Patents Assigned to Fraunhofer
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Patent number: 12238508Abstract: A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is processed with an early part of the room impulse response separate from a late reverberation of the room impulse response, wherein the processing of the late reverberation has generating a scaled reverberated signal, the scaling being dependent on the audio signal. The processed early part of the audio signal and the scaled reverberated signal are combined.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Simone Neukam, Jan Plogsties
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Patent number: 12237898Abstract: A method performed by a UE for providing CSI feedback in the form of CSI reports in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a gNB, higher layer configurations of one or more downlink reference signals, and CSI report configurations associated with the downlink reference signal configurations, and a radio signal including the downlink reference signals according to the one or more downlink reference signal configurations, the downlink reference signals provided over a configured number of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and one or more ports; determining, for each CSI report, a precoding matrix based on the downlink reference signals and two codebooks, and one or more non-zero combining coefficients for complex combining of one or more spatial domain and delay domain basis vectors; and reporting to the network node the CSI reports for the CSI report configurations.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Ramireddy Venkatesh
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Patent number: 12237212Abstract: An electrode is provided. The electrode includes a contact pad composed of boron-doped polycrystalline diamond (BDD); a fiber core composed of BDD extending longitudinally from the contact pad from a first end that is in direct contact with the contact pad to an opposing second end; and a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cladding that coats and hermetically seals the contact pad and the fiber core. A first portion of the contact pad and a second portion at or near the second end of the fiber core are not coated and hermetically scaled by the PCD cladding. A method of fabricating the electrode is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Wen Li, Yue Guo, Thomas Schuelke, Michael Becker, Robert Rechenberg, Cory Rusinek
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Publication number: 20250063575Abstract: A first user equipment of a wireless communication system is provided. After a second user equipment of the wireless communication system has transmitted a first signal, being a reference or control or data signal, to the first user equipment via a sidelink between the second and first user equipment, the first user equipment is configured to receive said reference or control or data signal as a second signal from the second user equipment via the sidelink. The first user equipment is configured to determine positioning information depending on difference information, such that the difference information has information on difference(s) between the first signal, transmitted by the second user equipment, and the second signal, received by the first user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Dariush MOHAMMAD SOLEYMANI, Martin LEYH, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Mehdi HAROUNABADI, Dietmar LIPKA, Mohammad ALAWIEH, Bastian PERNER, Norbert FRANKE, Birendra GHIMIRE, Melanie LIPKA
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Patent number: 12230890Abstract: A method includes defining a Center-of-Radiation Reference for a device under test, the CORR indicating a reference origin of an electromagnetic wave pattern formable with the DUT; determining a 3-dimensional orientation information with respect to the CORR, the 3-dimensional orientation information indicating a direction of the electromagnetic wave pattern; and providing the CORR and the 3-dimensional orientation information to a measurement system.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Paul Simon Holt Leather, Ramez Askar, Kei Sakaguchi, Thomas Haustein, Leszek Raschkowski
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Patent number: 12231248Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations, and one or more user devices, UEs. The base station is configured to transmit data to a UE being served by the base station, the data including control data and user data, the user data including at least first user data and second user data, the first user data associated with a first service and second data associated with second service, the first and second services having one or more different transmission requirements. Responsive to receiving in the control data a grant for a feedback transmission, the UE is configured to send a feedback to the base station, the feedback indicating for one or more data blocks of the data a successful or non-successful reception at the UE. The control data includes a first downlink assignment index, DAI, associated with the first data, and a second DAI associated with the second data.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl
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Patent number: 12228088Abstract: The invention relates to a motor controller for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, comprising a control unit for setting one or more control variables on the basis of one or more measured variables according to a stored control scheme; wherein the control unit is designed to modify the stored control scheme when the control unit is used as intended with the operational internal combustion engine, which is being controlled by the motor controller, according to a specified learning algorithm, namely using at least one feedback parameter which is associated with an optimization criterion and is provided to the control unit, in order to provide an improved control of the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jürgen Beyerer, Janina Stompe, Julius Pfrommer, Johannes Sailer, Christian Frey
