou, Hwi-Huang Chen, Hsin-Hong Chen, Yu-Jen Huang
  • Patent number: 11928289
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel includes following operations: entering a first touch sensing process and performing a non-water mode; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; entering a second touch sensing process and performing a water mode when there is water detected on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process; and entering the first touch sensing process and performing the non-water mode when there is no water detected on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Ting-Yu Chan
  • Publication number: 20240019965
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel includes following operations: entering a first touch sensing process and performing a non-water mode; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; entering a second touch sensing process and performing a water mode when there is water detected on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process; and entering the first touch sensing process and performing the non-water mode when there is no water detected on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yu-Huang CHEN, Ting-Yu CHAN
  • Publication number: 20230229263
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20230221820
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch panel includes touch sensing units. The touch sensing method includes: in a first sensing period, applying touch excitation signals to a first group of the touch sensing units to obtain first touch sensing signals; applying touch reference signals to a second group of the touch sensing units to obtain a first reference sensing signal; in a second sensing period, applying the touch excitation signals to the second group of the touch sensing units to obtain second touch sensing signals; applying the touch reference signal to the first group of the touch sensing units to obtain a second reference sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of the touch sensing units according to the first touch sensing signals, the first reference sensing signal, the second touch sensing signals, and the second reference sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11696483
    Abstract: An OLED touch and display driver integration chip is provided, including: a group of display driving pads for providing display driving signals to the OLED touch display panel; a group of touch pads for providing touch driving signals to touch electrodes on the OLED touch display panel and/or receiving touch sensing signals from the touch electrodes, and adjacently arranged with the group of display driving pads; and at least one isolation pad arranged between the group of display driving pads and the group of touch pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chang-Hung Chen, Kun-Zheng Lin, Wei-Chieh Lin, Po-Sheng Liao, Yu-Huang Chen
  • Patent number: 11650692
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch sensing method includes: selecting a portion of multiple touch sensing units as to-sense touch sensing units, applying first touch excitation signals to the those to obtain multiple first touch sensing signals, and obtaining multiple differential sensing signals based on multiple first touch sensing signals; selecting a touch sensing unit as a reference touch sensing unit, and applying a touch reference signal to it to obtain a reference sensing signal; selecting a to-sense touch sensing unit as a preprocessing touch sensing unit, and applying a second touch excitation signal to it to obtain a second touch sensing signal; obtaining a capacitance sensing signal from the reference sensing signal and the second touch sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of multiple to-sense touch sensing units according to the differential sensing signals and the capacitance sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11635853
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11550416
    Abstract: A touch display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch display panel, a power management circuit, a display driving circuit, and a touch circuit. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to display an image, and notifies the power management circuit to perform a voltage adjustment of a common voltage supplied to the touch display panel in a voltage adjustment period. The touch circuit individually performs a touch sensing operation on multiple sensing lines of a touch sensing layer of the touch display panel, so as to generate multiple touch sensing data corresponding to the sensing lines. The touch circuit ignores the touch sensing data corresponding to the voltage adjustment period, or the touch circuit suspends performing the touch sensing operation on the sensing lines of the touch sensing layer during the voltage adjustment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11507221
    Abstract: An analog front-end circuit for a touch controller and an operating method thereof are provided. The analog front-end circuit includes an analog front-end, a first switch and a second switch. The analog front-end includes an input terminal and an output terminal. The first switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the first switch is coupled to the input terminal of the analog front-end, and the second terminal of the first switch is coupled to a panel routing. The second switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the second switch is coupled to the second terminal of the first switch, and the second terminal of the second switch is coupled to a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20220336537
    Abstract: An OLED touch and display driver integration chip is provided, including: a group of display driving pads for providing display driving signals to the OLED touch display panel; a group of touch pads for providing touch driving signals to touch electrodes on the OLED touch display panel and/or receiving touch sensing signals from the touch electrodes, and adjacently arranged with the group of display driving pads; and at least one isolation pad arranged between the group of display driving pads and the group of touch pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Chang-Hung Chen, Kun-Zheng Lin, Wei-Chieh Lin, Po-Sheng Liao, Yu-Huang Chen
  • Patent number: 11404499
    Abstract: An OLED touch and display driver integration chip is provided, including: at least one group of display driving pads for providing display driving signals to the OLED touch display panel; at least one group of touch pads for providing touch driving signals to touch electrodes on the OLED touch display panel, and alternately arranged in groups with the at least one group of display driving pads; at least one group of isolation pads, each group of isolation pads includes at least one isolation pad and is arranged between a group of display driving pads and a group of touch pads that are adjacent, an isolation pad is configured to apply a specific signal to isolate signal interference between adjacent groups of display driving pads and touch pads, or configured to apply a specific signal or be in a floating state, to reduce load of data lines or the touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chang-Hung Chen, Kun-Zheng Lin, Wei-Chieh Lin, Po-Sheng Liao, Yu-Huang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220050544
    Abstract: A touch display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch display panel, a power management circuit, a display driving circuit, and a touch circuit. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to display an image, and notifies the power management circuit to perform a voltage adjustment of a common voltage supplied to the touch display panel in a voltage adjustment period. The touch circuit individually performs a touch sensing operation on multiple sensing lines of a touch sensing layer of the touch display panel, so as to generate multiple touch sensing data corresponding to the sensing lines. The touch circuit ignores the touch sensing data corresponding to the voltage adjustment period, or the touch circuit suspends performing the touch sensing operation on the sensing lines of the touch sensing layer during the voltage adjustment period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20210373738
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20210373736
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch sensing method includes: selecting a portion of multiple touch sensing units as to-sense touch sensing units, applying first touch excitation signals to the those to obtain multiple first touch sensing signals, and obtaining multiple differential sensing signals based on multiple first touch sensing signals; selecting a touch sensing unit as a reference touch sensing unit, and applying a touch reference signal to it to obtain a reference sensing signal; selecting a to-sense touch sensing unit as a preprocessing touch sensing unit, and applying a second touch excitation signal to it to obtain a second touch sensing signal; obtaining a capacitance sensing signal from the reference sensing signal and the second touch sensing signal; and acquiring capacitance values of multiple to-sense touch sensing units according to the differential sensing signals and the capacitance sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Publication number: 20210367001
    Abstract: An OLED touch and display driver integration chip is provided, including: at least one group of display driving pads for providing display driving signals to the OLED touch display panel; at least one group of touch pads for providing touch driving signals to touch electrodes on the OLED touch display panel, and alternately arranged in groups with the at least one group of display driving pads; at least one group of isolation pads, each group of isolation pads includes at least one isolation pad and is arranged between a group of display driving pads and a group of touch pads that are adjacent, an isolation pad is configured to apply a specific signal to isolate signal interference between adjacent groups of display driving pads and touch pads, or configured to apply a specific signal or be in a floating state, to reduce load of data lines or the touch electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Chang-Hung Chen, Kun-Zheng Lin, Wei-Chieh Lin, Po-Sheng Liao, Yu-Huang Chen
  • Publication number: 20210255752
    Abstract: An analog front-end circuit for a touch controller and an operating method thereof are provided. The analog front-end circuit includes an analog front-end, a first switch and a second switch. The analog front-end includes an input terminal and an output terminal. The first switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the first switch is coupled to the input terminal of the analog front-end, and the second terminal of the first switch is coupled to a panel routing. The second switch includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the second switch is coupled to the second terminal of the first switch, and the second terminal of the second switch is coupled to a reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Kai Chen, Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan