Abstract: A method for making a structure comprising an active part comprising at least two layers from a first single crystal silicon substrate, said method comprising the steps of: a) making at least one porous silicon zone in the first substrate, b) making an epitaxial growth deposition of a single crystal silicon layer on the entire surface of the first substrate and the surface of the porous silicon zone, c) machining the epitaxially grown single crystal layer at the porous silicon zone to make a first suspended zone, d) removing or oxidizing the porous silicon, e) depositing a sacrificial layer being selective towards silicon, f) machining the first substrate, g) releasing the suspended zones by withdrawing the sacrificial layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds acting as agonists at S1P (sphingosine-1-phosphate) receptors, compositions containing these compounds, use of these compounds in medicine and their process of preparation.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device and a method for generating on a defined display screen of determined size a 3D image including a left view and a right view from an incoming video signal to be viewed at a distance by a viewer. The device comprises: Means for measuring the distance between the viewer and the display; means for determining a disparity threshold value in relation with the determined size of the display screen and the measured distance to achieve a 2D and 3D compatibility level; means for editing a disparity map corresponding to the values of disparity between the left and the right views; means for analyzing with an histogram the disparity values of the disparity map in comparison to the determined threshold value; and means for replacing one of the left or right view by a view interpolation so that the disparity level of the histogram is below the determined threshold value, if the disparity level of the histogram is above the determined disparity threshold value.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing 4-[(1,6-dihydro-6-oxo-2-pyrimidinyl)-amino]benzonitrile (I) starting from a 4-oxo-1,6-dihydro-pyrimidinylcarboxylic acid ester (II) or starting from a guanidine derivative which is reacted with an alkoxy-methylene malonic acid ester to an ester (II) which is converted to (I), which reaction sequence may be a one-pot procedure.

Abstract: A MEMS or NEMS device for detecting a force following a given direction, comprising a support and at least one seismic mass capable of moving under the effect of the force to be measured in the direction of the force, and a detector for detecting the movement of the seismic mass, the seismic mass being articulated relative to the support by at least one pivot link, and an actuator capable of varying the distance between the axis of the pivot link and the center of gravity of the exertion of the force on the seismic mass.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new formulation of an enkephalinase inhibitor, such as racecadotril or dexecadotril, the process for the preparation thereof, and the use thereof in the treatment of diarrhoea.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of fabricating an electromechanical structure presenting a first substrate including a layer of monocrystalline material covered in a sacrificial layer that presents a free surface, the structure presenting a mechanical reinforcing pillar in the sacrificial layer, the method including etching a well region in the sacrificial layer to define a mechanical pillar; depositing a first functionalization layer of the first material to at least partially fill the well region and cover the free surface of the sacrificial layer around the well region; depositing a second material different from the first material for terminating the filling of the well region to thereby cover the first functionalization layer around the well region, planarizing the filler layer, the pillar being formed by the superposition of the first material and second material in the well region; and releasing the electromechanical structure by removing at least partially the sacrificial layer.

Abstract: The present patent application concerns new ligands of the H4-receptor of formula (I), their process of preparation and their therapeutic use.

Abstract: A device that detects a rotation around a first axis, the device including: a substrate; a first zone having a first thickness and including at least one mass, defining, idle, a plane, arranged at a distance from a second axis of rotation contained in the plane, the mass being able to be caused to vibrate in the plane, perpendicular to the first axis of rotation, and at least two connecting arms that connect the mass to the second axis of rotation; and a vibration inducing device that causes the mass to vibrate in the plane.

Abstract: A MEMS surface sensor, including: a substrate, a surface of which defines a substrate plane; a first zone having a first thickness, of which two surfaces form a first plane and a second plane parallel in relation to one another and to the substrate plane, first zone forming at least one mobile mass that moves in a direction out of the substrate plane; and a second zone, linked to a fixed zone of the substrate, the second zone forming at least a pivot link of the mobile mass in relation to said substrate, and having a thickness less or equal to that of the mobile mass and being linked to the mobile mass, an axis of the pivot link being between the first plane and the second plane, and parallel to the first plane and the second plane.

