Patents by Inventor Denis GILL

Denis GILL 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: 11664008
    Abstract: An active display can be used in a theatre with reduced screen-door effect. For example, the active display can have a structure, such as a diffuser structure, or a diffuser and mask structure, that can have, or appear to have, transmissive areas and opaque areas to reduce the audience from detecting gaps or other non-light sources in the active display. The active display may additionally or alternatively have audio ports to allow sound to pass through the active display and appear to the audience as if the sound is coming from the active display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 11347466
    Abstract: An active display (102) can be used in a theatre environment (100) in which content to be displayed by the active display (102) can be delivered wirelessly using emitters (118). The active display (102) can include tiles (104a-104d) with detectors (106a-106d) that can detect the wireless signals. The active display (102) can include circuitry that can interpret instructions from the wireless signals for controlling the output (108a-108d) of pixels on the tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Anton Leonard Baljet, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 10982639
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided that includes various precise configuration parameters, including dimensions, shape and/or relative positioning of fuel injector features, resulting in improved efficiency of fuel flow through the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester L. Peters, Jeffrey C. Huang, David L. Buchanan, Corydon Edward Morris, Gary L. Gant, Denis Gill, Heribert Kammerstetter, Ernst Winklhofer
  • Patent number: 10884331
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theatre screens while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: IMAX THEATRES INTERNATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Publication number: 20200371736
    Abstract: An active display (102) can be used in a theatre environment (100) in which content to be displayed by the active display (102) can be delivered wirelessly using emitters (118). The active display (102) can include tiles (104a-104d) with detectors (106a-106d) that can detect the wireless signals. The active display (102) can include circuitry that can interpret instructions from the wireless signals for controlling the output (108a-108d) of pixels on the tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Anton Leonard Baljet, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 10775690
    Abstract: A cinema screen can be vibrated by a screen vibrator assembly. A screen vibrator assembly can include a vibrator, a mount bracket, and an isolation device. The vibrator can be positioned to generate a vibration for vibrating a cinema screen. The mount bracket is configured to be coupled to a screen support structure of the cinema screen. The isolation device is configured to couple the vibrator to the mount bracket to isolate the mount bracket from the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Denis Gilles Tremblay, Gashtaseb Ariana
  • Publication number: 20200272042
    Abstract: A cinema screen can be vibrated by a screen vibrator assembly. A screen vibrator assembly can include a vibrator, a mount bracket, and an isolation device. The vibrator can be positioned to generate a vibration for vibrating a cinema screen. The mount bracket is configured to be coupled to a screen support structure of the cinema screen. The isolation device is configured to couple the vibrator to the mount bracket to isolate the mount bracket from the vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Denis Gilles Tremblay, Gashtaseb Ariana
  • Patent number: 10691007
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theatre screens using acoustical, electromagnetic, or another type of energy while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet and uncoupled from the screen. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Patent number: 10691006
    Abstract: A screen can be vibrated by vibrators that are drivable by signals. Each vibrator can be adjacent in position to other vibrators that are drivable by different types of drive signals than a drive signal associated with the vibrator. The number of drive signals can be equal to or less than the number of vibrators. A vibrator assembly for a vibrator can include a baffle and a transducer that couples to the baffle. The transducer can vibrate at least a portion of the screen. The vibrating screen can be monitored by a sensor and an analyzer unit that can analyze image speckle and screen displacement artifacts in captured images of images projected onto the screen and output results of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Denis Gilles Tremblay, Gashtaseb Ariana
  • Publication number: 20200159103
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theatre screens while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Publication number: 20200160829
    Abstract: An active display can be used in a theatre with reduced screen-door effect. For example, the active display can have a structure, such as a diffuser structure, or a diffuser and mask structure, that can have, or appear to have, transmissive areas and opaque areas to reduce the audience from detecting gaps or other non-light sources in the active display. The active display may additionally or alternatively have audio ports to allow sound to pass through the active display and appear to the audience as if the sound is coming from the active display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 10484785
    Abstract: A loudspeaker cabinet having at least one side wall defining a side wall perimeter; a front wall mounted to the at least one side wall along the side wall perimeter, the front wall having a front surface; wherein a central area of the front surface is positioned within the side wall perimeter, an extended area of the front surface extends beyond the side wall perimeter, and a portion of the extended area is configured to provide a gradual transition to open free space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: IMAX Corporation
    Inventor: Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 10406728
    Abstract: A shim for a compression mold for manufacturing a component from reinforced plastic, typically from SMC, comprising a fixed molding element, a mobile molding element, and a mobile shim that can be moved by an actuator. The mobile shim comprises a conventional part made of steel but also a part made of a high expansion material with a mean coefficient of expansion that is high enough that its own expansion at the molding temperature places the shim in compression against the molding element and seals against this element, thus eliminating flash on the molded part. This material is advantageously a polyetheretherketone, or PEEK. A mold comprising this shim and a compression molding method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Compagnie Plastic Omnium
    Inventors: Frederic Arnaud, Patrick Bosg, Denis Gille, Serge Monnin, Olivier Torres, Jean-Yves Sozet
  • Publication number: 20180231884
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theatre screens using acoustical, electromagnetic, or another type of energy while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet and uncoupled from the screen. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Patent number: 9964844
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theater screens using acoustical, electromagnetic, or another type of energy while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet and uncoupled from the screen. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: IMAX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Patent number: 9903329
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided that includes various precise configuration parameters, including dimensions, shape and/or relative positioning of fuel injector features, resulting in improved efficiency of fuel flow through the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CUMMINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC.
    Inventors: Lester L. Peters, Jeffrey C. Huang, David L. Buchanan, Corydon Edward Morris, Gary Gant, Denis Gill, Heribert Kammerstetter, Ernst Winklhofer
  • Publication number: 20170363946
    Abstract: A screen can be vibrated by vibrators that are drivable by signals. Each vibrator can be adjacent in position to other vibrators that are drivable by different types of drive signals than a drive signal associated with the vibrator. The number of drive signals can be equal to or less than the number of vibrators. A vibrator assembly for a vibrator can include a baffle and a transducer that couples to the baffle. The transducer can vibrate at least a portion of the screen. The vibrating screen can be monitored by a sensor and an analyzer unit that can analyze image speckle and screen displacement artifacts in captured images of images projected onto the screen and output results of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Denis Gilles Tremblay, Gashtaseb Ariana
  • Patent number: 9465284
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theater screens using acoustical, electromagnetic, or another type of energy while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet and uncoupled from the screen. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Publication number: 20160266480
    Abstract: Screen vibration systems are provided that can vibrate theatre screens using acoustical, electromagnetic, or another type of energy while reducing the presence of image artifacts that may otherwise be visible as result of vibrating the screen. In one example of a screen vibration system, the system includes a screen, a permanent magnet mounted to the screen, and a magnetic source positioned with respect to the permanent magnet and uncoupled from the screen. The screen is moveable in response to a changing magnetic field from the magnetic source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hamed Herati, Denis Gilles Tremblay, Oliver Nicholas Komarnycky
  • Publication number: 20160249130
    Abstract: A loudspeaker cabinet having at least one side wall defining a side wall perimeter; a front wall mounted to the at least one side wall along the side wall perimeter, the front wall having a front surface; wherein a central area of the front surface is positioned within the side wall perimeter, an extended area of the front surface extends beyond the side wall perimeter, and a portion of the extended area is configured to provide a gradual transition to open free space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: IMAX Corporation
    Inventor: Denis Gilles Tremblay