Patents by Inventor Sébastien ELLERO

Sébastien ELLERO 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: 11017256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the rapid analysis of images that are particularly useful in avionic contexts are provided. One specific method describes steps of computing algorithmic complexity and/or logical depth, so as to rapidly categorize objects, comprising images and/or points of interest determined in these images, according to discrete levels of structuring, organization or order. Complex image processing operations may then concern restricted subsections of the images. The complexity or logical depth computing operations may for example comprise steps of losslessly compressing the objects row by row and/or column by column, of determining statistical distributions of the compression rates of these objects, of determining one or more scores on the basis of the compression rates or of statistical moments and of locally or globally categorizing one or more received images. Developments describe system and software aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christian Nouvel, Sébastien Ellero
  • Patent number: 10690925
    Abstract: A dual harmonization method for a worn head-up display system for making the display of piloting information of an aircraft on a display conform with the outside real world includes a step of acquisition of N measurements {circumflex over (K)}? of head posture detection by a series of sightings Vi corresponding to images oriented according to orientations Oi of one and the same photograph taken by a camera, secured to and aligned with the attitude inertial device D3, then a step of joint computation of the matrices of relative orientation M01 and M23 as joint solutions of the dual harmonization Ûi=?·{circumflex over (K)}i·{circumflex over (D)}, i varying from 1 to N, in which Û? is the transpose of the matrix M(image(i)/0) of relative orientation of the image(i) of rank i relative to the display D0, with M01 and M23 respectively equal to the right and left matrices {circumflex over (D)} and ?. A worn head-up display system is configured to implement the dual harmonization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Bruno Aymeric, Siegfried Rouzes, Bruno Capelle, Sébastien Ellero
  • Publication number: 20200125878
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the rapid analysis of images that are particularly useful in avionic contexts are provided. One specific method describes steps of computing algorithmic complexity and/or logical depth, so as to rapidly categorize objects, comprising images and/or points of interest determined in these images, according to discrete levels of structuring, organization or order. Complex image processing operations may then concern restricted subsections of the images. The complexity or logical depth computing operations may for example comprise steps of losslessly compressing the objects row by row and/or column by column, of determining statistical distributions of the compression rates of these objects, of determining one or more scores on the basis of the compression rates or of statistical moments and of locally or globally categorizing one or more received images. Developments describe system and software aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Christian NOUVEL, Sébastien ELLERO
  • Publication number: 20190196198
    Abstract: A dual harmonization method for a worn head-up display system for making the display of piloting information of an aircraft on a display conform with the outside real world includes a step of acquisition of N measurements {circumflex over (K)}? of head posture detection by a series of sightings Vi corresponding to images oriented according to orientations Oi of one and the same photograph taken by a camera, secured to and aligned with the attitude inertial device D3, then a step of joint computation of the matrices of relative orientation M01 and M23 as joint solutions of the dual harmonization Ûi?·{circumflex over (K)}i·{circumflex over (D)}, i varying from 1 to N, in which Û? is the transpose of the matrix M(image(i)/0) of relative orientation of the image(i) of rank i relative to the display D0, with M01 and M23 respectively equal to the right and left matrices {circumflex over (D)} and ?. A worn head-up display system is configured to implement the dual harmonization method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Bruno AYMERIC, Siegfried ROUZES, Bruno CAPELLE, Sébastien ELLERO
  • Publication number: 20180183691
    Abstract: A computer assembly for identifying and managing data comprises a server including software providing a determined function transforming input data into output data. The computer system comprises: a first system and a second system, the first system being a critical system; a first digital interface for monitoring the identifier of the data and bidirectionally transmitting data between the server and the critical system; a first physical interface for physically linking the first digital interface with the critical system; a second digital interface for monitoring and bidirectionally transmitting data between the server and the second system; a second physical interface for physically linking the second digital interface with the second system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Laurent LALUQUE, Bruno CAPELLE, Sébastien ELLERO, Xavier SERVANTIE
  • Patent number: 9952428
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of heads-up display systems comprising at least one display and one optical guide comprising a first image guide comprising a plurality of first internal semi-reflecting plates, inclined with respect to a first plane. The heads-up display system according to the invention comprises: an oculometer designed to detect the position of the pupil of the eye of an observer; at least one of the said first plates comprising a processing with programmable reflectivity, the said reflectivity depending on the position and/or of the orientation of the ocular pupil detected by the oculometer, in such a manner as to reflect the image of the display towards the said pupa and only towards the latter. The display system can comprise a second image guide perpendicular to the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Johanna Dominici, Sebastien Ellero, Philippe Augereau
  • Patent number: 9569893
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of Instrument panel or cockpit display systems. The system according to the invention comprises: a first display device comprising a semi-transparent screen upon which a first image is displayed; a second mobile display device mounted on a helmet or augmented reality glasses, the said second device comprising means of displaying a second image collimated in a predetermined visual field; a detection of the orientation and of the position of the helmet in a predetermined reference system; first means making it possible to determine the zone of intersection of the predetermined visual field with the semi-transparent screen; second means making it possible to display in the said zone of intersection of the semi-transparent screen a first specific image, and/or to display in the second display device a second specific image, which are functions of the first image and of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Johanna Dominici, Sebastien Ellero, Christophe Coupeaud
  • Publication number: 20160131914
    Abstract: Visual display systems are described having means for generating stereoscopic images, a device for visual display of said stereoscopic images having a projector and a semitransparent screen; and a pair of stereoscopic spectacles. The projector according to the invention has an imager and an interference filter, the spectral transmission of which has at least one transmission band of determined width centred around a wavelength, said wavelength being dependent on the incidence of the light on said interference filter. The projector has means allowing the angular position of the filter to be varied between two determined positions so as to transmit, according to the position, either a first spectral band or a second spectral band. The pair of stereoscopic spectacles has a first lens transmitting the first spectral band and blocking the second spectral band and a second lens providing the opposite function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Johanna LUX, Sebastien ELLERO, Philippe AUGEREAU
  • Publication number: 20160097933
