Patents by Inventor Dominique Vanypre

Dominique Vanypre 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: 7433779
    Abstract: This method relates to the system of ATM air traffic management with cooperative aircraft provided with a flight management computer FMS, that are linked by a data transmission system ATN to the control authority and that have presented a flight plan to the control authority. It consists in communicating to the control authority via the ATN link, the projections SPWPi,j onto the flight plan LTFP of pseudo-waypoints PWPi,j introduced by the flight management computer FMS during lateral (between two segments of the flight plan) and/or vertical (between two breaks in slope) softened transitions performed by the aircraft at the time of the changes of instructions appearing in the flight plan LTFP. By virtue of this information, the control authority estimates more precisely the actual future position of the aircraft and the changes of instruction, thereby enabling it to increase the safety level in particular for the spacing and separation of traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Guy Deker, Dominique Vanypre
  • Publication number: 20070078572
    Abstract: This method relates to the system of ATM air traffic management with cooperative aircraft provided with a flight management computer FMS, that are linked by a data transmission system ATN to the control authority and that have presented a flight plan to the control authority. It consists in communicating to the control authority via the ATN link, the projections SPWPi,j onto the flight plan LTFP of pseudo-waypoints PWPi,j introduced by the flight management computer FMS during lateral (between two segments of the flight plan) and/or vertical (between two breaks in slope) softened transitions performed by the aircraft at the time of the changes of instructions appearing in the flight plan LTFP. By virtue of this information, the control authority estimates more precisely the actual future position of the aircraft and the changes of instruction, thereby enabling it to increase the safety level in particular for the spacing and separation of traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Guy Deker, Dominique Vanypre
  • Patent number: 4698768
    Abstract: A process for smoothing curves, comprising previous storage of a predetered number of patterns formed from at least two adjacent pixels disposed on the same line or in the same column, step-by-step calculation of the theoretical curve to be plotted, determination for each of the pitches of the pixel closest to the theoretical curve to be plotted, measurement of the distance e from this pixel to the theoretical curve, determination as a function of this distance e of the pattern which corresponds to the elementary position of the curve to be plotted and illumination of the pattern on a visualization surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: SFENA-Societe Francaise d'Equippements pour la Navigation Aereenne
    Inventors: Pham D. Thuy, Dominique Vanypre