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).
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Patent number: 10884381Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Pascal Lagorgette, Fabien Balli, Raphaël Balmer, Laurent Christe, Jean-Bernard Peters
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Patent number: 10222762Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Fabien Balli, Stephane Claude, Jean Laconte
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Publication number: 20190049904Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Pascal LAGORGETTE, Fabien BALLI, Raphaël BALMER, Laurent CHRISTE, Jean-Bernard PETERS
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Patent number: 9317016Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Hamilton International AGInventors: Ines Ruestenberg, Gerald Matthey, Fabien Balli
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Publication number: 20150168923Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Fabien Balli, Stéphane Claude, Jean Laconte
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Patent number: 8811121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventor: Fabien Balli
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Publication number: 20140064042Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Hamilton International AGInventors: Ines Rüstenberg, Gérald Matthey, Fabien Balli
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Publication number: 20120243379Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventor: Fabien Balli
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Patent number: 8243553Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère SuisseInventors: Jean-Bernard Veuthey, Fabien Balli
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Publication number: 20090185452Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSEInventors: Jean-Bernard Veuthey, Fabien Balli