Patents by Inventor Jean-Francois Blanchard
Jean-Francois Blanchard 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).
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Patent number: 10529197Abstract: A system is provided that controls an offline haptic conversion. The system receives an input from a source. The system further converts the input into haptic signals. The system further encodes the haptic signals. The system further stores the haptic signals within the source, where the haptic signals are combined with the input within the source. Alternately, rather than encoding the haptic signals and storing the haptic signals within the source, the system handles the haptic signals separately, independent of the source.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Robert Lacroix, Satvir Singh Bhatia, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Stephen D. Rank, Christopher J. Ullrich, Loc Tien Phan
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Publication number: 20190369939Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Vincent LEVESQUE, Danny GRANT, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Amaya Becvar WEDDLE, Juan Manuel CRUZ-HERNANDEZ
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Patent number: 10365878Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATIONInventors: Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Amaya Becvar Weddle, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
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Publication number: 20180341451Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Vincent LEVESQUE, Danny GRANT, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Amaya Becvar WEDDLE, Juan Manuel CRUZ-HERNANDEZ
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Publication number: 20180268667Abstract: A system is provided that controls an offline haptic conversion. The system receives an input from a source. The system further converts the input into haptic signals. The system further encodes the haptic signals. The system further stores the haptic signals within the source, where the haptic signals are combined with the input within the source. Alternately, rather than encoding the haptic signals and storing the haptic signals within the source, the system handles the haptic signals separately, independent of the source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Robert LACROIX, Satvir Singh BHATIA, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Stephen D. RANK, Christopher J. ULLRICH, Loc Tien PHAN
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Patent number: 10073666Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Amaya Becvar Weddle, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
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Patent number: 9997032Abstract: A system is provided that controls an offline haptic conversion. The system receives an input from a source. The system further converts the input into haptic signals. The system further encodes the haptic signals. The system further stores the haptic signals within the source, where the haptic signals are combined with the input within the source. Alternately, rather than encoding the haptic signals and storing the haptic signals within the source, the system handles the haptic signals separately, independent of the source.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Robert Lacroix, Satvir Singh Bhatia, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Stephen D. Rank, Christopher J. Ullrich, Loc Tien Phan
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Publication number: 20170315770Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Vincent LEVESQUE, Danny GRANT, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Amaya Becvar WEDDLE, Juan Manuel CRUZ-HERNANDEZ
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Patent number: 9733880Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Amaya Becvar Weddle, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
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Publication number: 20150347075Abstract: A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Immersion CorporationInventors: Vincent LEVESQUE, Danny GRANT, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Amaya Becvar WEDDLE, Juan Manuel CRUZ-HERNANDEZ
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Publication number: 20140300454Abstract: A system is provided that controls an offline haptic conversion. The system receives an input from a source. The system further converts the input into haptic signals. The system further encodes the haptic signals. The system further stores the haptic signals within the source, where the haptic signals are combined with the input within the source. Alternately, rather than encoding the haptic signals and storing the haptic signals within the source, the system handles the haptic signals separately, independent of the source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Immersion CorporationInventors: Robert LACROIX, Satvir Singh BHATIA, Jean-Francois BLANCHARD-DIONNE, Stephen D. RANK, Christopher J. ULLRICH, Loc Tien PHAN
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Publication number: 20120167634Abstract: A system and method for winding at least one continuous strand of material (210) on a rotating support (212) to form a strand package or cake includes a rotatable traversing apparatus (216) for causing the at least one strand of material to reciprocate along a length of the rotating support (212) for even distribution in forming the package or cake. A plurality of strands can be wound simultaneously, the traversing apparatus having a form and operating orientation that generally maintains a parallel separation of the several strands while being wound on the support. The strand material may be, for example, glass, and a winding system may further include a source of glass strands, including a source of glass fibers (102) and a grouping mechanism (108, 208) for grouping respective pluralities of glass fibers into respective strands of glass fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Dominique Font, Jean-Francois Blanchard, Pierre-Jacques Font
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Publication number: 20120145816Abstract: Apparatus (10 ) configured for the unreeling of strands (34, 36) or ends having filaments are provided. The apparatus include at least one cake (12, 14) formed from at least one end having filaments and mounted for retention. The cake has a hollow central region (22, 28). At least one unreeling device (16, 18) is supported within the hollow central region of the at least one cake. The unreeling device has a head (50), at least one tube, an exit and a passage (38) there through. A take-up apparatus is positioned downstream from the unreeling device. The apparatus is characterized in that the head of the unreeling device has a truncated ogive cross-sectional shape and wherein the apparatus is configured to maintain tension on the strands or ends thereby substantially reducing breakage and substantially reducing the formation of loops, tangles or knots.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: OCV INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, LLCInventors: Jean-Francois Blanchard, Dominique Font
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Patent number: 7604762Abstract: A method for preparing glass strand pellets by stirring chopped glass strands in the presence of 10 to 25% of water, the strands being sized with a size containing an organosilane. The method performs stirring for long enough for an increase in density to be at least 67%, the stirring being performed using a single stirring equipment that at each instant imparts to the strands or forming pellets it contains the same stirring frequency, the pellets finally formed containing, after drying, at least 95 wt % glass. A film-forming agent is in contact with the glass strands during the stirring at the latest.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2003Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Jean-Francois Blanchard, Jean-Louis Viana, Michel Bastard, Dominique Font
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Publication number: 20050214524Abstract: A method for preparing glass strand pellets by stirring chopped glass strands in the presence of 10 to 25% of water, the strands being sized with a size containing an organosilane. The method performs stirring for long enough for an increase in density to be at least 67%, the stirring being performed using a single stirring equipment that at each instant imparts to the strands or forming pellets it contains the same stirring frequency, the pellets finally formed containing, after drying, at least 95 wt % glass. A film-forming agent is in contact with the glass strands during the stirring at the latest.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2003Publication date: September 29, 2005Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN VETROTEX FRANCE S.A.Inventors: Jean-Francois Blanchard, Jean-Louis Viana, Michel Bastard, Dominique Font