Patents by Inventor Catherine Antier

Catherine Antier 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: 11221468
    Abstract: An imaging module includes a single-pupil head component with hyper-hemispherical entrance field with refractive entrance surface, concave exit face, a refractive central zone and reflective peripheral zone. The imaging module also includes a secondary mirror, an aberrations corrector having an aspherical lens, a focusing objective, and an aperture diaphragm between the aberrations corrector and the objective. The head component is quasi-afocal in the vicinity of the field of 90° angular radius, its entrance surface has a ½ vertex angle of smaller than 30°, the secondary mirror is aspherical with variable local focal length with a maximum local power for a zone used by a field of 90° angular radius and minimum smaller by at least a factor of 2 for a zone used by a field of angular radius smaller than 20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Catherine Antier, Thierry Midavaine
  • Publication number: 20210278639
    Abstract: An imaging module comprises: a single-pupil head component with hyper-hemispherical entrance field with refractive entrance surface, concave exit face, a refractive central zone and reflective peripheral zone, and comprising a secondary mirror, an aberrations corrector which comprises an aspherical lens, a focusing objective, an aperture diaphragm between the aberrations corrector and the objective. The head component is quasi-afocal in the vicinity of the field of 90° angular radius, its entrance surface has a ½ vertex angle of smaller than 30°, the secondary mirror is aspherical with variable local focal length with a maximum local power for a zone used by a field of 90° angular radius and minimum smaller by at least a factor of 2 for a zone used by a field of angular radius smaller than 20°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Catherine ANTIER, Thierry MIDAVAINE
  • Patent number: 5124821
    Abstract: The visor makes it possible to obtain in binocular vision a large field of 60.degree. in the vertical plane and 120.degree. in the horizontal plane. In the case of each monocular vision channel, the visor is constituted by: an image generator such as a miniature cathode-ray tube, for example; an optical relay device; a collimation and combination optical system in which are grouped together a holographic mixing plate for transmitting the landscape channel and reflecting the image channel and a biconvex combining device formed by two holographic spherical optical elements employed on the axis for transmitting the two channels with collimation by diffraction of the image channel. A circular axial zone of zero photometric efficiency is produced in the case of each monocular vision channel and compensated by overlapping of the fields in binocular vision and, in a complementary manner, by the construction of mirror holograms providing variable index modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Thomson CSF
    Inventors: Catherine Antier, Jean-Blaise Migozzi