Patents by Inventor Yu-Min Hsu

Yu-Min Hsu 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: 10003727
    Abstract: A camera module includes a camera, a light emitting unit, a circuit board. The camera is mounted on the circuit board and having an optical axis. The light emitting unit is disposed on the circuit board which emits a light beam forming a batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution has at least two peaks of maximum luminous intensity. The optical axis of the camera is arranged at a position between the at least two peaks of the batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The camera module emits a uniform light for enhancing authenticity of the image and increasing the reliability of the recognition system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Min Hsu, Chih Yuan Huang, I Hsiang Lo, Hou Ming Huang, Yung En Chu
  • Publication number: 20180160018
    Abstract: A camera module includes a camera, a light emitting unit, a circuit board. The camera is mounted on the circuit board and having an optical axis. The light emitting unit is disposed on the circuit board which emits a light beam forming a batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution has at least two peaks of maximum luminous intensity. The optical axis of the camera is arranged at a position between the at least two peaks of the batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The camera module emits a uniform light for enhancing authenticity of the image and increasing the reliability of the recognition system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Yu Min Hsu, Chih Yuan Huang, I Hsiang Lo, Hou Ming Huang, Yung En Chu
  • Publication number: 20170195585
    Abstract: A dual-spectrum camera module includes a circuit board, a lens holder mounted on the circuit board, a lens body mounted to an upper portion of the lens holder, a RGB-IR (Red, Green and Blue, Infrared) image sensor electrically mounted on the circuit board and located under the lens body, a first filter movably mounted in the lens holder, and a second filter movably mounted in the lens holder. A thickness of the second filter is smaller than a thickness of the first filter. A wave length of light passing from the second filter is greater than a wave length of light passing from the first filter. The second filter and the first filter are abreast with each other and capable of reciprocating laterally to make the first filter or the second filter be located between the lens body and the RGB-IR image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Yu Min Hsu, Chien Ming Shih
  • Publication number: 20170138484
    Abstract: The touch-type gas control valve contains a button, a spring, a hollow body, an O-shaped ring, and a stem. The button is configured to be slidable in and out of a top side of the body. The body has a number of outlets around the lower section's circumference and an inlet on a bottom side of the body. The spring is housed inside the body. The ring is positioned around the inlet. The stem has a semi-spherical head at a bottom end and threads around a top section. The stem runs through the ring, into the body through the inlet, through the spring, and is fastened into the bottom side of the button. The ring is sandwiched between the semi-spherical head and the bottom side of the body by the resilience of the spring when the button is not depressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Yu-Min Hsu
  • Patent number: 9631728
    Abstract: The touch-type gas control valve contains a button, a spring, a hollow body, an O-shaped ring, and a stem. The button is configured to be slidable in and out of a top side of the body. The body has a number of outlets around the lower section's circumference and an inlet on a bottom side of the body. The spring is housed inside the body. The ring is positioned around the inlet. The stem has a semi-spherical head at a bottom end and threads around a top section. The stem runs through the ring, into the body through the inlet, through the spring, and is fastened into the bottom side of the button. The ring is sandwiched between the semi-spherical head and the bottom side of the body by the resilience of the spring when the button is not depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: POLARIS ARMAMENT INDUSTRY CORP.
