Patents by Inventor Oliver Welzel

Oliver Welzel 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).

  • Publication number: 20230252788
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for monitoring the operation of a ship comprising a plurality of sensors, which are designed to monitor equipment of the ship and/or people and objects on board the ship, a central computer connected to the sensors in a communicating manner, and a plurality of reporting units connected to the central computer in a communicating manner, wherein the reporting units are grouped in a plurality of reporting groups, corresponding to organisational units for operationally and nautically controlling the ship, and the central computer is designed for informing a reporting unit associated with a predetermined reporting group according to an event detected by at least one sensor, characterised in that at least one of the sensors is a video camera, a LIDAR and/or a radar system, wherein at least one of the sensors or the central computer is designed for face, gesture and/or facial expression recognition and the detected event is a face, gesture and/or a facial expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Michael WESSEL, Hinrich KAHL, Markus WERNER, Oliver WELZEL, Karsten WURM
  • Publication number: 20230196604
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for locating an object and optionally determining the dimension thereof in a specified area/space, comprising a plurality of cameras which capture the area from different locations, wherein a common detection region is provided for each of at least two cameras which are arranged at different locations; means for marking an object detected simultaneously by at least two cameras in the images captured by the respective cameras; and means for determining the position of the object marked in the images of the cameras by calculating the respective line of position between each camera and the object detected by each camera and by calculating the coordinates of the object at the intersection of the lines of position in a coordinate system mapping the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Michael WESSEL, Hinrich KAHL, Markus WERNER, Oliver WELZEL, Michael DELFS
  • Publication number: 20220396340
    Abstract: A system for detecting a man-overboard event, comprising a plurality of first computing units having at least one optical sensor with a predetermined detection range and a second computing unit connected to the plurality of computing units, characterized in that each first computing unit is designed, independently of the others, to evaluate the data sensed by the at least one optical sensor of the respective first computing unit to determine whether a man-overboard event is present on the basis of these data and, when a man-overboard event (event) is present, to report this to the second computing unit, wherein the second computing unit is designed to output an alarm and/or a control command to carry out a man-overboard manoeuvre.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Michael DELFS, Hinrich KAHL, Werner LINDNER, Bernhard STEUERNAGEL, Oliver WELZEL, Markus WERNER, Michael WESSEL
  • Publication number: 20120173929
    Abstract: A system, computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method for testing a software unit of an application is described. A method signature for a method of the software unit of the application is received. A generic test specification for a generic test of the method is identified based on the method signature, the generic test specification being one of a plurality of test specifications, wherein the generic test specification includes a definition for at least one reference input parameter value of the method and a definition for at least one reference output parameter value of the method. The method is executed using the at least one reference input parameter value to produce at least one test output parameter value. A test result is determined based on a comparison between the at least one test output parameter value and the at least one reference output parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Uwe Bloching, Stefan Rau, Oliver Welzel