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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6580758 | Method of coding images at very low data rate and coding/decoding device implementing this method A method and apparatus for differential coding of blocks of images includes coding the difference between a current block of an image to be transmitted and one of four blocks of the reconstructed current image in the closest vicinity of the current block.... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6194723 | Method and system for protecting optoelectronic search and tracking equipment from an illumination A method of protection and a protective system for protection of an optoelectronic equipment consists in exploiting in a processing unit the data from said equipment and from a laser warning receiver disposed on a common support, in order to detect the ti... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6147710 | Method of correcting faults in an opto-mechanical scanning camera and a camera using the method An image output by a camera can contain a fault such that the signal output by the camera is not constant for a uniform background. To correct this fault, the method involves memorizing, as a correction image, a destructured image of the scene to be obser... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5986834 | Clock circuit for the reading of sequentially recorded information elements in a multitrack recording system A clock circuit for the reading of sequential information elements includes a phase-locked loop for the control of the controlled oscillator. In the case of a reading system with n tracks, the phase computation circuit, the digital filter and the controll... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5907633 | Method for the fast recognition of objects likely to form part of a collection comprising a large number of objects with different characteristics To carry out a fast recognition of objects, for example during a sorting operation, the measured parameters of these objects are divided into several classes. A rough sorting operation is done, taking account of the main classes. Then, for each class, the... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5885850 | Method for the 3D interconnection of packages of electronic components, and device obtained by this method A method for the interconnection of stacked packages encapsulating, for example, a semiconductor chip containing an integrated circuit, for example a memory. Packages with connection pins (21) are stacked and fixedly joined to each other by means of a coa... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5869844 | Device for the detection of optical radiations Device for the detection and processing of optical radiations, comprising at least one quantum well having asymmetric composition, said well consisting of a stack of layers of materials having differing gaps.... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5826231 | Method and device for vocal synthesis at variable speed A vocal synthesis method in which a speech signal is reconstituted by the selection from a dictionary of waveforms for the excitation of long-term and short-term predictive filters. To preserve, in the synthetic speech messages read at low speed or high s... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5784181 | Illumination device for illuminating a display device The invention relates to an illumination device for illuminating a display device. In a preferred embodiment, non-polarized light from a non-polarized light source is polarized by a holographic polarization beam splitting device and focused onto a liquid ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5724052 | Device for reducing the radome effect with a surface-radiating wideband antenna and reducing the radar cross section of the assembly A layer (30) absorbing transmitted radiation, placed between an antenna (10) and a radome (20) and extending parallel to the surface of the antenna at a close distance thereto, the absorption coefficient of said absorbing layer varying between a minimum v... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5661473 | System for the identification and automatic detection of vehicles or objects A system for the identification and automatic detection of vehicles or objects includes an electronic label installed in each of the vehicles or objects, each of these electronic labels having means for memorizing an identification code assigned to a vehi... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5659536 | Optical storage method and device for storing and reading digital information Disclosed is a system for the recording of data on optic disks. Presently used optic disks, which can be read with lasers working in wavelengths of the visible region (between 0.5 and 0.8 microns), have a maximum surface storage density of the order of on... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5645761 | Phosphor material based on manganese-doped zinc silicate and method for obtaining such a material A phosphor material based on manganese-doped zinc silicate, in which the manganese doping level ranges from 3.5% to 25%, can be used to obtain a very short time of decay after excitation. Applications: display panels and television tubes.... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5625250 | Electronic micro-component self-sealed under vacuum, notably diode or triode, and corresponding fabrication method The disclosure concerns the making of microcomponents belonging to the family of vacuum tubes of the diode, triode and electroluminescent component type. The goal thereof is notably to resolve problems of fabrication under vacuum, and of precise anode-cat... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5621547 | Illumination device and application to a display device The invention relates to an illumination device in which a holographic device (HPi) separates the polarizations of an incident beam. The resulting polarized beam is transmitted to a holographic device (HLi) focusing the beam at vario... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5598163 | Method and system for object detection within an angular zone, and its applications A method for detecting fixed or moving objects within an angular zone, as may be used in vehicle anti-collision systems, employs separate and distinct transmission and reception patterns. The transmission pattern successively illuminates consecutive segme... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5582518 | System for restoring the visual environment of a pilot in a simulator The disclosed system essentially comprises a small diameter sphere, forming a projection screen, in which the pilot is placed. This sphere is associated with external and internal generators.... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5579165 | Computerized binoculars The invention is an optical device, similar to a pair of binoculars, which includes, between the objective lens and the eyepiece a miniature screen displaying an image controlled by a computer, and an optical reflex device capable of superimposing the scr... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5568336 | Magnetic reading device with alternating magnetic biasing means This magnetic medium reading device comprises means for the induction of an AC magnetic excitation field in the reading zone of the magnetic head. It can be applied notably to magneto-optical reading heads. Applications: reading of magnetic media (magneti... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5553163 | Polytomous segmentation process The segmentation process of the invention consists in making representative objects of classes to be discriminated and for which a statistical law is estimated or is available which defines them on characteristic measurements. The data base is segmented b... