Patents by Inventor Thomas BERNARD

Thomas BERNARD 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).

  • Publication number: 20260134242
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for reading labels. In response to an object of the one or more objects being targeted, the object is identified as a targeted object and a select timer it started. Once the select timer has started, it continues to run whether or not the targeted object continues to be targeted. The targeted object is selected if it is being targeted when the select timer elapses. If the targeted object is not being targeted when the select timer elapses, a validate timer may be started and the targeted object selected if is retargeted before the validate timer elapses. If another object is targeted prior to the select timer elapsing, the other object may be identified as the targeted object and the select timer restarted. Objects are targeted by orienting the reader so that an aiming feature in the video feed touches the targeted object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas Bernard, Anderson Bordim, Quentin Brun, Jeremie Georges Gerard Petitjean, Mojtaba Peyvandy
  • Patent number: 10129588
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver transmits a request for discovery information to a discovery information server, the request including receiver profile information associated with the current state of the digital broadcast receiver. The server identifies, on the basis of the receiver profile information, additional services that are available over an IP with a digital broadcasting receiver, and transmits discovery information for the additional services to the receiver. Then, the digital broadcast receiver determines a receiver channel number in order to locate the additional service at a channel guide on the basis of the received discovery information and logical channel numbers that are assigned to a plurality of broadcast services by a broadcast provider, and generates a channel guide by including the additional services in the determined receiver channel number and the plurality of broadcast services of the respective receiver channel numbers corresponding to the logical channel numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yann Muller, Jan-David Stephane Outters, Stephen Baker, Thomas Bernard
  • Patent number: 9787977
    Abstract: A display apparatus switching between a two-dimensional (2D) display mode and a three-dimensional (3D) display mode is provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image a pair of 3D glasses worn by a user to view an image displayed in the 3D display mode, wherein the 3D glasses are switchable between a plurality of different states; a transmitter/emitter module configured to remotely control the 3D glasses so as to switch the states of the 3D glasses; and a controller configured to determine whether the user is wearing the 3D glasses based on a state of the 3D glasses in the image captured by the imaging device, and to control the display apparatus to operate in the 3D display mode when it is determined that the user is wearing the 3D glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas Bernard, Graham John Mudd
  • Publication number: 20160165300
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver transmits a request for discovery information to a discovery information server, the request including receiver profile information associated with the current state of the digital broadcast receiver. The server identifies, on the basis of the receiver profile information, additional services that are available over an IP with a digital broadcasting receiver, and transmits discovery information for the additional services to the receiver. Then, the digital broadcast receiver determines a receiver channel number in order to locate the additional service at a channel guide on the basis of the received discovery information and logical channel numbers that are assigned to a plurality of broadcast services by a broadcast provider, and generates a channel guide by including the additional services in the determined receiver channel number and the plurality of broadcast services of the respective receiver channel numbers corresponding to the logical channel numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yann MULLER, Jan-David Stephane OUTTERS, Stephen BAKER, Thomas BERNARD
  • Patent number: 9221712
    Abstract: A method for using a temperature control loop in order to further develop process control during elongation of a cylindrical preform such that a component strand with high dimensional accuracy can be drawn even in the presence of temperature-effective defects during the elongation process: (a) the continuous measurement of a first temperature value, Ttop, at an upper measuring point on the surface of the cylindrical preform; (b) the continuous measurement of a second temperature value, Tbottom, at a lower measuring point; (c) calculation of a temperature distribution in the region between the measuring points Ttop and Tbottom, and determination of a modelled deformation temperature, Tmodel, using an algorithmic model taking with first and the second temperature values as model input parameters, and the modelled deformation temperature, Tmodel, as a regulating variable and the heating-zone temperature Toven as a manipulated variable for the temperature-control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Bernard, Harald Hain, Thomas Bogdahn, Oliver Ganz
  • Publication number: 20150341625
