Patents by Inventor Klaus-Dieter Meierling
Klaus-Dieter Meierling 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: 9823468Abstract: A lens for a camera that has a flash and an image sensor is disclosed. The lens includes a transparent portion including a flash portion for covering the flash and an image sensor portion for covering the image sensor. The lens also includes a barrier positioned between the image sensor portion and the flash portion. The barrier has a top portion and a lower portion, the lower portion defining a plurality of securing holes such that lens material passes through at least some of the securing holes to secure the barrier to the transparent portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
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Publication number: 20170192225Abstract: A lens for a camera that has a flash and an image sensor is disclosed. The lens includes a transparent portion including a flash portion for covering the flash and an image sensor portion for covering the image sensor. The lens also includes a barrier positioned between the image sensor portion and the flash portion. The barrier has a top portion and a lower portion, the lower portion defining a plurality of securing holes such that lens material passes through at least some of the securing holes to secure the barrier to the transparent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
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Patent number: 9641734Abstract: Described is a lens for a camera, the camera having a flash and an image sensor, the lens comprising a flash portion for covering the flash; an image sensor portion for covering the image sensor; and a barrier between the image sensor portion and the flash portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
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Patent number: 9507147Abstract: A display system. A display device has viewports emitting expanded views of an image, an image receiving area receives the image, and optical conduits with exit pupil expanders expand the image through the viewports. A separate tracking projector has an image projector that projects an image along an axis, a marker search illuminator that projects light into a space including the axis, and an image capture component that captures target images that including at least three reflective marker images associated with the image receiving area. An image processor determines, based the marker images, a distance and an orientation of the image receiving area. A projection controller adjusts image data based upon the distance and the orientation to cause projected images to arrive squarely at the image receiving area.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Wolfgang Michael Theimer, Klaus-Dieter Meierling
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Patent number: 9454237Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device that includes a keycap defining a key that has a non-opaque portion to identify the key that is backlit. The assembly includes a light guide positioned in spaced relation to the keycap. An optical radiation source, such as top-fire light emitting diode, is mounted below the lower surface of the light guide. A mask is disposed on the top surface of the optical radiation source. The mask includes an aperture to allow light from the optical radiation source to pass into the light guide, and the mask blocks at least a portion of the light from the optical radiation source. The mask blocks a portion of the top surface of the optical radiation source that emits tinted light. The light guide is affixed atop the opaque mask such that it is nearly directly affixed to the optical radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
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Patent number: 9285837Abstract: A physical keyboard having a plurality of individual keys temporarily overlays a touch-sensitive display. Each individual key selectively provides either of a first level of capacitive coupling and a second, different level of capacitive coupling to the touch-sensitive display. By one approach the key provides that first level of capacitive coupling to the touch-sensitive display when a user asserts the key (for example, by pressing upon the key) to thereby communicate to the touch-sensitive display a selection of that individual key. The key can provide that second level of capacitive coupling when a user touches, but does not assert, the individual key. So configured, this second level of capacitive coupling serves to communicate to the touch-sensitive display an input instruction other than a selection of that individual key.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Klaus-Dieter Meierling, Wolfgang Michael Theimer, Günther Heinrich Burghardt, Heinz Henning Taschke, Frank Von Heimburg
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Publication number: 20150022457Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device that includes a keycap defining a key that has a non-opaque portion to identify the key that is backlit. The assembly includes a light guide positioned in spaced relation to the keycap. An optical radiation source, such as top-fire light emitting diode, is mounted below the lower surface of the light guide. A mask is disposed on the top surface of the optical radiation source. The mask includes an aperture to allow light from the optical radiation source to pass into the light guide, and the mask blocks at least a portion of the light from the optical radiation source. The mask blocks a portion of the top surface of the optical radiation source that emits tinted light. The light guide is affixed atop the opaque mask such that it is nearly directly affixed to the optical radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
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Patent number: 8854312Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device that includes a keycap defining a key that has a non-opaque portion to identify the key that is backlit. The assembly includes a light guide positioned in spaced relation to the keycap. An optical radiation source, such as top-fire light emitting diode, is mounted below the lower surface of the light guide. A mask is disposed on the top surface of the optical radiation source. The mask includes an aperture to allow light from the optical radiation source to pass into the light guide, and the mask blocks at least a portion of the light from the optical radiation source. The mask blocks a portion of the top surface of the optical radiation source that emits tinted light. The light guide is affixed atop the opaque mask such that it is nearly directly affixed to the optical radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
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Publication number: 20140132818Abstract: Described is a lens for a camera, the camera having a flash and an image sensor, the lens comprising a flash portion for covering the flash; an image sensor portion for covering the image sensor; and a barrier between the image sensor portion and the flash portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
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Publication number: 20140055363Abstract: A physical keyboard having a plurality of individual keys temporarily overlays a touch-sensitive display. Each individual key selectively provides either of a first level of capacitive coupling and a second, different level of capacitive coupling to the touch-sensitive display. By one approach the key provides that first level of capacitive coupling to the touch-sensitive display when a user asserts the key (for example, by pressing upon the key) to thereby communicate to the touch-sensitive display a selection of that individual key. The key can provide that second level of capacitive coupling when a user touches, but does not assert, the individual key. So configured, this second level of capacitive coupling serves to communicate to the touch-sensitive display an input instruction other than a selection of that individual key.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING, Wolfgang Michael THEIMER, Günther Heinrich BURGHARDT, Heinz Henning TASCHKE, Frank VON HEIMBURG
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Publication number: 20130106706Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device that includes a keycap defining a key that has a non-opaque portion to identify the key that is backlit. The assembly includes a light guide positioned in spaced relation to the keycap. An optical radiation source, such as top-fire light emitting diode, is mounted below the lower surface of the light guide. A mask is disposed on the top surface of the optical radiation source. The mask includes an aperture to allow light from the optical radiation source to pass into the light guide, and the mask blocks at least a portion of the light from the optical radiation source. The mask blocks a portion of the top surface of the optical radiation source that emits tinted light. The light guide is affixed atop the opaque mask such that it is nearly directly affixed to the optical radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling