Patents by Inventor Bernard Louis-Gavet

Bernard Louis-Gavet 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: 20130283322
    Abstract: The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: PIERRE BUSSON, BERNARD LOUIS-GAVET, PIERRE-OLIVIER JOUFFRE
  • Patent number: 8483644
    Abstract: The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Bernard Louis-Gavet, Pierre-Olivier Jouffre
  • Patent number: 7643634
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is embodied on a monolithic substrate and incorporates a tuning module of the direct sampling type that is able to receive satellite digital television analog signals composed of several channels, as well as several channel decoding digital modules connected at the output of the tuning module so as to deliver respectively simultaneously several streams of data packets corresponding to several different selected channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Pierre-Oliver Jouffre, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Patent number: 6914304
    Abstract: The electronic component, comprises an integrated circuit incorporating several separate functional blocks within a semiconductor substrate, and electrostatic discharge protection means. These electrostatic discharge protection means comprise several separate metal discharge rails (GNDi) placed above the substrate (SB) and respectively associated with the plurality of functional blocks (CRi), all these metal discharge rails being mutually unconnected electrically within the integrated circuit (CI) but connected electrically via an electrical connection (FLi) external to the integrated circuit to one and the same ground plane (SLG) forming a ground reference for the electrostatic discharges, this ground plane (SLG) being located outside the integrated circuit (CI), and possibly being a heat slug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Pierre-Olivier Jouffre, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Publication number: 20050024799
    Abstract: The electronic component, comprises an integrated circuit incorporating several separate functional blocks within a semiconductor substrate, and electrostatic discharge protection means. These electrostatic discharge protection means comprise several separate metal discharge rails (GNDi) placed above the substrate (SB) and respectively associated with the plurality of functional blocks (CRi), all these metal discharge rails being mutually unconnected electrically within the integrated circuit (CI) but connected electrically via an electrical connection (FLi) external to the integrated circuit to one and the same ground plane (SLG) forming a ground reference for the electrostatic discharges, this ground plane (SLG) being located outside the integrated circuit (CI), and possibly being a heat slug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Pierre-Olivier Jouffre, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Publication number: 20040268396
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is embodied on a monolithic substrate and incorporates a tuning module of the direct sampling type that is able to receive satellite digital television analog signals composed of several channels, as well as several channel decoding digital modules connected at the output of the tuning module so as to deliver respectively simultaneously several streams of data packets corresponding to several different selected channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Pierre-Oliver Jouffre, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Patent number: 6584523
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for organizing access to a bus connecting a memory to at least two entities asynchronous binary signals representing requests for access to the bus. The device supplies binary signals to authorize the access to an entity based on a priority determination between the different requests and includes a priority decoder in wired logic associated with an input register. A loading of the state of the access request signals happens, if an access request is present while a read or write cycle of the memory is executed, upon the arrival of a pulse on a signal issued by a memory controller associated with the memory and indicative of the end of a memory cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Athenes, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Publication number: 20030053562
    Abstract: The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Bernard Louis-Gavet, Pierre-Olivier Jouffre
  • Patent number: 6101564
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for organizing access to a bus connecting a memory to at least two entities issuing asynchronous binary signals representing requests for access to the bus. The device supplies binary signals to authorize the access to an entity based on a priority determination between the different requests and includes a priority decoder in wired logic associated with an input register. A loading of the state of the access request signals happens, if an access request is present while a read or write cycle of the memory is executed, upon the arrival of a pulse on a signal issued by a memory controller associated with the memory and indicative of the end of a memory cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Athenes, Bernard Louis-Gavet
  • Patent number: 5892760
    Abstract: A device for transferring binary data between a time-division multiplex and a RAM includes circuitry for assigning, for each time slot of the multiplex, a logical channel number. This enables two HDLC controllers, respectively for transmission and reception, to be shared between all the channels of the multiplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Athenes, Jean-Claude Audrix, Bernard Louis-Gavet