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).
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Patent number: 11582672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Tonnerre, Yann Nicolas, Sunil Panthi
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Publication number: 20220377640Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Arnaud TONNERRE, Yann NICOLAS, Sunil PANTHI
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Publication number: 20220354625Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: KOLIBREEInventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS, Samuel LANDAU
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Patent number: 11447231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventors: Saskia Dege, Svenja Jegminat, Yann Nicolas
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Patent number: 11426264Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: KOLIBREEInventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Samuel Landau
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Publication number: 20220249214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Léonie Williamson
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Patent number: 11363971Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Patent number: 11278384Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: KOLIBREE SASInventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Léonie Williamson
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Publication number: 20220007829Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
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Patent number: 11166543Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Patent number: 11169106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Inventors: Yann Nicolas, Jean-Marc Decitre, Laura Pucci, Denis Premel
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Publication number: 20210228112Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Vincent EL KOUBY-BENICHOU, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Patent number: 11006862Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Patent number: 10890506Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Yann Nicolas
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Publication number: 20200397347Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Vincent EL KOUBY-BENICHOU, Olivier GIROUD, Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
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Patent number: 10839790Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, Yann Nicolas Dauphin, David G. Grangier, Dzianis Yarats
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Patent number: 10799155Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Vincent El Kouby-Benichou, Olivier Giroud, Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Publication number: 20200229585Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann NICOLAS
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Publication number: 20200179089Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas, Leonie Williams
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Patent number: 10646029Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Thomas Serval, Yann Nicolas