Patents by Inventor Joël-Yann Fourre
Joël-Yann Fourre 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: 8264530Abstract: A method for processing at least an imprint image of an individual using a processing device that comprises an exhibition glass sheet having a surface for receiving said imprint. The method includes acquiring without contact at least one image of the imprint present in the space upstream from the said surface and which has not yet been in contact with it and detecting the contact between the imprint and the exhibition glass sheet; acquiring by contact at least one image of the imprint after contact with the exhibition glass sheet; and standardizing at least one of the contact-less images in proportions that are identical to those of one of the contact images by analysing at least one of the contact-less images and at least one of the contact images.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: MorphoInventors: Aurélie Morin, Joël-Yann Fourre, Sylvaine Picard
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Patent number: 8194131Abstract: A device for capturing a silhouette consisting of a transparent wall, a vision device to capture at least one image of the wall and a processing unit connected to the vision device which analyses the captured images and detects the silhouette of the individual passing between the transparent wall and the vision device. More than one pattern is positioned on the transparent wall and the patterns exhibit a contrast with the transparent wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Sagem SecuriteInventors: Emmanuel Bernard, Joël-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert
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Publication number: 20120106846Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for identifying or authenticating a person by a print thereof, the identification or authentication device (100) including: a bearing means (102, 130) including a transparent base (130) and a transparent block (102) supported by said base (130) on which the part of the body carrying the print is pressed, the surface of the transparent block (102) on which the part of the body carrying the print is pressed having a test chart (132), the transparent block (102) being made of a flexible material that deforms and fits the shape of the part of the body carrying the print when the latter is pressed against the former, a means (106, 126) for capturing an image of said print and the test chart (132) through said bearing means (102, 130), a means (108) for analysing the image of the deformed test chart (132), a means (110) for constructing a template of the print according to the print thus captured and the image of the test chart (132) thus analysed, a means (114) for verifyingType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Joel-Yann Fourre, Sylvaine Picard
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Patent number: 8169474Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for capturing images of the face of an individual comprising: an image capture device (110) having a line of sight (112) directed towards the place from where the individual arrives, and two illumination devices (102, 104) disposed symmetrically with respect to the line of sight (112) and at a distance therefrom, each comprising means of generating a light flux intended to illuminate the face of the individual as he moves and whereof the illumination lobe (106, 108), representative of the luminance in a horizontal plane, has a maximum, the two lobes (106, 108) being symmetrical with each other with respect to the line of sight (112), the capture system (100) being characterized in that the generation means are such that each lobe (106, 108) is asymmetric with respect to the straight line bearing said maximum and has, from this maximum, a first front (122) curved towards the image capture device (110) and a second front (120) that is substantially plane and extendingType: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: MorphoInventors: Gilles Monteilliet, Joël-Yann Fourre
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Patent number: 8164797Abstract: The invention relates to a process for digitizing document in which the document (4) is feed driven in front of a sensor (2) by a drive mechanism (3) comprising a plurality of elements (31-36) which come into contact with the document (4) while it is fed, wherein the sensor (2) is capable of generating digital data from an image on the document (4), wherein the process comprises steps consisting of: —detecting when the contact is established or broken between the document (4) and one of the elements (32), —correcting the digital data by applying to the data a distortion correction function which takes into account the position of the sensor (2) with respect to the image when the detection takes place.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: MorphoInventors: Jeremy Delhomme, Joël-Yann Fourre, Marina Pouet, François Rieul
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Patent number: 7912250Abstract: A device for acquiring images of a print of at least a portion of a user's hand, the device comprising a stand defining an acquisition zone extending substantially in a plane, an optical acquisition member that is fastened to the stand to have a field of view covering the acquisition zone, and a processor unit connected to the acquisition member to process an image signal coming therefrom, wherein: the stand is arranged to provide an empty space zone containing the acquisition zone and forming a passage for said portion of the hand while moving parallel to the plane; the device includes at least one projector member for projecting a light test pattern of at least two colors into the acquisition zone; the optical acquisition member has a depth of field extending on either side of the acquisition zone and it possesses a color sensor having an acquisition speed that is sufficient to capture at least one color image of said portion of the hand moving at a predetermined maximum speed of movement; and the procesType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: MORPHOInventors: Joël-Yann Fourre, Sylvaine Picard, François Rieul, Jean-Christophe Fondeur
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Publication number: 20100321481Abstract: A method for processing at least an imprint image of an individual using a processing device that comprises an exhibition glass sheet having a surface for receiving said imprint. The method includes acquiring without contact at least one image of the imprint present in the space upstream from the said surface and which has not yet been in contact with it and detecting the contact between the imprint and the exhibition glass sheet; acquiring by contact at least one image of the imprint after contact with the exhibition glass sheet; and standardizing at least one of the contact-less images in proportions that are identical to those of one of the contact images by analysing at least one of the contact-less images and at least one of the contact images.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Sagem SecuriteInventors: Aurélie Morin, Joël-Yann Fourre, Sylvaine Picard
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Publication number: 20100045792Abstract: A device for capturing a silhouette consisting of a transparent wall, a vision device to capture at least one image of the wall and a processing unit connected to the vision device which analyses the captured images and detects the silhouette of the individual passing between the transparent wall and the vision device. More than one pattern is positioned on the transparent wall and the patterns exhibit a contrast with the transparent wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Segem Defense SecuriteInventors: Emmanuel Bernard, Joël-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert
