Patents by Inventor Frédéric Mercier
Frédéric Mercier 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: 12230197Abstract: A display pixel including a light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first voltage received between the first and second pads. The driver circuit controls the light-emitting diode based on first and second binary signals. The first signal is received between the third and second pads and alternates between a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and a third voltage, lower than the second voltage. The second signal is received between the fourth and second pads and alternates between the second voltage and the third voltage. The display pixel comprises a circuit for delivering a power supply voltage of the driver circuit, based on the first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: AlediaInventor: Frédéric Mercier
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Publication number: 20250054424Abstract: A display pixel comprising at least one light-emitting diode, an electronic circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first and second conductive pads, the first pad being coupled to the light-emitting diode, the driving circuit being configured in normal operation to drive the light-emitting diode on the basis of first signals received on the second pad, the driving circuit comprising first and second modules, the first module being coupled to the first and second pads, and being configured to activate or deactivate the second module on the basis of the supply voltage received on the first pad and first signals received on the second pad, the second module being configured, when activated, to deliver second signals for driving the light-emitting diode for a test operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: AlediaInventors: Frédéric Mercier, Ivan Petkov
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Publication number: 20250046233Abstract: A display screen including display circuits each including a light-emitting diode, a controllable current source powering the light-emitting diode, and a driver circuit adapted to delivering a pulse-width modulated signal for controlling the current source; first, second, and third electrodes coupled to the driver circuits; a circuit for delivering a selection signal on each first electrode; a circuit for delivering analog data signals on the second electrodes; a circuit for delivering a voltage for powering the light-emitting diodes on the third electrodes, wherein each selection signal or the power supply voltage includes spaced-apart phases, each containing an analog signal periodic per interval used for the control of the current source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Parc d'Entreprises Sud GalaxieInventors: Frédéric Mercier, Hugues Lebrun
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Publication number: 20240428723Abstract: A display pixel including a light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first voltage received between the first and second pads. The driver circuit controls the light-emitting diode based on first and second binary signals. The first signal is received between the third and second pads and alternates between a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and a third voltage, lower than the second voltage. The second signal is received between the fourth and second pads and alternates between the second voltage and the third voltage. The display pixel comprises a circuit for delivering a power supply voltage of the driver circuit, based on the first and second signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: AlediaInventor: Frédéric Mercier
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Publication number: 20240421271Abstract: A display block including an optoelectronic circuit including-light-emitting diodes of at least two display pixels and having a first surface of emission of the light radiations of the light-emitting diodes; and diffusing structures covering the optoelectronic circuit, each diffusing structure being in contact with a portion of the first emission surface and having a second surface of emission of the light radiations of the light-emitting diodes of one of the display pixels, the ratio of the sum of the areas of the second emission surfaces to the area of the first emission surface being greater than 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: AlediaInventors: Olivier Jeannin, Ivan-Christophe Robin, Frédéric Mercier
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Publication number: 20240297155Abstract: An electronic device for capturing or emitting a physical quantity includes a lower support; lower conductive elements; active elements including an active part and each including a lower portion electrically connected to at least one of the lower conductive elements and an upper portion; and upper conductive elements. The upper portion of each active element is electrically connected to one of the upper conductive elements. At least one first electrically insulating element is arranged between the lateral wall of at least two adjacent active elements disposed side by side on the support surface of the lower support. The first electrically insulating element is arranged between one of the upper conductive elements and one of the lower conductive elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Frédéric MAYER, Frédéric MERCIER, Erwan DORNEL, Ivan-Christophe ROBIN
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Patent number: 12039922Abstract: A display pixel including at least one light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The driver circuit is powered with a first power supply voltage received between the first and second pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first binary signal, received between the third and second pads, and alternating between a second power supply voltage, greater than the first voltage, and a third voltage, smaller than the first voltage. The driver circuit is configured to determine a digital signal based on the values of a second binary signal on the fourth pad received during each of first pulses of the first binary signal at the third voltage and to control the light-emitting diode from the digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: AlediaInventor: Frédéric Mercier
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Patent number: 11984549Abstract: An optoelectronic device including an integrated circuit including light-emitting diodes, thin film transistors, and a stack of electrically-insulating layers, said stack being located between the light-emitting diodes and the transistors, said stack further including conductive elements, between and through said insulating layers, said conductive elements connecting at least some of the transistors to the light-emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: AlediaInventors: Frédéric Mayer, Frédéric Mercier, Ivan-Christophe Robin, Xavier Hugon
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Publication number: 20240120296Abstract: A method for protecting optoelectronic devices against electrostatic discharges. Each optoelectronic device includes an electronic circuit including at least one electronic component and one optoelectronic circuit bonded to the electronic circuit and including at last one optoelectronic component from among a light-emitting diode or a photodiode. The method includes forming of first and second wafers, one of the first or second wafer includes a plurality of copies of the electronic circuit and the other one of the first or second wafer including a plurality of copies of the optoelectronic circuit, the bonding of the first wafer to a support, the bonding of the second wafer to the first wafer, and the separation of the electronic devices from one another, wherein the first wafer and/or the second wafer comprises at least one system for protecting optoelectronic devices against electrostatic discharges.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: AlediaInventors: Xavier Hugon, Frédéric Mayer, Frédéric Mercier, lvan-Christophe Robin
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Publication number: 20240087505Abstract: A display pixel including at least one light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The driver circuit is powered with a first power supply voltage received between the first and second pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first binary signal, received between the third and second pads, and alternating between a second power supply voltage, greater than the first voltage, and a third voltage, smaller than the first voltage. The driver circuit is configured to determine a digital signal based on the values of a second binary signal on the fourth pad received during each of first pulses of the first binary signal at the third voltage and to control the light-emitting diode from the digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: AlediaInventor: Frédéric Mercier
