Patents by Inventor Etienne Francois

Etienne Francois 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: 20240169662
    Abstract: An example method includes obtaining, by a computing system, one or more source images of a scene; obtaining, by the computing system, a query associated with a target view of the scene, wherein at least a portion of the query is parameterized in a latent pose space; and generating, by the computing system and using a machine-learned image view synthesis model, an output image of the scene associated with the target view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, Klaus Greff, Etienne François Régis Pot, Daniel Christopher Duckworth, Mario Lucic, Aravindh Mahendran, Thomas Kipf
  • Publication number: 20240115275
    Abstract: A punching rig comprising: a base; an arm engageable with the base and movable relative to the base along a first axis, the arm comprising a chamber that extends along a chamber axis normal to the first axis; a punch slidably receivable within the chamber such that it extends along the chamber axis, which punch comprises a first end, a second end and a stop positioned between the first end and the second end; and a weight slidable along the punch between the first end and the stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jianzhong Shang, Tamas Csaba Hernadi, Etienne Francois Joseph Hernadi
  • Publication number: 20240115330
    Abstract: A tensioning rig for tensioning a plurality of tendons comprising: a plurality of weights; a plurality of primary pulleys spaced apart from one another along a first axis; a plurality of secondary pulleys spaced apart from one another; and a plurality of tensioning wires, each engageable with a respective primary and secondary pulley, and comprising a first end comprising a tendon portion and an opposite end comprising a weight portion, wherein the tendon portion is removably attachable to a respective tendon and extendable from the respective tendon to the respective primary pulley substantially along the first axis and the weight portion is attachable to a respective weight and extendable from the respective secondary pulley to the respective weight, each tensioning wire further comprising an intermediate portion extending from the respective primary pulley to the respective secondary pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jianzhong Shang, Tamas Csaba Hernadi, Etienne Francois Joseph Dondez
  • Publication number: 20240119697
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide an example computer-implemented method for constructing a three-dimensional semantic segmentation of a scene from two-dimensional inputs. The example method includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more processors, an image set comprising one or more views of a subject scene. The example method includes generating, by the computing system and based at least in part on the image set, a scene representation describing the subject scene in three dimensions. The example method includes generating, by the computing system and using a machine-learned semantic segmentation model framework, a multidimensional field of probability distributions over semantic categories, the multidimensional field defined over the three dimensions of the subject scene. The example method includes outputting, by the computing system, classification data for at least one location in the subject scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Christopher Duckworth, Suhani Deepak-Ranu Vora, Noha Radwan, Klaus Greff, Henning Meyer, Kyle Adam Genova, Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, Etienne François Régis Pot, Andrea Tagliasacchi
  • Publication number: 20240096001
    Abstract: Provided are machine learning models that generate geometry-free neural scene representations through efficient object-centric novel-view synthesis. In particular, one example aspect of the present disclosure provides a novel framework in which an encoder model (e.g., an encoder transformer network) processes one or more RGB images (with or without pose) to produce a fully latent scene representation that can be passed to a decoder model (e.g., a decoder transformer network). Given one or more target poses, the decoder model can synthesize images in a single forward pass. In some example implementations, because transformers are used rather than convolutional or MLP networks, the encoder can learn an attention model that extracts enough 3D information about a scene from a small set of images to render novel views with correct projections, parallax, occlusions, and even semantics, without explicit geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, Henning Meyer, Etienne François Régis Pot, Urs Michael Bergmann, Klaus Greff, Noha Radwan, Suhani Deepak-Ranu Vora, Mario Lu¢i¢, Daniel Christopher Duckworth, Thomas Allen Funkhouser, Andrea Tagliasacchi
  • Publication number: 20230349451
    Abstract: A motor module comprising a primary pinion rotatably driveable by a primary motor, a first primary rack moveably engageable with the primary pinion and a second primary rack moveably engageable with the primary pinion. Rotation of the primary pinion causes movement of the first primary rack in a first direction, and movement of the second primary rack in a second direction, whereby the first and second primary racks and the primary pinion together form an antagonistic rack and pinion mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jianzhong Shang, Etienne Francois Joseph Dondez, Tamas Csaba Hernadi, Michele Camerlengo
  • Publication number: 20220354605
