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20130323016 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CLEARANCE AT THE TIPS OF BLADES OF A TURBINE ROTOR - A method controlling a clearance between tips of blades of a turbine rotor of a gas turbine aircraft engine and a ring-shaped turbine shroud of a housing surrounding the blades, the method including: controlling flow and/or temperature of air directed toward the housing according to an estimate of the clearance, the estimate of the clearance is determined upon start-up of the aircraft engine, according to a temperature measured by a temperature sensor including a sensitive element positioned in a free space of the aircraft engine. | 12-05-2013 |
20150192499 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DETERIORATION IN A TURBOMACHINE BY MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF SAID TURBOMACHINE - A method for detecting degradation of a turbine engine by monitoring performance of the turbine engine, the turbine engine including plural functional modules, the method including: measuring plural physical parameters of the turbine engine to form a current performance index for the turbine engine; calculating plural degraded performance indices for the turbine engine, assuming that, for each degraded performance index, only one functional module of the turbine engine has degraded; calculating plural cost indices corresponding to the difference between the current performance index and a degraded performance index; determining an optimum cost index corresponding to the one with a lowest value for all the degraded performance indices; and detecting degradation of the module of the turbine engine, the degraded performance index of which is associated with optimum cost index. | 07-09-2015 |
20150268073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE FLOW RATE OF AIR COLLECTED FROM AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE - A method and a device for determining, in real time, the flow rate of air collected from an aircraft engine by a system for collecting air from the engine, including an acquisition device for acquiring at successive times measurements of physical quantities in respect of temperature, pressure and pressure loss, specific for the air collection system, a computing device for evaluating at each current time of the successive times a first current estimation of the flow rate of air collected from the aircraft engine on the basis of said the physical quantity measurements, the acquisition device for acquiring at the current time a minimum current air flow rate data item defined on the basis of a predetermined flow rate tables, the computing device for hybridising, at the current time, the first current air flow rate estimation and said the minimum current air flow rate data item to form a second current air flow rate estimation. | 09-24-2015 |
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20090199605 | LATCH ASSEMBLY - A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis. With the pawl in the engaged position, a force applied to the pawl by the latch bolt creates a turning moment on the eccentric arrangement in the one of the clockwise and counter-clockwise direction, and the eccentric arrangement is prevented from rotating in said one of the clockwise and counter-clockwise direction by a moveable abutment. | 08-13-2009 |
20100032968 | MOTOR ARRANGEMENT - A motor arrangement includes a rotor with a north rotor magnetic pole and a south rotor magnetic pole, the rotor being rotatable about a rotor axis between a first rotor position and a second rotor position. The rotor includes a first rotor abutment and a second rotor abutment. The motor arrangement includes a stator having a first stator magnetic pole and a second stator magnetic pole, the stator having a first stator condition in which the first stator magnetic pole is a north stator magnetic pole and the second stator magnetic pole is a south stator magnetic pole, and a second stator condition in which the first stator magnetic pole is a south stator magnetic pole and the second stator magnetic pole is a north stator magnetic pole. The first stator condition corresponds to the first rotor position in which the north rotor magnetic pole is proximate the second stator magnetic pole and the south rotor magnetic pole is proximate the first stator magnetic pole, and the second stator condition corresponds to the second rotor position in which the north rotor magnetic pole is proximate the first stator magnetic pole and the south rotor magnetic pole is proximate the second stator magnetic pole. The motor arrangement includes an output member rotatable about the rotor axis and having a first output abutment engageable by the first rotor abutment to move the output member in a first rotational direction and having a second output abutment engageable by the second rotor abutment to move the output member in a second rotational direction. The output member is rotatable relative to the rotor to a limited extent defined by the first and second output abutments and the first and second rotor abutments. The motor arrangement includes a first stop to limit movement of the rotor past the first rotor position and a second stop to limit movement of the rotor past the second rotor position. | 02-11-2010 |
20150211266 | LATCH ASSEMBLY - A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis. With the pawl in the engaged position, a force applied to the pawl by the latch bolt creates a turning moment on the eccentric arrangement in the one of the clockwise and counter-clockwise direction, and the eccentric arrangement is prevented from rotating in said one of the clockwise and counter-clockwise direction by a moveable abutment. | 07-30-2015 |
