Patents by Inventor Sylvain Bourdel

Sylvain Bourdel 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: 9054789
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for generating UWB waveforms, each comprising a sequence of pulses, the method comprising: generating consecutive elementary pulses having durations corresponding to setpoint durations and a constant amplitude, amplifying each elementary pulse separately as a function of a respective setpoint amplitude, and combining the amplified elementary pulses to obtain a waveform successively comprising each of the amplified alternately positive and negative, elementary pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Universite d'Aix-Marseille
    Inventors: Sylvain Bourdel, Rémi Vauche
  • Publication number: 20120027050
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for generating UWB waveforms, each comprising a sequence of pulses, the method comprising: generating consecutive elementary pulses having durations corresponding to setpoint durations and a constant amplitude, amplifying each elementary pulse separately as a function of a respective setpoint amplitude, and combining the amplified elementary pulses to obtain a waveform successively comprising each of the amplified alternately positive and negative, elementary pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE PROVENCE AIX-MARSEILLE I
    Inventors: Sylvain Bourdel, Rémi Vauche
  • Patent number: 7558339
    Abstract: There is provided a detector for extracting binary data frequency-modulated on a carrier signal. An axes generator produces M pairs of logic signals, the logic signals of the same pair being in quadrature. The decoder includes M asynchronous logic zero-crossing detectors producing first pulses and second pulses. An up-counter/down-counter has first, second and third values, and when it has the second value, passing to the first value during a first pulse, and passing to the third value during a second pulse, and a binary decoder generates binary data whose state is not modified when the up-counter/down-counter passes from the first value to the second value or from the third value to the second value. No external time base is required and the decoder has a reduced bit error ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS Zi de Rousset, Universite de Provence, Universite Paul Cezanne
    Inventors: Gilles Bas, Nicolas Dehaese, Yann Bachelet, Sylvain Bourdel
  • Publication number: 20060203940
    Abstract: There is provided a detector for extracting binary data frequency-modulated on a carrier signal. An axes generator produces M pairs of logic signals, the logic signals of the same pair being in quadrature. The decoder includes M asynchronous logic zero-crossing detectors producing first pulses and second pulses. An up-counter/down-counter has first, second and third values, and when it has the second value, passing to the first value during a first pulse, and passing to the third value during a second pulse, and a binary decoder generates binary data whose state is not modified when the up-counter/down-counter passes from the first value to the second value or from the third value to the second value. No external time base is required and the decoder has a reduced bit error ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicants: STMICROELECTRONICS SAS, UNIVERSITE DE PROVENCE, UNIVERSITE PAUL CEZANNE
    Inventors: Gilles Bas, Nicolas Dehaese, Yann Bachelet, Sylvain Bourdel