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Publication number: 20100034433Abstract: The invention relates to a method for validating a biometrical acquisition, mainly the acquisition of a body imprint of a body area such as fingerprints or a face imprint, wherein the method involves together with the biometric acquisition: lighting the body area using at least one radiation having at least two respective different wavelengths between approximately 500 nm and 1150 nm; taking at least two reflectometry measurements concerning said and at least two wavelengths for measuring the reflection index of the tissues for these wavelengths; calculating the ratio for two measured indices; and comparing the ratio with a range of reference values characterizing a haemoglobin-containing living tissue in terms of proportions of oxygenated and non-oxygenated forms characteristic of the living states for the wavelengths in question; if the ratio is included in said range, the body area is considered as living and the biometrical acquisition is validated; and conversely, if the body area is considered as not liType: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Sagem SecuriteInventors: Alain Thiebot, Joël-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert
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Publication number: 20100021016Abstract: A method for identifying a person (200) by capturing an image of the iris producing an anamorphic transformation of the image along a horizontal axis and then a vertical axis to code it in the form of one or two models. The model is compared with reference models stored in a database to determine the identity of the person. The acquisition device captures the image of the iris through means of optical deformation to produce the anamorphic transformation of the image and then codes the image into the models.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: SAGEM SECURITEInventors: Martin Cottard, Joël-Yann Fourre, François Rieul
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Publication number: 20100013915Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for capturing images of the face of an individual comprising: an image capture device (110) having a line of sight (112) directed towards the place from where the individual arrives, and two illumination devices (102, 104) disposed symmetrically with respect to the line of sight (112) and at a distance therefrom, each comprising means of generating a light flux intended to illuminate the face of the individual as he moves and whereof the illumination lobe (106, 108), representative of the luminance in a horizontal plane, has a maximum, the two lobes (106, 108) being symmetrical with each other with respect to the line of sight (112), the capture system (100) being characterised in that the generation means are such that each lobe (106, 108) is asymmetric with respect to the straight line bearing said maximum and has, from this maximum, a first front (122) curved towards the image capture device (110) and a second front (120) that is substantially plane and extendingType: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: SAGEM SECURITEInventors: Gilles Monteilliet, Joël-Yann Fourre
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Publication number: 20090208070Abstract: A device for acquiring images of a print of at least a portion of a user's hand, the device comprising a stand defining an acquisition zone extending substantially in a plane, an optical acquisition member that is fastened to the stand to have a field of view covering the acquisition zone, and a processor unit connected to the acquisition member to process an image signal coming therefrom, wherein: the stand is arranged to provide an empty space zone containing the acquisition zone and forming a passage for said portion of the hand while moving parallel to the plane; the device includes at least one projector member for projecting a light test pattern of at least two colors into the acquisition zone; the optical acquisition member has a depth of field extending on either side of the acquisition zone and it possesses a color sensor having an acquisition speed that is sufficient to capture at least one color image of said portion of the hand moving at a predetermined maximum speed of movement; and the procesType: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: SAGEM SECURITEInventors: Joel-Yann FOURRE, Sylvaine PICARD, Francois RIEUL, Jean-Christophe FONDEUR
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Publication number: 20090190188Abstract: The invention relates to a process for digitising document in which the document (4) is feed driven in front of a sensor (2) by a drive mechanism (3) comprising a plurality of elements (31-36) which come into contact with the document (4) while it is fed, wherein the sensor (2) is capable of generating digital data from an image on the document (4), wherein the process comprises steps consisting of: —detecting when the contact is established or broken between the document (4) and one of the elements (32), —correcting the digital data by applying to the data a distortion correction function which takes into account the position of the sensor (2) with respect to the image when the detection takes place.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Jérémy Delhomme, Jöel-Yann Fourre, Marina Pouet, Francois Rieul
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Patent number: 7567690Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of determining the living character of an element carrying a fingerprint, consisting of making impedance measurements at various points on the said element by means of electrodes. The method according to the invention is characterised in that it consists of determining whether the said impedance measurements satisfy a law of variation of the impedance measured by the said electrodes as a function of the surface area of the said electrodes covered by the said elements such that Z=ƒDt(S).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Sagem SecuriteInventors: Jean-Christophe Foundeur, Joel-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert
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Patent number: 7414737Abstract: A user positioning device comprising a stand (1) carrying two positioning markers (5) that are disposed so that each can be seen by a respective one of the eyes of a user, when the user is positioned correctly, and means (7) for forming a light path between each of the eyes of the user and the corresponding positioning marker, the light paths being optically separate from each other relative to the eyes of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Sagem Defense SecuriteInventors: Martin Cottard, Joël-Yann Fourre, Aurélie Morin, Gilles Monteilliet
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Publication number: 20070052959Abstract: A user positioning device comprising a stand (1) carrying two positioning markers (5) that are disposed so that each can be seen by a respective one of the eyes of a user, when the user is positioned correctly, and means (7) for forming a light path between each of the eyes of the user and the corresponding positioning marker, the light paths being optically separate from each other relative to the eyes of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2004Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventors: Martin Cottard, Joel-Yann Fourre, Aurelie Morin, Gilles Monteilliet
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Publication number: 20060140456Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of determining the living character of an element carrying a fingerprint, consisting of making impedance measurements at various points on the said element by means of electrodes. The method according to the invention is characterised in that it consists of determining whether the said impedance measurements satisfy a law of variation of the impedance measured by the said electrodes as a function of the surface area of the said electrodes covered by the said elements such that Z=ƒDt(S).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Jean-Christophe Foundeur, Joel-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert