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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Patent number: 8144101Abstract: A liquid crystal matrix display includes a matrix driver delivering at least a first frame section signal and a second frame selection signal and a first write device and a second write device associated with each pixel element of the matrix, wherein one of the write devices is connected to the associated selection line of the pixel element, and the other is connected to another selection line of the matrix. The write devices have crossed sample and transfer commands, the first frame selection signal causing sampling in the first write device, and contacting of information already sampled in the second write device with the pixel element, the second frame selection signal causing sampling in the second write device, and contacting of information already sampled in the first write device with the pixel element.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventor: Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 8040299Abstract: An active matrix for an organic light-emitting diode display screen, including: pixels arranged in rows and in columns, each pixel including, a pixel electrode capable of accommodating an organic light-emitting diode on the surface, and first and second current drivers connected to said pixel electrode, wherein the first and second current drivers each include a current control transistor connected between a supply voltage Vdd and said pixel electrode and at least a first switching transistor that controls a gate of said current control transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: ThalesInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun, Elisabeth Chuiton
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Patent number: 8013825Abstract: In a method for addressing rows and columns in a liquid crystal display, each phase for addressing rows and columns in the display includes precharging pixels of the display before a row write, to apply a precharge voltage to all pixels. Depending on the selected black or white precharge level, the light box is either switched on permanently, or is switched on during each addressing phase immediately after the precharge or immediately after the row write. The display brightness is thus improved. The display may be of sequential color type.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Publication number: 20110134107Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz, Chantal Hordequin
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Publication number: 20110074664Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Gerard Voisin
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Publication number: 20100134523Abstract: A matrix display with a progressive color display, of active matrix-type, includes pixels arranged according to N rows and m columns. The N rows of the display are distributed into n groups, and each pixel column includes n column conductors, allowing for a write-selection of pixels of n rows in parallel, one row per group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2006Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: ThalesInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Publication number: 20100019999Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: THALESInventors: Maxime Vaillant, Patrick Rocca, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20090167964Abstract: In a method for addressing rows and columns in a liquid crystal display, each phase for addressing rows and columns in the display includes precharging pixels of the display before a row write, to apply a precharge voltage to all pixels. Depending on the selected black or white precharge level, the light box is either switched on permanently, or is switched on during each addressing phase immediately after the precharge or immediately after the row write. The display brightness is thus improved. The display may be of sequential color type.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Patent number: 7548283Abstract: An active matrix structure for display screen includes a storage capacitor bus disposed under each row of pixel electrodes, produced in a transparent conducting material, and disposed in the structure on a level separated from a level of the row selection lines and a level of the pixel electrodes by an insulation layer at least. The storage bus of a row is driven by a selection line of a previous row.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: ThalesInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20090146937Abstract: 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: December 6, 2006Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Publication number: 20090096725Abstract: In an organic light-emitting display screen, each picture dot includes an organic diode (OLED) and first and second current driver circuits for the diode. Each driver circuit includes: a driving transistor connected between a reference voltage and one electrode of the said diode, a switching transistor for switching a gate voltage onto the gate of the said driving transistor, and a capacitor connected to the gate of the said driving transistor, to maintain the gate voltage. The gate voltage of a driving transistor is alternately a video voltage controlling a display phase, or a turn-off voltage, controlling a recovery phase. The driving transistors are controlled alternately, one in recovery phase, the other in display phase, and vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun, Elisabeth Chuiton
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Publication number: 20080231556Abstract: In an active matrix for an organic light-emitting diode display screen, each pixel is arranged between two row select lines, each line controlling at least a first switching transistor T1, T1? of the first and second drivers COM and COM? of this pixel. These two drivers are arranged symmetrically with respect to the pixel electrode E1 of the pixel, each in the space between the pixel electrode and one of the row select lines that flank the pixel. The column data lines are each produced in the interval between two successive columns of pixels, by knitting by means of points of contact ct1, ct2 between the source-drain metal level and the gate metal level, producing the source-drain electrodes and gates, respectively, of the transistors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: THALESInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun, Elisabeth Chuiton
