Patents by Inventor Patrick Mounaix

Patrick Mounaix 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).

  • Patent number: 8564855
    Abstract: A process for digitizing closed books without having to open them, of printed documents or manuscripts, bound or in batches, without having to separate them, using an imaging system of a three-dimensional object by Terahertz waves including acquiring by an THz acquisition subsystem a set of three-dimensional low-resolution images representative of this object and obtained by application of shifts orthogonal three-dimensional in translation according to which the object and the THz acquisition subsystem are relatively shifted relative to each other, a process in which, during these three-dimensional shifts, the amplitude of the relative shift in each of these three dimensions is less than the spatial resolution of the THz acquisition subsystem in each of these three dimensions and a three-dimensional super-resolution processing step is provided, capable of generating a super-resolved 3D image from a linear combination of 3D low-resolution images and an image-restoration step capable of generating a restored su
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: I2S, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Bruno Hiberty, Patrick Mounaix, Emmanuel Abraham, Cédric Aguerre, Pascal Desbarats
  • Publication number: 20110292472
    Abstract: A process for digitizing closed books without having to open them, of printed documents or manuscripts, bound or in batches, without having to separate them, using an imaging system of a three-dimensional object by Terahertz waves including acquiring by an THz acquisition subsystem a set of three-dimensional low-resolution images representative of this object and obtained by application of shifts orthogonal three-dimensional in translation according to which the object and the THz acquisition subsystem are relatively shifted relative to each other, a process in which, during these three-dimensional shifts, the amplitude of the relative shift in each of these three dimensions is less than the spatial resolution of the THz acquisition subsystem in each of these three dimensions and a three-dimensional super-resolution processing step is provided, capable of generating a super-resolved 3D image from a linear combination of 3D low-resolution images and an image-restoration step capable of generating a restored su
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Bruno Hiberty, Patrick Mounaix, Emmanuel Abraham, Cédric Aguerre, Pascal Desbarats
  • Patent number: 7709798
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wide band optical gate in the terahertz domain (wavelengths in the far infrared). It comprises a first optical source (2) emitting a first beam (FTHz) in said terahertz domain, a first plate made of a semiconducting material (1) illuminated by said terahertz beam and a second optical source (3) emitting a second beam (FIR) at a wavelength capable of saturating the first plate (1) made of a semi-conducting material and making it reflective at terahertz wavelengths. This invention also relates to a system for measuring terahertz signals and to a terahertz generator. It is particularly applicable to systems for measuring terahertz signals and to terahertz generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, L'Universite de Bordeaux I
    Inventors: Lionel Canioni, Rysvan Maleck-Rassoul, Patrick Mounaix, Laurent Sarger
  • Publication number: 20080029712
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wide band optical gate in the terahertz domain (wavelengths in the far infrared). It comprises a first optical source (2) emitting a first beam (FTHz) in said terahertz domain, a first plate made of a semiconducting material (1) illuminated by said terahertz beam and a second optical source (3) emitting a second beam (FIR) at a wavelength capable of saturating the first plate (1) made of a semi-conducting material and making it reflective at terahertz wavelengths. This invention also relates to a system for measuring terahertz signals and to a terahertz generator. It is particularly applicable to systems for measuring terahertz signals and to terahertz generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Lionel Canioni, Rysvan Maleck-Rassoul, Patrick Mounaix, Laurent Sarger