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20100066686 | MULTIPOINT TOUCH SENSOR WITH ACTIVE MATRIX - The present invention relates to a multipoint touch sensor with active matrix comprising: —a matrix layer exhibiting N×M independent cells, each of the cells P | 03-18-2010 |
20100117974 | TRANSPARENT MULTI-TACTILE SENSOR - The disclosure relates to a transparent multi-tactile sensor including a transparent semi-conducting active layer provided between two transparent conducting layers arranged as an array of cells formed by the intersection of rows and columns, characterised in that it comprises a control circuit successively supplying each semi-conducting portion corresponding to a cell, said control circuit including a means for analyzing the variation in the electrical characteristics due to the deformation of one or more sensor areas, each area including one or more cells, the semi-conducting characteristic of said intermediate layer making said cells independent from the measuring circuit. | 05-13-2010 |
20100289507 | MULTICONTACT TRANSPARENT TACTILE SENSOR BASED ON A METALIZED SURFACE DEPOSITION - A multicontact transparent tactile sensor including two at least partially conducting transparent layers, the layers being spaced apart by an insulating transparent material. At least one of the layers includes a transparent sheet on which is deposited an array of conducting tracks whose width is less than 80 microns. | 11-18-2010 |
20100289508 | ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS CIRCUIT WITH ALTERNATION OF CAPACITIVE/RESISTIVE MEASUREMENT FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit for a passive-matrix multicontact tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism for detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at intersections between the two axes. The electrical characteristic measured is alternately capacitance and resistance. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor includes an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of the two axes of the matrix, a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at the intersections between the two axes, and such an electronic analysis circuit. | 11-18-2010 |
20100302197 | ANALYZER ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT WITH ENERGIZATION AXIS/DETECTION AXIS ALTERNATION FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTRACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit of a multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism powering one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at intersections between the two axes. The supply axis and the detection axis are alternated. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor includes an electrical supply mechanism powering one of the two axes of the matrix, a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at the intersections between the two axes, and such an electronic circuit. | 12-02-2010 |
20110001487 | MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR WITH SINGLE-CONTACT IDLE MODE - A multicontact tactile sensor including a matrix formed of two transparent conducting layers, at least one exhibiting an array of fine conducting tracks, a control circuit including a power supply for one of the layers, and a mechanism detecting the other layer, the sensor having an operating mode of multicontact type corresponding to a sweep of supply to the lines of the corresponding layer, and an operating mode of monocontact type corresponding to a continuous and uniform supply over a whole of the sensor, each operating mode being activated as a function of the detection or nondetection of at least one contact. | 01-06-2011 |
20110025619 | ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS CIRCUIT WITH MODULATION OF SCANNING CHARACTERISTICS FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit for a multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism powering one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at nodes between the two axes. At least one scanning characteristic is modulated locally or temporally. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor can include such an electronic analysis circuit. | 02-03-2011 |
20110134067 | METHOD FOR THE ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SENSOR USING A DICHOTOMOUS PRINCIPLE, AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SENSOR IMPLEMENTING ONE SUCH METHOD - A method for acquisition and analysis of a multi-contact tactile sensor including a matrix of capture points and an electronic analysis circuit for controlling the acquisition and analysis of the matrix. The method includes acquisition of a sensor detection zone to determine a state of each of contact points of the detection zone and analysis of detection zone to deliver information as a function of an activation state of the contact points. The acquisition and the analysis are repeated iteratively. The acquisition is performed on a detection zone containing the activated contact points determined during a preceding analysis. The detection zone is smaller than the detection zone acquired during the preceding acquisition. The iteration is performed until a pre-determined spatial resolution is obtained. An electronic acquisition and analysis circuit and a multi-contact tactile sensor can implement such a method. