Patents by Inventor Loïc Francois

Loïc 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: 20240121516
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing that support image processing. In a first aspect, a method of image capture includes determining a first exposure setting for a first array of light sensors of an image sensor; determining a second exposure setting for a second array of light sensors of the image sensor of a different type than the first array; capturing first image data with the first array of light sensors at the first exposure setting; and capturing second image data with the second array of light sensors at the second exposure setting. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zuguang Xiao, Nan Cui, Loic Francois Segapelli
  • Publication number: 20240092477
    Abstract: A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear including at least one landing gear wheel, this wheel including a rim, an electric motor including a shaft, a mechanical transmission system between the shaft of the motor and the rim, this mechanical transmission system including a mechanical reducer including a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft of the motor, a ring gear, and planet gears which are carried by a planet carrier and which each includes three external toothings, including a median external toothing which is meshed with a toothing of the sun gear, and two lateral external toothings which are respectively meshed with toothings of the ring gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Maxime FERNANDEZ, Loic FRANCOIS, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Jordane Emile Andre PELTIER
  • Publication number: 20240092479
    Abstract: A mechanical speed reducer, in particular for a device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear, this reducer including a first sun gear including external toothing, first planet gears meshed with the external toothing of the first sun gear, these first planet gears being carried by a first planet carrier, a stationary ring gear meshed with the planet gears, and second planet gears meshed with a ring gear and with an external toothing of said first planet carrier, these second planet gears being carried by a second planet carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Maxime FERNANDEZ, Loic FRANCOIS, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Jordane Emile Andre PELTIER
  • Publication number: 20240092480
    Abstract: A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear is provided. The device includes at least one wheel having a rim, an electric motor having a shaft, and a mechanical transmission system for mechanical transmission between the shaft of the motor and the rim. The mechanical transmission system includes a mechanical reduction gear. The mechanical reduction gear includes a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft and having an external toothing, a stationary ring gear with internal toothing, a movable ring gear secured in rotation to the rim and having an internal toothing, and planet gears that are meshed with the sun gear and each have two external toothing meshed respectively with the toothing of the stationary and movable ring gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maxime Fernandez, Yohan Douy, Loïc Francois, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Jordane Emile André Peltier
  • Publication number: 20240068377
    Abstract: A hybrid turbofan engine for an aircraft, comprising a fan, an electric motor/generator and a gas generator, the engine comprising, between the fan and a splitter that separates the flows, an internal wall for delimiting an air duct, situated upstream of inlet guide vanes of a primary duct, and, upstream of outlet guide vanes, an internal upstream wall for delimiting a secondary duct, the motor/generator having a stator carried by a stator support fixed to a stator part of the engine. According to the invention, a plurality of heat pipe for cooling the motor/generator are provided, each heat pipe having an evaporation section fixed to the stator support, and a condensation section fixed to the internal wall or the internal upstream wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Thierry SIBILLI, Vincent François Georges MILLIER, Loïc Paul Yves GUILLOTEL
  • Publication number: 20230269486
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes controlling an image sensor to capture image data for determining a standard dynamic range (SDR) representation of a scene, the image data comprising a first series of image frames captured with a first exposure level and a second series of image frames captured at a second exposure level. The SDR representation of the scene may be generated by determining a first output image frame based on at least a first image frame of the first series of image frames. Determining of an exposure level for the image sensor during the SDR image capture may be based on a second image frame of the second series of image frames captured by the image sensor in a multi-frame sensor configuration. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Zuguang Xiao, Lee-Kang Liu, Loic Francois Segapelli, Ho Sang Lee, Jiafu Luo, Wenbin Wang, Silei Ma
  • Publication number: 20230239590
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for automatic exposure control. An example method can include receiving pixel values captured by a photosensor pixel array (PPA) of an image sensor, wherein one or more pixel values from the pixel values correspond to one or more sensitivity-biased photosensor (SBP) pixels in the PPA and one or more saturated pixel values from the pixel values correspond to one or more other photosensor pixels in the PPA; determining, based on the one or more pixel values, an actual pixel value for the one or more pixel values and/or the one or more saturated pixel values; determining an adjustment factor for at least one of the pixel values based on the actual pixel value and a target exposure value; and based on the adjustment factor, correcting an exposure setting associated with the image sensor and/or at least one of the pixel values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Loic Francois SEGAPELLI, Wenbin WANG, Nan CUI, Soman Ganesh NIKHARA, Nikunj Dahyabhai PATEL, Pradeep VEERAMALLA, Ankita Anil Kumar CHAUDHA
  • Patent number: 11375142
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for asymmetric exposure time adjustments for multi-frame (MF) high dynamic range (HDR) imaging in low light conditions are described. In some implementations, a device may receive a set of frames including short exposure frames associated with a first exposure time and long exposure frames associated with a second exposure time and may adjust the second exposure time associated with the long exposure frames to obtain a third exposure time for the long exposure frames based on detecting a low light condition associated with the set of frames. The device may adjust the second exposure time associated with the long exposure frames to obtain the third exposure time for the long exposure frames based on adding, at an image sensor of the device, an additional set of blanking lines to a set of visible lines associated with the short exposure frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Soman Ganesh Nikhara, Ho Sang Lee, Mahesh Katta
  • Patent number: 11265480
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing one or more images include determining one or more current exposure settings for a current image of a current scene at a current time. One or more motion characteristics associated with an image sensor are determined. Based on the one or more motion characteristics, a location of a portion of the current image to use for determining one or more future exposure settings for the image sensor are determined, the one or more future exposure settings for capturing a future image of a future scene at a future time, the future time being subsequent to the current time. The one or more future exposure settings are determined based on the predicted portion of the current image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Wenbin Wang, Zuguang Xiao
