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公开(公告)号:US12148237B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-19
申请号:US18321730
申请日:2023-05-22
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng , Ting-Hsuan Hung , Wei-Lun Shih , Huang-Chin Tang
Abstract: An imaging control circuit for collecting object image data for an object presented on a portion of a surface of a display panel is provided. The imaging control circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit is adapted to receive touch sensing signals from a set of touch sensors located in the display panel. The second circuit is adapted to receive object image sensing signals from a set of imaging sensors. The object image sensing signals are associated with the object detected on the surface of the display panel. The third circuit is adapted to determine a location of the object from the touch sensing signals and generate a variable sized object imaging zone based on a location and a size of an object image. The variable sized object imaging zone includes a variable subset of the imaging sensors.
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公开(公告)号:US12008939B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-11
申请号:US18163287
申请日:2023-02-02
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng , Ting-Hsuan Hung , Wei-Lun Shih , Huang-Chin Tang
CPC classification number: G09G3/20 , G06F3/0412 , G06V40/13 , G06V40/1318 , G09G2310/0272
Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a fingerprint sensing circuit that is configured to receive fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to a fingerprint image from fingerprint sensors via fingerprint sensing lines. The fingerprint sensing circuit is further configured to select a subset of the fingerprint sensing lines to form a fingerprint sensing zone having at least one boundary and adapted for a fingerprint sensing operation based on a fingerprint touch area. The subset of fingerprint sensing lines is selected based on the at least one boundary of the fingerprint sensing zone. The fingerprint sensing circuit is further configured to generate the fingerprint image according to the fingerprint sensing signals by a remapping operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11721123B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US17567907
申请日:2022-01-04
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Wei-Lun Shih , Tzu-Wen Hsieh , Huan-Teng Cheng , Huang-Chin Tang , Yueh-Teng Mai , Shi-Hao Huang , Jung-Chung Lee
CPC classification number: G06V40/1318 , G09G5/10 , G06F3/0416 , G09G2320/0626
Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to drive a display panel is provided. The display panel includes touch sensors and fingerprint sensors. The electronic circuit includes a touch sensing circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a display driving circuit. The touch sensing circuit senses a touch of a finger and determines a first area corresponding to the touch on the display panel. The fingerprint sensing circuit senses a fingerprint image of the finger corresponding to the first area. The display driving circuit drives pixels of the first area with respective first gray levels and pixels of a second area outside the first area with respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit processes respective third gray levels to obtain the respective second gray levels. The display driving circuit generates gamma voltages corresponding to the respective first gray levels and the respective second gray levels according to the same gamma curve.
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公开(公告)号:US20230196962A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US18170541
申请日:2023-02-17
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng , Ting-Hsuan Hung , Tzu-Wen Hsieh , Wei-Lun Shih , Huang-Chin Tang
CPC classification number: G09G3/20 , G06F3/0412 , G06V40/1318 , G09G2310/0272
Abstract: An electronic circuit for operating with a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit generates display driving signals for driving the display panel. The second circuit receives fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors. The third circuit determines a touch information according to touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first switch units, each of the first switch units includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The control circuit controls the first switch circuit to transmit the display driving signals in a first time interval, controls the first switch circuit to transmit the fingerprint sensing signals in a second time interval, and controls the third circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals in a third time interval.
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公开(公告)号:US20220406085A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17891149
申请日:2022-08-19
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Wei-Lun Shih , Tsen-Wei Chang , Cho-Hsuan Jhang , Chih-Peng Hsia , Cheng-Yu Chiang
IPC: G06V40/13
Abstract: A driving apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The driving apparatus includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The first driving circuit suspends performing at least one of a display driving operation and a touch sensing operation during a skip period under a driving mode, and the first driving circuit performs the at least one of the display driving operation and the touch sensing operation outside the skip period under the driving mode. The second driving circuit is coupled to the first driving circuit. The second driving circuit performs a fingerprint sensing operation during the skip period.
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公开(公告)号:US11320928B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-03
申请号:US16944157
申请日:2020-07-31
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng , Wei-Lun Shih , Huang-Chin Tang
Abstract: An electronic circuit is adapted to drive a display panel having touch sensors and fingerprint sensors. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit processes touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The second circuit processes fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to a fingerprint from the fingerprint sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first terminals coupled to the first circuit and the second circuit and a plurality of second terminals configurable to be coupled to the display panel. The first switch circuit couples a part of the first terminals to the second terminals in a first time interval and couples the other part of the first terminals to the second terminals in a second time interval. The touch sensing signals and the fingerprint sensing signals are inputted to the electronic circuit through the second terminals.
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公开(公告)号:US11295108B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-05
申请号:US16907176
申请日:2020-06-20
Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Tsen-Wei Chang , Chih-Peng Hsia , Wei-Lun Shih , Hong-Chu Chen , Su-Wei Lien , Sheng-Wen Hsiao , Liang-Chi Cheng
Abstract: A control method for an optical fingerprint sensor is provided for canceling or reducing capacitive loading. The optical fingerprint sensor includes a plurality of pixels, and each of the pixels has a first control signal line and a second control signal line. Each of the pixels is further coupled to a first voltage source line, a second voltage source line and a sensing line. The control method includes a plurality of steps, and the steps are applying a first anti-loading driving (ALD) signal on the second control signal line, and applying a second ALD signal on at least one of the first control signal line, the first voltage source line, the second voltage source line and the sensing line.
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公开(公告)号:US20220092287A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-24
申请号:US17407133
申请日:2021-08-19
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Wei-Lun Shih , Wu Wei Lin , Kuei Jung Chen
Abstract: An electronic circuit adapted to control an operation of a gate driver circuit is provided. The electronic circuit includes a gate control circuit. The gate control circuit outputs control signals to the gate driver circuit in a display period and a fingerprint sensing period via the same output nodes. The control signals include a start pulse signal and a switch control signal. The switch control signal controls the gate driver circuit to operate in the display period or the fingerprint sensing period. The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of shift register groups and a switch circuit. The shift register groups output scan signals according to the start pulse signal. The switch circuit receives and outputs the scan signals to display scan lines in the display period and outputs the scan signals to fingerprint scan lines in the fingerprint sensing period according to the switch control signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20210357615A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US17216705
申请日:2021-03-30
Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Wei-Lun Shih , Wu Wei Lin , Ting-Hsuan Hung , Wen-Yi Hsieh
Abstract: In the invention, a fingerprint driving circuit, a fingerprint sensing device, an electronic apparatus, and an operation method of the fingerprint sensing device are provided. By keeping fingerprint sensing lines in a non-fingerprint sensing region in an electrically non-floating state, flash phenomenon in a display panel may be avoided.
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公开(公告)号:US11170194B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-09
申请号:US16865404
申请日:2020-05-03
Applicant: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng , Wei-Lun Shih , Huang-Chin Tang
IPC: G06K9/00 , G09G3/34 , G06F1/3234 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/0481 , G09G5/10 , G06K9/20 , G06F3/0488 , G09G3/20
Abstract: A control circuit configured to control a display panel under normal display includes a display driver circuit, a touch sensing circuit and a fingerprint sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit, coupled to the display driver circuit, is configured to detect a predetermined touch gesture on the display panel and determine a position of the display panel on which the predetermined touch gesture is detected. The fingerprint sensing circuit, coupled to the touch sensing circuit, is configured to perform fingerprint sensing on at least one zone corresponding to the position when the predetermined touch gesture is detected, in order to perform a specific function.
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