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141026 | MULTICONTACT TOUCH-SENSITIVE SENSOR INCLUDING VARIABLE-SIZE AND VARIABLE-IMPEDANCE SPACING MEANS - A multi-contact tactile sensor including an elastically deformable interaction layer and a supporting layer, a lower surface of the interaction layer including an array of strip conductors and an upper surface of the supporting layer including an array of strip conductors that are not parallel to the array of strip conductors on the interaction layer. The interaction layer and the supporting layer are separated by a first series of rigid insulating spacers. A second series of conducting spacers is in contact with at least one of the two arrays of strip conductors. The impedance and dimensions of the spacers of the second series are determined to prevent contact at rest and enable local contact during deformation of the interaction layer between the spacers of the second series and the array of strip conductors of the layer opposite the spacers. A controller can control one such sensor, a multi-contact tactile screen can include one such sensor, and a keyboard including a set of discrete keys can be formed by one such sensor. | 06-16-2011 |
20110298445 | MULTIPOINT SENSOR - The invention relates to a multipoint sensor ( | 12-08-2011 |
20120200512 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUISITION OF DATA FROM A MULTICONTACT MATRIX TACTILE SENSOR - A data acquisition method to acquire data from a multicontact matrix tactile sensor having a matrix array of a cells, includes scanning the cells of the matrix array sequentially, and measuring an electrical characteristic of a cell, which represents a weight of the cell. The method also includes comparing the weight with a predetermined significant weight value interval, storing cell data associated with the cell, where the cell data includes the weight and coordinates of the cell in the matrix array, after the weight is determined to lie within the predetermined significant weight value interval. The method also verifies an existence of a data record associated with neighboring cells in a neighboring zone of the cell, and updates the data record associated with the neighboring cells by storing in the data record data associated with the cell, after the existence of the data record is confirmed. | 08-09-2012 |
20120293297 | MULTI-CONTACT TOUCH SENSOR WITH A HIGH ELECTRICAL CONTACT RESISTANCE - A multi-contact, tactile sensor including an upper layer including strip conductors arranged in lines, a lower layer including strip conductors arranged in columns, and a spacer positioned between the upper layer and the lower layer to insulate the upper layer and lower layer. An electromechanical mechanism is arranged between the upper and lower layers to increase electrical contact resistance during contact between at least one strip conductor of the upper layer and at least one strip conductor of the lower layer. | 11-22-2012 |
20130229379 | TOUCH SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD - A tactile sensor includes an insulating support including a first face including a first series of parallel conducting tracks and a second face including a second series of parallel conducting tracks, the insulating support being folded and the second face being disposed opposite the first face. The tactile sensor includes an array of conducting tracks extending in an edge zone intended to be folded, along fold lines. The tactile sensor can, for example, be used in a tactile control screen. | 09-05-2013 |
20130241878 | TOUCH SENSOR WITH A MATRIX NETWORK OF CONDUCTIVE TRACKS AND TOUCH-CONTROL SCREEN - A touch sensor including a tactile detection zone including a matrix array of conducting tracks constituting columns on a first insulating layer and rows on a second insulating layer, the first and second insulating layers being disposed opposite one another, and an array of conducting tracks configured to transfer electrical signals between the rows and columns of the matrix array and an interface connector for interfacing with a control system of the tactile sensor. The touch sensor further includes control circuits associated respectively with the rows and columns of the matrix array of conducting tracks, the array of conducting tracks extending between the control circuits and the interface connector. | 09-19-2013 |
20140247236 | METHOD OF ACQUIRING DATA FROM A MATRIX TOUCH SENSOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR A TOUCH SCREEN - A method of acquiring data of a matrix touch sensor including a matrix array of cells arranged according to a set of rows and columns, the method including: activating the cells arranged according to a column of at least one subset of columns of the matrix touch sensor; taking an overall measurement of an overall electrical characteristic on all the rows of at least one subset of rows of the matrix touch sensor; taking a sequential measurement of an electrical characteristic successively on each row of the at least one subset of rows, if the overall electrical characteristic has a value representative of a contact on at least one of the cells arranged according to the column; and repeating the overall measurement and sequential measurement after activating the cells arranged according to another column of the at least one subset of columns of the matrix touch sensor. | 09-04-2014 |
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20090104687 | Microbiological analysis system - The microbiological analysis system comprises a support ( | 04-23-2009 |
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20080260043 | Device and method for coding a sequence of images in scalable format and corresponding decoding device and method - The invention relates to a method for coding an image data macroblock of a sequence of images presented in the form of a base layer and at least one enhancement layer. The image data macroblock to which corresponds an image data block in the base layer, called a corresponding block, belongs to the enhancement layer. The method comprises the following steps:
