Patents by Inventor Oliver Scholz
Oliver Scholz 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: 11273307Abstract: A method for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may utilize an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The method may determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: NYXOAH SAInventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz
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Patent number: 11218565Abstract: A primary virtual assistant and local virtual assistant herein can provide secondary information, including, without limitation, user-specific information, without having direct access to such information. For example, a user may invoke a secondary virtual assistant, through the local virtual assistant connected to a primary virtual assistant system. This invocation may be sent through the primary virtual assistant to the third party provider, i.e., the secondary virtual assistant. The secondary virtual assistant has access to the secondary information, for example, email, calendars, other types of information specifically associated with the user or learned from past user actions while this information is not directly available to the primary virtual assistant. This secondary information is then provided to the local virtual assistant in response to the invocation to be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Lisa Stifelman, James Francis Gilsinan, IV, Karl Rolando Henderson, Jr., Robert Juan Miller, Nikhil Rajkumar Jain, Hanjiang Zhou, Oliver Scholz, Hisami Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210126985Abstract: A primary virtual assistant and local virtual assistant herein can provide secondary information, including, without limitation, user-specific information, without having direct access to such information. For example, a user may invoke a secondary virtual assistant, through the local virtual assistant connected to a primary virtual assistant system. This invocation may be sent through the primary virtual assistant to the third party provider, i.e., the secondary virtual assistant. The secondary virtual assistant has access to the secondary information, for example, email, calendars, other types of information specifically associated with the user or learned from past user actions while this information is not directly available to the primary virtual assistant. This secondary information is then provided to the local virtual assistant in response to the invocation to be provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Alice Jane Bernheim BRUSH, Lisa STIFELMAN, James Francis GILSINAN, IV, Karl Rolando HENDERSON, JR., Robert Juan MILLER, Nikhil Rajkumar JAIN, Hanjiang ZHOU, Oliver SCHOLZ, Hisami SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10645142Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query from a user for videos; identifying videos matching the query; retrieving, for each identified video, a set of keyframes that are associated with one or more concepts; calculating, for each keyframe of each identified video, a keyframe-score based on a prevalence of the concepts associated with the keyframe, determined with reference to the concepts associated with each other keyframe in the set of retrieved keyframes for the identified video; and sending, to the first user, a search-results interface including search results corresponding to one or more of the identified videos, each search result comprising keyframes for the corresponding identified video having keyframe-scores greater than a threshold keyframe-score.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Dirk John Stoop, Adam Eugene Bussing, Oliver Scholz, Balmanohar Paluri
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Patent number: 10308464Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
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Publication number: 20180221657Abstract: A method for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may utilize an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The method may determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: NYXOAH SAInventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz
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Publication number: 20180084023Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query from a user for videos; identifying videos matching the query; retrieving, for each identified video, a set of keyframes that are associated with one or more concepts; calculating, for each keyframe of each identified video, a keyframe-score based on a prevalence of the concepts associated with the keyframe, determined with reference to the concepts associated with each other keyframe in the set of retrieved keyframes for the identified video; and sending, to the first user, a search-results interface including search results corresponding to one or more of the identified videos, each search result comprising keyframes for the corresponding identified video having keyframe-scores greater than a threshold keyframe-score.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Dirk John Stoop, Adam Eugene Bussing, Oliver Scholz, Balmanohar Paluri
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Patent number: 9449076Abstract: Real-time query expansion (RTQE) is a process of supplementing an original query with addition terms or expansion choices that are ranked according to some figure of merit and presented while users are still formulating their queries. As disclosed herein, phrases may be presented and one or more terms of a focused-on phrase may be pinned (as desirable to the user). Subsequent lists may be presented as a function of pinned terms and/or user input. In one embodiment, a placeholder may be substituted for one or more pinned terms if less than some predetermined threshold of phrases is able to be presented based upon the pinned terms and/or user input, and another list of phrases may be presented as a function of a query using fewer than all the pinned terms. The placeholder may allow out-of-index phrases to be formed, for example, based upon two or more phrases and/or terms input by the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tim Paek, Bongshin Lee, Bo Thiesson, Gary Voronel, Julian James Odell, Oliver Scholz
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Publication number: 20160236892Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Ulf HASSLER
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Patent number: 9409013Abstract: A method for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may utilize an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The method may determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: NYXOAH SAInventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz
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Patent number: 9342895Abstract: A device for detecting a plant against a background includes a provider for providing a plurality of different photographs of the plant leaf against the background, the photographs differing in that image points of the different photographs relating to the same location of the plant leaf are illuminated with different levels of brightness, a selector for selecting such image points, from the different photographs, whose levels of brightness are within a predetermined range, an image point of a first photograph being selected for a first location of the plant leaf, and an image point of a second, different photograph being selected for a different location of the plant leaf to obtain a representation of the plant leaf against the background, the representation being composed of and/or merged from different photographs, and a segmenter for segmenting the composite photograph to obtain a segment representation having the plant leaf without the background or the background without the plant leaf.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANInventors: Franz Uhrmann, Lars Seifert, Oliver Scholz, Guenther Kostka
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Patent number: 9322642Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
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Patent number: 8989868Abstract: A device for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may include an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The device may further include a primary antenna associated with the at least one processor. The processor may be configured to determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Hyllio SAInventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz
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Publication number: 20150009510Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Ulf HASSLER
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Patent number: 8892396Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
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Publication number: 20140334692Abstract: A device for detecting a plant against a background includes a provider for providing a plurality of different photographs of the plant leaf against the background, the photographs differing in that image points of the different photographs relating to the same location of the plant leaf are illuminated with different levels of brightness, a selector for selecting such image points, from the different photographs, whose levels of brightness are within a predetermined range, an image point of a first photograph being selected for a first location of the plant leaf, and an image point of a second, different photograph being selected for a different location of the plant leaf to obtain a representation of the plant leaf against the background, the representation being composed of and/or merged from different photographs, and a segmenter for segmenting the composite photograph to obtain a segment representation having the plant leaf without the background or the background without the plant leaf.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Franz UHRMANN, Lars SEIFERT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Guenther KOSTKA
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Patent number: 8725492Abstract: Semantically distinct items are extracted from a single utterance by repeatedly recognizing the same utterance using constraints provided by semantic items already recognized. User feedback for selection or correction of partially recognized utterance may be used in a hierarchical, multi-modal, or single step manner. An accuracy of recognition is preserved while the less structured and more natural single utterance recognition form is allowed to be used.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Julian J Odell, Robert L. Chambers, Oliver Scholz
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Publication number: 20140107732Abstract: A device for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may include an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The device may further include a primary antenna associated with the at least one processor. The processor may be configured to determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz
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Patent number: 8694322Abstract: A voice-activated user interface for an application is described. The voice activated user interface invokes a speech recognition component to recognize audio input from a user. If the audio input is a command, then a validation component is invoked to determine whether to validate the command prior to execution.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alex G. Snitkovskiy, David Mowatt, Felix G. T. I. Andrew, Robert Edward Dewar, Oliver Scholz
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Publication number: 20140039579Abstract: A method for delivering energy as a function of degree coupling may utilize an external unit configured for location external to a body of a subject and at least one processor associated with the implant unit and configured for electrical communication with a power source. The method may determine a degree of coupling between the primary antenna and a secondary antenna associated with the implant unit, and regulate delivery of power to the implant unit based on the degree of coupling between the primary antenna and the secondary antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Adi Mashiach, Oliver Scholz