    Abstract: A driver module for actuating a tendon, the driver module comprising: a slider comprising a base portion, a tendon receiving portion and a body portion, the tendon receiving portion being spaced apart from the base portion and the body portion extends from the base portion to the tendon receiving portion, the module further comprising a slider receiving portion having a first end and a second end and engageable with the base portion of the slider such that the slider is moveably attachable to the slider receiving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianzhong Shang, Etienne Francois Joseph Dondez, Tamas Csaba Hernadi
  • Patent number: 10841070
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of communicating capability information that is operable at an apparatus. The apparatus communicates with another device over a carrier, and transmit a capability indication indicative of the capability of the apparatus to support at least two features based on whether the apparatus is operating in a first duplex mode or a second duplex mode. The capability indication is configured to indicate support of a first feature being dependent upon a second feature, among the at least two features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Edward Smee, Peter Gaal, Etienne François Chaponniere, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10506607
    Abstract: A device and a method to send a resource discovery query to a local device to request per link resource information for a wireless link between a requesting device and the local device, to receive the requested per link resource information from the local device indicating resources the local device has available to allocate to the wireless link, and to establish the wireless link with the local device based on the resource information received are disclosed. The wireless link may be a point-to-point link, A device and method to allocate resources, from a set of resources available to the local device, on a per link basis, to receive a resource discovery query from a requesting device seeking per link resource information, and to send per link resource information to the requesting device indicating the resources the local device has available to allocate to the wireless link are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Etienne Francois Chaponniere, John Edward Smee, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10334559
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a paging indicator channel in connection with high speed channels in a wireless communications network. A paging indicator transmission can be sent on the paging channel to one or more mobile devices. The paging indicator indicates that additional information such as a full paging messages, other control plane data or other user plane data is expected to be transmitted at a specific time instant (e.g., subframe) on the associated high speed channel. A set of parameters can be transmitted on common channels that specify a set of associated subframes in a high speed channel. Mobile devices can analyze the set of parameters to determine the associated subframes and receive the subframes in accordance with a schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Francesco Grilli, Etienne François Chaponniere, Oronzo Flore
  • Patent number: 10142944
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is presented. The method includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) operating on an authorized shared access (ASA) spectrum, an inter-frequency measurement report from a wireless device operating in a specific area and operating on a spectrum that is different from the ASA spectrum. The method also includes receiving, at the UE from a network controller, a transmission adjustment request based at least in part on the measurement report. The method further includes adjusting, at the UE, a transmission based on the transmission adjustment request and/or the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes, Etienne Francois Chaponniere
  • Publication number: 20180176884
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a paging indicator channel in connection with high speed channels in a wireless communications network. A paging indicator transmission can be sent on the paging channel to one or more mobile devices. The paging indicator indicates that additional information such as a full paging messages, other control plane data or other user plane data is expected to be transmitted at a specific time instant (e.g., subframe) on the associated high speed channel. A set of parameters can be transmitted on common channels that specify a set of associated subframes in a high speed channel. Mobile devices can analyze the set of parameters to determine the associated subframes and receive the subframes in accordance with a schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Aziz GHOLMIEH, Francesco GRILLI, Etienne François CHAPONNIERE, Oronzo FLORE
  • Patent number: 9888492
    Abstract: Techniques to support operation in a compressed mode and/or a continuous packet connectivity (CPC) mode are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an assignment of enabled subframes for the CPC mode and an assignment of transmission gaps for the compressed mode. The transmission gaps may be aligned with idle times between the enabled subframes. The UE may exchange data during enabled subframes not overlapping the transmission gaps and may skip data exchanges during enabled subframes overlapping the transmission gaps. The UE may make cell measurements during the transmission gaps. In another aspect, the UE may obtain enabled subframes and skipped subframes, exchange data during enabled subframes not corresponding to the skipped subframes, and skip data exchanges during the skipped subframes. In yet another aspect, the UE may receive orders on a shared control channel to quickly enable and disable the compressed mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Etienne Francois Chaponniere, Francesco Grilli, Juan Montojo, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Publication number: 20170223638
