Patents by Inventor Pierre-Yves Cogne

Pierre-Yves Cogne 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: 10401812
    Abstract: A home automation installation includes several sensors, several pieces of controlled home automation equipment, and a control unit communicating with the sensors and the controlled home automation equipment. To control this installation, it is provided to select a control scenario by the control unit for at least one parameterized sensor from among the sensors, at a current moment belonging to a periodic time range from among one or more time ranges associated with the parameterized sensor, and as a function of at least one current value of the signal coming from the parameterized sensor, then to send, by the control unit to at least one of the pieces of controlled home automation equipment, at least one order depending on the selected control scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SOMFY SAS
    Inventors: Isabelle Duchene, Frederic Devis, Pierre-Yves Cogne, Alexandre Espinasse
  • Patent number: 10234836
    Abstract: A method for operating a control device of a home automation installation of a building, the control device comprising a data input device and a display device, the control device being configured so as to control the operation of home automation equipment items and communicate with sensors, the method including automatic operation configuration steps of selecting an icon representing a first condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation out of a proposed set of condition icons, positioning the first selected condition in a matrix table accommodating the condition icons, selecting an icon representing a second condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation, and positioning the icon representing the second condition on a same row or a same column as the icon representing the first condition in the matrix table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SOMFY SAS
    Inventors: Isabelle Duchene, Frédéric Devis, Pierre-Yves Cogne
  • Publication number: 20150370230
    Abstract: A method for operating a control device of a home automation installation of a building, the control device comprising a data input device and a display device, the control device being configured so as to control the operation of home automation equipment items and communicate with sensors, the method including automatic operation configuration: steps of selecting an icon representing a first condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation out of a proposed set of condition icons, positioning the first selected condition in a matrix table accommodating the condition icons, selecting an icon representing a second condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation, and positioning the icon representing the second condition on a same row or a same column as the icon representing the first condition in the matrix table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: SOMFY SAS
    Inventors: Isabelle Duchene, Frédéric Devis, Pierre-Yves Cogne