    Abstract: A display apparatus switching between a two-dimensional (2D) display mode and a three-dimensional (3D) display mode is provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image a pair of 3D glasses worn by a user to view an image displayed in the 3D display mode, wherein the 3D glasses are switchable between a plurality of different states; a transmitter/emitter module configured to remotely control the 3D glasses so as to switch the states of the 3D glasses; and a controller configured to determine whether the user is wearing the 3D glasses based on a state of the 3D glasses in the image captured by the imaging device, and to control the display apparatus to operate in the 3D display mode when it is determined that the user is wearing the 3D glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas BERNARD, Graham John MUDD
  • Patent number: 9124882
    Abstract: A display apparatus switching between a two-dimensional (2D) display mode and a three-dimensional (3D) display mode is provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image a pair of 3D glasses worn by a user to view an image displayed in the 3D display mode, wherein the 3D glasses are switchable between a plurality of different states; a transmitter/emitter module configured to remotely control the 3D glasses so as to switch the states of the 3D glasses; and a controller configured to determine whether the user is wearing the 3D glasses based on a state of the 3D glasses in the image captured by the imaging device, and to control the display apparatus to operate in the 3D display mode when it is determined that the user is wearing the 3D glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas Bernard, Graham John Mudd
  • Publication number: 20150026724
    Abstract: A broadcasting receiver is arranged to provide linear services broadcasting linear events related to a predetermined time and non-linear services broadcasting static events regardless of time. The broadcasting receiver includes a receiver to receive a plurality of linear services each including a plurality of linear events broadcast at the predetermined times, a discovery information receiver to receive event discovery information including event type information for identifying a type of static event related to discovery information defining a plurality of static events, a processor to control a display unit to display a channel guide including the linear services and the non-linear services, and a user input receiver to receive user input selecting one of the static events from the channel guide, where the processor is performs one of a plurality of predetermined actions corresponding to the type of static event selected by the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher ALDER, Stephen BAKER, Thomas BERNARD, Yann MULLER, Jan-David Stephane OUTTERS
  • Publication number: 20140245796
    Abstract: A method for using a temperature control loop in order to further develop process control during elongation of a cylindrical preform such that a component strand with high dimensional accuracy can be drawn even in the presence of temperature-effective defects during the elongation process: (a) the continuous measurement of a first temperature value, Ttop, at an upper measuring point on the surface of the cylindrical preform; (b) the continuous measurement of a second temperature value, Tbottom, at a lower measuring point; (c) calculation of a temperature distribution in the region between the measuring points Ttop and Tbottom, and determination of a modelled deformation temperature, Tmodel, using an algorithmic model taking with first and the second temperature values as model input parameters, and the modelled deformation temperature, Tmodel, as a regulating variable and the heating-zone temperature Toven as a manipulated variable for the temperature-control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicants: HERAEUS QUARZGLAS GMBH & CO. KG, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Bernard, Harald Hain, Thomas Bogdahn, Oliver Ganz
  • Publication number: 20120317600
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus, a broadcast receiving method and a display apparatus are provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus connectable to a display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives a broadcast stream, a processing unit which processes a signal so as to obtain a program usable in the broadest stream, a plurality of content items respectively corresponding to the program and content item information regarding each of the plurality of content items, a storage unit which stores the plurality of content items which are signal processed and the content item information, and the content item information includes a program identifier and at least one group identifier related to the content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas BERNARD, Christopher ALDER
  • Publication number: 20120092560
    Abstract: A method of receiving a data service in a system including a broadcast channel and a data channel, in which at least part of the data service is transmitted by at least the broadcast channel, the method including: receiving, using the data channel, first signalling information relating the data service to an identifier of a first data stream transmitted using the broadcast channel, the identifier being used for signalling in the broadcast channel; receiving, using the data channel, second signalling information relating to a relationship between the first data stream and data capable of being received using the data channel; and selecting one or both of the first data stream and the data capable of being received using the data channel for use in receiving the data service on the basis of the first and second signalling information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James Robert GRANT, Arthur Simon WALLER, Mark Steven TOLLER, Thomas BERNARD