Patents Assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
  • Patent number: 12242153
    Abstract: A digital display screen having an image displaying element and a backlighting device configured to backlight the image displaying element. The backlighting device defines a plurality of lighting zones, each lighting zone comprising one light source controllable to adjust the lighting intensity generated by the lighting zone. The lighting zones include at least one first lighting zone defining a first lighting surface having a first area and at least one second lighting zone defining a second lighting surface having a second area, the second area being strictly smaller than the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Edouard Da Silva, Romain Feilleux, James Gourlay, Derek Peden
  • Patent number: 12156013
    Abstract: A method and system for determining sound equalisation filters of an audio system having at least one loudspeaker adapted to emit audio signals and a computing device adapted to implement at least one equalisation filter. The system includes modules configured to transmit a measurement signal, and for a first predetermined spatial location, obtain a spectral amplitude curve of a received audio signal, calculate a target spectral amplitude curve, and then make a first determination of a first set of parameterizable equalisation filters which, when applied to the audio signal, reduce a distance between the spectral amplitude curve of the audio signal and the target spectral amplitude curve, and a second determination, from the first set of parameterizable equalisation filters, of a second set of parameterizable equalisation filters, by applying an iterative learning-based method. A first set of optimised equalisation filters is obtained from the second set of parameterizable equalisation filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Jérôme Noirot, Gaël Laqueille
  • Patent number: 12010491
    Abstract: A method for processing an electrical signal for an acoustic emission system. The method carried out by the system includes the following steps: a) transmitting a calibration signal to the electroacoustic transducer; b) emitting a sound based on the calibration signal, by the electroacoustic transducer; c) measuring the voltage across the terminals of the load; d) calculating the variation in impedances of the electroacoustic transducer as a function of the variation in frequencies of the calibration signal; e) determining the resonant frequency of the electroacoustic transducer from the variation in calculated impedances; f) selecting a set of acoustic filters in the database based on the determined resonant frequency; and g) applying the set of acoustic filters to the electrical signal in order to process the electrical signal coming from the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventor: Cyril Laury
  • Patent number: 11895568
    Abstract: A short-distance wireless communication module according to the Bluetooth standard, able to communicate data packets between at least one client and at least one remote device. The communication module includes a processor configured to execute at least two high-level software components for implementing a communication protocol, which are distinct and independent, and a hardware component connected to a communication antenna. The antenna is capable of communicating with the at least one remote device according to the Bluetooth standard. This module has an intermediate software component, connected between the at least two high-level software components and the hardware component, which includes a decoder module and a routing module, configured to route a received data packet to a recipient according to stored routing information and according to information obtained from the decoder module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventor: Guillaume Blanc
  • Patent number: 11778383
    Abstract: A device for reducing crosstalk in an audio system that has first and second pairs of loudspeakers and first and second audio sources. The device is connected to each audio source and to at least the first pair of loudspeakers. The device includes a module for acquiring first audio signals from the first source and second audio signals from the second source, a module for determining crosstalk reduction filters resulting from a loudspeaker of the second pair, a module for calculating corrective signals, by applying the reduction filters to the second audio signals, and a module for generating corrected audio signals for the first pair, obtained from the first audio signals and corrective signals. Each reduction filter is obtained from transfer functions, each representing an acoustic path between a loudspeaker and a user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Mounira Rigaud-Maazaoui, Camille Georges
  • Patent number: 11721249
    Abstract: A trim element having a display area defined by a display device, and an edge piece that includes a peripheral area extending around at least part of the display area, the peripheral area being at least partly translucent, the display area and the peripheral area forming at least a part of an outer surface of the trim element. The trim element further includes an illumination device arranged to illuminate the display device to display images on the display area. The illumination device has a luminous sheet extending at least facing the display area and the peripheral area of the edge piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Edouard Da Silva, Romain Feilleux
  • Patent number: 11721248
    Abstract: A trim element having an outer surface that is at least partially translucent, the outer surface defining a main display surface and a peripheral display surface, the peripheral display surface extending around at least a portion of the main display surface, a screen of a display device extending opposite the main display surface. The trim member includes an illumination device having a luminous sheet extending opposite the main display surface and the peripheral display surface so as to emit at least a first luminous signal onto the screen and at least a second luminous signal illuminating at least a portion of the peripheral display surface when the luminous sheet is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Edouard Da Silva, Romain Feilleux
  • Patent number: 11673512