    Inventor: Yu-Min Hsu
  • Publication number: 20160188102
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of columns of sensing partitions, a plurality of driving lines, a plurality of sensing lines and a memory. A method for the touch panel to generate a touch signal includes sequentially inputting driving signals to the plurality of driving lines, reading a plurality of voltage values of one of the plurality columns of sensing partitions through one of the plurality of sensing lines, converting the plurality of voltage values into a plurality of digital values, calculating a mean of the digital values, and storing the coordinate of at least one digital value in a memory. The difference between the at least one digital value and the mean is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yi-Min Li, Sheng-Yun Chang, Sin-Guo Jhou, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150317029
    Abstract: A method for detecting touch points of multi-type objects is provided and includes the steps: detecting a plurality of touch points existing and referring the touch points as a first-type touch point or a second-type touch point according to an energy variation above a first effective value and below a second effective value or above the second effective value; if there exists at least one of the touch points not being referred as the first-type touch point or the second-type touch point, detecting an area size of the non-referred touch point and referring the non-referred touch point as the first-type touch point or the second type touch point if the area size of the non-referred touch point is smaller or larger than a first predetermined value; scanning and determining coordinate positions of the first-type touch point and the second-type touch point by performing a magnifying operation, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: CHIN-MIN LIN, Sin-Guo Jhou, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150253921
    Abstract: A touch panel scanning method includes transmitting a first driving signal into a first signal line of a side of a touch panel in a power saving mode; receiving a first sensing signal from a second signal line of the side of the touch panel; and determining if the first sensing signal satisfying a predetermined rule so as to control the touch panel to perform a corresponding operation; wherein the first sensing signal relates to a mutual capacitance between the first signal line and the second signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ren-Jie Pan, Sin-Guo Jhou, Sheng-Yun Chang, Keng-Han Chuang, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150241164
    Abstract: A paintball loading device is provided for a paintball gun, including magazines, a control switch, a movable cylinder, and a multi-linkage trigger. The magazines include an upper magazine and a lower magazine respectively configured above and below the movable cylinder, allowing paintballs to be positioned in tandem from the upper and lower magazines to a paintball feeding port behind the movable cylinder, and paintball blocking buttons including a lower paintball blocking button and an upper paintball blocking button. The control switch is configured below the lower paintball blocking button and is capable of a transversal movement to selectively set the paintball blocking button at a closed condition. The movable cylinder is moved with the multi-linkage trigger, thereby moving the upper paintball blocking button and lower paintball blocking button back to an open condition for the entry of paintballs into the paintball feeding port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: POLARIS ARMAMENT INDUSTRY CORP.
    Inventor: YU-MIN HSU
  • Publication number: 20150226519
    Abstract: A paintball gun structure, which is capable of rotating and lift up a paintball, mainly includes a barrel and a rubber collar. The rubber collar is connected with the barrel in the middle of a bore thereof, where a conical slide rail element is projected from an upper side of an inner face of the rubber collar. A paintball is rotated upward and lifted up to increase range and strike force after it is passed through the barrel and shot out of a muzzle of the barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Polaris Armament Industry Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Min Hsu
  • Patent number: 8976143
    Abstract: A touch detecting method comprises: enabling a sample signal in a period between driving a previous gate line and a previous two gate line before a corresponding gate line of a sense unit, and sampling a readout signal in a corresponding readout line during a sample period corresponding to the enabled sample signal by a readout unit; using the sampled readout signal during the sample period by the readout unit as a sample reference signal; enabling a sense readout signal in a period between driving the corresponding gate line of the sense unit and a next gate line, and reading out the readout signal during a sense readout period corresponding to the enabled sense readout signal; using the readout signal during the sense readout period as a sense signal; and judging whether the sense unit is touched according to the sample reference signal and the sense signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ping-Hwan Lee, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Patent number: 8963850
    Abstract: A method for determining scanning times of touch driving pulse in a touch panel includes steps of: judging a current gate line scan period is in which one of a data updating time period and a blanking time period; if the current gate line scan period is in the data updating time period, setting a scanning times of touch driving pulse in the current gate line scan period to be a first value; and if the current gate line scan period is in the blanking time period, setting the scanning times of touch driving pulse in the current gate line scan period to be a second value. The first value is different from the second value, and a time for touch driving pulse scanning is non-overlapped with another time for providing display data to data lines of the touch panel in each scan line scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Yang, Chun-Lung Hung, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Patent number: 8890822
    Abstract: A method for controlling operations of a touch panel includes synchronizing timing of a plurality of gate lines and timing of a plurality of touch sensors; determining whether polarities of common voltages of a display layer are consistent when driving signals are outputted to a first gate line and a second gate line, the second gate line following the first gate line; and if the polarities are consistent, outputting at least one driving pulse to a touch sensor of the plurality of touch sensors after image data corresponding to the second gate line is transmitted to the display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Yang, Jing-Jhih Huang, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Patent number: 8872774
