Patents by Inventor Christophe Prat

Christophe Prat 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: 12013302
    Abstract: A multipoint contact detection device includes at least two capacitive or inductive sensitive structures associated with respective primary detection zones of a surface that a person is likely to contact. The sensitive structures are positioned with a separation that is small enough between them to define at least one intermediate detection zone that the person is likely to contact while exerting a capacitive or inductive disturbance on the adjacent sensitive structures. The device also includes a processing circuit configured to detect, for each sensitive structure, a disturbance induced by the person coming into proximity or into contact and locating the region or regions of the surface with which the person comes into contact relative to the primary detection zones and the one or more intermediate detection zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Florian Porte, Raphaël Morvillier, Christophe Prat
  • Publication number: 20220163417
    Abstract: A multipoint contact detection device includes at least two capacitive or inductive sensitive structures associated with respective primary detection zones of a surface that a person is likely to contact. The sensitive structures are positioned with a separation that is small enough between them to define at least one intermediate detection zone that the person is likely to contact while exerting a capacitive or inductive disturbance on the adjacent sensitive structures. The device also includes a processing circuit configured to detect, for each sensitive structure, a disturbance induced by the person coming into proximity or into contact and locating the region or regions of the surface with which the person comes into contact relative to the primary detection zones and the one or more intermediate detection zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Florian PORTE, Raphaël MORVILLIER, Christophe PRAT
  • Patent number: 8975815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making an electronic display device (1) having a screen (3) covered by a protection plate, and to a substrate (2) covered by said screen for obtaining such a device. The method comprises the following steps: a) applying glue (10) at the non cross-linked state substantially on the entire surface of the screen and/or the assembling surface (11a) of the plate (11) following a deposit on the screen connection area (5) of at least one organic layer (15) for protecting the connection area from the glue; applying the assembling surface against the screen via the glue; c) emitting a radiation through the plate for cross-linking the glue; and d) removing a portion of the plate covering the connection area so that the latter can be electrically accessible, the protection layer being removed from the connection area upon said removal or during a further surface processing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, Tony Maindron
  • Patent number: 8922434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flat screen (E) that comprises an active pixel matrix (M), an electrode that is common to said pixels (C), and a conductive strip (R) preferably in the form of a ring that is connected to said common electrode and at least partially surrounds said active matrix, characterized in that at least one slot (F) defining an antenna is formed in said conducting strip. The invention also relates to a portable apparatus that comprises: such a flat screen (E); an electronic board including a floorplan (PM) parallel to the flat screen and electrically connected to the conductive strip of the same; a means for generating and/or detecting electric radiofrequency signals; and an excitation port (P) for the slot antenna (F) installed in the flat screen, and connected to said means for generating and/or detecting electric radiofrequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, Lionel Rudant
  • Patent number: 8674598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polychromatic electronic display device with an electroluminescent screen, particularly with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), wherein the polychromatic electronic display device comprises an electroluminescent emission surface and, towards the inside of the device, at least one substrate (2) coated with a pixel matrix, said device including a stack of a plurality of electroluminescent cells (UI and Ue) in which each pixel comprises at least three sub-pixels having different colours. According to the invention, for each pixel, the sub-pixel having the lowest emission wavelength ?c, or critical sub-pixel, is exclusively located in the external unit (Ue) adjacent to said emission surface, each of the other sub-pixels emitting at a wavelength higher than ?c being exclusively located in an internal unit (UI) relative to said external unit and adjacent to the substrate, the surface area of this critical sub-pixel being higher than that of each of the other sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: David Vaufrey, Christophe Prat
  • Patent number: 8638032
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic device, such as a display, lighting or signalling device, that is protected from the ambient air by a sealed encapsulation in the form of a thin film, and to a method for encapsulating such a device. An optoelectronic device (1) according to the invention is coated with a sealed multi-layer encapsulation structure (20) comprising alternating inorganic layers (21a to 26a) and organic layers (21b to 25b). According to the invention, the device is such that at least one of said organic layers consists of a crosslinked adhesive film (21b to 25b) based on a glue that can be crosslinked thermally or by electromagnetic radiation, the or each adhesive film having a thickness uniformly lower than 200 n, said thickness being obtained by passing the film, which is deposited and not yet cross-linked, through a vacuum, such that the total thickness of the encapsulation structure is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Tony Maindron, Christophe Prat
