Patents by Inventor Yann Nicolas

Yann Nicolas 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: 11582672
    Abstract: A broadband communication system provides broadband communication services onboard an aircraft. The broadband communication system includes a satellite communication transceiver, a direct air-to-ground communication (DA2GC) transceiver, and a controller. The satellite communication transceiver is configured to communicate directly with a target satellite providing a satellite communication data pathway with a satellite ground station connected to ground networks. The DA2GC transceiver is configured to communicate directly with a DA2GC ground station providing an DA2GC data pathway with the ground networks. The controller is configured to control handoff between the satellite communication transceiver and the DA2GC transceiver for data communications between the broadband communications system and the ground networks, based on performance of at least one of the satellite communication data pathway and the DA2GC data pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaud Tonnerre, Yann Nicolas, Sunil Panthi
  • Publication number: 20220377640
    Abstract: A broadband communication system provides broadband communication services onboard an aircraft. The broadband communication system includes a satellite communication transceiver, a direct air-to-ground communication (DA2GC) transceiver, and a controller. The satellite communication transceiver is configured to communicate directly with a target satellite providing a satellite communication data pathway with a satellite ground station connected to ground networks. The DA2GC transceiver is configured to communicate directly with a DA2GC ground station providing an DA2GC data pathway with the ground networks. The controller is configured to control handoff between the satellite communication transceiver and the DA2GC transceiver for data communications between the broadband communications system and the ground networks, based on performance of at least one of the satellite communication data pathway and the DA2GC data pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Arnaud TONNERRE, Yann NICOLAS, Sunil PANTHI
  • Publication number: 20220354625
    Abstract: Tooth brushing monitoring system is disclosed that includes an oral hygiene device with a separate an optical sensor to track positional changes of the oral hygiene device. The optical sensor may alone or in combination with motion sensor data determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. The system may then determine the quality, quantity and location of brushing and provide feedback on the quality of brushing. This feedback provides motivation for users to increase their brushing habits, leading to a decrease in plaque, tooth decay and gingivitis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: KOLIBREE
    Inventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS, Samuel LANDAU
  • Patent number: 11447231
    Abstract: An actuating system for pivoting a wing tip section (13) about a fixed wing base section (11), and including a heating arrangement (33) positioned and adapted to be operable to heat at least one portion of an actuating arrangement (23) that pivots the wing tip section such that at least for ambient temperatures below a predetermined temperature the required work to be effected by the actuator (25) when moving the second coupling part (31) between the first position and the second position is lower than without heating the at least one portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Saskia Dege, Svenja Jegminat, Yann Nicolas
  • Patent number: 11426264
    Abstract: Tooth brushing monitoring system is disclosed that includes an oral hygiene device with a separate an optical sensor to track positional changes of the oral hygiene device. The optical sensor may alone or in combination with motion sensor data determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. The system may then determine the quality, quantity and location of brushing and provide feedback on the quality of brushing. This feedback provides motivation for users to increase their brushing habits, leading to a decrease in plaque, tooth decay and gingivitis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: KOLIBREE
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Samuel Landau
  • Publication number: 20220249214
    Abstract: Oral hygiene monitoring system is disclosed to track motion and orientation of an oral hygiene device. The control system may process data output from a motion sensor to determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. In some examples, the system may use machine learning techniques to identify position and orientation, brush stroke type, and other specific actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Léonie Williamson
  • Patent number: 11363971
    Abstract: A motion tracking element for an oral hygiene element such as a toothbrush. The motion tracking element may be detachably coupled to the oral hygiene element. The motion tracking element may include a body having an outer surface, a portion of the outer surface having a pattern that includes a plurality of indicators with a non-circular shape. The indicators may be flush with and form part of the outer surface. A plurality of visual markers may be located on the outer surface, each of the visual markers having a circular shape. The plurality of visual markers may be formed integrally with the body. A method for estimating a pose of an oral hygiene device may be achieved using the motion tracking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
  • Patent number: 11278384
    Abstract: Oral hygiene monitoring system is disclosed to track motion and orientation of an oral hygiene device. The control system may process data output from a motion sensor to determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. In some examples, the system may use machine learning techniques to identify position and orientation, brush stroke type, and other specific actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KOLIBREE SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Léonie Williamson
  • Publication number: 20220007829
    Abstract: A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
  • Patent number: 11166543
    Abstract: A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
  • Patent number: 11169106
