Patents by Inventor Fabien Balli

Fabien Balli 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: 10884381
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a timepiece including: providing a portable object including a screen and a camera; testing accuracy of a piece of time information of the timepiece by using the camera of the portable object to compare with a piece of time information obtained from an external source; sending the time information from the portable object to the timepiece if a difference is detected, the timepiece including at least one phototransistor arranged at a case for receiving the time information, the timepiece to display the correct time information, the sending including: defining on the screen of the portable object an area of shape and dimensions similar to the case of the timepiece; holding the case of the timepiece against the area; sequentially displaying black or white in the area, in a sequence of black and white corresponding to a luminous coding of the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Pascal Lagorgette, Fabien Balli, Raphaël Balmer, Laurent Christe, Jean-Bernard Peters
  • Patent number: 10222762
    Abstract: A method of managing an electronic apparatus including a case containing a microcontroller powered with electrical energy by an electrical energy storage and connected to a time base, a mechanism of measuring light intensity, a mechanism of detecting whether the apparatus is being worn, the microcontroller also being connected to a first display and a second display, arranged, in an active operating mode, to be controlled by the electronic control circuit to display at least a first temporal data item at least provided by the time base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Fabien Balli, Stephane Claude, Jean Laconte
  • Publication number: 20190049904
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a timepiece including: providing a portable object including a screen and a camera; testing accuracy of a piece of time information of the timepiece by using the camera of the portable object to compare with a piece of time information obtained from an external source; sending the time information from the portable object to the timepiece if a difference is detected, the timepiece including at least one phototransistor arranged at a case for receiving the time information, the timepiece to display the correct time information, the sending including: defining on the screen of the portable object an area of shape and dimensions similar to the case of the timepiece; holding the case of the timepiece against the area; sequentially displaying black or white in the area, in a sequence of black and white corresponding to a luminous coding of the time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Pascal LAGORGETTE, Fabien BALLI, Raphaël BALMER, Laurent CHRISTE, Jean-Bernard PETERS
  • Patent number: 9317016
    Abstract: An instrument for counting duration for differentiated phases, including: plural mechanisms for recording a time duration, each actuatable, for activation and deactivation thereof, by a first controller; a general controller for controlling, from an inactive position in which all the recording mechanisms are deactivated, activation of only one of them, selected by a selector, and for again controlling, at a final moment, deactivation of all the recording mechanisms; a switch configured, during a command for activation of one of the recording mechanisms, to trigger the deactivation of all other recording mechanisms and to save totality of the recorded times, counted on each of the recording mechanisms. The selector is configured to be controlled by a user or/and by a measuring mechanism or/and by a signal to trigger the activation of one of the recording mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton International AG
    Inventors: Ines Ruestenberg, Gerald Matthey, Fabien Balli
  • Publication number: 20150168923
    Abstract: A method of managing an electronic apparatus including a case containing a microcontroller powered with electrical energy by an electrical energy storage and connected to a time base, a mechanism of measuring light intensity, a mechanism of detecting whether the apparatus is being worn, the microcontroller also being connected to a first display and a second display, arranged, in an active operating mode, to be controlled by the electronic control circuit to display at least a first temporal data item at least provided by the time base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Fabien Balli, Stéphane Claude, Jean Laconte
  • Patent number: 8811121
    Abstract: A portable timepiece includes at least one hand for displaying the minutes and hours and an electronic unit for the chromatic tuning of an instrument. The electronic unit includes an acoustic signal sensor and a means of processing the received electro-acoustic signal. At least one of the hands of the timepiece displays data relative to the received electro-acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Fabien Balli
  • Publication number: 20140064042
    Abstract: An instrument for counting duration for differentiated phases, including: plural mechanisms for recording a time duration, each actuatable, for activation and deactivation thereof, by a first controller; a general controller for controlling, from an inactive position in which all the recording mechanisms are deactivated, activation of only one of them, selected by a selector, and for again controlling, at a final moment, deactivation of all the recording mechanisms; a switch configured, during a command for activation of one of the recording mechanisms, to trigger the deactivation of all other recording mechanisms and to save totality of the recorded times, counted on each of the recording mechanisms. The selector is configured to be controlled by a user or/and by a measuring mechanism or/and by a signal to trigger the activation of one of the recording mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hamilton International AG
    Inventors: Ines Rüstenberg, Gérald Matthey, Fabien Balli
  • Publication number: 20120243379
    Abstract: A portable timepiece includes at least one hand for displaying the minutes and hours and an electronic unit for the chromatic tuning of an instrument. The electronic unit includes an acoustic signal sensor and a means of processing the received electro-acoustic signal. At least one of the hands of the timepiece displays data relative to the received electro-acoustic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Fabien Balli
  • Patent number: 8243553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable electronic device (1) comprising at least two analog display elements (16, 17) to display the current time in a first operating mode, the time mode, the electronic device (1) additionally comprising a sensor (23) for a physical magnitude to measure the value of this physical magnitude as a function of time in a second operating mode and memory elements (25, 26) intended to store at least a portion of the measured values with a given period. The display elements can be controlled in the second operating mode to respectively display a value representative of the measured physical magnitude and a calculated value representative of the variation in time of the physical magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Jean-Bernard Veuthey, Fabien Balli
  • Publication number: 20090185452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable electronic device (1) comprising at least two analog display elements (16, 17) to display the current time in a first operating mode, the time mode, the electronic device (1) additionally comprising a sensor (23) for a physical magnitude to measure the value of this physical magnitude as a function of time in a second operating mode and memory elements (25, 26) intended to store at least a portion of the measured values with a given period. The display elements can be controlled in the second operating mode to respectively display a value representative of the measured physical magnitude and a calculated value representative of the variation in time of the physical magnitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE
    Inventors: Jean-Bernard Veuthey, Fabien Balli