Patents by Inventor Marco Wilzbach
Marco Wilzbach 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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Publication number: 20240111143Abstract: A method for operating a microscopy system includes irradiating a region segment of a first region by a light source with light at a first wavelength ?1 and a first luminous intensity L1, determining a substance-specific parameter within the region segment as a response to being irradiated by the light source, and repeating the steps for all region segments within the first region. In addition, the disclosure relates to a microscopy system, and a calibration method for a microscopy system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: David Reichert, Marco Wilzbach, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Artur Hoegele, Mikael Timo Erkkilä, Holger Matz, Rainer Leitgeb, Angelika Unterhuber, Marco Andreana
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Publication number: 20240058075Abstract: A microscopy system includes a microscope, a stand configured to mount the microscope and including a drive device configured to move the microscope, a detection device configured to detect a spatial position of a target fastened to a body part or to an instrument, wherein the position detection device includes the target with at least one marker element and an image capture device configured to optically capture the target. The microscopy system further includes at least one control device configured to operate the microscopy system according to the detected position of the target, wherein the position detection device is configured to determine the position of the target by evaluating a two-dimensional image of the image capture device. In addition, a method for operating the microscopy system is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt, Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 11835461Abstract: A microscopy system for simultaneously observing fluorescent and non-fluorescent regions of an object, and a method for operating the microscopy system are provided. The microscopy system includes a microscopy optical unit configured to image an object plane through an observation beam path onto an image plane, an observation filter arrangeable in the observation beam path, two light sources, one being provided for exciting a fluorescent dye in the object and another being provided for visualizing non-fluorescent regions of the object, and a controller to control the light sources individually. With a suitable configuration of the observation filter, all light sources can be operated with a minimum operating current, which ensures the stability of the light. The color rendering of the non-fluorescent regions can be set by the individual settability of the light sources which can be set such that fluorescent and non-fluorescent regions appear to be approximately equally bright.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Nieten, Stefan Meinkuss
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Patent number: 11806092Abstract: A microscopy system includes a microscope, a stand configured to mount the microscope and including a drive device configured to move the microscope, a detection device configured to detect a spatial position of a target fastened to a body part or to an instrument, wherein the position detection device includes the target with at least one marker element and an image capture device configured to optically capture the target. The microscopy system further includes at least one control device configured to operate the microscopy system according to the detected position of the target, wherein the position detection device is configured to determine the position of the target by evaluating a two-dimensional image of the image capture device. In addition, a method for operating the microscopy system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt, Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
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Publication number: 20230074634Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for identifying a region (21) of a tumour (23) in a tissue-field image (27), which image shows a tissue region (25) having a tumour (23) and has been obtained by means of light reflected or emitted by the tissue region (25). In the method, the region (21) of the tumour (23) in the tissue-field image (27) is identified on the basis of a characteristic value for the intensity of at least one component of the light reflected or emitted by the tissue region (25). The characteristic value is determined using the intensity of the at least one component in an image detail of the tissue-field image (27), which image detail corresponds to a tissue portion (36, 36?) of the tissue region (25) at which at least one piece of histological information was obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Christian ALBRECHT, Marco WILZBACH
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Publication number: 20220405926Abstract: A computer-implemented method for predicting digital images in the form of a digital fluorescence representation together with a further derived representation by means of a combined machine learning system is described. The method comprises providing a first digital image of a tissue sample that was recorded under white light by means of a microsurgical optical system with a digital image recording unit, and predicting a second digital image of the tissue sample in a fluorescence representation and a further representation, which has optical indications about diseased tissue elements. This is done by means of a previously trained combined machine learning system comprising a trained combined machine learning model for predicting the second digital image of the tissue sample in the fluorescence representation and the further representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Marco Wilzbach, Alexander Freytag, Anna Alperovich
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Publication number: 20220346887Abstract: A microscopy system includes a microscope, a stand configured to mount the microscope and including a drive device configured to move the microscope, a detection device configured to detect a spatial position of a target fastened to a body part or to an instrument, wherein the position detection device includes the target with at least one marker element and an image capture device configured to optically capture the target. The microscopy system further includes at least one control device configured to operate the microscopy system according to the detected position of the target, wherein the position detection device is configured to determine the position of the target by evaluating a two-dimensional image of the image capture device. In addition, a method for operating the microscopy system is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt, Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 11406455Abstract: A microscopy system includes a microscope, a stand configured to mount the microscope and including a drive device configured to move the microscope, a detection device configured to detect a spatial position of a target fastened to a body part or to an instrument, wherein the position detection device includes the target with at least one marker element and an image capture device configured to optically capture the target. The microscopy system further includes at least one control device configured to operate the microscopy system according to the detected position of the target, wherein the position detection device is configured to determine the position of the target by evaluating a two-dimensional image of the image capture device. In addition, a method for operating the microscopy system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt, Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 11391937Abstract: A method for determining a property of an object is disclosed, which includes: recording a first image of the object from a first direction; recording a second image of the object from a second direction; determining a first position in the first image, the first position representing a location of the object, and a second position in the second image, the second position representing the same location of the object, for a multiplicity of locations of the object; and calculating a value of an object property for each of the multiplicity of locations of the object. The value assigned to a location of the multiplicity of locations of the object is calculated using an intensity value at the first position, which represents the location, in the first image and an intensity value at the second position, which represents the location, in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger, Stefan Saur
