Patents by Inventor Hugues Lebrun
Hugues Lebrun 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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Publication number: 20230106746Abstract: A display includes a plurality of electronic chips with ?LEDs and an active matrix for controlling the chips, the active matrix being mounted on a transparent slide, each chip comprising a plurality of light-emitting diodes, each chip comprising a substrate comprising an electrode which is common to the ?LEDs and, on the upper portion thereof, the ?LEDs and their electrical control contacts. The display comprises: one or more power supply planes arranged on the upper face of a support plate; the plurality of electronic chips, first conductive elements providing the electrical connections between the common electrodes of each chip and the power supply planes; the transparent slide bearing the active matrix, second conductive elements providing the electrical connections between the electrical contacts of the electronic chips and the electrical contacts for controlling the active matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventor: Hugues LEBRUN
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Publication number: 20230011687Abstract: A color display device includes a matrix of light sources, each light source comprising a single micro-light-emitting diode, the light sources being of three different colors, each color pixel of the matrix comprising three sources emitting in the three different colors. In the device, the matrix is formed by a group of elementary components of identical shape, each elementary component comprising at least two light-emitting diodes emitting in one of the three spectral bands—the shape of the light-emitting diodes being either a triangle, or a quadrilateral, or a pentagon—the elementary components being assembled in threes such that their respective diodes touch one another by one of their sides, the group formed by the three sources associated with the three diodes forming a color pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Vincent TORAILLE, Nicolas BENSAOU, Hugues LEBRUN
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Patent number: 10935712Abstract: A device for backlighting a display in day- or night-vision mode includes a light guide with a cuboid shape and having an output face, and a lateral input prism having three rectangular lateral faces, at least one of the rectangular lateral faces being optically coupled to the lateral input face, and another of the rectangular lateral faces being semi-reflective; a first plurality of light emitting diodes arranged on a first carrier and configured to emit light in a first direction orthogonal to the first carrier towards one of the rectangular lateral faces; a second plurality of light emitting diodes arranged on a second carrier and configured to emit light in a second direction orthogonal to the second carrier towards another of the rectangular lateral faces; and an optical filter configured to modify the light emitted by one of the first and second plurality of light emitting diodes suitable for use in night-vision equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: THALESInventors: Vincent Toraille, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20200192138Abstract: A display screens includes at least two liquid-crystal cells, the first cell having a first active area and a first transparent sealing region and the second cell having a second active area and a second transparent sealing region. The screen comprises: in a first plane, the first cell and a first transparent sheet of same thickness, the first sealing region being located between the two; in a second plane parallel to the first plane, the second cell and a second transparent sheet of same thickness, the second sealing region being located between the two; the second cell being placed under the first sheet, the second sheet being placed under the first cell so that the first active area is in the exact extension of the second active area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Philippe CONI, Hugues LEBRUN, Philippe CHABOT
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Publication number: 20200158941Abstract: A device for backlighting a liquid-crystal matrix array of a flat screen for viewing in day- or night-vision mode with NVIS compatibility includes a light guide GL, the shape of which is made up of two right prisms end-to-end in a longitudinal direction: a main right prism PP which is a cuboid plate, a top face of which is arranged below and in a plane parallel to the back face of the matrix array and forms the output face fsP of the light guide, and a lateral face is a main input face feP for a daytime light source SD and for a nighttime light source SN; and an auxiliary right prism PA in the continuation of this lateral main-input face, which is a right prism, the base of which is an isosceles right triangle, and the rectangular lateral faces of which are used, one as light-output face for the input stage, the rectangular dimensions of which are the same as those of the lateral main-input face feP, against which it is placed or with which it is coincident, and the two other faces as light-input faces fe1A,Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Vincent TORAILLE, Hugues LEBRUN
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Publication number: 20190019781Abstract: Displays are provided and including a transparent plate and a matrix array of pixels composed of light-emitted diodes arranged on the plate. In the display, each pixel is an electronic component including a triplet of three light-emitting diodes emitting in three different spectra and four electrical contacts, each light-emitting diode having a dedicated electrical control contact, the three diodes having an electrical contact that is common to the three light-emitting diodes, the area occupied by the matrix array of pixels being an order of magnitude smaller than that of the transparent substrate. In a first variant, the pixel includes six diodes and in a second variant, the pixel includes twelve diodes. The placement of the pixels is thus facilitated. The control electronics are adapted so as to decrease the number of control lines and columns. The transparency of the display is thus increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventor: Hugues LEBRUN