  • Patent number: 8357928
    Abstract: Diode for which one of the conducting layers presents a suitable surface resistance so that when a power supply voltage is applied between a connection element and this conducting layer and the other conducting layer, a potential distribution is generated at the surface of this resisting conducting layer which is able to cause light to be emitted by a portion of the surface of the organic light emitting layer which is proportional to this power supply voltage. This diode is advantageously used to visualize the signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, David Vaufrey, Philippe Le Roy
  • Patent number: 8325117
    Abstract: Image display screen suitable for displaying image frames, at a given screen scanning frequency, comprising, light emitters, circuits for addressing the emitters each comprising, a current modulator able to supply the said emitter with current during the screen display mode, a charge capacitance able to store at each image frame a potential applied to the gate electrode of the current modulator, the potential being representative of a voltage for addressing an image datum during a screen display mode. The screen comprises a control system able to apply a bias voltage to the gate electrode of the current modulator and to the said charge capacitance, during a screen standby mode of a duration greater than the duration of an image frame, the said bias voltage having a bias inverse to the bias of the potential applied to the said charge capacitance during the screen display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat, Fabien Ammardji
  • Publication number: 20120019419
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flat screen (E) that comprises an active pixel matrix (M), an electrode that is common to said pixels (C), and a conductive strip (R) preferably in the form of a ring that is connected to said common electrode and at least partially surrounds said active matrix, characterised in that at least one slot (F) defining an antenna is formed in said conducting strip. The invention also relates to a portable apparatus that comprises: such a flat screen (E); an electronic board including a floorplan (PM) parallel to the flat screen and electrically connected to the conductive strip of the same; a means for generating and/or detecting electric radiofrequency signals; and an excitation port (P) for the slot antenna (F) installed in the flat screen, and connected to said means for generating and/or detecting electric radiofrequency signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, Lionel Rudant
  • Patent number: 8102335
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image display screen including: light emitters arranged as rows of light emitters and columns of light emitters, control means to control the emissions of the light emitters, including: a plurality of modulation transistors, each associated with one light emitter of the array, the said modulation transistors being positioned next to each other, along a guiding line, a plurality of compensating transistors intended to compensate for the threshold trigger voltage of the modulation transistors. A single compensating transistor is connected to all the modulation transistors of a column and is intended to compensate for the threshold trigger voltages of all the said modulation transistors of this column. This compensating transistor is formed in the extension of the said modulation transistors of a column along the same guiding line. The invention also relates to a method for driving this screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat
  • Patent number: 8030647
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light transmitter comprising two electrodes facing each other, and at least one light-emitting organic layer with two ends. The thickness of the organic layer varies continuously between the two ends. The invention also relates to a display device comprising such a transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: David Vaufrey, Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat
  • Publication number: 20110198627
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic device, such as a display, lighting or signalling device, that is protected from the ambient air by a sealed encapsulation in the form of a thin film, and to a method for encapsulating such a device. An optoelectronic device (1) according to the invention is coated with a sealed multi-layer encapsulation structure (20) comprising alternating inorganic layers (21a to 26a) and organic layers (21b to 25b). According to the invention, the device is such that at least one of said organic layers consists of a crosslinked adhesive film (21b to 25b) based on a glue that can be crosslinked thermally or by electromagnetic radiation, the or each adhesive film having a thickness uniformly lower than 200 n, said thickness being obtained by passing the film, which is deposited and not yet cross-linked, through a vacuum, such that the total thickness of the encapsulation structure is minimised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Tony Maindron, Christophe Prat
  • Publication number: 20110181178
