Patents by Inventor Erik Sippel

Erik Sippel 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).

  • Publication number: 20240061078
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for calibrating at least one signal and/or system parameter of a wave-based measurement system, in particular radar measurement system. At least one receiving unit for receiving signals and an object scene assume several spatial positions relative to each other assume, wherein a relative positioning of the several positions to each other is known or determined, and at these several positions the signals are coherently detected by the at least one receiving unit, whereby a set of several coherent measurement signals is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Gulden, Martin Vossiek, Johanna Geiß, Erik Sippel
  • Patent number: 11555881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locating method for localizing at least one object using wave-based signals, wherein a wave field emanates from the object to be localized and the wave field emanating from the object is received by a number N of receivers, at least one measurement signal is formed in every receiver, said measurement signal being dependent on the spatial and temporal distribution of the wave field and the phase progression of said measurement signal being characteristically influenced by the signal propagation time from the object to the receiver, wherein, for position locating, phase values for each of the at least two measurement signals are taken as measured phase values, and wherein the current position (P(k)) of the object to be located at the time k is determined by a comparison of at least one linear combination of the measured phase values with at least one linear combination of the associated hypothetical phase values, which result from the transmitter-receiver distance(s), and using a recu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG
    Inventors: Melanie Lipka, Erik Sippel, Martin Vossiek
  • Publication number: 20210389411
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locating method for localizing at least one object using wave-based signals, wherein a wave field emanates from the object to be localized and the wave field emanating from the object is received by a number N of receivers, at least one measurement signal is formed in every receiver, said measurement signal being dependent on the spatial and temporal distribution of the wave field and the phase progression of said measurement signal being characteristically influenced by the signal propagation time from the object to the receiver, wherein, for position locating, phase values for each of the at least two measurement signals are taken as measured phase values, and wherein the current position (P(k)) of the object to be located at the time k is determined by a comparison of at least one linear combination of the measured phase values with at least one linear combination of the associated hypothetical phase values, which result from the transmitter-receiver distance(s), and using a recu
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Melanie Lipka, Erik Sippel, Martin Vossiek