Patents by Inventor Jean-Jacques Favot

Jean-Jacques Favot 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: 5809269
    Abstract: A method for the analysis of a message given by an interaction device to a system of man-machine dialog includes three consecutive steps, a first step of syntactic analysis, a second step of semantic analysis and a third step of execution analysis. The syntactic analysis assesses the conformity of a message given by the interaction device with a predefined form of dialog, the semantic analysis assesses the meaning of the request made by the operator engaging in dialog with the machine, and the execution analysis determines the performance of an action to be undertaken coming from the step of semantic analysis. The invention finds particular application in systems of man-machine dialog having many kinds of interaction such as speech, gesture, and expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Favot, Jean-Noel Perbet, Bruno Barbier, Patrick Lach
  • Patent number: 5668573
    Abstract: The invention concerns a system for the management of an interaction system between a man (41) and a machine (12). Data input into the system are output by interaction devices (1, 2, 3, 4) from the man to the machine. At least two functions (7, 8, 9, 10) operate simultaneously on data (24, 25, 26), data input into the system being processed by a first function (7), the result of one function forming input data for the next function. The result of the last function (10) is output to interaction devices (11) from the system to the man. Functions are synchronized with each other by an exchange protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Favot, Jean-Noel Perbet, Bruno Barbier, Patrick Lach
  • Patent number: 5488391
    Abstract: The disclosed device comprises an image circuit formed by an image generator, a micro-zone processing unit, a screen interface and an LCD screen. To optimize the performance characteristics of the screen as a function of the angle of observation, the position of the observer is detected (by a detector) and, as a function of this position, the appropriate profile of luminosity of the micro-zones of the screen is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Favot, Jean-Pierre Fontan, Jean-Noel Perbet
  • Patent number: 5440114
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the display, by projection on a screen, of an image managed by a computer system and to the input of data into the data-processing system by the shifting of a location marker in relation to the screen. A device for display by the projection of an image on a screen incorporates a surface detector of infrared radiation positioned behind the projection objective by means of a mirror separating the visible radiation and the infrared radiation. This display device is complemented by an infrared emitter with directional radiation, with which the observer traces a location marker on the screen which may take the form of a visible pointer overprinted on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Bruno Barbier, Jean-Jacques Favot, Patrick Lach, Jean-Noel Perbet
  • Patent number: 5400079
    Abstract: A device for receiving a television image and for processing it in real time for display on a different type of screen. The incident television image is digitized and then a micro-zone, selected from a series of predefined micro-zones stored in a screen memory, is assigned to each pixel in the incident image. The image is written into the memory, micro-zone by micro-zone, and then read for display on the screen. Each micro-zone is selected to represent the incident pixel in a way appropriate to the format conversion and/or transformation to be applied to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Michel Martinez, Jean-Jacques Favot, Jean-Noel Perbet
  • Patent number: 5287451
    Abstract: The system comprises, connected to an image generator (14), a processing unit (13) with a management unit (18), a microregion generating unit (20) and correlation circuits for selecting, for each point of the image with coordinates x, y, one of a series of predetermined pixel microregions stored in the generating unit (20) in order to correlate it in x, y, in the correlation circuits, with the previously presented microregions, before writing it in a screen memory (22) and presenting it on the screen (16). The screen memory (22) is integrated in the processing unit (13) and has a matrix of memory cells (22.sup.1 -22.sup.16), organised in an identical manner to that of the microregion pixels, associated with a single matrix address bus (26) enabling the memory cells to be addressed simultaneously and connected to a generator (19) of the addresses of the memory cells and the processing unit (13) is directly connected to the image generator (14).The invention can be applied well in avionics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Sextant Avonique
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Favot, Michael Martinez, Jean-Noel Perbet