Patents by Inventor Gerhard Sporer
Gerhard Sporer 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: 8833761Abstract: A method for monitoring transport of bank notes in a transport system, using sensors arranged along the transport system for sensing transported bank notes, and a control device for monitoring and controlling the transport system using signals from the sensors, from which the control device derives a presence or absence of a bank note at the location of the respective sensor. The signals from all sensors are stored in a memory, and the signals from all sensors are assigned an explicit time statement or clock statement. All transported bank notes are assigned an explicit object code by the control device, and the object code is linked to the explicit time statement or clock statement. Stored signals from the sensors derive the occurrence and type of errors during the transport of the bank notes, and the signals are linked to the bank notes denoted by the object codes.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Eduard Dukart, Gerhard Sporer, Rudolf Christl
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Publication number: 20130249165Abstract: A method for monitoring transport of bank notes in a transport system, using sensors arranged along the transport system for sensing transported bank notes, and a control device for monitoring and controlling the transport system using signals from the sensors, from which the control device derives a presence or absence of a bank note at the location of the respective sensor. The signals from all sensors are stored in a memory, and the signals from all sensors are assigned an explicit time statement or clock statement. All transported bank notes are assigned an explicit object code by the control device, and the object code is linked to the explicit time statement or clock statement. Stored signals from the sensors derive the occurrence and type of errors during the transport of the bank notes, and the signals are linked to the bank notes denoted by the object codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Eduard Dukart, Gerhard Sporer, Rudolf Christl
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Patent number: 8434627Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing value documents where the value documents are checked according to certain criteria and sorted in accordance with the results of the check. Those value documents upon whose check an error has occurred are transported to a deposit device having several deposit sections. The faulty value documents of different accounting units are thereby deposited on different deposit sections of the deposit device. For post-processing of the faulty value documents, they are removed from the deposit device by an operator according to the first in, first out principle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventor: Gerhard Sporer
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Patent number: 8172131Abstract: A method is provided for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices. The method for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices, includes the step of determining the filling level of the cassette or cassettes, comparing the determined filling level of each cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the particular cassette, and wherein, if the comparison yields an excess, the step of producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value, causing replacement of the cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Matthias Langlotz, Hans Bomm, Dirk Gottschling, Andreas Donig, Markus Hopfner, Gerhard Sporer
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Patent number: 8157102Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc. The present invention starts out from the consideration that the validity of a successful check of sheet material is still present unchanged after an operating disturbance. The result of a check of sheet material which was performed successfully before a disturbance is therefore retained when a disturbance is present or after the disturbance has been eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Rudolf Christl, Gerhard Sporer, Klaus Buchmann
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Patent number: 8002210Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus includes at least one canceling means to which the sheet material to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material is discharged. The apparatus also includes at least one supervising means for monitoring the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means. For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means for monitoring the fed sheet material. The fed sheet material is compared to the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Alfred Schmidt, Friedman Loeffler, Wilhelm Hell, Gerhard Sporer, Frank Werner
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Patent number: 7953237Abstract: In a hearing aid device system with a hearing aid device which can be worn on or in the left ear of a user and a hearing aid device which can be worn on or in the right ear of the user for the binaural supply of the user, the aim is to reduce feedback tendency. To this end, it is proposed to transmit audio signals resulting from the microphone signals of the hearing aid devices in a crosswise fashion between the hearing aid devices and thus to emit an acoustic signal recorded by the microphone of a hearing aid device, after the signal processing and amplification, by means of the receiver of the respective other hearing aid device. In this way, the distance between each receiver and microphone, between which a feedback path exists, is essentially increased for the relevant audio signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventor: Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20110005982Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing value documents wherein the value documents are checked according to certain criteria and sorted in accordance with the results of the check. Those value documents upon whose check an error has occurred are transported to a deposit device having several deposit sections. The faulty value documents of different accounting units are thereby deposited on different deposit sections of the deposit device. For post-processing of the faulty value documents, they are removed from the deposit device by an operator according to the first in, first out principle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventor: Gerhard Sporer
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Patent number: 7853030Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid which, with the aid of an integrated positioning unit or a positioning unit integrated in a mobile activation device automatically sets operating parameters of the hearing aid as a function of the location of the hearing aid or of the activation unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventors: Felix Grasbon, Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20100150385Abstract: Feedback should be prevented effectively in a hearing aid which can be worn in the ear. To this end, the arrangement of two microphones, electrically interconnected to form a directional microphone, and a receiver is proposed along a straight line. The directional effect of the directional microphone is set such that, when viewed from the directional microphone, the receiver is arranged in the direction of the lowest sensitivity of the directional microphone. This can effectively suppress feedback even though the hearing aid has a relatively simple design.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: SIEMENS AUDIOLOGISCHE TECHNIK GMBHInventor: Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20100116918Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus includes at least one canceling means to which the sheet material to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material is discharged. The apparatus also includes at least one supervising means for monitoring the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means. For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means for monitoring the fed sheet material. The fed sheet material is compared to the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: GIESECK & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Alfred SCHMIDT, Friedman LOEFFLER, Wilhelm HELL, Gerhard SPORER, Frank WERNER