    Abstract: While correcting and recording initial touch points on a touch panel, a plurality of sensors on the touch panel are classified into a plurality of first sensing groups assigned with serial numbers, and a plurality of sensors of each the first sensing group are equally divided into a plurality of second sensing groups assigned with serial numbers. After detecting initial touch points on the touch panel, a plurality of headers are generated for the plurality of first sensing groups, and a data structure is generated for each of the sensors having detected initial touch points according to whether first sensing groups corresponding to the headers have the sensors having the detected initial touch points or not. At last, the initial touch points are filtered off from a plurality of detected touch points on the touch panel, according to initial touch point information recorded in loaded data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ping-Hwan Lee, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Patent number: 8766938
    Abstract: A signal processing method is employed to operate a touch panel having a first touch sensing unit and plural second touch sensing units adjacent to the first touch sensing unit. In the operation of the method, a first signal is generated through amplifying the first sensing signal of the first touch sensing unit by N times with N equal to the number of the second touch sensing units, a second signal is generated through summing up the second sensing signals of the second touch sensing unit, a difference signal is generated through subtracting the second signal from the first signal, a comparison result is generated through comparing the difference signal with a difference threshold, and finally the comparison result is utilized for judging whether a touch event is occurring to the first touch sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ping-Hwan Lee, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Publication number: 20140092056
    Abstract: The touch apparatus includes a touch panel, a signal generation unit for generating a driving signal, an inductor, and a detection unit. The touch panel has touch areas. The inductor is coupled between the touch panel and the signal generation unit and transmits the driving signal to the touch areas. The detection unit is coupled to the touch panel and the signal generation unit, receives touch signals from the touch areas, and calculates capacitance variances of the touch areas according to the touch signals and an output timing of the driving signal, so as to detect a touch point of the touch panel. A frequency of the driving signal is equal to a resonant frequency of a reference capacitance of the touch panel and an inductance of the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sin-Guo Jhou, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140071038
    Abstract: A method for generating a movement position coordinate adapted to be used in a human-machine interface input controller is provided. The method includes steps of: sequentially generating a plurality of position coordinates by detecting a movement of an object; reading and storing the position coordinates; performing, when the number of the stored position coordinates reaches to a predetermined value, an operation on the position coordinates to obtain a movement position coordinate; and modulating the predetermined value in accordance with a change of a movement rate of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Min LI, Sheng-Yun CHANG, Sin-Guo JHOU, Yu-Min HSU
  • Publication number: 20140062913
    Abstract: A method for detecting touch points of multi-type objects includes: determining whether or not there existing a touch point by a detection of an energy variation below a first effective value; referring the touch point having an area smaller than a first predetermined value as a first-type touch point; referring the touch point having an area larger than a second predetermined value as a second-type touch point; detecting, if there exists the second-type touch point, the energy variation below a second effective value; and determining the coordinate position of the second-type touch point according to the detecting result obtained from the energy variation below the second effective value. The second effective value is larger than the first effective value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Min LIN, Sin-Guo Jhou, Yu-Min HSU
  • Patent number: 8624861
    Abstract: An exemplary method for determining a touch point includes the following steps of: performing a first operation to determine whether a detected result of a first touch detection point exceeds a first threshold; performing a second operation to determine whether all detected results of multiple second touch detection points are no more than the detection result of the first touch detection point, the second touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; performing a third operation to determine whether a sum of detected results of multiple third touch detection points exceeds a second threshold, the third touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; and determining the first touch detection point as the touch point is being touched if the determine results of the first through third operations are all true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Yang, Chun-Lung Hung, Jing-Jhih Huang, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Patent number: 8605047
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a threshold compensation method applied to a touch device including a plurality of touch points. The threshold compensation method includes steps of: selecting at least one of the plurality of touch points as a selected object; obtaining a sensing data of each the touch point of the selected object in each of multiple initializing frequency periods; obtaining a sensing data difference value between the sensing data of each the touch point of the selected object in each adjacent two of the initializing frequency periods; obtaining a maximum sensing data difference value in the multiple sensing data difference values of the selected object in the multiple initializing frequency periods; and setting a default threshold of the selected object according to the maximum sensing data difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsiang Ho, Yu-Min Hsu