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Patent number: 12231177Abstract: An apparatus configured for wirelessly communicating in a wireless communications network includes a wireless interface configured for wireless communication and a controller configured for controlling a beam pattern of the wireless interface and at least one communication parameter of the wireless interface. The apparatus is configured for receiving a locking signal indicating a request for locking at least a part of the beam pattern and the at least one communication parameter. The controller is configured for locking at least the part of the beam and the at least one communication parameter responsive to the locking signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Paul Leather, Ramez Askar, Leszek Raschkowski, Marcus Großmann, Markus Landmann
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Patent number: 12230285Abstract: An audio encoder for encoding segments of coefficients, the segments of coefficients representing different time or frequency resolutions of a sampled audio signal, the audio encoder including a processor for deriving a coding context for a currently encoded coefficient of a current segment based on a previously encoded coefficient of a previous segment, the previously encoded coefficient representing a different time or frequency resolution than the currently encoded coefficient. The audio encoder further includes an entropy encoder for encoding entropy the current coefficient based on the coding context to obtain an encoded audio stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Multrus, Bernhard Grill, Guillaume Fuchs, Stefan Geyersberger, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Virgilio Bacigalupo
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Patent number: 12230286Abstract: A schematic block diagram of a decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal is shown. The decoder includes an adaptive spectrum-time converter and an overlap-add-processor. The adaptive spectrum-time converter converts successive blocks of spectral values into successive blocks of time values, e.g. via a frequency-to-time transform. Furthermore, the adaptive spectrum-time converter receives a control information and switches, in response to the control information, between transform kernels of a first group of transform kernels including one or more transform kernels having different symmetries at sides of a kernel, and a second group of transform kernels including one or more transform kernels having the same symmetries at sides of a transform kernel. Moreover, the overlap-add-processor overlaps and adds the successive blocks of time values to obtain decoded audio values, which may be a decoded audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian Helmrich, Bernd Edler
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Patent number: 12231664Abstract: A video data stream is rendered reducible in a manner so that the reduction leads to a restriction of pictures of the reduced video data stream to merely a predetermined subarea of the pictures of the original video data stream and in a manner so that transcoding, such as re-quantization, may be avoided and a conformance of the reduced video data stream relative to the codec underlying the original video data stream be maintained. This is achieved by providing the video data stream with information including an indication of the predetermined subarea and replacement indices for redirecting the indices included by the payload portion so as to refer to, and/or replacement parameters for adjusting the first set of coding parameter settings so as to result in, a second set of coding parameter settings.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Robert Skupin, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Karsten Grueneberg, Thomas Wiegand
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Publication number: 20250049071Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein preparation of linseed and a cost-effective process for its production thereof. The protein preparation has a protein content of more than 30% by mass, an oil content of less than 68 by mass, a content of cyanogenic glycosides of less than 200 mg/kg and a brightness L* of greater than 75. The protein preparation is neutral in taste, light in color and of high quality, so that it is suitable for color and taste demanding food applications such as emulsions and baked goods.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Peter EISNER, Andreas STÄBLER, Stephanie MITTERMAIER, Isabel MURANYI, Dominic WIMMER, Klaus SCHREIBER
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Publication number: 20250056175Abstract: An apparatus for generating one or more audio output channels from one or more audio signals is provided. The apparatus comprises a gain determiner configured to generate or to receive gain information, wherein the gain information indicates for each audio signal of at least one audio signal of the one or more audio signals how to attenuate or how to amplify said audio signal depending on a position associated with said audio signal and a reference position. Moreover, the apparatus comprises a signal generator configured to generate the one or more audio output channels from the one or more audio signals by attenuating or amplifying at least one of the one or more audio signals depending on the gain information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Alessandro TRAVAGLINI, Jouni PAULUS, Lukas LAMPRECHT, Jakob STRUVE, Matteo TORCOLI
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Patent number: 12219955Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial layer material comprising a layer with a particulate biocidal active ingredient and, on top of that, a layer as transport control layer, wherein the transport control layer is depositable or has been deposited in an afterglow PE-CVD method. The invention further relates to a substrate coated with such an antimicrobial layer material, to the use of a plasma-polymeric layer deposited in an afterglow PE-CVD method as transport control layer for a particulate biocidal active ingredient, and to a method of producing an antimicrobial layer material and to a method of producing a substrate comprising an antimicrobial layer material.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Bio-Gate AGInventors: Klaus-Dieter Vissing, Dirk Salz, Peter Steinrücke