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polychromatic electronic display device with an electroluminescent screen, particularly with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), wherein the polychromatic electronic display device comprises an electroluminescent emission surface and, towards the inside of the device, at least one substrate (2) coated with a pixel matrix, said device including a stack of a plurality of electroluminescent cells (UI and Ue) in which each pixel comprises at least three sub-pixels having different colours. According to the invention, for each pixel, the sub-pixel having the lowest emission wavelength ?c, or critical sub-pixel, is exclusively located in the external unit (Ue) adjacent to said emission surface, each of the other sub-pixels emitting at a wavelength higher than ?c being exclusively located in an internal unit (UI) relative to said external unit and adjacent to the substrate, the surface area of this critical sub-pixel being higher than that of each of the other sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: David Vaudrey, Christophe Prat
  • Patent number: 7981239
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an electronic display device comprising a substrate coated with a display having an active zone and a connection zone, the display being attached by an adhesive crosslinkable by radiation to a protective plate. This process comprises: a) application of the adhesive to the display and/or this plate; b) attachment, by bonding, of the plate to the display; c) radiation through the plate in order to crosslink the adhesive; then d) removal of one portion of the plate covering the connection zone, with a view to rendering the latter electrically accessible. Prior to step a) a masking layer that is opaque to the radiation is deposited so that it opposes the crosslinking of the adhesive applied opposite the sole connection zone, and after step d), removed from the connection zone is the uncrosslinked adhesive, which has not been removed with the portion of the protective plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, David Vaufrey
  • Publication number: 20110032177
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making an electronic display device (1) having a screen (3) covered by a protection plate, and to a substrate (2) covered by said screen for obtaining such a device. The method comprises the following steps: a) applying glue (10) at the non cross-linked state substantially on the entire surface of the screen and/or the assembling surface (11a) of the plate (11) following a deposit on the screen connection area (5) of at least one organic layer (15) for protecting the connection area from the glue; applying the assembling surface against the screen via the glue; c) emitting a radiation through the plate for cross-linking the glue; and d) removing a portion of the plate covering the connection area so that the latter can be electrically accessible, the protection layer being removed from the connection area upon said removal or during a further surface processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, Tony Maindron
  • Publication number: 20100127245
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light transmitter comprising two electrodes facing each other, and at least one light-emitting organic layer with two ends. The thickness of the organic layer varies continuously between the two ends. The invention also relates to a display device comprising such a transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: David Vaufrey, Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat
  • Publication number: 20100084635
    Abstract: Diode for which one of the conducting layers presents a suitable surface resistance so that when a power supply voltage is applied between a connection element and this conducting layer and the other conducting layer, a potential distribution is generated at the surface of this resisting conducting layer which is able to cause light to be emitted by a portion of the surface of the organic light emitting layer which is proportional to this power supply voltage. This diode is advantageously used to visualise the signal value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, David Vaufrey, Philippe Le Roy
  • Publication number: 20100026670
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device comprising at least a light emitter, with power supply means suitable for the electrical supply for each emitter and the means of detection of irradiance of ambient light radiation. The detection means are also able to capture the ambient light radiation, to convert it into electrical energy and supply power to each emitter to increase the light level of each emitter according to the irradiance of ambient light radiation. The invention relates to any display system that undergoes illumination variations but for which the readability must be ensured such as computers, traffic lights or similar devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat, David Vaufray
  • Publication number: 20090303128
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optically reconfigurable multi-element device. An optical matrix formed by a set of optical elements, such as elements of OLED type, makes it possible to actuate a matrix of photoconductive elements, which will allow connection to be made between the various elements of the device to be reconfigured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Robert, Philippe Minard, Nicolas Boisbouvier, Christophe Prat
  • Patent number: 7557778
    Abstract: The invention relates to an active-matrix image display device that comprises an array of light emitters. Each light emitter is controlled by a current modulator having a particular trip threshold voltage. The device also includes compensation means for compensating for the trip threshold voltage of the modulators. These compensation means comprise at least one operational amplifier connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode of the modulator. The feedback of this operational amplifier compensates for the trip threshold voltage of at least one modulator whatever the value of the said voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Philippe Le Roy, Christophe Prat, Christophe Fery