Patents by Inventor Jerome Hourioux

Jerome Hourioux 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: 20180348350
    Abstract: An electronic device for determining a distance of a drone from an obstacle, the electronic device comprising: an emission module to command the emission of an ultrasound signal toward the obstacle; a reception module to receive a signal representative of an ultrasound signal reflected by the obstacle; a calculation module to calculate the distance of the drone from the obstacle, from the received signal; and a filtering module comprising at least one filter matched to a respective Doppler offset, each matched filter generating a respective filtered signal as a function of a convolution product of the emitted ultrasound signal, to which the respective Doppler offset is applied, with the received ultrasound signal; the calculation module then calculating the distance of the drone from the obstacle, from the filtered signal(s) from the filtering module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Fabien Remond, Jerome Hourioux