Patents by Inventor Jean-Luc Dronet

Jean-Luc Dronet 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).

  • Method for automatically assigning wireless seismic acquisition units to topographic positions
    Patent number: 9810799
    Abstract: It is proposed a method for automatically assigning wireless seismic acquisition units to topographic positions, each wireless seismic acquisition unit includes a satellite navigation system receiver. The method has the following steps, carried out by an assigning device: obtaining topographic locations at which the wireless seismic acquisition units are expected to be laid; obtaining measured positions of the wireless seismic acquisition units, corresponding to or derived from position information provided by the satellite navigation system receivers when the wireless seismic acquisition units are installed on the ground, each near one of the topographic locations; and computing associations, each between one of the wireless seismic acquisition units and one of the topographic positions, as a function of a comparison between the measured positions and the topographic locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SERCEL
    Inventors: Eric Broquet, Nicolas Goloubenko, Jean-Charles Bremaud, Jean-Luc Dronet
  • METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNING WIRELESS SEISMIC ACQUISITION UNITS TO TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS
    Publication number: 20150260863
    Abstract: It is proposed a method for automatically assigning wireless seismic acquisition units to topographic positions, each wireless seismic acquisition unit includes a satellite navigation system receiver. The method has the following steps, carried out by an assigning device: obtaining topographic locations at which the wireless seismic acquisition units are expected to be laid; obtaining measured positions of the wireless seismic acquisition units, corresponding to or derived from position information provided by the satellite navigation system receivers when the wireless seismic acquisition units are installed on the ground, each near one of the topographic locations; and computing associations, each between one of the wireless seismic acquisition units and one of the topographic positions, as a function of a comparison between the measured positions and the topographic locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Eric Broquet, Nicolas Goloubenko, Jean-Charles Bremaud, Jean-Luc Dronet
  • Mixed wireless and cabled data acquisition network
    Patent number: 7869444
    Abstract: A data acquisition network includes an assembly of nodes including at least one wireless network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by radio waves. The assembly of nodes also includes at least one other network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by a cable. The data is also conveyed by radio waves. The at least one other network forms a cabled network of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sercel
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Daniel Pennec, Dominique Deniau, Jean-Luc Dronet
  • Mixed wireless and cabled data acquisition network
    Publication number: 20070025307
    Abstract: A data acquisition network includes an assembly of nodes including at least one wireless network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by radio waves. The assembly of nodes also includes at least one other network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by a cable. The data is also conveyed by radio waves. The at least one other network forms a cabled network of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Daniel Pennec, Dominique Deniau, Jean-Luc Dronet