Patents by Inventor Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur
Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur 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).
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Patent number: 10007843Abstract: Personalized segmentation of media content may be performed to enable users to create end points to segment a media item based on user preferences, such as create a segment of a document that takes a predetermined amount of time to consume or read. In some embodiments, techniques may create new chapters or segments within existing chapters. The techniques may also create titles for the segments or chapters, possibly by leveraging text within the segment or chapter. The end points, segments/chapters, titles, and/or other information may be stored as annotations, which can be selectively used when rendering the media item to reveal the segments/chapters and other data.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur
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Publication number: 20180135336Abstract: An intelligent door lock system is coupled to a door at a dwelling. A door status device is at the dwelling. The door status device is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the door status device and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A plurality of cameras that communicate with each other and with the lock device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Tejash Unadkat, Christopher Dow
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Publication number: 20180073274Abstract: An intelligent door lock system coupled to a door at a dwelling. a door status device is at the dwelling. The door status device is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the door status device and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to record in response to door lock status.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Tejash Unadkat, Christopher Dow
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Patent number: 9916746Abstract: A security system is coupled to a door lock system. A sensor is at a dwelling. The sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at a door. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. The engine is coupled to the sensor. The memory provides information relating to open or closed status of a door to a dwelling occupant or a third party designated by the dwelling occupant. At least one motion detection device is provided to detect a person at or near a door or window at the dwelling. A security system includes a video apparatus that captures video and coupled to the motion detection device to take a video of an image of the person or an outline of the person, wherein the video is configured to begin before motion detection begins.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: August Home, Inc.Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Luca Baradel, Christopher Dow
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Patent number: 9773474Abstract: A content item to be displayed via a display of an electronic device may be associated with a first set of grey values or a set of color values. The electronic device may generate, maintain, or at least have access to one or more mappings that map the set of color values and/or the first set of grey values to a second set of grey values. Based on the one or more mappings, the electronic device may convert a color value of the set of color values or a first grey value of the first set of grey values to a second grey value of the second set of grey values. The content item may then be displayed utilizing the second grey value.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Siddharth Gupta, Jerry Yee-Ming Chung, Haili Wang, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Kathryn Ann Chinn, Nadim Awad
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Publication number: 20170243455Abstract: An intelligent door lock system is coupled to a door at a dwelling. A sensor is at the dwelling. The sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the sensor and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to define a safe zone in the dwelling in which an occupant, and a non dwelling occupant third person is allowed into the dwelling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Christopher Kim, Christopher Dow
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Publication number: 20170193724Abstract: An intelligent door lock system is coupled to a door at a dwelling. A first sensor is at the dwelling. The first sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at a door. The lock device is coupled to the first sensor and the lock device includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A magnetic sensor provides a reading or measurement used to determine a door open or closed status.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Jason Johnson, Christopher Kim, Karthikeyan Sivasambu, Shannon Petty, Kuy N. Mainwaring, Peter Fornell, Thomas Peter Russo, Luca Baradel, Christopher Dow, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur
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Publication number: 20170169679Abstract: A security system is coupled to a door lock system. A sensor is at a dwelling. The sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at a door. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. The engine is coupled to the sensor. The memory provides information relating to open or closed status of a door to a dwelling occupant or a third party designated by the dwelling occupant. At least one motion detection device is provided to detect a person at or near a door or window at the dwelling. A security system includes a video apparatus that captures video and coupled to the motion detection device to take a video of an image of the person or an outline of the person, wherein the video is configured to begin before motion detection begins.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Luca Baradel, Christopher Dow
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Patent number: 9564104Abstract: Techniques are presented for adjusting a brightness of a front light that illuminates a display of an electronic device. Typically, page updates on certain types of displays, such as electronic paper displays, result in a relatively large but rapid change in brightness. Therefore, by adjusting the brightness of the front light during the update (e.g., when some, a majority, or all of the pixels are in the white state) and then adjusting the brightness back to another state upon or near completion of the update, the overall brightness perceived by the user remains more uniform. Increasing the uniformity of this perceived brightness in turn decreases the jarring effect of an update and increases the experience of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Siddharth Gupta
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Patent number: 9483981Abstract: Devices such as electronic book readers, televisions, and so forth use displays to present information to users. Described herein are devices and methods for dynamically adjusting illumination, waveforms used to generate the image, presentation of the information, or a combination thereof based on one or more of ambient light level, display illumination level, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur, David J. Foster, Laurent E. Sellier
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Patent number: 9406277Abstract: Illumination of a display is controlled so as to modulate the intensity of emissions in one or more spectral ranges over time while content is being presented. Usage data indicative of user interaction with the presented content or previously presented content can be used to generate or modify a pattern profile. The pattern profile is used to control light emitters of a media device. Various operating modes respectively directed to decreasing or increasing intensity over time within certain portions of the visible spectrum can be used during the presentation of written, video or other content.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur
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Patent number: 9389718Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device may present a user interface that is configured to be controlled using a thumb of a single hand that is holding the device. For instance, the interface may present a plurality of selectable items, each of which may correspond to a respective one of a plurality of touch input areas on the display. In some cases, the touch input areas are within reach of the thumb, while the selectable items may be displayed on an area of the display that is not within reach of the thumb. The thumb may be pressed against the display surface with a force greater than a force threshold to select one of the selectable items. Thus, the thumb may be used to interact with the interface while remaining in contact with the display surface, enabling the user to maintain a grip on the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur
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Patent number: 9345103Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods adjusting lighting system brightness in a non-linear manner. The brightness control may be based on a non-linear function that increases brightness in smaller increments at lower brightness levels than at higher brightness levels. In another embodiment, the lighting system brightness may be ramped down over a period of time to account when the user device is exposed to low light conditions. The ramp down may be based, at least in part, on changes in visual acuity in low light conditions over time.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur
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Patent number: 9190025Abstract: Techniques for utilizing different versions of a same font when rendering subsequent portions of a content item. For instance, envision that a user requests to open an electronic book. In response to this request, a display controller may display the first page of the electronic book using a flashing update and, therefore, may display the text using a regular weight of a particular font. However, when the user subsequently requests to turn to the second page of the electronic book, the display controller (utilizing a non-flashing update) may update the display using a version of the same font having a lesser weight. Given that some level of bleeding with likely occur when using the non-flashing update, the lesser weight coupled with the bleeding may result in text that approximates the weight of the text of the first page of the electronic book.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Waverly Zehner, Nadim Awad, Scott Michael Dylewski, Ronald Joseph Fernandez, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Jonathan Ian McCormack, Hannah Rebecca Lewbel
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Publication number: 20140002428Abstract: Devices such as electronic book readers, televisions, and so forth use displays to present information to users. Described herein are devices and methods for dynamically adjusting illumination, waveforms used to generate the image, presentation of the information, or a combination thereof based on one or more of ambient light level, display illumination level, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur, David J. Foster, Laurent E. Sellier