Patents Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten
  • Patent number: 11618211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a shaped body by means of a radiation-induced printing process according to the technique of the one-photon polymerization process, characterized in that the shaped body is produced by solidifying a liquid or viscous material which contains a polysiloxane component produced by hydrolytic condensation of one or more monomeric silanes having exclusively two or three hydrolyzable groups and at least one organically polymerizable radical being bonded to the silicon atom via carbon, and contains an initiator and/or catalyst for the radiation-induced polymerization of the organically polymerizable residue, and the solidification is effected by directing light onto a region of a surface of a substrate, whereby a layer of the material located there is polymerized and thereby solidified, whereupon further layers are successively solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Wolter, Carina Kolb, Jeannette Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11621006
    Abstract: The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals, which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventor: Christof Faller
  • Patent number: 11621008
    Abstract: An apparatus for encoding an audio or image signal, includes: a controllable windower for windowing the audio or image signal to provide the sequence of blocks of windowed samples; a converter for converting the sequence of blocks of windowed samples into a spectral representation including a sequence of frames of spectral values; a transient location detector for identifying a location of a transient within a transient look-ahead region of a frame; and a controller for controlling the controllable windower to apply a specific window having a specified overlap length to the audio or image signal in response to an identified location of the transient, wherein the controller is configured to select the specific window from a group of at least three windows, wherein the specific window is selected based on the transient location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Christian Helmrich, Jérémie Lecomte, Goran Markovic, Markus Schnell, Bernd Edler, Stefan Reuschl
  • Patent number: 11622307
    Abstract: The invention refers to a wireless communication system including a plurality of base-stations covering different communication areas and a coordinator unit. The coordinator unit compiles an expectation list with at least one base-station serving as a coordinated base-station for a possible handover concerning a user equipment based on information about the user equipment. The coordinator unite provides the at least one base-station of the expectation list with handover information concerning the possible handover. The at least one base-station of the expectation list goes into an attention mode after receiving the handover information from the coordinator unit. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn
  • Patent number: 11621007
    Abstract: The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals, which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventor: Christof Faller
  • Publication number: 20230099360
    Abstract: The invention relates to glass-ceramics based on the lithium silicate system which can be mechanically machined easily in an intermediate step of crystallization and, after complete crystallisation, represent a very strong, highly-translucent and chemically-stable glass-ceramic Likewise, the invention relates to a method for the production of these glass-ceramics. The glass-ceramics according to the invention are used as dental material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., VITA Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH & Co. KG, DeguDent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard DURSCHANG, Jörn PROBST, Norbert THIEL, Joachim BIBUS, Markus VOLLMANN, Udo SCHUSSER
  • Patent number: 11616551
    Abstract: A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a time-variant, frequency-selective MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration including a number of antenna ports, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration; and a processor. The processor estimates an explicit CSI in the frequency domain using measurements on the downlink reference signals on the radio channel, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix (W) for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates either one or more of a channel quality indicator, CQI, and/or a precoder matrix indicator, PMI, and/or a rank indicator, RI, and reports to the transmitter the CSI feedback including either one or more of the CQI, and/or the PMI and/or the RI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Großmann, Venkatesh Ramireddy, Markus Landmann, Sutharshun Varatharaajan
  • Patent number: 11612930
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for production and use of a casting mold for casting components. The casting mold comprises at least one casting mold frame made of metal and/or of an alloy, and also one or more ceramic casting mold inserts introduced into the at least one casting mold frame. The casting mold insert(s) have the negative contour or part of the negative contour of a component to be produced or of the combination of a component to be produced with one or more casting cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Lukas Stumm, Christian Soltmann, Matthias Busse
  • Patent number: 11617016
    Abstract: A method and a system for virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, or 360-degree Video environment is disclosed. The system receives Video Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced and Audio Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced. There are provided a Video decoder which decodes signal from the Video Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene; an Audio decoder which decodes signal from the Audio Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene to the user; and a region of interest processor deciding, based e.g. on the user's viewport, head orientation, movement data, or metadata, whether an Audio information message is to be reproduced. At the decision, the reproduction of the Audio information message is caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Adrian Murtaza, Harald Fuchs, Bernd Czelhan, Jan Plogsties
  • Patent number: 11616979
    Abstract: Video/picture coding of improved coding efficiency with supporting varying resolution and/or efficiently handling region-wise packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robert Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Valeri George, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Karsten Sühring, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11613723
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cultivating cells, in particular tissue, comprising a carrier plate unit which has a central axis of rotation, at least one access opening arranged proximally to the axis of rotation, at least one cultivation chamber arranged distally to the axis of rotation, and at least one channel connecting the access opening to the cultivation chamber, and also a method for cultivating cells in a device according to the invention and a method for producing the device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Peter Loskill, Oliver Schneider, Stefan Schneider
