Patents by Inventor Jan-Egbert HAMMING

Jan-Egbert HAMMING 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: 10769541
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining tactical actions for protecting a reference entity with respect to a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the method including: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; associating actable deterrent systems with each layer; obtaining data representative of the probability, for each deterrent system, that the considered deterrent system deters an entity in the associated layer; providing, for each entity, the level of threat of the entity; and computing a cost function for determining the deterrent systems to be engaged by the reference entity for rendering extremal the cost function, the cost function being a function depending from the provided level of threat and the obtained data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christophe Camille Labreuche, Helia Pouyllau, Pierre Saveant, Yann Semet, Jan-Egbert Hamming, Maurice Houtsma
  • Patent number: 10330776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating the level of threat of at least one entity among a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the level of threat being evaluated with respect to a reference entity to be protected, the method including the steps of: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; obtaining data representative of a position of the entity with respect to the layers of the battlefield environment; and determining the level of threat of the entity using the obtained data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christophe Labreuche, Helia Pouyllau, Pierre Saveant, Yann Semet, Jan-Egbert Hamming, Maurice Houtsma
  • Patent number: 10037709
    Abstract: A decision support method for use by an operator surrounded by adverse entities in a battlefield environment comprises generating a layered representation of the physical environment surrounding the operator from sensor information by mapping the spherical physical environment of the operator into a geometrical representation suitable for display on a screen, the representation being segmented into a plurality of layers having respective sizes, each layer being associated with a respective category of tactical actions. The representation further comprises visual elements representing adverse entities in the surrounding physical environment of the operator, each visual element being represented so as to be superposed with a given layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: THALES NEDERLAND B.V.
    Inventors: Jan-Egbert Hamming, Frank Koudijs, Frank Colijn, Pim Van Wensveen
  • Publication number: 20180113198
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating the level of threat of at least one entity among a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the level of threat being evaluated with respect to a reference entity to be protected, the method including the steps of: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; obtaining data representative of a position of the entity with respect to the layers of the battlefield environment; and determining the level of threat of the entity using the obtained data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Christophe LABREUCHE, Helia POUYLLAU, Pierre SAVEANT, Yann SEMET, Jan-Egbert HAMMING, Maurice HOUTSMA
  • Publication number: 20180060751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining tactical actions for protecting a reference entity with respect to a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the method including: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; associating actable deterrent systems with each layer; obtaining data representative of the probability, for each deterrent system, that the considered deterrent system deters an entity in the associated layer; providing, for each entity, the level of threat of the entity; and computing a cost function for determining the deterrent systems to be engaged by the reference entity for rendering extremal the cost function, the cost function being a function depending from the provided level of threat and the obtained data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Christophe Camille LABREUCHE, Helia POUYLLAU, Pierre SAVEANT, Yann SEMET, Jan-Egbert HAMMING, Maurice HOUTSMA
  • Publication number: 20160300504
    Abstract: A decision support method for use by an operator surrounded by adverse entities in a battlefield environment comprises generating a layered representation of the physical environment surrounding the operator from sensor information by mapping the spherical physical environment of the operator into a geometrical representation suitable for display on a screen, the representation being segmented into a plurality of layers having respective sizes, each layer being associated with a respective category of tactical actions. The representation further comprises visual elements representing adverse entities in the surrounding physical environment of the operator, each visual element being represented so as to be superposed with a given layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Jan-Egbert HAMMING, Frank KOUDIJS, Frank COLIJN, Pim VAN WENSVEEN