Abstract: A MEMS and/or NEMS pressure measurement device comprising a deformable membrane suspended on a substrate, one of the faces of the membrane being intended to be subjected to the pressure to be measured, detection means with strain gauges for the deformation of the membrane, said detection means being formed on a substrate and a non-deformable arm, transmitting the deformation in an amplified manner of the membrane to the detection means, the arm being rotatably hinged to the substrate about an axis (Y) substantially parallel to the plane of the membrane and which is integral with the membrane so that it transmits a deformation of the membrane to the detection means in an amplified manner.

Abstract: Gyrometer comprising a substrate and an inertial mass suspended above the substrate, the inertial mass comprising an excitation part and a detection part, means of moving the excitation part in at least one direction contained in the plane of said inertial mass, and capacitive detection means detecting movement of said detection part outside the plane of said mass, said capacitive detection means comprising at least one suspended electrode, located above the detection part located facing the substrate so as to form a variable capacitor with said detection part, said electrode being held above said detection part by at least one pillar passing through the inertial mass.

Abstract: A visual summary of the image sequences is generated, displaying at least one image from a plurality of the image sequences. Color correction is applied to a feature in one of the displayed images and images comprising at least one feature being close to the color corrected feature according to a distance criterion are selected, displayed, and color correction, based on the color correction to the feature, is applied to the features in the selected images. An apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: An in-plane MEMS or NEMS detection device for measuring displacements directed along a direction including a seismic mass suspended with respect to a substrate, the seismic mass being pivotable about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the substrate, at least one piezoresistive strain gauge mechanically connected to the seismic mass and the substrate, wherein the piezoresistive gauge has a thickness lower than that of the seismic mass, and wherein the axis of the piezoresistive strain gauge is orthogonal to the plane containing the pivot axis and the center of gravity of the seismic mass and the plane is orthogonal to the direction of the displacements to be measured.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a stereoscopic image, said stereoscopic image comprising a first image and a second image comprising at least one first black band. In order to reduce the display errors linked to black bands, the method comprises steps for: estimation of at least one first parameter representative of said at least one first black band, generation of a third image from said stereoscopic image by disparity compensated interpolation, said third image comprising at least one second black band, at least one second parameter representative of said at least one black band being a function of at least one first parameter. The invention also relates to a corresponding stereoscopic image processing module and a display device comprising the processing module.

Abstract: A sensor structure is disclosed, notably for a harsh environment in a motor vehicle. The sensor includes a sensor body having, at one end, an element sensitive to the quantity to be measured in the harsh environment and, at another end, a circuit for connecting it, placed outside the harsh environment, physically separated from each other, connected by means for transmitting data without a connection, and between which means are provided that are permeable to data, for protecting the connecting circuit from the environment.

Abstract: A method for making a microelectronic device comprising at least one electromechanical component provided with a mobile structure, the method comprising the steps of: forming in at least one fine semiconducting thin layer lying on a supporting layer, at least one bar bound to a block, said bar being intended to form a mobile structure of an electromechanical component, withdrawing a portion of the supporting layer under said bar, forming at least one passivation layer based on dielectric material around said bar, forming an encapsulation layer around the bar and covering said passivation layer, the method further comprising steps of: making metal contact and/or interconnection areas, and then suppressing the encapsulation layer around said bar.

Abstract: The present invention concerns novel pharmaceutical compositions of immethridine, in particular of novel pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, such as the dioxalate salt of immethridine, as well as its therapeutical uses and novel process of preparation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a processing method of a sequence of images comprising image points each of which is associated with a color component. The method comprises a processing step of at least one image of the sequence from reference images, the processing step being adapted to reduce the flicker effects. According to the invention, the reference images are selected according to the following stages: calculate, for at least one image part of each of the images of the sequence, the mean value of the colour component, the mean value being associated with the image, and a first selection step to select from the mean values a first series of reference images forming a subset of the sequence.

Abstract: The method realizes a motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF), the temporal filtering being replaced by an intra mode coding to obtain at least one low (L) or high (H) frequency picture if the current picture has a level of correlation with a lower previous picture at a threshold, the low frequency pictures obtained (L) being thus scaled to be adapted, at the energy level, to the pictures obtained by motion compensated temporal filtering, and comprises, at the end of analysis: a selection of the pictures obtained by intra coding of a picture of a low decomposition level with the additional condition, for the high frequency pictures, that this picture is derived itself from an intra coding. a calibration of the picture selected by carrying out at least one reverse step of the scaling step. The applications relate to video compression with temporal prediction.