    Abstract: An audio processing method and system for a seat headrest audio system, the audio system including at least two speakers positioned on opposite sides of the headrest, the method including detecting a position of the user's head and adjusting a first set of parameters of at least one audio processing operation as a function of that position. The method includes determining a user characteristic and/or temporary state of the user, selecting an audio settings profile related to that characteristic, the audio settings profile including a second set of prerecorded audio profile parameters, and adjusting a third set of audio parameters effectively applied to control the audio rendering of each speaker, based on the first and second sets of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Cyril Laury, Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Mounira Rigaud-Maazaoui
  • Patent number: 11546203
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for estimation of an interfering signal of a signal received by a receiving system and to a method for attenuation of an interfering signal contained in a received signal, and a receiving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Xenofon Doukopoulos, Gilles Briand
  • Patent number: 11523217
    Abstract: An audio system for a seat headrest includes N speaker(s), each configured to be integrated into a seat headrest, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1, and an audio processing device including an electronic transmission channel connected to the speaker(s) and configured to transmit at least one audio stream via the speaker(s). The audio system comprises P microphone(s), each configured to be integrated into the headrest, P being an integer greater than or equal to 1. The audio processing device further includes an electronic receiving channel connected to the microphone(s) and configured to receive at least one sound signal via the P microphone(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Mounira Rigaud-Maazaoui, Jérôme Noirot, Xenofon Doukopoulos, Gaël Laqueille, Jérémie Leclere
  • Patent number: 11284155
    Abstract: An electronic device for controlling the broadcasting of digital audio and/or video streams that includes: a module for receiving a list of upcoming streams able to be broadcast; a module for acquiring a set of profile(s) of a group of user(s); a module for detecting, among the received list and based on the acquired set, a preferred digital stream intended to be broadcast after a current digital stream; and a module for switching from a broadcast of the current stream to a broadcast of the preferred stream. The detection module is configured to detect an event triggering a switch to the preferred stream, and the switching module is configured to operate at least according to an automatic mode, where it is able to switch from the broadcasting of the current stream to that of the preferred stream upon the detection of the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Cyril Laury, Frantz Lohier
  • Patent number: 11259120
    Abstract: An audio system for a headrest having a set of R right speaker(s), a set of L left speaker(s), and an electronic chain configured to emit a sound signal from at least a right input signal and a left input signal. The electronic chain includes a separating module configured to obtain, from the right input signal and the left input signal (LIN), at least four mono audio components, and a sound spatialization module configured to apply, to each mono audio component delivered by the separating module, a binaural filter previously selected from the plurality of binaural filters, and dedicated to the audio component, producing a sound whose source position is associated with the previously selected binaural filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Mounira Rigaud-Maazaoui, Jérôme Noirot, Xenofon Doukopoulos, Gaël Laqueille, Jérémie Leclere
  • Patent number: 11096003
    Abstract: A determining method that makes it possible to determine a phase filter for a system that generates vibrations and that includes a first transducer for converting a first electrical signal and a second transducer for converting a second electrical signal. The method includes: performing, for at least one perception position, of a plurality of spectral measurements of a characteristic parameter of the vibrations generated in this perception position as a function of the frequency, each spectral measurement being done for a respective phase shift value between the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal; and determining a phase filter from spectral measurements done, by selecting, for each frequency, a phase shift value from among the phase shift values used to perform the spectral measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventor: Grégory Olivier Kleinhans
  • Patent number: 11096007
    Abstract: A method for processing a multichannel audio signal includes: obtaining at least one group of signals associated with a pair of channels comprising a left side signal, a left central signal, a right central signal and a right side signal determined from the left input signal and the right input signal; and performing differentiated sound stage filtering for the central signals on the one hand, and the side signals of each group of signals on the other hand, the differentiated sound stage filtering including the application, for each group of signals, of the central sound stage filter to the left central signal and to the right central signal of the group of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Grégory Olivier Kleinhans, Nicolas Lopez Zuleta
  • Patent number: 10985723
    Abstract: An electronic device for receiving a radio signal includes an upstream amplifier configured to amplify a received radio signal, a control module configured to control a gain of the upstream amplifier, and a mixer connected at the output of the upstream amplifier and configured to mix the signal from the upstream amplifier with a reference signal. The control module is further configured to perform an intermodulation detection, by commanding the generation by the upstream amplifier of a gain increase and comparing a first power with a second power, the first and second powers being respective powers of a signal at the output of the mixer, the first power being measured in the absence of gain increase and the second power being measured in the presence of the gain increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventor: Cyril Laury