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is presented. The method includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) operating on an authorized shared access (ASA) spectrum, an inter-frequency measurement report from a wireless device operating in a specific area and operating on a spectrum that is different from the ASA spectrum. The method also includes receiving, at the UE from a network controller, a transmission adjustment request based at least in part on the measurement report. The method further includes adjusting, at the UE, a transmission based on the transmission adjustment request and/or the measurement report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Luis Fernando Brisson LOPES, Etienne Francois CHAPONNIERE
  • Patent number: 9635560
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving measurement reports from multiple first wireless devices operating in a specific area and operating on a spectrum that is different from an ASA spectrum. The method also includes adjusting a configuration for one or more second wireless devices operating on the ASA spectrum based on the measurement reports and/or configuration adjustment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes, Etienne Francois Chaponniere
  • Publication number: 20150372801
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of communicating capability information that is operable at an apparatus. The apparatus communicates with another device over a carrier, and transmit a capability indication indicative of the capability of the apparatus to support at least two features based on whether the apparatus is operating in a first duplex mode or a second duplex mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: John Edward Smee, Peter Gaal, Etienne François Chaponniere, Tingfang Ji
  • Publication number: 20150350867
    Abstract: A device and a method to send a resource discovery query to a local device to request per link resource information for a wireless link between a requesting device and the local device, to receive the requested per link resource information from the local device indicating resources the local device has available to allocate to the wireless link, and to establish the wireless link with the local device based on the resource information received are disclosed. The wireless link may be a point-to-point link, A device and method to allocate resources, from a set of resources available to the local device, on a per link basis, to receive a resource discovery query from a requesting device seeking per link resource information, and to send per link resource information to the requesting device indicating the resources the local device has available to allocate to the wireless link are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Etienne Francois Chaponniere, John Edward Smee, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 9130702
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing flow control feedback for controlling downlink data transmission rates. Various schemes can be utilized to send the flow control feedback from an access terminal to a base station. For example, a control PDU (e.g., MAC control PDU, PDCP control PDU) can be generated based upon a level of resource utilization of the access terminal, and sent to the base station for controlling the downlink data transmission rate. Following this example, a type of control PDU, a value included within the control PDU, etc. can be selected as a function of the level of resource utilization. By way of another illustration, a CQI report that includes a value selected as a function of the level of resource utilization associated with the access terminal can be generated and transmitted to the base station for controlling the downlink data transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Arnaud Meylan, Etienne Francois Chaponniere, Francesco Grilli, Shailesh Maheshwari, Thomas Klingenbrunn
  • Patent number: 8951102
    Abstract: The invention concerns a swivel joint ventilation flap comprising an air stream duct (10), a profiled body (18) the major part of which is at least arranged in the duct chamber, and a ring (26) co-operating with the duct and with the profiled member so that it supports the profiled body (18) in the duct while enabling the profiled body to be moved relative to the duct. Part at least of the inner surface of the chamber forms a spherical segment, the ring (26) has an outer surface forming a sphere portion of practically the same radius as the spherical segment, the ring (26) is arranged in the chamber at the outer surface of the profiled body (18). The profiled body (18) can slide relative to the ring (26). The ventilation flap is suitable for motor vehicle instrument panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Faurecia Interieur Industrie
    Inventors: Christian Brancheriau, Pierre Guerreiro, Guy Heriquet, Etienne Francois, Lionel Fernandes
  • Patent number: D995776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PRECISION ROBOTICS LTD
    Inventors: Jianzhong Shang, Tamas Csaba Hernadi, Etienne Francois Joseph Dondez, Mick Camerlengo