Patents by Inventor Eric Benoît

Eric Benoît 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).

  • Addressing process for a plasma display based on repeating bits on one or more lines
    Patent number: 6388677
    Abstract: The device comprising a video processing circuit (7) for processing the video data received, a correspondence memory (8) for transcoding these data, a video memory (9) for storing the transcoded data, the video memory being linked to column drivers (10) in order to control the column addressing of the plasma panel on the basis of column control words, a control circuit (11) for the line drivers (12), is characterized in that the control circuit for the line drivers simultaneously selects at least two successive lines during the transmission by the column drivers (10) of at least one of the bits of the column control words relating to one of these lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Thomson multimedia
    Inventors: Didier Doyen, Eric Benoît, Jacques Deschamps, Gérard Rilly