| 10-23-2008 |
20090016439 | Derivation of Frame/Field Encoding Mode for a Pair of Video Macroblocks - The method wherein the field or frame mode is selected according to the following steps:
| 01-15-2009 |
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20090304080 | METHOD FOR CODING AN IMAGE SEQUENCE - The method comprises the steps for the:
| 12-10-2009 |
20100303148 | MACROBLOCK-BASED DUAL-PASS CODING METHOD - The method comprises the following steps:
| 12-02-2010 |
20120269260 | METHOD FOR CODING A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES - The invention relates to a method for coding a sequence of images divided into blocks, comprising the following steps for a current block:—selecting, for the current block, a coding mode in a set of coding modes that comprises at least two coding modes, and a transform in a set of transforms that comprises at least a first transform and a second transform; and—coding the current block according to the coding mode and the transform selected. The coding mode and the transform, themselves, are selected according to the following steps:—selecting the coding mode in the set of coding modes while using the first transform, and—selecting the transform in the set of transforms while using the coding mode selected. | 10-25-2012 |
20140369410 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AN HDR VIDEO TOGETHER WITH AN LDR VIDEO, METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR RECONSTRUCTING ONE OF AN HDR VIDEO AND AN LDR VIDEO CODED TOGETHER AND PF STORAGE MEDIUM - The inventors realized that representing HDR content using LDR content and HDR residual is not unproblematic. The invention therefore proposes representing HDR content using LDR content, LDR residual and global illumination data, instead. That is, it is proposed a method of encoding an HDR video of high dynamic range together with an LDR video, the LDR video providing a lower dynamic range depiction of the HDR video content, the method comprising using processing means for encoding one video of the LDR video and a further LDR video extracted from the HDR video independent from the other video of the LDR video and the HDR video and predictive encoding the other video using the one video as reference, and lossless encoding global illumination data further extracted from the HDR video. This has the advantage that prediction is more stable and globally optimal predictors are more easily found. | 12-18-2014 |
20150178904 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING AN IMAGE SEQUENCE WHOSE LUMINANCE VALUES BELONG TO A HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE - The invention relates to a method and a device for converting an original image sequence (SIO) whose luminance values belong to a given dynamic range, said method comprising a step of image-by-image dynamic range conversion during which a dynamic range conversion operator (TMO) is applied to the luminance component (Lw(i)) of each image of the original image sequence (SIO) to obtain a modified luminance component whose values belong to a lower dynamic range than that of the original image sequence (SIO). The method is characterised in that it also comprises a step of correction of the dynamic range during which the dynamic range of the values of the luminance component thus modified is reduced by a value calculated from a global characteristic of the original image sequence. | 06-25-2015 |
20150189297 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTRA-ENCODING IMAGE BLOCKS, STORAGE MEDIUM CARRYING AND USE OF A PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DECODING INTRA-ENCODED IMAGE BLOCKS - Said method comprises using a processing means for quantizing a transform of a residual of an intra-prediction of the image block using a quantization parameter value and encoding the quantized transform, further using a processing means for determining that an already used quantization parameter value and corresponding coding cost are available in a storage means, the already used a quantization parameter value being already used for quantizing of a further image block close resembling the image block or having a same complexity as the image block and using the already used quantization parameter value, the corresponding coding cost and a target bit rate for determining the quantization parameter value. Thus, the quantization parameter value can be determined such that flickering artifacts are avoided. | 07-02-2015 |
20150248746 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING ILLUMINATION VARIATIONS IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES - In order to take into account the local illumination variations in a scene, the invention proposes a method of compensating illumination variations in which distributions are determined for each block of an image (or view) and, in order to avoid a loss of the video coding efficiency, a distribution-based mapping function is automatically computed by a remote apparatus, such a decoder, from only information available at that apparatus when decoding a current block of the sequence of images. The present invention relates also to a method and device of encoding and/or decoding a sequence of images which comprises means configured to implement the method of compensating illumination variations according to the invention. | 09-03-2015 |
20150269714 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SEQUENCE, CORRESPONDING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE-MEDIUM - The invention relates to a method for processing a video sequence formed by at least two video images, said method comprising:
| 09-24-2015 |