Patents by Inventor Thibault LEFEZ

Thibault LEFEZ 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: 10621878
    Abstract: In an aircraft including a cockpit, a unit for monitoring the situation of the aircraft and a radio communication unit, the device for aiding the ground rolling is configured to: acquire, from the monitoring unit, information the situation of the aircraft and determine predicted positions of the aircraft for a set of future instants, and for each vehicle of a set of other vehicles situated on the surface of the airport: acquire, from the radio communication unit, information regarding the situation of the vehicle, which information is transmitted by this vehicle, determine predicted positions of the vehicle and calculate a distance between the predicted position of the aircraft and the predicted position of the vehicle for each instant of the set of future instants and compare this distance with a predetermined distance threshold and, emit an alert in the cockpit if this distance is less than this distance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Scacchi, Thibault Lefez
  • Publication number: 20200074867
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an optimized flight trajectory of an aircraft. The generation system includes a module for determining a long-term flight trajectory from an obstacle prediction model, a following module for the aircraft to fly by following the long-term flight trajectory and a module for updating the long term trajectory from a short-term trajectory as a function of characteristics of at least one obstacle detected during the following of the long-term flight trajectory by the aircraft and as a function of a predetermined risk criterion threshold. The generation system makes it possible to generate a flight trajectory that avoids obstacles simply and reliably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Thibault Lefez, Jean-Claude Mere, Sylvain Raynaud
  • Patent number: 10217372
    Abstract: In an aircraft comprising a cockpit comprising a display screen, a camera configured to acquire images of the environment of the aircraft, as well as a display management system, a ground rolling aid system configured so as to a) acquire several successive images of the environment of the aircraft via the camera, corresponding to various ground positions of the aircraft, b) modify these images by removing at least zones corresponding to the aircraft, so as to produce modified images, c) combine several of the modified images to produce a recomposed image, d) superpose an image characteristic of the aircraft on the recomposed image so as to produce a reference image, and e) display, on the cockpit display screen, an image corresponding to the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Thibault Lefez, Pierre Scacchi, Olivier Laplace
  • Publication number: 20180090019
    Abstract: In an aircraft including a cockpit, a unit for monitoring the situation of the aircraft and a radio communication unit, the device for aiding the ground rolling is configured to: acquire, from the monitoring unit, information the situation of the aircraft and determine predicted positions of the aircraft for a set of future instants, and for each vehicle of a set of other vehicles situated on the surface of the airport: acquire, from the radio communication unit, information regarding the situation of the vehicle, which information is transmitted by this vehicle, determine predicted positions of the vehicle and calculate a distance between the predicted position of the aircraft and the predicted position of the vehicle for each instant of the set of future instants and compare this distance with a predetermined distance threshold and, emit an alert in the cockpit if this distance is less than this distance threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Scacchi, Thibault Lefez
  • Publication number: 20170372626
    Abstract: In an aircraft comprising a cockpit comprising a display screen, a camera configured to acquire images of the environment of the aircraft, as well as a display management system, a ground rolling aid system configured so as to a) acquire several successive images of the environment of the aircraft via the camera, corresponding to various ground positions of the aircraft, b) modify these images by removing at least zones corresponding to the aircraft, so as to produce modified images, c) combine several of the modified images to produce a recomposed image, d) superpose an image characteristic of the aircraft on the recomposed image so as to produce a reference image, and e) display, on the cockpit display screen, an image corresponding to the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Thibault LEFEZ, Pierre SCACCHI, Olivier LAPLACE