Patents by Inventor Jacques HÉLOT

Jacques HÉLOT 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: 11932107
    Abstract: A display surface of a self-luminous screen element is divided into first and second display regions by a bend region. A selective shielding unit transmits light from the screen element along a preferred direction and blocks light along a blocking direction and/or deflects light from the blocking direction. When installed in a motor vehicle, the display device faces a surface region at a distance from the screen element on which a reflection of the display content displayed on the second display region is visible from a predetermined viewing point. In this case, the preferred direction of the selective shielding unit in the second display region is oriented toward the surface region and the blocking direction in the second display region is oriented toward the predetermined viewing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andrej Zachar, Jacques Helot, Joris Mertens
  • Patent number: 11932108
    Abstract: A display panel with a first panel side and a second panel side is included in a display device. The display panel displays at least one graphic display object. The display panel includes a first layer which is a pixel matrix and a second layer which includes a plurality of predetermined primary subareas. The display device includes control circuitry to enable the displaying of the graphic display object based on a predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation. The control circuitry adjusts a respective light transmission to a predetermined individual degree for each of the predetermined primary subareas independent of each other based on a physical environment condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Immo Redeker, Joris Mertens, Michael Herter, André Georgi
  • Patent number: 11921932
    Abstract: A control device of a display and operating device specifies a graphical configuration of a display element to be displayed by the display device. Based on the specified graphical configuration, at least one light wave parameter for a respective light wave of a group of light waves is ascertained. A totality of the light wave parameters describes an interference pattern which describes an at least partial superposition of the light waves for generating an image representation of the display element. An interference pattern signal which describes the totality of the ascertained light wave parameters is generated and the generated interference pattern signal is transferred to an interference output device of the display and operating device. Based on the transferred interference pattern signal, the interference output device generates a light wave interference, and an output of a real image of the display element is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jacques Helot
  • Publication number: 20230264626
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a headlight for a motor vehicle comprising a carrier element, on which a plurality of LEDs are arranged, which can be individually controlled in terms of light output, in order to output light according to a predefinable light distribution by means of the headlight. The LEDs are designed as micro-LEDs and at least one sensor element is arranged in an LED-free region of the carrier element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jacques HÉLOT
  • Patent number: 11731512
    Abstract: A display panel for displaying at least one graphical display object and a control device are part of a display apparatus in a motor vehicle. The display panel is freestanding in a space and has a multiplicity of predetermined sections, each having a settable degree of light transmittance. As a result, an environment of the display panel may be visible in the display panel, depending on the degree of light transmittance. The control device is configured to individually set a respective light transmittance to a predetermined degree for each of the multiplicity of predetermined sections of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Immo Redeker, Joris Mertens, Anna Hufnagel
  • Patent number: 11623524
    Abstract: A transparent pixel matrix, a screening layer, and a control circuit are included in a display apparatus. The control circuit displays a graphic object on the pixel matrix. The screening layer includes individually switchable segments arranged behind the pixel matrix and the segments are switchable with respect to their transparency between a minimum value and a maximum value. The control circuit selects the graphic object based on an input by the user. The control circuit signals the graphic object is selected by operating a first segment among the segments arranged behind the selected graphic object as a selection segment, with the minimum value of transparency or with the maximum value of transparency, and by operating a second segment among the segments as a background segment in a complementary fashion with respect to the selection segment, with the maximum value of transparency or the minimum value of transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Carolin Koeberle, Jens Granitza
  • Publication number: 20230034855
    Abstract: A display device includes a transparent display screen element, which has a front side and a rear side opposite to the front side, and a polarizing element arranged flatly on the rear side of the transparent display screen element. The polarizing element is to attenuate light output by at least one lighting element of the transparent display screen element. A motor vehicle may have such a display device, in particular where the display device may be arranged freestanding at or on an interior trim element of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MUELLER, Jacques HELOT
  • Patent number: 11562688
    Abstract: A display panel has a first panel side and a second panel side, both capable of displaying graphic display object(s). The display panel has a pixel layer, control circuitry and a sensor unit which identify the presence of at least one person at a predefined threshold distance from the display device and whether the at least one person is on the first panel side or the second panel side. The control circuitry is adapted to enable the displaying of the graphic display object in accordance with a predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation based on a physical environment condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Joris Mertens
  • Patent number: 11554670
    Abstract: A display and an adjustment device are included in a display adjustment system for an instrument panel of a vehicle. The adjustment device adjusts the display from an original position in the instrument panel into a central position in a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The adjustment device moves the display from the original position of the display in the instrument panel along a central longitudinal axis of the vehicle in the direction of a rear part of the vehicle and transversely with respect to the longitudinal central axis of the vehicle in the direction of a driver's seat so that the display is adjusted into the central position in the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Hélot, Yunzhou Wu
  • Patent number: 11541755
    Abstract: A display panel has a first and second layers and a control unit. The first layer is a pixel matrix. The control unit is designed to actuate at least one pixel element for displaying at least one graphic display object. In a respective non-actuated state each pixel element is transparent. The second layer is partitioned into predetermined primary subareas each having an adjustable degree of light transmission. The primary subareas are separated by a primary space. The control unit is adapted to adjust a respective light transmission to a predetermined individual degree for each of the predetermined primary subareas independent of each other. The display panel also has a third layer designed to attenuate light in the primary space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Senner, Ulrich Mueller, Jacques Helot