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Patent number: 9898955Abstract: In a liquid crystal or OLED active-matrix screen, the power supply voltages VGON and VGOFF of the display control circuit driving the control transistors of the pixels are optimized, as a function of a measurement of the operating temperature, to conserve the display qualities of the screen at high and low temperatures and reduce the power consumed on average to produce screens for applications in a severe environment, with transistors of standard size. Circuits are provided for supplying these analog voltages from numeric values supplied by a code associated with the temperature measurement, stored or computed by a programmable circuit. Provision is made to adapt these voltages as a function of a measurement of lighting level received by the transistors of the display control circuit. The optimization extends to the power supply and reference voltages necessary to the control of the pixels, notably to the gamma reference voltages.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Patent number: 9715854Abstract: A display has a graphics processor that extracts from image memory just rows that have non-zero luminance information items for the colour under consideration. For each row to be written, the processor sends to a set of N sampling and conversion circuits, at high frequency, a pattern representing the rows to be written, in the form of a succession of N bits. The N samplers successively sample these bits during the succession, to sample and block the bit of rank i in the sampling circuit of rank i, and produce a pattern of N control voltages VGon or VGoff on the rows as a function of the pattern of the received succession, while the graphics processor applies to the columns the luminance data to be written. The operation is repeated solely for the rows that have a luminance information item to be written in the colour under consideration.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: THALESInventors: Thierry Kretz, Gérard Gomez, Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 9679519Abstract: At least one of the two rectangular conducting planes, provided to apply a voltage across the terminals of each pixel of a matrix, is supplied via two adjacent edges from individual voltage sources distributed along each of the edges. The voltage sources have different values of voltage, preferably but not necessarily varying in a monotonically increasing manner between a lower value at the end near the junction between the two edges and a higher value at the other end of each of the edges. The two edges through which the first conducting plane is mainly supplied are cut out to form electrical contact points locally isolated from one another and regularly spaced, each supplied by a respective individual voltage source. The other conducting plane may be supplied in the same way.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: THALESInventor: Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 9583055Abstract: A video system including a sequential color liquid crystal display with a panel of pixels arranged in rows and columns, including a mechanism that controls unit brightness levels on each pixel in the panel called grey levels, each grey level corresponding to a video information received at the input. The grey level controlled on a pixel is achieved with an analog voltage that varies monotonously depending on the row associated with the pixel and/or a color to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING (S.A.S.)Inventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Publication number: 20160203750Abstract: In a liquid crystal or OLED active-matrix screen, the power supply voltages VGON and VGOFF of the display control circuit driving the control transistors of the pixels are optimized, as a function of a measurement of the operating temperature, to conserve the display qualities of the screen at high and low temperatures and reduce the power consumed on average to produce screens for applications in a severe environment, with transistors of standard size. Circuits are provided for supplying these analog voltages from numeric values supplied by a code associated with the temperature measurement, stored or computed by a programmable circuit. Provision is made to adapt these voltages as a function of a measurement of lighting level received by the transistors of the display control circuit. The optimization extends to the power supply and reference voltages necessary to the control of the pixels, notably to the gamma reference voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Hugues LEBRUN, Thierry KRETZ
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Publication number: 20160086547Abstract: At least one of the two rectangular conducting planes, provided to apply a voltage across the terminals of each pixel of a matrix, is supplied via two adjacent edges from individual voltage sources distributed along each of the edges. The voltage sources have different values of voltage, preferably but not necessarily varying in a monotonically increasing manner between a lower value at the end near the junction between the two edges and a higher value at the other end of each of the edges. The two edges through which the first conducting plane is mainly supplied are cut out to form electrical contact points locally isolated from one another and regularly spaced, each supplied by a respective individual voltage source. The other conducting plane may be supplied in the same way.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventor: Hugues LEBRUN
