Patents by Inventor Edmund Koch
Edmund Koch 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: 11879778Abstract: The invention relates to a method for classifying spectra of objects having complex information content after recording of the spectra involving the use of a method for preprocessing data and of a method, associated with the data preprocessing, for classification with the calculation of a classifier. After the recording of the spectra and the preprocessing of the spectra, a multiple classification method is thereby performed with at least two different methods for the data preprocessing of the spectra and the method, assigned to the respective data preprocessing, for classification.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDENInventors: Gerald Steiner, Grit Preusse, Edmund Koch, Roberta Galli, Christian Schnabel, Johanna Preusse
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Patent number: 11536704Abstract: To determine the sex of a bird egg, a hole is produced at the blunt end of the bird egg, wherein the hole affects the calcareous shell and the outer shell membrane, whereas the inner shell membrane remains intact. In the region of the hole at the blunt end, beneath the intact inner shell membrane, at least one blood vessel is registered and the blood therein is excited by means of a preset incident radiation, the back-scattered radiation of which blood is measured, detected and evaluated for the sex determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDENInventors: Gerald Steiner, Grit Preusse, Edmund Koch, Roberta Galli, Christian Schnabel
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Patent number: 11378565Abstract: A method for in-ova fertilisation determination and gender determination on a closed egg. The aim is to specify a method for the in-ovo fertilisation determination and gender determination on a closed egg. This aim is achieved by a method in which a closed egg is positioned, candled and/or illuminated, next an image of the closed egg is recorded, then the captured data are evaluated and the position of the cardiovascular system located in the egg is calculated. A detection unit is adjusted via the calculated position of the cardiovascular system by means of a positioning unit and subsequently the blood is stimulated, then the blood-specific and blood-foreign absorption spectra are detected and selected, the fertilisation is ascertained and then the spectra containing blood-foreign information are compensated by a compensation method and the spectra are classified for sex determination.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Technische Universität DresdenInventors: Grit Preusse, Gerald Steiner, Roberta Galli, Edmund Koch, Christian Schnabel
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Publication number: 20210248429Abstract: The invention relates to a method for classifying spectra of objects having complex information content after recording of the spectra involving the use of a method for preprocessing data and of a method, associated with the data preprocessing, for classification with the calculation of a classifier. After the recording of the spectra and the preprocessing of the spectra, a multiple classification method is thereby performed with at least two different methods for the data preprocessing of the spectra and the method, assigned to the respective data preprocessing, for classification.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDENInventors: Gerald STEINER, Grit PREUSSE, Edmund KOCH, Roberta GALLI, Christian SCHNABEL, Johanna PREUSSE
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Publication number: 20200400640Abstract: The invention relates to the fields of process engineering and agriculture and relates to a method for in-ovo fertilisation determination and gender determination on a closed egg. The aim of the invention is to specify a method for the in-ovo fertilisation determination and gender determination on a closed egg. This aim is achieved by a method in which a closed egg is positioned, candled and/or illuminated, next an image of the closed egg is recorded, then the captured data are evaluated and the position of the cardiovascular system located in the egg is calculated. A detection unit is adjusted via the calculated position of the cardiovascular system by means of a positioning unit and subsequently the blood is stimulated, then the blood-specific and blood-foreign absorption spectra are detected and selected, the fertilisation is ascertained and then the spectra containing blood-foreign information are compensated by a compensation method and the spectra are classified for sex determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Grit Preusse, Gerald Steiner, Roberta Galli, Edmund Koch, Christian Schnabel
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Patent number: 10852284Abstract: Method and a device for the optical in ovo sex determination of fertilized and incubated birds' eggs. The method includes monitoring formation of at least one identifiable blood vessel, creating a hole in the shell of the egg, finding and irradiating the blood vessel with at least one laser beam source emitting an excitation wavelength, recording backscatter radiation of the irradiated blood vessel and evaluating backscatter radiation from recorded spectral intensity of fluorescence radiation in a spectral range redshifted to an excitation wavelength. Sex-specific properties of male and female blood are contained in the intensity and spectral profile of the recorded fluorescence radiation. where intensity levels for male blood has an evaluable value distinct from that of female blood. Further, determining the sex of the bird egg from difference values of the fluorescence intensity and displaying the sex determined for the embryo in the egg.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDENInventors: Gerald Steiner, Grit Preusse, Roberta Galli, Edmund Koch
