Patents by Inventor Bruno Cottarel

Bruno Cottarel 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: 9880732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the elementary angle of a control path on a touch surface, characterized in that it comprises measuring two elementary movement values (|dX|, |dY|) along two perpendicular axes (X, Y) for a predetermined duration (dT), comparing said values (|dX|, |dY|) with unitary value ranges of elementary movements (Xu, Yu) of a reference data table and allocating a reference data representative of an angle to an elementary angle (d?) of the control path. The invention also relates to a method for detecting an angular variation of a control path on a touch surface, characterized in that it comprises implementing the above method for determining the elementary angle of a control path on a touch surface and storing the elementary angle (d?) allocated during an elementary step, repeating the elementary step, and assembling in series the allocated elementary angles (d?) in order to determine an angular variation of the control path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: DAV
    Inventors: Bruno Cottarel, Florent De Vaux Bidon, Cedric Chartrain
  • Patent number: 9170729
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a touch-surface control device characterized in that it comprises a step of shape recognition of a control trajectory on a touch surface from among at least two predefined shapes of trajectory, in which in the course of a predetermined duration (dT): the control trajectory is sampled in order to determine a sampled angle (d?) of the control trajectory for each sampling period (Te), a parameter representative of the evolution of at least two sampled angles (d?) is compared with a predetermined threshold, and a predefined trajectory shape is assigned to the control trajectory as a function of the result of the comparison. The invention also relates to a control device comprising a tough surface characterized in that it comprises a processing unit for implementing a control method as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: DAV
    Inventors: Bruno Cottarel, Florent De Vaux Bidon, Cedric Chartrain
  • Patent number: 8564554
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a touch surface control device, including at least one step comprising the generation of sensory feedback corresponding to the detection of a pressure applied by a user on the touch surface, said sensory feedback comprising haptic feedback and acoustic feedback. The invention is characterized in that the generation of the acoustic feedback is initiated after the generation of the haptic feedback once a characteristic value of the haptic feedback has exceeded a pre-defined threshold. The invention also relates to an electric control device having a touch surface, characterized in that it includes means for implementing said method (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: DAV
    Inventors: Patrice Laurent, Aymeric Dunoyer, Bruno Cottarel, Philippe Barathon
  • Publication number: 20110037709
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a touch-surface control device characterized in that it comprises a step of shape recognition of a control trajectory on a touch surface from among at least two predefined shapes of trajectory, in which in the course of a predetermined duration (dT): the control trajectory is sampled in order to determine a sampled angle (d?) of the control trajectory for each sampling period (Te), a parameter representative of the evolution of at least two sampled angles (d?) is compared with a predetermined threshold, and a predefined trajectory shape is assigned to the control trajectory as a function of the result of the comparison. The invention also relates to a control device comprising a tough surface characterized in that it comprises a processing unit for implementing a control method as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: DAV
    Inventors: Bruno Cottarel, Florent De Vaux Bidon, Cedric Chartrain
  • Publication number: 20110025648
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a touch surface control device, including at least one step comprising the generation of sensory feedback corresponding to the detection of a pressure applied by a user on the touch surface, said sensory feedback comprising haptic feedback and acoustic feedback. The invention is characterised in that the generation of the acoustic feedback is initiated after the generation of the haptic feedback once a characteristic value of the haptic feedback has exceeded a pre-defined threshold. The invention also relates to an electric control device having a touch surface, characterised in that it includes means for implementing said method (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: DAV
    Inventors: Patrice Laurent, Aymeric Dunoyer, Bruno Cottarel, Philippe Barathon
  • Publication number: 20110025618
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the elementary angle of a control path on a touch surface, characterised in that it comprises measuring two elementary movement values (|dX|, |dY|) along two perpendicular axes (X, Y) for a predetermined duration (dT), comparing said values (|dX|, |dY|) with unitary value ranges of elementary movements (Xu, Yu) of a reference data table and allocating a reference data representative of an angle to an elementary angle (d?) of the control path. The invention also relates to a method for detecting an angular variation of a control path on a touch surface, characterised in that it comprises implementing the above method for determining the elementary angle of a control path on a touch surface and storing the elementary angle (d?) allocated during an elementary step, repeating the elementary step, and assembling in series the allocated elementary angles (d?) in order to determine an angular variation of the control path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: DAV
    Inventors: Bruno Cottarel, Florent De Vaux Bidon, Cedric Chartrain