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).

  • Patent number: 9823468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
  • Publication number: 20170192225
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
  • Patent number: 9641734
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
  • Patent number: 9507147
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Wolfgang Michael Theimer, Klaus-Dieter Meierling
  • Patent number: 9454237
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
  • Patent number: 9285837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Meierling, Wolfgang Michael Theimer, Günther Heinrich Burghardt, Heinz Henning Taschke, Frank Von Heimburg
  • Publication number: 20150022457
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
  • Patent number: 8854312
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling
  • Publication number: 20140132818
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING
  • Publication number: 20140055363
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter MEIERLING, Wolfgang Michael THEIMER, Günther Heinrich BURGHARDT, Heinz Henning TASCHKE, Frank VON HEIMBURG
  • Publication number: 20130106706
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Meierling