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Patent number: 10682058Abstract: A device for Doppler optical coherence tomography (Doppler OCT), preferably of the human middle ear, is proposed. The device has an endoscope unit for at least partial insertion into the auditory canal. A sound source, a sound receiver, and OCT optics are integrated in the endoscope unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Technische Universität DresdenInventors: Edmund Koch, Pascal Rottmann, Lars Kirsten, Anke Burkhardt, Mirko Mehner
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Publication number: 20190383782Abstract: Method and a device for the optical in ovo sex determination of fertilized and incubated birds' eggs. The method includes monitoring formation of at least one identifiable blood vessel, creating a hole in the shell of the egg, finding and irradiating the blood vessel with at least one laser beam source emitting an excitation wavelength, recording backscatter radiation of the irradiated blood vessel and evaluating backscatter radiation from recorded spectral intensity of fluorescence radiation in a spectral range redshifted to an excitation wavelength. Sex-specific properties of male and female blood are contained in the intensity and spectral profile of the recorded fluorescence radiation. where intensity levels for male blood has an evaluable value distinct from that of female blood. Further, determining the sex of the bird egg from difference values of the fluorescence intensity and displaying the sex determined for the embryo in the egg.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDENInventors: Gerald STEINER, Grit PREUSSE, Roberta GALLI, Edmund KOCH
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Publication number: 20190339244Abstract: To determine the sex of a bird egg, a hole is produced at the blunt end of the bird egg, wherein the hole affects the calcareous shell and the outer shell membrane, whereas the inner shell membrane remains intact. In the region of the hole at the blunt end, beneath the intact inner shell membrane, at least one blood vessel is registered and the blood therein is excited by means of a preset incident radiation, the back-scattered radiation of which blood is measured, detected and evaluated for the sex determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDENInventors: Gerald STEINER, Grit PREUSSE, Edmund KOCH, Roberta GALLI, Christian SCHNABEL
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Patent number: 9835560Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the Raman spectroscopic, in ovo sex determination of fertilized and hatched birds' eggs (1), wherein the embryo, including the extra-embryonic structures, can move in the egg, and is not yet attached to the shell at the time of measuring.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignees: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN, UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIGInventors: Roberta Galli, Grit Preusse, Edmund Koch, Gerald Steiner, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Thomas Bartels
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Publication number: 20170251924Abstract: A device for Doppler optical coherence tomography (Doppler OCT), preferably of the human middle ear, is proposed. The device has an endoscope unit for at least partial insertion into the auditory canal. A sound source, a sound receiver, and OCT optics are integrated in the endoscope unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Edmund Koch, Pascal Rottmann, Lars Kirsten, Anke Burkhardt, Mirko Mehner
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Publication number: 20170205353Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the Raman spectroscopic, in ovo sex determination of fertilised and hatched birds' eggs (1), wherein the embryo, including the extra-embryonic structures, can move in the egg, and is not yet attached to the shell at the time of measuring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicants: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN, UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIGInventors: Roberta GALLI, Grit PREUSSE, Edmund KOCH, Gerald STEINER, Maria-Elisabeth KRAUTWALD-JUNGHANNS, Thomas BARTELS
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Publication number: 20140139845Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical coherence tomography system having an interferometer, in particular a Michelson interferometer, having a reference arm for variable adjustment of an optical reference path length and having a measuring arm in which an object to be scanned can be disposed and/or is disposed in a sample volume, wherein a focusing system which is configured for focusing divergently incident light beams on a common point situated in the sample volume is disposed in the measuring arm between the beam splitter of the interferometer and the sample volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicants: Technische Universitat Dresden, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Bjorn Fischer, Edmund Koch
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Patent number: 8624190Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device (1, 100) for determining the sex of fertilized, nonincubated bird eggs (13, 130), where an egg (13, 130) has a solid egg shell (14), an egg yolk (2) which is surrounded by the egg shell and further egg integuments and a blastodisc (3) associated with the egg yolk (2), and where a probe (4, 40) for measuring a spectrum is introduced through a hole (17) of the egg shell (14) towards the blastodisc (3) with blastodisc cells (23), with the following steps: —positioning of the probe (4, 40) in the region of the blastodisc (3), —spectroscopic in-ovo characterization of the blastodisc cells (23), and —identification of the sex by an automatic classification of spectra.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignees: Technische Universität Dresden, Universität LeipzigInventors: Gerald Steiner, Edmund Koch, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Thomas Bartels
