Patents by Inventor Francois Hogan

Francois Hogan 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).

  • VISUOTACTILE OPERATORS FOR PROXIMITY SENSING AND CONTACT CONTROL
    Publication number: 20230264367
    Abstract: A method for identifying and manipulating objects may include obtaining, from an image sensor, image sensor data; identifying, using the image sensor data, a location of an object; controlling a robotic element, which includes the image sensor, to move towards the location of the object; determining a slippage based on contact between the image sensor and the object; and controlling a movement of the robotic element based on the determined slippage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Francois HOGAN, Jean-Francois Tremblay, Bobak Hamed Baghi, Michael Jenkin, Kaleem Siddiqi, Gregory Lewis Dudek
  • Semitransparent tactile surface sensor and a method of sensing an interaction with an object using the semitransparent tactile surface sensor
    Patent number: 11656759
    Abstract: A method of sensing an interaction with an object using a semitransparent tactile surface (STS) sensor having an image sensor and a semitransparent membrane includes capturing, by the image sensor, a stream of images; separating the stream of images into a visual stream including light traveling through the semitransparent membrane and a tactile stream including light reflecting off of the semitransparent membrane; and processing the visual stream and tactile stream through a multimodal deep neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Francois Hogan, Michael Jenkin, Gregory Lewis Dudek, Yogesh Girdhar, Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari, David Meger
  • SEMITRANSPARENT TACTILE SURFACE SENSOR AND A METHOD OF SENSING AN INTERACTION WITH AN OBJECT USING THE SEMITRANSPARENT TACTILE SURFACE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20210389872
    Abstract: A method of sensing an interaction with an object using a semitransparent tactile surface (STS) sensor having an image sensor and a semitransparent membrane includes capturing, by the image sensor, a stream of images; separating the stream of images into a visual stream including light traveling through the semitransparent membrane and a tactile stream including light reflecting off of the semitransparent membrane; and processing the visual stream and tactile stream through a multimodal deep neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Francois Hogan, Michael Jenkin, Gregory Lewis Dudek, Yogesh Girdhar, Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari, David Meger