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Publication number: 20160042697Abstract: A display has a graphics processor that extracts from image memory just rows that have non-zero luminance information items for the colour under consideration. For each row to be written, the processor sends to a set of N sampling and conversion circuits, at high frequency, a pattern representing the rows to be written, in the form of a succession of N bits. The N samplers successively sample these bits during the succession, to sample and block the bit of rank i in the sampling circuit of rank i, and produce a pattern of N control voltages VGon or VGoff on the rows as a function of the pattern of the received succession, while the graphics processor applies to the columns the luminance data to be written. The operation is repeated solely for the rows that have a luminance information item to be written in the colour under consideration.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Thierry KRETZ, Gérard GOMEZ, Hugues LEBRUN
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Patent number: 9224331Abstract: An organic light-emitting display screen includes n×m picture dots organized in a matrix with m rows and n columns. Each picture dot includes an organic diode and first and second driver circuits for the diode. Each of the first and second driver circuits includes a driving transistor connected between a reference voltage and one electrode of the diode, a switching transistor for switching a gate voltage onto a gate of the driving transistor, and a capacitor connected to the gate of the driving transistor. A circuit for addressing each of the n×m picture dots, to control alternately and simultaneously a recovery phase on one driver circuit and a display phase on the other driver circuit of a picture dot, includes as row select lines, only m row select lines, one per row of picture dots, and/or as data lines, only n data lines, one per column of picture dots.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: THOMSON Licensing S.A.S.Inventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun, Elisabeth Chuiton
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Publication number: 20150009247Abstract: A video system including a sequential color liquid crystal display with a panel of pixels arranged in rows and columns, including a mechanism that controls unit brightness levels on each pixel in the panel called grey levels, each grey level corresponding to a video information received at the input. The grey level controlled on a pixel is achieved with an analog voltage that varies monotonously depending on the row associated with the pixel and/or a color to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues LEBRUN, Thierry KRETZ
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Patent number: 8884856Abstract: A video system including a sequential color liquid crystal display with a panel of pixels arranged in rows and columns, including a mechanism that controls unit brightness levels on each pixel in the panel called grey levels, each grey level corresponding to a video information received at the input. The grey level controlled on a pixel is achieved with an analog voltage that varies monotonously depending on the row associated with the pixel and/or a color to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Patent number: 8773345Abstract: A shift register, each stage thereof provided to drive a corresponding output line, includes an output transistor that drives the output line and an additional transistor of the same technology and of the same polarity as the output transistor. The additional transistor is connected in such a way as to be subject to bias conditions similar to the output transistor, such that the additional transistor's threshold voltage, identical at the start of life to that of the output transistor, drifts as quickly or more quickly as the threshold voltage of the output transistor. The additional transistor is used to adjust the precharging voltage of a gate of the output transistor to its conduction performance characteristics during the precharging and/or selection phase.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz, Chantal Hordequin
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Patent number: 8508524Abstract: An integrated method of detecting an image defect in an LCD screen consists in verifying the consumption of current on a power supply bus of the image display means (row driver 20, column driver 30, counter electrode CE), during capacitive charges or discharges of the selection lines Li and/or columns ColRj. The method comprises the integration of a current measurement chain comprising a measurement resistor Rm on the power supply bus and measurement 41 and comparison 42 circuits providing outside the screen a detection signal Sd which is processed by an external circuit for safety management.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Gérard Voisin
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Publication number: 20120319557Abstract: In a display, an integrated repair structure for open lines of an active matrix array uses conducting repair elements with half-rings around the useful display region. Each repair element is assigned to the repair of only one group of lines of the array which cross the two open legs of the half-ring. An open line is then repaired by creating a connection at each of the two crossing points of this line with the two open legs of the half-ring of a repair element. The loop-closing is provided at least by the segment which connects the two open legs. The repair structure advantageously minimizes the stray couplings and the charge on the lines, and is inexpensive, while allowing a large number of lines to be repaired. It is especially suitable for large displays or high-resolution displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 8305317Abstract: In a method for addressing an LCD display in color sequential mode, the color frames of a received video sequence are rearranged to form a display sequence applied to the LCD display. The arrangement of the color frames in the display sequence is such that the succession of the colors of the color frames and/or the duration of the color frames is random. Such a method may find application to direct view screens.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventors: Maxime Vaillant, Patrick Rocca, Hugues Lebrun