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Patent number: 11880906Abstract: An image display system includes at least one user parameter analyser configured to determine at least one parameter associated with a user, an image display screen having luminous pixels, at least one graphics processing unit configured to process at least one first main image that can be displayed on the image display screen and that is representative of a first zone of a main scene. The system further includes at least one image buffer device configured to store at least the first main image, and a graphics controller configured to control a display of at least one first secondary image on the image display screen, the first secondary image having a first portion of the first main image included in the first main image and positioned within the first main image as a function of a first user parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: ALEDIAInventors: Ivan-Christophe Robin, Frédéric Mercier, Matthieu Charbonnier
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Patent number: 11862093Abstract: A device including a display screen including display pixels arranged in rows and in columns, including a first row and a first column. The device further includes a display screen control circuit configured to, in a first mode, start the display of a first image on the first row and on the first column and, in a second mode, start the display of a second image on one of the rows different from the first row and/or on one of the columns different from the first column.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AlediaInventors: Frédéric Mercier, Matthieu Charbonnier
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Publication number: 20230352403Abstract: A method for treating a region of an optoelectronic device (Pix) further including a substrate adjacent to the region to be treated. The optoelectronic device includes, in the region to be treated, programmable elements configured to be modified when they are exposed to a laser beam. The method includes the exposure of at least one of the programmable elements to the laser beam focused through the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: ALEDIAInventors: Olivier Jeannin, Erwan Dornel, Frédéric Mercier, Matthieu Charbonnier
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Patent number: 11764196Abstract: An optoelectronic device including a support, at least a first conductive layer covering the support, display pixels including first and second opposite surfaces, bonded to the first conductive layer, each pixel including an electronic circuit including the first surface and a third surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface being bonded to the first conductive layer, and an optoelectronic circuit bonded to the third surface and including at least two light-emitting diodes, at least one of the electrodes of each light-emitting diode being connected to the electronic circuit by the third surface, the optoelectronic circuit further comprising photoluminescent blocks covering the light-emitting diodes and conductive or semiconductor walls surrounding the photoluminescent blocks, and at least one second conductive layer electrically coupled to at least one of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: AlediaInventors: Ivan-Christophe Robin, Erwan Dornel, Frédéric Mercier
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Publication number: 20230272522Abstract: A method for functionalizing a cellulose-based substrate by chemical deposition of at least one thin layer, from gaseous precursors. The method includes the provision of a substrate including at least one sheet having a first face and a second face, of surface roughness greater than or equal to 0.1 ?m. The first face has a part superposed to another part belonging to the first face or to the second face. A spacing between said parts is conserved at least locally, so as to enable a diffusion of the gaseous precursors. The method also includes the gaseous chemical deposition of at least one thin layer on the substrate such as provided by diffusion of the gaseous precursors, the gaseous precursors diffusing at least in each spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Erwan GICQUEL, Frederic MERCIER, Raphael BOICHOT, Elisabeth BLANQUET, Evelyne MAURET, Roman REBOUD, Julien BRAS
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Patent number: 11570865Abstract: optoelectronic circuit intended to receive a variable voltage containing an alternation of rising and falling phases. The optoelectronic circuit includes light-emitting diodes and a switching device capable of allowing or of interrupting the flowing of a current through each light-emitting diode. Each light-emitting diode is covered with a photoluminescent layer. The photoluminescent layer covering at least one of the light-emitting diodes includes at least one first luminophore having a first decay constant and at least one second luminophore having a second decay constant different from the first decay constant.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: AlediaInventors: Olivier Jeannin, Frédéric Mercier, Pamela Rueda Fonseca
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Publication number: 20230018962Abstract: A device including a display screen including display pixels arranged in rows and in columns, including a first row and a first column. The device further includes a display screen control circuit configured to, in a first mode, start the display of a first image on the first row and on the first column and, in a second mode, start the display of a second image on one of the rows different from the first row and/or on one of the columns different from the first column.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: AlediaInventors: Frédéric Mercier, Matthieu Charbonnier
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Publication number: 20220406628Abstract: A method of protecting optoelectronic devices against electrostatic discharges, each optoelectronic device comprising an optoelectronic circuit comprising at least one optoelectronic component from among a light-emitting diode or a photodiode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: AlediaInventors: Frédéric Mayer, Frédéric Mercier, Ivan-Christophe Robin, Xavier Hugon
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Patent number: 11522111Abstract: An optoelectronic device, including: a support; at least one first electrically-conductive layer covering the support; display pixel circuits including first and second opposite surfaces bonded to the first electrically-conductive layer, each display pixel circuit including an electronic circuit including the first surface and a third surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface being bonded to the first electrically-conductive layer, and at least one optoelectronic circuit bonded to the third surface and including at least one light-emitting diode, at least one of the electrodes of the light-emitting diode being connected to the electronic circuit by the third surface; at least one second electrically-conductive layer covering the display pixel circuits and electrically coupled to the electronic circuits of the display pixel circuits on the side of the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: AlediaInventors: Xavier Hugon, Philippe Gilet, Ivan-Christophe Robin, Zine Bouhamri, Frédéric Mercier, Matthieu Charbonnier
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Patent number: 11443686Abstract: A display screen including display circuits, each display circuit including a light-emitting diode, a controllable current source powering the light-emitting diode, and a control circuit capable of supplying a pulse-width modulated signal for controlling the current source from a periodic signal. The display screen further includes first electrodes coupled to the control circuits, a circuit for supplying a selection signal successively on each first electrode, and an oscillating circuit or oscillating circuits capable of supplying the periodic signals, the periodic signals being non-synchronous with the display circuit selection signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: AlediaInventors: Matthieu Charbonnier, Frédéric Mercier