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Patent number: 12225198Abstract: A block-based decoder is configured to partition a picture of more than one color component and of a color sampling format, according to which each color component is equally sampled, into blocks using a partitioning scheme in which the picture is equally partitioned with respect to each color component. A first color component is decoded in units of the blocks with selecting, for each of intra-predicted first color component blocks, one out of a first set of intra-prediction modes. The first set comprises matrix-based intra prediction modes according to each of which a block inner is predicted by deriving a sample value vector out of neighboring reference samples, computing a matrix-vector product between the sample value vector and a prediction matrix associated with the respective matrix-based intra prediction mode to obtain a prediction vector, and predicting samples in the block inner on the basis of the prediction vector.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jonathan Pfaff, Tobias Hinz, Philipp Helle, Philipp Merkle, Björn Stallenberger, Michael Schäfer, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
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Patent number: 12224165Abstract: A magnetic-field-assisted plasma coating system and method are provided. In another aspect, a coating system employs a cathode with a linearly moveable magnetic field. A further aspect employs a workpiece as an anode within which is located an elongated cathode which internally coats a bore of the workpiece. Still another aspect of the present system and method employs an elongated and hollow cathode with at least one magnetic source therein. In yet another aspect, end caps or plates seal against one or more open ends of a workpiece bore to be coated, with a cathode inserted into the bore and a vacuum being created within the bore such that the workpiece itself defines at least a portion of a vacuum chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Thomas Schuelke, Michael Becker, Lars Haubold, Qi Hua Fan
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Patent number: 12225238Abstract: Decoder for decoding a picture from a data stream, configured to check whether a plurality of coding parameters, which are contained in the data stream, relate to a predetermined portion of the picture and control a prediction residual transform mode and a quantization accuracy with respect to the predetermined portion, are indicative of a coding parameter setting corresponding to a lossless prediction residual coding. Responsive to the plurality of coding parameters being indicative of the coding parameter setting corresponding to the lossless prediction residual coding, the decoder is configured to set one or more predetermined coding options relating to one or more tools of the decoder for processing a prediction residual corrected predictive reconstruction with respect to the predetermined portion so that the one or more tools are disabled with respect to the predetermined portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian Helmrich, Benjamin Bross, Tung Hoang Nguyen, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
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Publication number: 20250041895Abstract: An apparatus is provided for coating a strip-shaped substrate with a parylene layer within a working chamber, comprising a take-off roller for unwinding the strip-shaped substrate; a take-up roller for winding the strip-shaped substrate after the coating process; a processing roller, with which the strip-shaped substrate can be led past a coating zone; a first housing, which delimits the coating zone; a second housing delimiting the first housing, as a result of which the second housing delimits a volume between the first housing and the second housing; at least one inlet which extends through a wall of the first housing and by means of which at least one monomer-containing gas for depositing the parylene layer can be introduced into the coating zone; and at least one pumping means, by means of which a negative pressure can be generated in the volume between the first housing and the second housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Emmy Törker, Franz Selbmann, Michiel Top
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Publication number: 20250046695Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrically conductive channel structure in a substrate has the following steps: (?) providing a stack arrangement in a clamping device, the stack arrangement having a substrate provided with a channel structure, a metal film having an aluminum material (=also an aluminum material alloy) on the substrate, and a compressible sealing element which at least laterally surrounds the metal film while exerting pressure, (?) applying a planar-acting mechanical process pressure and a process temperature to the stack arrangement with the clamping device in order to melt the metal film having the aluminum material at the process temperature and to introduce it into the channel structure as metallic filling material by means of the planar-acting mechanical process pressure, and (?) cooling the stack arrangement to solidify the introduced metallic filling material and to obtain the electrically conductive channel structure filled with the metallic filling material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Wolfgang REINERT, Hans-Joachim QUENZER, Nils BURMEISTER
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Publication number: 20250047442Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system, like a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, system, is disclosed. The UE receives and/or transmits one or more physical channel transmissions. The one or more of the physical channel transmissions are received or transmitted without any associated DeModulation Reference Signal, DMRS, or with a partial or full DMRS muting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Arman AHMADZADEH, Geordie GEORGE, Thomas HEYN, Sutharshun VARATHARAAJAN