  • Patent number: 11070738
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for operating a camera-enabled device are described. The camera-enabled device may emit, via a first light emitting source, an infrared light in a physical environment and determine time-of-flight information associated with a target object in the physical environment based on the emitted infrared light. The camera-enabled device may estimate one or more exposure settings based on the time-of-flight information, and emit, via a second light emitting source, a visible light in the physical environment based on the estimated one or more exposure settings. As a result, the camera-enabled device may capture an image of the physical environment based on the emitted visible light and the estimated one or more exposure settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Ho Sang Lee, Ying Noyes
  • Publication number: 20210105392
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for operating a camera-enabled device are described. The camera-enabled device may emit, via a first light emitting source, an infrared light in a physical environment and determine time-of-flight information associated with a target object in the physical environment based on the emitted infrared light. The camera-enabled device may estimate one or more exposure settings based on the time-of-flight information, and emit, via a second light emitting source, a visible light in the physical environment based on the estimated one or more exposure settings. As a result, the camera-enabled device may capture an image of the physical environment based on the emitted visible light and the estimated one or more exposure settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Ho Sang Lee, Ying Noyes
  • Publication number: 20200396367
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing one or more images include determining one or more current exposure settings for a current image of a current scene at a current time. One or more motion characteristics associated with an image sensor are determined. Based on the one or more motion characteristics, a location of a portion of the current image to use for determining one or more future exposure settings for the image sensor are determined, the one or more future exposure settings for capturing a future image of a future scene at a future time, the future time being subsequent to the current time. The one or more future exposure settings are determined based on the predicted portion of the current image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Loic Francois SEGAPELLI, Wenbin WANG, Zuguang XIAO
  • Publication number: 20200036882
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for adjusting exposure at a camera of a device are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support faster automatic exposure control (AEC). Generally, the described AEC techniques provide for alignment of exposure setting adjustments (e.g., exposure time adjustments, gain adjustments, etc.) with 2-frame gain adjustment delays. For example, gain adjustment calculations based on image sensor measurements associated with a current frame (e.g., frame N) may take into consideration exposure time adjustment calculations from the previous frame (e.g., frame N?1), such that AEC algorithms may use exposure time adjustment calculations from the previous frame (e.g., frame N?1) and gain adjustment calculations from the current frame (e.g., frame N) to adjust exposure settings with a 2-frame delay (e.g., such that updated exposure settings may take effect on frame N+2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Wenbin Wang, Loic Francois Segapelli, Ying Noyes
  • Publication number: 20190394379
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. The method includes capturing from a sensor a first image frame using an initial exposure length, calculating, based on a clipping status of a set of one or more pixels of the first image frame, a predicted exposure length and a hedged exposure length, where the predicted exposure length is different from the hedged exposure length by at least a threshold, capturing from the sensor a first array of pixels using the predicted exposure length and a second array of pixels using the hedged exposure length, capturing from the sensor a second image frame using a converged exposure length, where the converged exposure length is based on a comparison of a saturation of the first array of pixels to a saturation of the second array of pixels, and outputting the second image frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Wei-Chih Liu, Tai-Hsin Kiu
  • Patent number: 10325354
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining an auto white balance (AWB) gain based on determined depth information. The method may include receiving an image captured by an image sensor, determining depth information associated with the captured image, assigning weights to a plurality of illuminants based on the determined depth information, determining an auto white balance gain based on the assigned weights and statistics of the captured image, and applying the auto white balance gain to the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ying Xie Noyes, Kyuseo Han, Ho Sang Lee, Hengzhou Ding, Leung Chun Chan, Loic Francois Segapelli
  • Publication number: 20180359465
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for calibrating a flash for image capture. An example method may include receiving, from a camera, a first image of a scene captured with a first flash light source emitting light with a first color temperature and with a second flash light source emitting light with a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The first flash light source and the second flash light source may be derived based on a first flash calibration setting of a number of stored flash calibration settings. The example method may also include determining a difference between a desired color characteristic for the first flash calibration setting and a color characteristic of the first image. The example method may further include adjusting the first flash calibration setting based on the determined difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Hengzhou Ding, Leung Chun Chan
  • Patent number: 10154256
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for calibrating a flash for image capture. An example method may include receiving, from a camera, a first image of a scene captured with a first flash light source emitting light with a first color temperature and with a second flash light source emitting light with a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The first flash light source and the second flash light source may be derived based on a first flash calibration setting of a number of stored flash calibration settings. The example method may also include determining a difference between a desired color characteristic for the first flash calibration setting and a color characteristic of the first image. The example method may further include adjusting the first flash calibration setting based on the determined difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Hengzhou Ding, Leung Chun Chan
  • Publication number: 20180315166
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining an auto white balance (AWB) gain based on determined depth information. The method may include receiving an image captured by an image sensor, determining depth information associated with the captured image, assigning weights to a plurality of illuminants based on the determined depth information, determining an auto white balance gain based on the assigned weights and statistics of the captured image, and applying the auto white balance gain to the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ying Xie Noyes, Kyuseo Han, Ho Sang Lee, Hengzhou Ding, Leung Chun Chan, Loic Francois Segapelli