Patents by Inventor Karl-Heinz Mauk

Karl-Heinz Mauk 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).

  • Patent number: 6591021
    Abstract: To correct the gray levels or pixel intensities of images provided by a digital infrared camera having a two-dimensional array of detector elements with non-sensitive areas therebetween, correction coefficients respectively allocated to the detector elements are stored in a memory of an image processing system. The gray levels of image pixels are corrected by the respective corresponding correction coefficients. The correction coefficients are progressively updated and improved by means of a dynamic correction process. To distinguish stationary features in a scene being viewed from non-uniformities among the detector elements so that such stationary features do not influence the updating of the correction coefficients, the image of the scene incident on the detector is moved relative to the detector, by means of a microscanner deflecting the image beam incident, on the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: AEG Infrarot-Module GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Breiter, Wolfgang Cabanski, Karl-Heinz Mauk