Patents by Inventor Martin Defour

Martin Defour 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: 8271446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system to implement a method of importing exporting data originating from a database by way of an XML file. The export method includes the steps of: selecting data from the database; requesting an export of the selected data; verifying that the selected data are not reserved in the database; constructing an export set comprising the selected data that are not reserved; reserving the selected data not reserved in the database; generating a data exchange file comprising the data of the export set, the data exchange file being constructed according to a data exchange file model, the file model describing types of data, links between the types of data, existing in the database; and transferring the exchange file generated to the second computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Franck Tailliez, Martin Defour
  • Publication number: 20120054716
    Abstract: A technique for deploying components of a system on at least one platform comprising a number of processors, the technique including-formalization of a component description file for each component of the system, of a description file for an assembly of the components, of a description file for a deployment of the executables corresponding to the components on the processors of the platforms, of a file for mapping the components with executable tasks; generation of the software code of the containers for the components; generation of the definition and of the software code of the executable tasks corresponding to the components and to the containers; and production and implementation of the executables on the processors of the platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Franck TAILLIEZ, Martin DEFOUR
  • Patent number: 8112743
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of designing a system. The system includes an application having software components and an architecture having hardware components on which the application is run. The system has to satisfy at least one functional and one non-functional requirement. The functional analysis step (11) obtains a breakdown of the functional need relating to the application. A step defines the architecture (12). A step for designs hardware components (13) according to the architecture. A step design software components (14) based on the breakdown of the functional need. A step for integrates the software components in the hardware components (15). A step validates the functional requirements of the system (16). A step validates the non-functional requirement of the system (17). An upstream step (21) validates the non-functional requirement of the system, preceding the steps for designing hardware components (13) and software components (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Martin Defour, Jean Jourdan, Franck Tailliez, Jean-Luc Voirin
  • Publication number: 20100011005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system to implement a method of importing exporting data originating from a database by way of an XML file. The export method includes the steps of: selecting data from the database; requesting an export of the selected data; verifying that the selected data are not reserved in the database; constructing an export set comprising the selected data that are not reserved; reserving the selected data not reserved in the database; generating a data exchange file comprising the data of the export set, the data exchange file being constructed according to a data exchange file model, the file model describing types of data, links between the types of data, existing in the database; and transferring the exchange file generated to the second computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Franck Tailliez, Martin Defour
  • Publication number: 20080235655
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of designing a system. The system includes an application having software components and an architecture having hardware components on which the application is run. The system has to satisfy at least one functional and one non-functional requirement. The functional analysis step (11) obtains a breakdown of the functional need relating to the application. A step defines the architecture (12). A step for designs hardware components (13) according to the architecture. A step design software components (14) based on the breakdown of the functional need. A step for integrates the software components in the hardware components (15). A step validates the functional requirements of the system (16). A step validates the non-functional requirement of the system (17). An upstream step (21) validates the non-functional requirement of the system, preceding the steps for designing hardware components (13) and software components (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Martin Defour, Jean Jourdan, Franck Tailliez, Jean-Luc Voirin
  • Patent number: 6307623
    Abstract: A device for harmonizing a laser beam path with an observation path for a target includes a laser that generates a laser beam; a first optical element that directs a first part of the laser beam toward the target along the laser beam path while directing a second part of the laser beam toward a conversion device; and a second optical element that directs a converted beam from the conversion device to a sensor that receives the converted beam and an image from the target. The conversion device includes a photoluminescent material that converts the second part of the laser beam into a converted radiation having a wavelength within a spectral band of the sensor, and an optical assembly that focuses the second part of the laser beam into the photoluminescent material and that collects at least a portion of the converted radiation to form the converted beam. The photoluminescent material can include photoluminescent ions such as erbium ions, or a semiconductor material such as indium arsenide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Michel Papuchon, Denis Rabault, Martin Defour, Jean-Paul Pocholle
  • Patent number: 5359403
    Abstract: A telemeter is used to measure the distances between a sequence of points on a target surface. The telemeter includes an emitting source provided with a pulsed laser sending out a pencil of light energy in a determined direction of sight, a contra-rotating wedge communicating, to the pencil, a deflection along an epicycloidal type of scanning pattern in a plane perpendicular to the axis of sight, and a receiver including the same contra-rotating wedge and a photodiode. The disclosed device can be applied more particularly to a system for the detection of obstacles of a wire-shaped type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Benoist Grosmann, Martin Defour, Remi Fertala
  • Patent number: 5321489
    Abstract: A method and system for the avoidance of collisions among aircraft in which monochromatic radiation is transmitted from an aircraft fitted out with a wide-field optical transceiver. The monochromatic radiation scans the space around the aircraft which defines a zone of proximity. Optical radiation is returned after back reflection off objects which may be sources of danger constituted by other aircraft that have entered the zone of proximity. The radiation received is detected and then processed to deduce therefrom the direction and, as the case may be, the distance of the source of danger. Such a method can be applied especially to the avoidance of collision between non-cooperating aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Martin Defour, Benoist Grossmann
  • Patent number: 5291196
    Abstract: A collision-avoidance method for cooperating carriers consists of:transmitting, from each carrier, monochromatic pulsed light waves, coming from at least two wide-field optical transmission devices to cover the space around the carrier and thus define a zone of proximity, the power of the optical transmission defining, under given weather conditions, the range of the transmission and hence the zone covered;and receiving, at each carrier, the monochromatic, pulsed light waves radiated into space by other cooperating carriers, on at least two wide-field reception devices covering the space around the carrier. Each intrusion of a carrier into the proximity zone of another carrier prompts the detection of light radiation and the triggering of an alarm on either carrier. Applications are to air anti-collision systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Martin Defour
  • Patent number: 5282073
    Abstract: In a system of optical communications that can be used by air or space vehicles, each station comprises at least one optical system covering a half space, this system comprising two twinned optical devices to respectively form two distinct reception channels: a first reception optical channel for the initialization, in space, of the direction of communication; a second optical channel for the reception of the contents of the communication. One of the two optical devices is also used to form a transmission channel for the initialization and then for the communication in the direction of communication. The setting up of communication is done in three steps, respectively target designation, iterative bilateral acquisition and interstation communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Martin Defour, Georges Coudrec, Remi Fertala, Benoist Grossmann
  • Patent number: 5012476
    Abstract: A device for use as a laser includes a component (C) of semiconductor material formed on a substrate (1) having a different lattice parameter. The substrate (1) is covered with a silicon layer (2) which is in turn covered with a matching superlattice (3) on which the component (C) is formed. The device is more particularly applicable to a component formed on diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Manijeh Razeghi, Martin Defour, Franck Omnes, Philippe Maurel, Robert Blondeau, Michel Krakowski
  • Patent number: 4897699
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optoelectronic device implanted on a silicon substrate and comprising, in particular, on this substrate, a set of matching layers on which there is made a first confinement layer based on indium phosphide, an active layer based on Ga.sub.x In.sub.1-x As.sub.1-y and a second active layer of indium phosphide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Manijeh Razeghi, Robert Blondeau, Franck Omnes, Martin Defour, Gerard Doriath