Patents by Inventor Michel Bierlaire

Michel Bierlaire 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: 11087422
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a configuration for deployment of a public transportation system including a plurality of electric public transportation vehicles, in particular electric buses, are disclosed. At least one processor may determine, prior to deployment of the public transportation system and based on received information on timetables and geographical route profiles, a fleet size of a fleet of electric public transportation vehicles, on-board battery parameters of on-board batteries to be installed in electric public transportation vehicles, and charging infrastructure parameters associated with a charging infrastructure to be installed for charging the on-board batteries of the electric public transportation vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Alessandro Zanarini, Jan Poland, Hans Joachim Ferreau, Mehmet Mercangoez, Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Virginie Lurkin, Mathieu Horsky, S. Sharif Azadeh, Yousef Maknoon
  • Publication number: 20200058090
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a configuration for deployment of a public transportation system including a plurality of electric public transportation vehicles, in particular electric buses, are disclosed. At least one processor may determine, prior to deployment of the public transportation system and based on received information on timetables and geographical route profiles, a fleet size of a fleet of electric public transportation vehicles, on-board battery parameters of on-board batteries to be installed in electric public transportation vehicles, and charging infrastructure parameters associated with a charging infrastructure to be installed for charging the on-board batteries of the electric public transportation vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Alessandro Zanarini, Jan Poland, Hans Joachim Ferreau, Mehmet Mercangoez, Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Virginie Lurkin, Mathieu Horsky, S. Sharif Azadeh, Yousef Maknoon
  • Patent number: 8208535
    Abstract: The invention relates to a video coding method of exploiting the temporal redundancy between successive frames in a video sequence. A reference frame, called I-frame, is first approximated by a collection of geometric features, called atoms. The following predicted frames called, P-frames, are approximated by the geometric transformations of the geometric features (atoms) describing the previous frame. Preferably, the I-frame is approximated by a linear combination of N atoms (formula), selected in a redundant, structured library. They are indexed by a string of parameters representing the geometric transformations applied to the generating mother function g(x,y) and the cn are weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Suisse SARL
    Inventors: Oscar Divorra Escoda, Michel Bierlaire, Pierre Vandergheynst, Julien Reichel, Francesco Ziliani
  • Publication number: 20060203906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a video coding method of exploiting the temporal redundancy between successive frames in a video sequence. A reference frame, called 1-frame, is first approximated by a collection of geometric features, called atoms. The following predicted frames called, P-frames, are approximated by the geometric transformations of the geometric features (atoms) describing the previous frame. Preferably, the I-frame is approximated by a linear combination of N atoms (formula), selected in a redundant, structured library. They are indexed by a string of parameters representing the geometric transformations applied to the generating mother function g(x,y) and the cn are weighting coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: VISIOWAVE S.A.
    Inventors: Oscar Divorra Escoda, Michel Bierlaire, Pierre Vandergheynst, Julien Reichel, Francesco Ziliani