  • Patent number: 11615996
    Abstract: A foil package includes a first foil substrate with a first and a second main surface, a second foil substrate with a first and a second main surface, wherein its first main surface is arranged facing the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The foil package includes at least one electronic device arranged between the first foil substrate and the second foil substrate and a first electrically conductive layer structure structured into a plurality of first partial areas arranged on the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The plurality of partial areas incompletely cover the second main surface of the first foil substrate. The at least one electronic device includes a terminal side and a side opposite to the terminal side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventor: Robert Faul
  • Publication number: 20230092635
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node and a network node. The method comprises setting a higher-layer parameter usage in at least one sounding reference signal, SRS, resource set configuration to nonCodebook or Codebook, wherein each configured SRS resource set comprises one or more SRS resources, and scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission via a downlink control information (DCI) wherein at least two SRS resources are indicated via a sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI) field of the DCI, wherein each SRS resource is associated with a different SRS resource set; and receiving from the user equipment a physical uplink shared channel that is transmitted using the ports associated with the indicated SRS resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sutharshun Varatharaajan, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11611736
    Abstract: A multi-aperture imaging device is provided that includes an image sensor and an array of adjacently arranged optical channels. Each optical channel includes an optic for imaging at least one partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor area of the image sensor. The device has a beam-deflector for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels and the beam-deflector includes a first beam-deflecting area operative for a first wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation passing through the optical channel; and a includes second beam-deflecting area operative for a second wavelength range of the electromagnetic radiation passing through the optical channels. The second wavelength range is different from the first wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frank Wippermann, Jacques Duparré
  • Patent number: 11606952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the temperature monitoring of a cryopreserved biological sample, comprising a sample container (in particular a cryotube) having a holding space for holding a biological sample and comprising at least one chamber, the interior of which is not fluidically connected to the holding space and is filled only partially with an indicator substance, the melting temperature of which lies in a range of ?20° C. to ?140° C. In particular, the chamber can be formed by a container that is detachably or pivotably fastened to the sample container. Alternatively, the chamber is formed by a double-walled slide-on part or the holding space of the sample container is double-walled, wherein an intermediate space between the inner wall and the outer wall is partially filled with the indicator substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guenter R. Fuhr, Heiko Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11611750
    Abstract: Concepts for transform coefficient block coding are described which enable coding of coefficients of a transform block in a manner suitable for dependent quantization and effectively implementable by entropy coding in terms of coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Heiko Schwarz, Phan Hoang Tung Nguyen, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11611003
    Abstract: A semiconductor component, in particular for a varactor, having at least one first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. At least two identical surface electrodes are arranged directly or indirectly on the second semiconductor layer facing away from the first semiconductor layer in order to form two anti-serially connected diodes. The surface electrodes are arranged in an interacting manner such that a load carrier zone which forms the common counter electrode for the surface electrodes is arranged in the first semiconductor layer at least in the operating state, and at least one control contact for controlling the potential of the load carrier zone is provided in a region of the load carrier zone on the second semiconductor layer face facing away from the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventor: Raul Amirpour
  • Patent number: 11610967
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical compound semiconductor structure having a substrate with a first main surface and an opposite second main surface, a vertical channel opening extending completely through the substrate between the first main surface and the second main surface and a layer stack arranged within the vertical channel opening. The layer stack includes an electrically conductive layer arranged within the vertical channel opening and a compound semiconductor layer arranged within the vertical channel opening. The compound semiconductor layer includes a compound semiconductor layer arranged on the electrically conductive layer and connected galvanically to the electrically conductive layer. Further, the invention relates to a method for producing such a vertical compound semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Ramm, Armin Klumpp
  • Patent number: 11609199
    Abstract: A multilayer electrode on a substrate (10) comprising titanium (20) and titanium-rich titanium nitride (30) and titanium-poor titanium nitride (40), particularly suitable for the application to thermoplastic substrates, in particular for the purpose of the impedance measurement in aqueous biological media, and method for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Tobias Schmitz, Mattias Schweinlin, Florian Gröber-Becker, Jan Hansmann, Marco Metzger, Thomas Schwarz, Heike Walles
  • Patent number: RE49469
    Abstract: An encoder/decoder is based on a combination of two audio or video channels to obtain a first combination signal as a mid-signal and a residual signal derivable using a predicted side signal derived from the mid-signal. A decoder uses the prediction residual signal, the first combination signal, a prediction direction indicator and prediction information to derive decoded first channel and second channel signals. A real-to-imaginary transform can be applied for estimating the imaginary part of the spectrum of the first combination signal. The prediction signal used in the derivation of the prediction residual signal, the real-valued first combination signal is multiplied by a real portion of the complex prediction information and the estimated imaginary part of the first combination signal is multiplied by an imaginary portion of the complex prediction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Julien Robilliard, Matthias Neusinger, Christian Helmrich, Johannes Hilpert, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Sascha Disch, Bernd Edler