Patents by Inventor Michel Sonrier

Michel Sonrier 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: 5883750
    Abstract: A method and system of magnetic recording of information elements on several parallel tracks whereby the recording of information elements on a track is accomplished by inducing a magnetic field having a predetermined direction in a zone on the track and, during this recording, inducing a magnetic field with a reverse direction in zones of the neighboring tracks. A winding (L0, L1, L2) of each head is coupled to at least two winding of neighboring heads. A control current transmitted to the head provides at least one current diverted towards the neighboring heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignees: Thomson-CSF, Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Fran.cedilla.ois Maurice, Michel Sonrier, Fran.cedilla.ois-Xavier Pirot
  • Patent number: 5818741
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a A digital filtering system of a signal, including a calculation circuit that calculates the average increase in amplitude .DELTA.X.sub.av (n) between two samples X(n), and an "output signal (Y(n)) circuit" that calculates a mean, weighted by a coefficient a, of the sample to be filtered X(n) and the previous sample Y(n-1) algebraically increased by said average increase in amplitude .DELTA.X.sub.av (n). The invention is applicable to digital signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Thomson multimedia S.A.
    Inventors: Werner Boie, Michel Sonrier
  • Patent number: 5796710
    Abstract: System for recording/writing on a recording medium in which there are distributed, on the tracks, groups (G0) of tracks with positive continuous components and groups (G1) of tracks with negative continuous components. In reading, the values of the different signals are integrated for each track. Then, on the one hand, a first addition circuit S1 adds up the results of integration of the first tracks of each group of tracks and, secondly, a second addition circuit S2 adds up the results of integration of the last tracks of each group of tracks. A comparison circuit (CD) compares the results of additions of the two addition circuits to correct the track-following operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignees: Thomson-CSF, Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Fran.cedilla.ois Maurice, Joseph Colineau, Charaf Hanna, Michel Sonrier
  • Patent number: 5640285
    Abstract: System for recording/writing on a recording medium in which there are distributed, on the tracks, groups (G0) of tracks with positive continuous components and groups (G1) of tracks with negative continuous components. In reading, the values of the different signals are integrated for each track. Then, on the one hand, a first addition circuit S1 adds up the results of integration of the first tracks of each group of tracks and, secondly, a second addition circuit S2 adds up the results of integration of the last tracks of each group of tracks. A comparison circuit (CD) compares the results of additions of the two addition circuits to correct the track-following operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignees: Thomson-CSF, Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Fran.cedilla.ois Maurice, Joseph Colineau, Charaf Hanna, Michel Sonrier
  • Patent number: 5493553
    Abstract: A method and system for preventing cross-talk during reproduction of data recorded on a high density recording medium. The method includes the steps of receiving signals from at least three consecutively parallel information tracks on a recording medium, determining first and second cross-talk coefficients representing a degree of cross-talk between the three parallel information tracks, filtering the first and second cross-talk coefficients, correcting the cross-talk between the first, second, and third information tracks in accordance with the first and second cross-talk coefficients, forming a difference between the first and second cross-talk coefficients and integrating this difference to generate a track following correction signal, and repeating the above steps for each of the information tracks on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignees: Thomson CSF, Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Francois Maurice, Michel Sonrier, Charaf Hanna, Joseph Colineau
  • Patent number: 4918318
    Abstract: An electronic optics device with variable illumination and aperture limitation is provided including, between a particle source and an object an image of which it is desired to project in an image plane, a set of three lenses with electronically controllable focal lengths, the first one being situated as close as possible to the source and associated, in its main plane or in the vicinity of this plane, with an aperture limitation diaphragm, the object being placed in the main plane of the third lens or in the vicinity thereof, the focal length of these three lenses being controlled so as to give to the section of the electronic beam in the object plane a value determining the desired illumination and to the image of the diaphragm a diameter and a position determining the desired aperture of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Emmanuel de Chambost, Michel Sonrier