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5546200 | Chromatic light separator and picture projector using a chromatic light separator This invention concerns chromatic light separators, and is particularly intended to reduce their dimensions. A chromatic separator in accordance with the invention contains at least two selective wave length mirrors. According to one characteristic of the... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5546255 | Integrated recording magnetic head The magnetic recording head of the invention comprises an electrical conductor constituted by the poles themselves or by a magnetic shunt, which gets saturated when an electrical current is sent to it. It is thus possible to control the field at the gap a... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5535041 | Device for stabilizing the reflectivity of mirrors having phase conjugation through stimulated brillouin scattering at high pulse repetition rate A phase conjugation mirror including a non-linear medium (1) and a focusing lens (2), in which a beam to be reflected (F1) is displaced relative to a non-linear medium. The displacement is obtained through displacement of the focusing lens and has applica... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5526230 | 3D interconnection process for electronic component packages and resulting 3D components A device and method for interconnection packages in a stack. Each package encapsulates, for example a semiconductor chip containing an integrated circuit, which for example may be a memory. The packages (2) which have connecting pins (21) are mounted on s... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5524171 | Device for the processing and pre-correction of an audio signal before it is amplified in an amplification system of a transmitter with amplitude modulation A device for carrying out a pre-correction of audio signals before they are amplified in amplification systems of transmitters with amplitude modulation, the amplification systems each having a determined number of modules generating pulses of modulated w... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5523021 | Conductive materials based on encapsulated conductive polymers This invention concerns conductive materials based on an encapsulated conductive polymer. Encapsulation in a shell of polymer stabilizes the conductivity of these materials, which can be encapsulated in a shell of film-generating polymer, to give the mate... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5522009 | Quantization process for a predictor filter for vocoder of very low bit rate A quantization process proposes a low data rate for predictor filters of a vocoder with a speech signal broken down into packets having a predetermined number L of frames of constant duration and a weight allocated to each frame according to the average s... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5518655 | Phosphor material based on manganese-doped zinc silicate and method for obtaining such a material A phosphor material based on manganese-doped zinc silicate, in which the manganese doping level ranges from 3.5% to 25%, can be used to obtain a very short time of decay after excitation.... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5512741 | Target acquisition optoelectronic system with a very wide field The system comprises a focusing optics in the focal plane of which a linear array of photodetectors is disposed. A double prism located opposite to said photodetectors with respect to said focusing optics, is servo controlled in rotation relative to a sup... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5506473 | Electron gun for providing electrons grouped in short pulses This gun comprises a cathode K, a grid G, and an anode A between which the applied voltages are radio-frequency voltages. The cathode is disposed on the central conductor of a coaxial cavity, facing said grid terminating said cavity. Said cavity is termin... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5486938 | Anti-dazzle system for vehicles In front of the driver there is arranged a screen (20) with a variable transmission coefficient. The headlamps (10, 11) of the vehicle send out periodic pulses of short duration with respect to the period. The transmission coefficient of the screen (20, 2... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5479828 | Structure with intrinsic damage control, manufacturing processes and method of use Disclosed is a structure at least partially comprising a composite material, the material being made by means of sheets of fibers embedded in a matrix, the different sheets forming plies of the material, the material comprising intrinsic means for the det... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5475672 | Variable-length information recording with reference marks for time reference during information reading The information is recorded in the form of variable-length alterations (l0, l0 +NƊl), for example in the form of localized ablations of a thermosensitive layer of the medium. This type of coding of the information is sensitive to im... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5475525 | Transverse electrical filter operating optically The invention relates to a programmable transverse filter required for the matched filtering of signals with very wide passband. The signals to be filtered modulate one or more optical carriers (F1) in a modulator (MOD). Each carrier is distributed over s... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5465068 | Excitation stage of a transmission tube for short-wave transmitter An excitation stage having a predetermined number of semiconductor-based amplification modules parallel-connected at the input of a coupling device to couple the outputs of the amplification modules to the input of the transmission tube, as well as a diod... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5461545 | Process and device for hermetic encapsulation of electronic components According to an embodiment of the invention the discrete or integrated electronic components are encapsulated, each in a package, for example a plastic one; the packages are then mounted on a printed circuit board, for example an epoxy one. The components... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5459515 | Method for dual-standard coding of very low data-rate images and coder-decoder for implementing this method A method for dual-standard coding of very low data-rate images and a coder-decoder system for implementing the method, wherein images can be transmitted with low spatial "Quarter of Common Intermediate Format" (QCIF) resolution and with high time resoluti... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5459619 | Method of reading recording data and a read system The invention relates to a method and system reading data recorded in the form of tracks on a magnetic recording medium. The recorded data is read by a row of read heads greater in number than a number of data tracks. The system of the invention does not ... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5455586 | Pulse recognition method and device, and use thereof for the filtering of the S mode responses of a secondary radar Disclosed are a device for the detection of S mode responses received by a secondary radar receiver and its use for the filtering of the pulses contained in this response. The device furthermore comprises means to detect a signal S, means for the real-tim... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5453877 | Optical system of collimation notably for helmet display unit The system is designed to be mounted in a air pilot's helmet. It uses a confocal assembly with a first parabolic mirror and a second parabolic mirror, placed downline of a collimation objective which gives a collimated radiation. The first mirror is total... | 09/26/1995 |