  • Publication number: 20220355667
    Abstract: A one-piece display has a main display area at least partly viewable from one point of observation, and a secondary display area arranged so as to not be viewable from that point of observation. The main display area and the secondary display area are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the secondary display area is reflected in the main display area to produce a virtual display plane that is viewable from the point of observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Joris MERTENS, Jacques HÉLOT, Immo REDEKER
  • Patent number: 11451228
    Abstract: An operating device for a motor vehicle, having a touch-sensitive operating element with a frame element and a central region. The touch-sensitive operating interface has a predetermined operating region at each of at least two predetermined touch positions for activating an operating function assigned to the respective operating region. The operating element is arranged to be displaceable at least partially along a translation axis that intersects the operating interface. The operating device has only one detection element, which is arranged facing an inner side of the touch-sensitive operating element that faces away from the touch-sensitive operating interface, and which is arranged to detect a displacement of each operating region along the translation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Jacques Hélot, Joris Mertens, Maximilian Mitwalsky, Clemens Volz, Günther Seitz, Ulrich Müller, Tobias Hopf
  • Patent number: 11422366
    Abstract: At least one display object is displayed by a first display mechanism and a second display mechanism, each having a display surface. At least one of the two display mechanisms is designed such that the display object is produced in a first predetermined sub-region on one of the two display surfaces. The display surfaces are mirror-like, arranged parallel to each other and facing each other such that a mirror shaft is formed between the display surfaces of the first display mechanism and the second display mechanism, such that the display surfaces reflect each other inside the mirror shaft. The motor vehicle display device is designed to reflect the at least one display object produced in the first predetermined sub-region, after a predefinable number of reflections inside the mirror shaft, in a second predetermined sub-region of the first display mechanism outside the mirror shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Thomas Knittl, Peter Zeinar, Jacques Hélot, Alexander Hottinger, Xenia Sichwardt
  • Publication number: 20220219539
    Abstract: A transparent pixel matrix, a screening layer, and a control circuit are included in a display apparatus. The control circuit displays a graphic object on the pixel matrix. The screening layer includes individually switchable segments arranged behind the pixel matrix and the segments are switchable with respect to their transparency between a minimum value and a maximum value. The control circuit selects the graphic object based on an input by the user. The control circuit signals the graphic object is selected by operating a first segment among the segments arranged behind the selected graphic object as a selection segment, with the minimum value of transparency or with the maximum value of transparency, and by operating a second segment among the segments as a background segment in a complementary fashion with respect to the selection segment, with the maximum value of transparency or the minimum value of transparency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques HELOT, Ulrich MUELLER, Carolin KOEBERLE, Jens GRANITZA
  • Patent number: 11352044
    Abstract: A steering handle for a steering apparatus of a motor vehicle includes an end face which faces a user when the steering handle is in a position of use and a display element arranged on a side of the steering handle which faces away from the end face. A control device carries out a method by which a position of the steering handle is changed based on a driving mode set by a driver assistance device. The control device generates an adjustment signal to change between a position of use of the steering handle and a position of rest of the steering handle. When the steering handle is in a position of rest, a surface of the steering handle which faces away from the user when the steering handle is in the position of use instead faces the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Immo Redeker, Jacques Hélot, Joris Mertens
  • Publication number: 20220085129
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel matrix configured to emit light, a first display screen which faces in a first direction, a second display screen which faces in a second direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the pixel matrix to emit light which passes through the first display screen and passes into surroundings of the display device in the first direction so that graphical content is displayed on the first display screen, based on image data that define the graphical content. The controller is also configured to operate in a first display mode in which graphical content as defined by image data is only displayed on the first display screen and the second display screen is deactivated, and a second display mode in which identical graphical content is displayed on both the first display screen and the second display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MUELLER, Jacques HELOT, Seung Mo KANG, Sung Jun PARK, Jiwon OH
  • Patent number: 11267390
    Abstract: A lamp arrangement for a motor vehicle, including a lamp with a transparent carrier for at least one light source, in particular a micro-LED, and a control device. The lamp arrangement has at least one environmental sensor which is arranged behind the carrier and which acquires sensor data through the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Müller
  • Publication number: 20220068199
    Abstract: A display panel has a first panel side and a second panel side, both capable of displaying graphic display object(s). The display panel has a pixel layer, control circuitry and a sensor unit which identify the presence of at least one person at a predefined threshold distance from the display device and whether the at least one person is on the first panel side or the second panel side. The control circuitry is adapted to enable the displaying of the graphic display object in accordance with a predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation based on a physical environment condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques HELOT, Joris MERTENS
  • Publication number: 20220066548
    Abstract: A display device and an electronic control unit are included in a vehicle. A graphical user interface of the display device is configured to display a graphic display object. The electronic control unit is configured to receive an orientation signal of a vehicle element. The orientation signal includes information about at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle element being in at least one of a first element position and a first element orientation. The electronic control unit is configured to adjust a position of the graphical user interface as a function of, or based on, the orientation signal, such that a position of the graphical user interface relative to the vehicle element is within a predefined tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques HELOT, Ulrich MUELLER, Sewon CHUN, Jieun SONG, Soyoung KIM
  • Patent number: 11254210
    Abstract: A proximity-sensitive and touch-sensitive screen includes a display area with first and second segments, the second segment arranged on the first segment along a contact line, on an operator control and display device. At least the second segment can be pivoted, along the contact line, with respect to the first segment to temporarily form an operator control element, thereby providing easier and more reliable operator control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jacques Hélot