Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kupper

Wolfgang Kupper 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: 20020089412
    Abstract: A controllable arrangement which can be controlled by contactless sensing of a body part and/or object arranged on it and in which authentication of a user takes place by of a body part is characterized in that the arrangement can be controlled by at least a part of a limb and the user can be authenticated by at least of a limb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2002
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Jorg Heger, Wolfgang Kupper
  • Publication number: 20020089413
    Abstract: A person is authenticated by hand recognition carried out based on scanning data obtained for a first position and for a transition into a second position. Scanning data obtained in the second position may be used also.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Hans Jorg Heger, Wolfgang Kupper
  • Publication number: 20020090146
    Abstract: An arrangement, a method and a computer program for registering a hand on an arm, at least partially record an image of the hand and the arm. The arrangement has a searching unit to finding a part of the image with a high ratio of content to outer sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Jorg Heger, Wolfgang Kupper
  • Patent number: 4349964
    Abstract: A viewing angle measuring device for automotive vehicles. The measuring device includes an elliptical template representing a so-called visual ellipse. The template is arranged in the vehicle in a prescribed position with respect to a driver's seat regarding a center position and an axial inclination. A measuring beam projector may be guided with its optical axis and/or with a measuring beam tangentially along a governing curve of the elliptical template. A goniometer, continuously indicating the viewing angle, is connected to the measuring beam projector to determine the beam direction with respect to a reference plane as a measure of the viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ewald Vester, Rolf Grussaber, Wolfgang Kupper, Horst Glatzhoefer