Patents by Inventor Luc Audaire

Luc Audaire 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: 5216510
    Abstract: Optoelectronic detectors (10) are arranged in matrix form. Integrated synchronous detectors (22) are connected to each column of the detectors (10). The detection is modulated and the detection signals demodulated by the synchronous detectors (22) making it possible to considerably improve the signal/noise (S/N) ratio of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Daniel Amingual, Luc Audaire, Michel Rieux
  • Patent number: 5113263
    Abstract: A reduced size solid state camera includes an array of detectors having reading circuits and electronic row and column scanning circuits utilizing CCD-type structures. Each of the column scanning circuits has an integrated part adjacent the detectors with a spacing equal to or smaller than that of the rows of detectors. The movement of the image to be photographed takes place in a direction perpendicular to the columns of detectors and may occur in two successive opposite directions. A scanning circuit for the row supplies a signal representing an image for each image movement direction. The circuitry includes a signal processor which sums up the signals corresponding to the same element of the image that has moved passed all of the detectors of a row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Philippe Pantigny
  • Patent number: 5008541
    Abstract: The structure comprises an electrically and thermally insulating polyimide layer, infrared sensors which are insulated from one another and have a polyvinyl pyroelectric film, whose face in contact with the polyimide is equipped with two comb-shaped electrodes, whose teeth are imbricated, the pyroelectric film being polarized in a plane parallel to the film and in directions parallel and perpendicular to the comb teeth, an integrated circuit having a face in contact with the polyimide layer, equipped with the reading circuit, and electric contact zones completely traverse the polyimide layer and connect the electrodes of each sensor to a reading circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Jean C. Peuzin, Bernard Schaub
  • Patent number: 4305011
    Abstract: A reference voltage generator comprising two MOS-type transistors T.sub.1 ' and T.sub.2 ' produced on the same substrate, the channels of these transistors having the respective lengths L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 and the respective widths Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2, one of the transistors T.sub.2 ' having a channel, only one dimension of which is of the same order of magnitude as the corresponding dimension of the extension, relative to the source and drain of this transistor, of the space charge zone appearing round this source and this drain when the transistor is operating, the other dimension being large in relation to the corresponding dimension of said extension of the space charge zone, the other transistor T.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Bernard Baylac, Gerard Merckel
  • Patent number: 4241262
    Abstract: The charge-coupled device comprises at least one transfer electrode connected to a control line for transmitting a transfer signal. The circuit for measuring the charge stored in the device comprises a resistor inserted in the control line and a circuit for integrating the voltage appearing at the terminals of the resistor during application of the transfer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Gerard Merckel, Guy Rigaux
  • Patent number: 4054864
    Abstract: In a method and a device for storing analog signals in integrated circuit elements, the memory elements are constituted by field-effect transistors having a number of layers of different dielectrics between the gate and the doped semiconductor substrate of the transistor. After discrete sampling of the analog signal has been performed at N points, the N amplitudes corresponding to the N points are stored in N transistors in the form of a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Joseph Borel, Vincent Le Goascoz, Robert Poujois
  • Patent number: 4031380
    Abstract: In a method and a device for storing analog signals in integrated circuit elements, the memory elements are constituted by field-effect transistors having a number of layers of different dielectrics between the gate and the doped semiconductor substrate of the transistor. After discrete sampling of the analog signal has been performed at N points, the N amplitudes corresponding to the N points are stored in N transistors in the form of a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Joseph Borel, Vincent Le Goascoz, Robert Poujois
  • Patent number: 3956624
    Abstract: In a method and a device for multiplying analog signals in integrated circuit elements, the memory elements are constituted by field-effect transistors having a number of layers of different dielectrics between the gate and the doped semiconductor substrate of the transistor. After discrete sampling of the analog signal has been performed at N points, the N amplitudes corresponding to the N points are stored in N transistors in the form of a threshold voltage. A multiplication of two corresponding terms is performed by recording the signal which is proportional to one sample of a function in the memory of the multiple dielectric layer type and by applying a given voltage to the gate of the transistor so as to generate a signal which is a linear function of the threshold voltage which is in turn a linear function of the writing signal at the input of a multiplier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Luc Audaire, Joseph Borel, Vincent LE Goascoz, Robert Poujois