Patents by Inventor Markus Adameck
Markus Adameck 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: 8421865Abstract: A method of calibrating a vehicular multi-camera system includes equipping a vehicle with a plurality of cameras wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras captures image data, equipping the vehicle with an image processor, inputting image data from each of the plurality of cameras to the image processor, the image processor processing input image data in order to calibrate the vehicular multi-camera system, and wherein calibration of the vehicular multi-camera system is achieved independently of a model of the real world.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Magna Electronics Europe GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Euler, Markus Adameck
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Publication number: 20120224064Abstract: A method of calibrating a vehicular multi-camera system includes equipping a vehicle with a plurality of cameras wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras captures image data, equipping the vehicle with an image processor, inputting image data from each of the plurality of cameras to the image processor, the image processor processing input image data in order to calibrate the vehicular multi-camera system, and wherein calibration of the vehicular multi-camera system is achieved independently of a model of the real world.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS EUROPE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Christian Euler, Markus Adameck
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Patent number: 8169480Abstract: A method for producing a time sequence of images of motor vehicle surroundings from a virtual elevated central perspective on a display wherein several cameras are used to record time sequences of subimage data records from a plurality of real perspectives differently offset and tilted with respect to the virtual perspective. Then, parameterized transformations are applied for obtaining sequences of transformed subimage data records and overall image data for an overall image from the virtual perspective is assembled. Finally, the sequence of the overall image data is displayed as an overall image. To compensate for positional and/or orientation deviations in the recording cameras a selection unit is proposed to recurrently apply a selection criterion for selecting a subimage data record from the sequence and to take this as a basis for redetermining the parameters of the transformations by an optimization method under a quality criterion for the overall image.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Magna Electronics Europe GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Euler, Markus Adameck
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Patent number: 7940305Abstract: Arrangement for a motor vehicle with a camera and a display device for capturing and displaying an image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle and for displaying graphically representable information, such as for example guide lines, reference texts or the like, with a means for superimposing the image with the information, wherein means for superimposing changes values of the pixels at the points of the image, at which the information is displayed, information pixels, as a function of the values captured by the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Hella KG Hueck & Co.Inventor: Markus Adameck
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Patent number: 7817205Abstract: Camera arrangement, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, including a printed circuit board with an image sensor and an objective lens carrier, and an objective lens for projecting an image onto the image sensor, the objective lens being connected by connecting means to the objective lens carrier, the connecting means being one or more ball segment-shaped housing sections which are provided terminally of the objective lens and which are held in a cylindrical bore of the objective lens carrier, the connecting means being suitable for sliding the objective lens relative to the image sensor as well as pivoting it, and a method for the adjustment of a camera arrangement according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Hella KGaAInventors: Michael Schulte, Michael Makaruk, Markus Adameck
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Publication number: 20100110194Abstract: A method for producing a time sequence of images of motor vehicle surroundings from a virtual elevated central perspective on a display wherein several cameras are used to record time sequences of subimage data records from a plurality of real perspectives differently offset and tilted with respect to the virtual perspective. Then, parameterized transformations are applied for obtaining sequences of transformed subimage data records and overall image data for an overall image from the virtual perspective is assembled. Finally, the sequence of the overall image data is displayed as an overall image. To compensate for positional and/or orientation deviations in the recording cameras a selection unit is proposed to recurrently apply a selection criterion for selecting a subimage data record from the sequence and to take this as a basis for redetermining the parameters of the transformations by an optimization method under a quality criterion for the overall image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Christian EULER, Markus Adameck
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Publication number: 20070292111Abstract: Arrangement for a motor vehicle with a camera and a display device for capturing and displaying an image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle and for displaying graphically representable information, such as for example guide lines, reference texts or the like, with a means for superimposing the image with the information, wherein means for superimposing changes values of the pixels at the points of the image, at which the information is displayed, information pixels, as a function of the values captured by the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2005Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.Inventor: Markus Adameck
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Patent number: 7004299Abstract: To identify an embossed image of a coin in an automatic coin machine, the coin requiring identification is moved past an image receiver and a light source, the light source having at least two lighting portions which illuminate an object field of the coin requiring identification from different directions under the same angle with respect to the surface normal of the object field and with wavelength ranges which do not overlap each other. An image receiver records one picked-up exposure of the object field from which images are obtained for each of the individual lighting portions of the individual wavelength ranges. A maximum image is then determined from the images, wherein each pixel has associated therewith the maximal intensity value from the images of the individual wavelength ranges. A genuine-coin or counterfeit-coin signal is determined from the maximum image.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2004Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: National Rejectors, Inc. GmbHInventors: Manfred Eich, Markus Adameck, Michael Hossfeld
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Patent number: 6819410Abstract: A process for identifying an embossed image of a coin in an automatic coin tester, in which a coin is moved to an image receiver and a light source, the image receiver picks up at least one image of the embossed image of the coin, and a validation device compares the image to a first reference pattern to find out whether the first reference pattern is contained in the image which was picked-up. If the first reference pattern is contained in the image, the validation device determines whether a second reference pattern is contained in an area the position of which is determined relative to the position of the first reference pattern, the validation device producing a genuine coin or counterfeit coin signal for the coin depending on the coincidence of the image with the reference patterns.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: National REjectors, Inc. GmbHInventors: Markus Adameck, Manfred Eich, Michael Hossfeld
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Publication number: 20040168881Abstract: To identify an embossed image of a coin in an automatic coin machine, the coin requiring identification is moved past an image receiver and a light source, the light source having at least two lighting portions which illuminate an object field of the coin requiring identification from different directions under the same angle with respect to the surface normal of the object field and with wavelength ranges which do not overlap each other. An image receiver records one picked-up exposure of the object field from which images are obtained for each of the individual lighting portions of the individual wavelength ranges. A maximum image is then determined from the images, wherein each pixel has associated therewith the maximal intensity value from the images of the individual wavelength ranges. A genuine-coin or counterfeit-coin signal is determined from the maximum image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Applicant: NATIONAL REJECTORS INC. GMBHInventors: Manfred Eich, Markus Adameck, Michael Hossfeld
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Publication number: 20030169416Abstract: A process for identifying an embossed image of a coin in an automatic coin tester, comprising the process steps below: The coin is moved to an image receiver and a light source, the image receiver picks up at least one image of the embossed image of the coin, an validation device compares the image to a first reference pattern to find out whether the first reference pattern is contained in the image which was picked up, if the first reference pattern is contained in the image the validation device determines whether a second reference pattern is contained in an area the position of which is determined relative to the position of the first reference pattern, the validation device produces a genuine coin or counterfeit coin signal for the coin depending on the coincidence of the image with the reference patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2003Publication date: September 11, 2003Applicant: National Rejectors, Inc. GmbHInventors: Markus Adameck, Manfred Eich, Michael Hossfeld