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Publication number: 20120318981Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device (1, 100) for determining the sex of fertilized, nonincubated bird eggs (13, 130), where an egg (13, 130) has a solid egg shell (14), an egg yolk (2) which is surrounded by the egg shell and further egg integuments and a blastodisc (3) associated with the egg yolk (2), and where a probe (4, 40) for measuring a spectrum is introduced through a hole (17) of the egg shell (14) towards the blastodisc (3) with blastodisc cells (23), with the following steps: —positioning of the probe (4, 40) in the region of the blastodisc (3), —spectroscopic in-ovo characterization of the blastodisc cells (23), and —identification of the sex by an automatic classification of spectra.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Gerald Steiner, Edmund Koch, Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Thomas Bartels
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Publication number: 20110306875Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical coherence tomography system having an interferometer, in particular a Michelson interferometer, having a reference arm (R) for variable adjustment of an optical reference path length and having a measuring arm (M) in which an object (sample P) to be scanned can be disposed and/or is disposed in a sample volume (PV), characterised in that a focusing system (F) which is configured for focusing divergently incident light beams on a common point (target point Z) situated in the sample volume is disposed in the measuring arm between the beam splitter of the interferometer and the sample volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2008Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicants: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Bjorn Fischer, Edmund Koch
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Patent number: 7484665Abstract: This invention relates to a method for reading, while using optical interference, a barcode that extends into the depth of a substrate. The barcode is represented by an area with marks in the substrate that is partially transparent to electromagnetic radiation. The inventive method comprises the steps of irradiating the substrate with short coherence length light from a broad-band light source, dividing the light up into reference light and measuring light, returning the reference light and the measuring light back-scattered or reflected in the marked area to an analytical unit, determining the reflectance or the reflectivity of the substrate for all layer depths in the marked area from the interference of the reference light and the measuring light and interpreting the result as a barcode.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2004Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Medizinisches Laserzentrum LuebeckInventors: Peter Koch, Gereon Huettmann, Edmund Koch, Eva Lankenau
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Patent number: 7480057Abstract: Device for white light interferometry comprising a light source of main emission wavelength ?0 and spectral width ?? and an evaluating unit with a line sensor of pixel width P for detecting an interference fringe pattern with a fringe spacing F, a mask being placed in front of the line sensor having a periodically modulated light transmittance along said line sensor, characterized in that the period length M of the mask is such as to fulfill the condition ? ? ? ? ? 0 < ? 1 - F M ? < 1 2 ? F P - ? ? ? ? ? 0 .Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Universitaet zu LuebeckInventors: Peter Koch, Edmund Koch
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Publication number: 20080024865Abstract: Device for white light interferometry comprising a light source of main emission wavelength ?0 and spectral width ?? and an evaluating unit with a line sensor of pixel width P for detecting an interference fringe pattern with a fringe spacing F, a mask being placed in front of the line sensor having a periodically modulated light transmittance along said line sensor, characterized in that the period length M of the mask is such as to fulfill the condition ? ? ? ? ? 0 < ? 1 - F M ? < 1 2 ? F P - ? ? ? ? ? 0 .Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2005Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Peter Koch, Edmund Koch
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Publication number: 20060175412Abstract: This invention relates to a method for reading, while using optical interference, a barcode that extends into the depth of a substrate. The barcode is represented by an area with marks in the substrate that is partially transparent to electromagnetic radiation. The inventive method comprises the steps of irradiating the substrate with short coherence length light from a broad-band light source, dividing the light up into reference light and measuring light, returning the reference light and the measuring light back-scattered or reflected in the marked area to an analytical unit, determining the reflectance or the reflectivity of the substrate for all layer depths in the marked area from the interference of the reference light and the measuring light and interpreting the result as a barcode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2004Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Peter Koch, Gereon Huetmann, Edmund Koch, Eva Lankenau