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Patent number: 11150479Abstract: A screen (3) for an HMD (1) is provided, and may be designed as a display screen or as a projection screen. The screen (3) comprises a layer (19) of a material with a switchable degree of transparency and at least one further switchable layer (17, 21, 23) which, in dependence on the switching state, can assume at least two physical states, the physical states differently influencing at least one optical property of light passing through the switchable layer or reflected by it.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Marco Wilzbach, Christopher Käsbach
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Patent number: 11094283Abstract: A method for operating a head-wearable presentation apparatus is provided. The method comprises the steps of: capturing data that are representative of at least one state variable of the head of a person wearing the head-wearable presentation apparatus, evaluating the captured data in order to determine the at least one state variable of the head, and modifying a degree of transparency of at least one playback arrangement of the head-wearable presentation apparatus if the at least one state variable of the head corresponds to a predetermined state variable.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Marco Wilzbach, Christopher Käsbach
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Patent number: 11079330Abstract: A filter set for simultaneously observing fluorescent and non-fluorescent object regions, and an observation system and a method in which the filter set is used are disclosed. The illumination and observation light filters of the filter set each have two separate passbands with high transmission, which are spectrally defined such that illumination light outside the emission spectrum of fluorescence can pass through the illumination and observation light filters and fluorescent light is not swamped by the illumination light. The transmission of the passbands is defined such that non-fluorescent object regions can be observed substantially with color fidelity.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Nieten
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Patent number: 11036039Abstract: A microscopy system has a detection system, which is configured to detect light of a first channel in a detection region and convert it to a first fluorescent light signal, to detect light of a second channel in a second detection region and convert it to a first correction signal, and to detect light of a third channel in a third detection region and convert it to a second correction signal. The system further includes a controller, which is configured to determine an approximation value for the spatial distribution of the concentration of the fluorescent dye in an object region using the first fluorescent light signal, the first correction signal, and the second correction signal. A first part of the emission spectrum of the fluorescent dye is detected in the first detection region.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 10973411Abstract: Method, and the associated device, for examining a biological tissue, in particular dental tissue or tooth enamel of one or several teeth, the method including the steps of taking into account at least the fluorescence of the tissue detected in a first wavelength range and the fluorescence of the tissue detected in a second wavelength range. The device can be a surgery microscope with one or several filters. The filters can be swiveled into or out the illumination beam path or the optical path of the light source of the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventor: Marco Wilzbach
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Patent number: 10942122Abstract: A microscopy method includes illuminating an object with illumination light, recording a first color image of the illuminated object by a color image sensor suitable for recording colors of a first gamut, producing a second color image of the object, the second color image including pixels that each have assigned a color from a second gamut, depicting the second color image by a display apparatus suitable for rendering colors of the second gamut, wherein the producing the second color image includes determining the colors at the pixels of the second color image by applying a color transfer function to the colors of the corresponding pixels of the first color image, the color transfer function mapping input colors onto output colors, and the color transfer function mapping those input colors that belong to the first gamut but not to the second gamut onto output colors that belong to the second gamut.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Christoph Nieten, Enrico Geissler, Marco Wilzbach, Susanne Kohlhammer
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Publication number: 20200371361Abstract: A screen (3) for an HMD (1) is provided, and may be designed as a display screen or as a projection screen. The screen (3) comprises a layer (19) of a material with a switchable degree of transparency and at least one further switchable layer (17, 21, 23) which, in dependence on the switching state, can assume at least two physical states, the physical states differently influencing at least one optical property of light passing through the switchable layer or reflected by it.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Stefan SAUR, Marco WILZBACH, Christopher KÄSBACH
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Patent number: 10795143Abstract: A microscopy system and a microscopy method for recording a fluorescence image and a white-light image are disclosed. An exemplary microscopy system includes an illumination apparatus for illuminating an object region and for exciting at least one fluorescent dye, an optical unit for imaging the object region onto at least one fluorescence image detector and at least one white-light image detector. A beam splitter and a filter are arranged in the beam path provided by the optical unit and configured such that substantially only fluorescence emitted by the fluorescent dyes is incident on the fluorescence image detector and an image that is as color-neutral as possible is recorded by the white-light image detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Christoph Hauger, Marco Wilzbach
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Patent number: 10788311Abstract: A microscope system is made available, said microscope system including: a microscope with an observer beam path with at least one camera for obtaining at least one electronic image of an observation object with a deep channel with a base, a motor-driven mount and/or a motor-driven stand, on which the microscope is mounted, a detection unit for detecting the focal depth set at the microscope, an image processing unit connected to the detection unit for the receiving focal depth and connected to the at least one camera for receiving the at least one electronic image, which image processing unit establishes the image portion in the at least one electronic image constituting the base of the deep channel in the electronic image, and a control unit connected to the image processing unit for receiving the established alignment for outputting control signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Christoph Hauger, Gerald Panitz, Marco Wilzbach, Stefan Saur
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Patent number: 10768428Abstract: A screen (3) for an HMD (1) is provided, and may be designed as a display screen or as a projection screen. The screen (3) comprises a layer (19) of a material with a switchable degree of transparency and at least one further switchable layer (17, 21, 23) which, in dependence on the switching state, can assume at least two physical states, the physical states differently influencing at least one optical property of light passing through the switchable layer or reflected by it.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Stefan Saur, Marco Wilzbach, Christopher Käsbach
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Patent number: 10736503Abstract: A method of determining at least one selection parameter for selecting an intraocular lens to be inserted into an eye; the method comprises reading, by a data processing system, data indicative of an axial position of at least a portion of an anterior surface of an at least partially empty capsular bag of the eye, relative to an optical axis of the eye. The method further comprises determining an axial position parameter, which is representative of the axial position of the portion of the anterior surface, depending on the data. The method further comprises determining the at least one selection parameter for selecting the intraocular lens depending on the determined position parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger, Markus Seesselberg, Xing Wei, Holger Matz, Anja Seiwert, Oliver Findl, Nino Hirnschall