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Patent number: 7661617Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus comprises at least one canceling means (2) to which the sheet material (1) to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material (11) is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material (11) is discharged. The apparatus comprises furthermore at least one supervising means (7) for monitoring the sheet material (11) being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means (2). For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means (6a, 6b) for monitoring the fed sheet material (1). The fed sheet material (11) is compared to the sheet material (11) being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means (9).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Alfred Schmidt, Friedmann Loeffler, Wilhelm Hell, Gerhard Sporer, Frank Werner
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Publication number: 20090055017Abstract: A method is provided for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices. The method for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices, includes the step of determining the filling level of the cassette or cassettes, comparing the determined filling level of each cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the particular cassette, and wherein, if the comparison yields an excess, the step of producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value, causing replacement of the cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Matthias Langlotz, Hans Bomm, Dirk Gottschling, Andreas Donig, Markus Hopfner, Gerhard Sporer
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Patent number: 7474758Abstract: Directional hearing is improved given the binaural coverage for a hearing aid user with two hearing aid devices wearable at the ears. The respective signal transit times and/or signal amplitudes and/or amplifications of an electrical signal are respectively measured in a signal path between an input transducer and an output transducer and that data with respect to the measured signal transit times and/or signal amplitudes and/or gains is transmitted onto the respectively other hearing aid device. As a result, the signal transit times and the signal amplitudes of the electrical signals through the two hearing aid devices can be matched to one another. The hearing aid devices thus cause no phase or amplitude distortion, and the natural phase shift as well as the natural amplitude difference of a sound signal incident from a specific direction are thus preserved. The directional information is thus also preserved for the hearing aid user.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventors: Frank Beck, Gerhard Sporer
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Patent number: 7455219Abstract: A method is provided for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices. The method for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices, includes the step of determining the filling level of the cassette or cassettes, comparing the determined filling level of each cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the particular cassette, and wherein, if the comparison yields an excess, the step of producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value, causing replacement of the cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Matthias Langlotz, Hans Bomm, Dirk Gottschling, Andreas Donig, Markus Hopfner, Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20070229253Abstract: A method is provided for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices. The method for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices, includes the step of determining the filling level of the cassette or cassettes, comparing the determined filling level of each cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the particular cassette, and wherein, if the comparison yields an excess, the step of producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value, causing replacement of the cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2004Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Matthias Langlotz, Hans Bomm, Dirk Gottschling, Andreas Donig, Markus Hopfner, Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20070076910Abstract: In a hearing aid device system with a hearing aid device (1, 10) which can be worn on or in the left ear of a user and a hearing aid device (1?, 10?) which can be worn on or in the right ear of the user for the binaural supply of the user, the aim is to reduce feedback tendency. To this end, it is proposed to transmit audio signals resulting from the microphone signals of the hearing aid devices (1, 1?; 10, 10?) in a crosswise fashion between the hearing aid devices (1, 1?; 10, 10?) and thus to emit an acoustic signal recorded by the microphone of a hearing aid device, after the signal processing and amplification, by means of the receiver (5?, 5 and/or 18?, 8) of the respective other hearing aid device. In this way, the distance between each receiver (5, 5?; 18, 18?) and microphone (2, 2? and/or 11, 12; 11?, 12?), between which a feedback path exists, is essentially increased for the relevant audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventor: Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20060182294Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid which, with the aid of an integrated positioning unit or a positioning unit integrated in a mobile activation device automatically sets operating parameters of the hearing aid as a function of the location of the hearing aid or of the activation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Felix Grasbon, Gerhard Sporer
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Publication number: 20040112998Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus comprises at least one canceling means (2) to which the sheet material (1) to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material (11) is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material (11) is discharged. The apparatus comprises furthermore at least one supervising means (7) for monitoring the sheet material (11) being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Alfred Schmidt, Friedmann Loeffler, Wilhelm Hell, Gerhard Sporer, Frank Werner
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Publication number: 20040057591Abstract: Directional hearing is improved given the binaural coverage for a hearing aid user with two hearing aid devices wearable at the ears. The respective signal transit times and/or signal amplitudes and/or amplifications of an electrical signal are respectively measured in a signal path between an input transducer and an output transducer and that data with respect to the measured signal transit times and/or signal amplitudes and/or gains is transmitted onto the respectively other hearing aid device. As a result, the signal transit times and the signal amplitudes of the electrical signals through the two hearing aid devices can be matched to one another. The hearing aid devices thus cause no phase or amplitude distortion, and the natural phase shift as well as the natural amplitude difference of a sound signal incident from a specific direction are thus preserved. The directional information is thus also preserved for the hearing aid user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Frank Beck, Gerhard Sporer