Patents by Inventor Francois DANNEVILLE

Francois DANNEVILLE 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: 11580374
    Abstract: An artificial neuron including: a membrane capacitor; an input of an external synaptic excitation in current, the membrane capacitor integrating the input current; a negative-feedback impulse circuit, supplied by a power supply at a negative voltage between ?200 mV and 0 mV and at a positive voltage between 0 mV and +200 mV, including: a bridge based on pMOS and nMOS transistors in series and linked by a midpoint to the membrane capacitor, the midpoint defining the output of the artificial neuron, at least one delay capacitor between the gate and the source of one of the transistors of the bridge, at least two CMOS inverters between the membrane capacitor and the gates of the transistors of the bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Alain Cappy, Francois Danneville, Virginie Hoel, Christophe Loyez
  • Patent number: 11478634
    Abstract: An optical sensor, especially an artificial retina, that includes at least one photosensitive cell. Each cell includes a integration capacitor, a read circuit the operation of which depends on the charge of the integration capacitor, at least one MOS transistor operating subthreshold, and the drain-source current of which influences the charge on the integration capacitor, and at least one photodiode operating in photovoltaic mode and connected to the gate of this transistor, such that the drain-source current of the MOS transistor depends on the optical power received by the photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITÉ POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, YNCREA HAUTS DE FRANCE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE
    Inventors: Alain Cappy, Francois Danneville, Virginie Hoel, Christophe Loyez, Ilias Sourikopoulos
  • Publication number: 20210216856
    Abstract: Electronic neural circuit including at least one pre-neuron having an output voltage VAout, and at least one post-neuron that are linked by at least one excitatory synapse having at least one switching input, wherein the excitatory synapse is supplied with power by the output VAout and receives, on its switching input, a switching signal VAout_bar whose state is complementary to that of the output VAout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Francois Danneville, Alain CAPPY, llias Sourikopoulos, Christophe Loyez
  • Publication number: 20200346004
    Abstract: An optical sensor, especially an artificial retina, that includes at least one photosensitive cell. Each cell includes a integration capacitor, a read circuit the operation of which depends on the charge of the integration capacitor at least one MOS transistor operating subthreshold, and the drain-source current of which influences the charge on the integration capacitor, and at least one photodiode operating in photovoltaic mode and connected to the gate of this transistor, such that the drain-source current of the MOS transistor depends on the optical power received by the photodiode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Alain Cappy, Francois Danneville, Virginie Hoel, Christophe Loyez, Ilias SOURIKOPOULOS
  • Publication number: 20190130258
    Abstract: An artificial neuron including: a membrane capacitor; an input of an external synaptic excitation in current, the membrane capacitor integrating the input current; a negative-feedback impulse circuit, supplied by a power supply at a negative voltage between ?200 mV and 0 mV and at a positive voltage between 0 mV and +200 mV, including: a bridge based on pMOS and nMOS transistors in series and linked by a midpoint to the membrane capacitor, the midpoint defining the output of the artificial neuron, at least one delay capacitor between the gate and the source of one of the transistors of the bridge, at least two CMOS inverters between the membrane capacitor and the gates of the transistors of the bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Alain CAPPY, Francois DANNEVILLE, Virginie HOEL, Christophe LOYEZ