Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light sensor device controlled with dual-mode master-and-slave MCU application
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Application No.: US16386377Application Date: 2019-04-17
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Publication No.: US10915079B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Chun-Hsien Lin , Peng-Han Chan , Wen-Sheng Lin , Yu-Cheng Su , Sheng-Cheng Lee
- Applicant: Dyna Image Corporation , Lite-On Semiconductor Corp.
- Applicant Address: TW New Taipei; TW Taipei
- Assignee: Dyna Image Corporation,Lite-On Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee: Dyna Image Corporation,Lite-On Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: TW New Taipei; TW Taipei
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Main IPC: G01J1/44
- IPC: G01J1/44 ; G05B19/042 ; G06F13/42

Abstract:
A light sensor device is provided. It is controlled with a dual-mode master-and-slave microcontroller unit (MCU) application. An MCU is embedded into a light sensor chip. The original dual-mode master-and-slave dual-CPU architectures are combined to be operated as a single-CPU architecture. Since the original circuit pin design is followed, it is possible to be compatible with the old circuit design. The present invention uses a single-CPU architecture to directly control light sensors. Through the configuration of RAM, an inter-integrated circuit bus (I2C I/F) can be redirected to an internal non-volatile memory to switch the operational mode of the light sensor chip from a slave machine to a host machine which switches off the interrupt pin and, then, turns to a GPIO pin. Thus, the present invention provides a simple single-CPU architecture with easy use and effectively-lowered cost.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200333754A1 Light Sensor Device Controlled with Dual-Mode Master-and-Slave MCU Application Public/Granted day:2020-10-22
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