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display systems comprising means for generating images of a predetermined object and a display device comprising a semi-transparent projection screen. The system according to the invention is intended to be used simultaneously by at least two observers. The image generating means comprise features arranged to generate a first image of a first object and a second image of a second object, and the display system comprises two pairs of glasses worn by the first and second observer, arranged such that the first observer sees only the first image and not the second image and the second observer sees only the second image and not the first image, each pair of glasses allowing the exterior light to pass through. The first object and the second object may be identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe CONI, Sylvain Hourlier, Sebastien Ellero
  • Patent number: 9245498
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display systems comprising means for generating graphic symbols and an associated semitransparent display device. The display device according to the invention has two overlaid semitransparent flat display screens, one passive and the other active, each symbol displayed on the semitransparent display device comprising a first representation and a second representation. The first representation is displayed on the first display screen with a low transmission rate for the light and with a predetermined first size. The second representation is displayed on the second display screen in the same place as the first representation, with a luminance and a predetermined second size that is smaller than the first size so that the second representation is overlaid on the first representation and the displayed symbol appears bright with a dark border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Johanna Dominici, Sebastien Ellero, Loic Becouarn
  • Publication number: 20150323790
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of heads-up display systems comprising at least one display and one optical guide comprising a first image guide comprising a plurality of first internal semi-reflecting plates, inclined with respect to a first plane. The heads-up display system according to the invention comprises: an oculometer designed to detect the position of the pupil of the eye of an observer; at least one of the said first plates comprising a processing with programmable reflectivity, the said reflectivity depending on the position and/or of the orientation of the ocular pupil detected by the oculometer, in such a manner as to reflect the image of the display towards the said pupil and only towards the latter. The display system can comprise a second image guide perpendicular to the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Johanna DOMINICI, Sebastien ELLERO, Philippe AUGEREAU
  • Publication number: 20150309309
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display devices comprising at least one image projector comprising an image generator, projecting optics and a display screen, the image of said image generator being projected by the projecting optics onto said display screen. The display device according to the invention comprises means allowing the degree of optical transmission and the degree of optical scattering of said display screen to be controlled so as to make it completely transparent or completely scattering, the image being projected only in the latter case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Laurent LALUQUE, Sebastien ELLERO, Johanna DOMINICI, Philippe AUGEREAU
  • Patent number: 9170643
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display systems comprising an electronic calculator containing first image generation means and an associated semi-transparent display device, said display device intended to be arranged in front of an outside landscape. The display device according to the invention consists of two overlaid semi-transparent flat display screens, a photo-sensitive sensor and a position detection system. The first display screen is passive, its transmission rate being controlled by the first image generation means, the second display screen is active, its light emission being controlled by the first image generation means. The image generated is displayed either on the first display screen, or on the second display screen as a function of the outside landscape luminance information output by the photo-sensitive sensor and the position detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Johanna Dominici, Sebastien Ellero, Loic Becouarn
  • Publication number: 20140313189
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of Instrument panel or cockpit display systems. The system according to the invention comprises: a first display device comprising a semi-transparent screen upon which a first image is displayed; a second mobile display device mounted on a helmet or augmented reality glasses, the said second device comprising means of displaying a second image collimated in a predetermined visual field; a detection of the orientation and of the position of the helmet in a predetermined reference system; first means making it possible to determine the zone of intersection of the predetermined visual field with the semi-transparent screen; second means making it possible to display in the said zone of intersection of the semi-transparent screen a first specific image, and/or to display in the second display device a second specific image, which are functions of the first image and of the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Johanna DOMINICI, Sebastien Ellero, Christophe Coupeaud
  • Publication number: 20140160014
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display systems comprising an electronic calculator containing first image generation means and an associated semi-transparent display device, said display device intended to be arranged in front of an outside landscape. The display device according to the invention consists of two overlaid semi-transparent flat display screens, a photo-sensitive sensor and a position detection system. The first display screen is passive, its transmission rate being controlled by the first image generation means, the second display screen is active, its light emission being controlled by the first image generation means. The image generated is displayed either on the first display screen, or on the second display screen as a function of the outside landscape luminance information output by the photo-sensitive sensor and the position detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Johanna DOMINICI, Sebastien ELLERO, Loic BECOUARN
  • Publication number: 20140160154
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of display systems comprising means for generating graphic symbols and an associated semitransparent display device. The display device according to the invention has two overlaid semitransparent flat display screens, one passive and the other active, each symbol displayed on the semitransparent display device comprising a first representation and a second representation. The first representation is displayed on the first display screen with a low transmission rate for the light and with a predetermined first size. The second representation is displayed on the second display screen in the same place as the first representation, with a luminance and a predetermined second size that is smaller than the first size so that the second representation is overlaid on the first representation and the displayed symbol appears bright with a dark border.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Johanna DOMINICI, Sebastien ELLERO, Loic BECOUARN
  • Publication number: 20120162775
    Abstract: The general field of the invention relates to binocular helmet viewing devices worn by aircraft pilots. In night use, one of the drawbacks of this type of device is that the significant distance separating the two sensors introduces hyperstereoscopy on the images restored to the pilot. The method according to the invention is a scheme for removing this hyperstereoscopy in the images presented to the pilot by graphical processing of the binocular images. Comparison of the two images makes it possible to determine the various elements present in the image, to deduce therefrom their distances from the aircraft and then to displace them in the image so as to restore images without hyperstereoscopic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Michel FRANCOIS, Sébastien ELLERO, Matthieu GROSSETETE, Joël BAUDOU