    Abstract: A method for nondestructive inspection of a flexible underwater pipe capable detecting a flooding of the annular space in which the armor layers are found. The method comprises the steps of arranging in the vicinity of the external sheath at least one pair of electrodes, measuring the impedance at the terminals of the pair of electrodes, at a frequency advantageously between 10 Hz and 10 MHz, and comparing the measured impedance with reference values so as to determine the nature of the fluid contained in the annular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yann Nicolas, Jean-Marc Decitre, Laura Pucci, Denis Premel
  • Publication number: 20210228112
    Abstract: A motion tracking element for an oral hygiene element such as a toothbrush. The motion tracking element may be detachably coupled to the oral hygiene element. The motion tracking element may include a body having an outer surface, a portion of the outer surface having a pattern that includes a plurality of indicators with a non-circular shape. The indicators may be flush with and form part of the outer surface. A plurality of visual markers may be located on the outer surface, each of the visual markers having a circular shape. The plurality of visual markers may be formed integrally with the body. A method for estimating a pose of an oral hygiene device may be achieved using the motion tracking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Vincent EL KOUBY-BENICHOU, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
  • Patent number: 11006862
    Abstract: A method for estimating a pose of an oral hygiene device including a pattern and a plurality of groups of visual markers relative to a location includes (i) receiving image data reproducible as an image of at least a portion of the oral hygiene device; (ii) analyzing the image data to identify a region of interest within the image; (iii) identifying, using at least one of the one or more processors, all candidate visual markers within the region of interest; (iv) obtaining a first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; (v) validating the first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; and (vi) obtaining a second proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device based on the validated first proposed three-dimensional pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
  • Patent number: 10890506
    Abstract: An end fitting including an end part of the tubular sheath, an end section of each elongate element, an end vault, and a cover defining a chamber for receiving each end section. The end fitting includes at least one transducer for generating an ultrasonic wave guided in the elongate element, the generation transducer being placed on the elongate element in the receiving chamber, the generation transducer having a volume of less than 200 mm3, in particular comprised between 20 mm3 and 50 mm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Inventor: Yann Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20200397347
    Abstract: A method for estimating a pose of an oral hygiene device including a pattern and a plurality of groups of visual markers relative to a location includes (i) receiving image data reproducible as an image of at least a portion of the oral hygiene device; (ii) analyzing the image data to identify a region of interest within the image; (iii) identifying, using at least one of the one or more processors, all candidate visual markers within the region of interest; (iv) obtaining a first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; (v) validating the first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; and (vi) obtaining a second proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device based on the validated first proposed three-dimensional pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Vincent EL KOUBY-BENICHOU, Olivier GIROUD, Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
  • Patent number: 10839790
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements to neural networks for translation and other sequence-to-sequence tasks. A convolutional neural network may include multiple blocks, each having a convolution layer and gated linear units; gating may determine what information passes through to the next block level. Residual connections, which add the input of a block back to its output, may be applied around each block. Further, an attention may be applied to determine which word is most relevant to translate next. By applying repeated passes of the attention to multiple layers of the decoder, the decoder is able to work on the entire structure of a sentence at once (with no temporal dependency). In addition to better accuracy, this configuration is better at capturing long-range dependencies, better models the hierarchical syntax structure of a sentence, and is highly parallelizable and thus faster to run on hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, Yann Nicolas Dauphin, David G. Grangier, Dzianis Yarats
  • Patent number: 10799155
    Abstract: A method for estimating a pose of an oral hygiene device including a pattern and a plurality of groups of visual markers relative to a location includes (i) receiving image data reproducible as an image of at least a portion of the oral hygiene device; (ii) analyzing the image data to identify a region of interest within the image; (iii) identifying, using at least one of the one or more processors, all candidate visual markers within the region of interest; (iv) obtaining a first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; (v) validating the first proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device; and (vi) obtaining a second proposed three-dimensional pose of the oral hygiene device based on the validated first proposed three-dimensional pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20200229585
    Abstract: A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
  • Publication number: 20200179089
    Abstract: Oral hygiene monitoring system is disclosed to track motion and orientation of an oral hygiene device. The control system may process data output from a motion sensor to determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. In some examples, the system may use machine learning techniques to identify position and orientation, brush stroke type, and other specific actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Leonie Williams
  • Patent number: 10646029
    Abstract: A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas