Patents by Inventor Jean-François LAVOIE

Jean-François LAVOIE 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).

  • Publication number: 20190026937
    Abstract: A system for interactive virtual lighting of a virtual sample representative of a real-life manufactured object, based on data relative to the real-life manufactured object. A lighting calibration module generates user lighting condition data representative of current lighting conditions and adjusts parameters of a virtual light source according thereto. A user interaction module captures displacement inputs from the electronic graphical communication device and generates user interaction data therefrom used by a real time rendering engine to move the virtual sample. The real time rendering engine simulates light interaction from the virtual light source with the virtual sample and processes the light interaction data to simulate light interaction from the virtual light with the virtual sample. A computer implemented method for interactive virtual lighting of a virtual sample representative of a real-life manufactured object is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Mathieu BENOÎT, Jean-François LAVOIE
  • Patent number: 6692245
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a frame including a rigid thermoplastic portion and a resilient portion defining a lip seal. In particular, a core/cavity mold assembly is provided, wherein the rigid thermoplastic portion is formed, by opening the mold assembly while maintaining the rigid thermoplastic portion in the core, placing the core in line with a second cavity configured and sized to form the lip seal and molding the lip seal directly onto the rigid thermoplastic portion. The mold cavity is provided with movable internal and external stripper rings that allow the resilient portion to be removed from the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: IPL Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Lanoue, Jean-Francois Lavoie, Randall Leach, Gary Meyers