Patents by Inventor Simon Estève
Simon Estève 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).
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Patent number: 11779304Abstract: An ultrasound imaging device includes an ultrasound transducer module disposed within a housing and a flowable acoustic damping material disposed on at least one surface located within an interior of the housing. The flowable acoustic damping material may be a Teflon™-containing gel material, in contact with at least one internal surface of the imaging device to provide acoustic damping.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Wayne Sams, Sarp Satir, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Simon Esteve
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Publication number: 20200093463Abstract: An ultrasound imaging device includes an ultrasound transducer module disposed within a housing and a flowable acoustic damping material disposed on at least one surface located within an interior of the housing. The flowable acoustic damping material may be a Teflon-containing gel material, in contact with at least one internal surface of the imaging device to provide acoustic damping.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Butterfly Network, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Sams, Sarp Satir, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Simon Esteve
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Patent number: 9760215Abstract: Methods for determining a touch-and-hold touch event on a touch sensitive interaction surface of a touch sensing device are provided and comprise the steps of: a) determining a touch location of the touch event based on vibrations, such as bending waves, propagating through the interaction surface and b) determining whether the touch event comprises a hold touch event based on a sensed airborne signal. A device configured to carry out such methods is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Simon Esteve, Olivier Schevin, Joel C. Kent
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Patent number: 9513746Abstract: Provided is a touch sensitive display, for integration into an electronic device configured to function in a predetermined temperature range, comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means is configured and arranged such that it presents a damping ratio of 5% or less with a variation of this damping ratio of 2 percentage points or less in the predetermined temperature range. Also provided is a touch sensitive display comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means comprises an elastic material in a first region on the front side of the display panel, with the front main side of the display panel being the displaying side, and an elastic material in a second region on the back side of the display panel and a compression controlling means for compressing the first and/or second region by a predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
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Patent number: 9342192Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining an acoustic response attributed to a location of an impact, in particular a touch event, on a surface of an object including at least one transducer comprising the steps of: Injecting a predetermined acoustic bending wave by the transducer at the transducer position (5a, 5b), Sensing a bending wave parameter at a secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position, determining the acoustic response based on the sensed bending wave parameter and properties of the predetermined acoustic bending wave effectively as if the injection took place at the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position and the sensing took place at the transducer position based on reciprocity principles, and determining the acoustic response attributed to at least one location (9) on the surface different to the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position based on at leType: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
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Patent number: 9058071Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the location and duration of a sustained contact of a touch event performed by a user on a surface of an object comprising the steps of: a) determining the location of the touch event, in particular based on an acoustic signal generated by the impact of the touch on the surface, and b) determining the duration of the touch event based on a perturbation of a signal generated in or on the object by a transducer characterized in that step b) comprises analyzing the signal generated at or close to N natural frequencies of the object, with N being one or more. The analysis close to the natural frequencies allows the reliable determination of not only the location of a touch event but also whether the user continues to interact with the surface of the object which is due to the important damping of the generated signal in the presence of the touch. The invention also relates to a touch sensitive device configured to carry out the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Simon Estève
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Patent number: 9046959Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device with a touch sensitive surface comprising: a sensing means for capturing an acoustic signal, a touch location determining unit configured to determine the location of a touch event on the touch sensitive surface based on the acoustic signal. To improve the reliability of the touch localization process, the device further comprises a filtering unit configured to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the acoustic signal based on one or more signals provided by one or more spurious acoustic signal generating devices of the electronic device and/or based on one or more parameters of the one or more spurious acoustic signal generating devices of the electronic device. The invention also relates to a corresponding method. The invention furthermore relates to a method for improving the confidentiality of a user input.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Olivier Schevin, Simon Esteve, Remi Duheille
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Publication number: 20140035881Abstract: Provided is a touch sensitive display, for integration into an electronic device configured to function in a predetermined temperature range, comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means is configured and arranged such that it presents a damping ratio of 5% or less with a variation of this damping ratio of 2 percentage points or less in the predetermined temperature range. Also provided is a touch sensitive display comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means comprises an elastic material in a first region on the front side of the display panel, with the front main side of the display panel being the displaying side, and an elastic material in a second region on the back side of the display panel and a compression controlling means for compressing the first and/or second region by a predetermined amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
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Publication number: 20130300718Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining an acoustic response attributed to a location of an impact, in particular a touch event, on a surface of an object including at least one transducer comprising the steps of: Injecting a predetermined acoustic bending wave by the transducer at the transducer position (5a, 5b), Sensing a bending wave parameter at a secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position, determining the acoustic response based on the sensed bending wave parameter and properties of the predetermined acoustic bending wave effectively as if the injection took place at the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position and the sensing took place at the transducer position based on reciprocity principles, and determining the acoustic response attributed to at least one location (9) on the surface different to the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position based on at leType: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
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Publication number: 20130069916Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the location and duration of a sustained contact of a touch event performed by a user on a surface of an object comprising the steps of: a) determining the location of the touch event, in particular based on an acoustic signal generated by the impact of the touch on the surface, and b) determining the duration of the touch event based on a perturbation of a signal generated in or on the object by a transducer characterized in that step b) comprises analyzing the signal generated at or close to N natural frequencies of the object, with N being one or more. The analysis close to the natural frequencies allows the reliable determination of not only the location of a touch event but also whether the user continues to interact with the surface of the object which is due to the important damping of the generated signal in the presence of the touch. The invention also relates to a touch sensitive device configured to carry out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Simon Estève
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Publication number: 20130027359Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device with a touch sensitive surface comprising: a sensing means for capturing an acoustic signal, a touch location determining unit configured to determine the location of a touch event on the touch sensitive surface based on the acoustic signal. To improve the reliability of the touch localisation process, the device further comprises a filtering unit configured to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the acoustic signal based on one or more signals provided by one or more spurious acoustic signal generating devices of the electronic device and/or based on one or more parameters of the one or more spurious acoustic signal generating devices of the electronic device. The invention also relates to a corresponding method. The invention furthermore relates to a method for improving the confidentiality of a user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Olivier Schevin, Simon Esteve, Remi Duheille