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Publication number: 20080158123Abstract: An active matrix for a liquid crystal display device including pixel electrodes arranged in a crossed network of rows and columns. Associated with each pixel electrode, an electrode control device is provided, including a first switching element connected between the pixel electrode and an associated column, a control electrode of the switching element being connected to an associated row. The control device includes an initialization circuit for the pixel electrode including a second switching element, connected to the pixel electrode, and a control electrode of which is connected to a preceding row of the network. Such an active matrix may be applicable to active matrix bistable nematic displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Lebrun, Thierry Kretz
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Publication number: 20070252780Abstract: A liquid crystal matrix display includes a matrix driver delivering at least a first frame section signal and a second frame selection signal and a first write device and a second write device associated with each pixel element of the matrix, wherein one of the write devices is connected to the associated selection line of the pixel element, and the other is connected to another selection line of the matrix. The write devices have crossed sample and transfer commands, the first frame selection signal causing sampling in the first write device, and contacting of information already sampled in the second write device with the pixel element, the second frame selection signal causing sampling in the second write device, and contacting of information already sampled in the first write device with the pixel element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: November 1, 2007Applicant: THALESInventor: Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 7199396Abstract: The invention relates to an active matrix of thin-film transistors or TFTs for an optical sensor, comprising a matrix of transistors formed on a substrate comprising a gate, a drain and a source, a set of rows and a set of columns that are connected to the gates and to an electrode of the transistor, respectively, pixel electrodes and, according to the invention, a set of capacitive electrodes lying at the same level as the electrodes of the transistors so as to form, with the pixel electrodes, storage capacitors.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Thales Avionics LCD S.A.Inventor: Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 7189496Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of an active matrix for an electro-optical display device, the active zone exposure fields CH1, CH2 are obtained by the transfer of an active zone mask in such a way that there is a non-null overlap zone zl, zr, zt, zb between two successive exposure fields. The active zone mask is exposed a first time. This mask is positioned for the next exposure so as to overlap the first exposed field on a certain width F1, F2. In the overlap zones, an exposure of the mask provides only a part of the patterns.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: ThalesInventors: Didier Saluel, Jean-Charles Terrien, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20060146209Abstract: An active matrix structure for display screen includes a storage capacitor bus disposed under each row of pixel electrodes, produced in a transparent conducting material, and disposed in the structure on a level separated from a level of the row selection lines and a level of the pixel electrodes by an insulation layer at least. The storage bus of a row is driven by a selection line of a previous row.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2003Publication date: July 6, 2006Applicant: THALESInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20060082716Abstract: In a collective method of fabricating liquid crystal cells on a silicon substrate, a sealing frame for assembling a back electrode substrate and an active matrix circuit silicon substrate is disposed so as to overlap external contact pads of the active matrix circuit and a portion of a connection mechanism provided on the back electrode substrate including the connection mechanism is overhanging with respect to the active matrix substrate, allowing the connection to an external control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2003Publication date: April 20, 2006Inventors: Hugues Lebrun, Saverio Arfuso, Jean-Claude Lehureau
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Patent number: 6977638Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of compensating for the disturbances due to the demultiplexing of an analogue signal with regard to a circuit comprising N data lines, wherein the demultiplexing is carried out by sample-and-hold circuits whose input receives the analogue signal and whose output is connected to one of the N data lines, the N sample-and-hold circuits being operated in succession by a sampling signal (ECHi). During the application of the sampling signal (ECHi, V1) to one of the sample-and-hold circuits, an opposite compensation level (V3) which is lower than the level of the sampling signal is applied to the N?1 sample-and-hold circuits. Application in particular to LCD screens.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Thales Avionics LCD S.A.Inventors: Jean-Marc Bayot, Hugues Lebrun
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Patent number: 6972747Abstract: A process for compensating a circuit including at least one first conductor with a specified potential, at least one second conductor generating disturbances on the first conductor by capacitive coupling, and a first bus with a reference voltage, coupled capacitively to the first conductor. The process includes the following steps: measuring of the current flowing on the first bus upon the application of a voltage to the second conductor; integrating a measured current to obtain a compensation voltage to be applied to the first conductor; and applying the compensation voltage to at least one of the rows via the compensation conductor bus, the compensation bus coupled capacitively to the rows.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Thales Avionics LCD S.A.Inventors: Jean-Marc Bayot, Hugues Lebrun