Abstract: A method for determining an eye position using a laser device for a set of smart glasses. The method includes emitting light for scanning an eye along at least one scan line; detecting a plurality of reflection beams of the light reflected along the scan line in order to obtain a plurality of light intensity values, the light intensity values representing intensities of the reflection beams; generating a two-dimensional image of the eye along the scan line using the light intensity values, a high light intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected at the retina and a light intensity value low in comparison to the high intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected outside the retina of the eye; and determining the eye position of the eye within the image using amplitudes of the light intensity values.

Abstract: An object recognition device for vehicles, including a sensor, a filter device and an analysis device. Signals from an object are detectable by the sensor. The detected signals are filterable by the filter device and then feedable to the analysis device. The analysis device is configured to recognize the object by analyzing the filtered signals. The filter device includes an averaging unit, which averages the profile of the amplitudes of the detected signals, and a non-linear filter unit, which is provided based on a linear low-pass filter with a variable time constant and filters the detected signals. A value profile corresponding to the difference between the averaged amplitude profile and the filtered signals is feedable to the analysis device for analyzing and recognizing the object. The variable time constant is establishable based on the difference between the filtered signals and the detected signals and based on the averaged amplitude profile.

Abstract: A lidar device having an integrated optics that has a beam deflecting unit having an optical phase array that has a multiplicity of antennas that are set up to emit electromagnetic radiation at a prespecified angle of radiation. The angle of radiation covers a prespecified field of view of the lidar device. The angle of radiation has a first angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization A, and has a second angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization B.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing in which a drive unit and an impact-mechanism unit are arranged. The hand-held power tool further includes a tool-receiver interface configured to releasably connect with a tool receiver, the tool receiver configured as a stirrer-basket receiver. A user interface is configured to set at least one of a rotary-hammer mode and a stirring mode for the hand-held power tool.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a first vehicle terminal (NN1; NN2, NN3; NN4) for a wireless communications network, the method comprising: determining a resource pattern within a resource pool, the resource pattern comprising a plurality of wireless resources of a data channel within the resource pool; and sending, on a control channel, an item of control information which indicates the resource pattern and a group of at least two vehicle terminals associated with the resource pattern.

Abstract: An electromechanically drivable brake pressure generator for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle. The brake pressure generator including a spindle drive unit for converting a rotary movement on the drive side into a translational movement for the purpose of actuating a piston of a hydraulic piston-and-cylinder unit. A gear unit is arranged between the spindle drive unit and an electric drive motor. A drive motor axis and an axis of the spindle drive unit are arranged radially offset from one another. The piston-and-cylinder unit and the electric drive motor are arranged on axially opposite sides of the gear unit.

Abstract: A sensor array. The sensor array includes a gyroscope device, including: a MEMS gyroscope including a seismic mass which is excitable to carry out oscillations; a driver circuit for exciting and maintaining an oscillating movement of the seismic mass; and a sensing unit. The sensor array further includes a control unit for selecting one of at least two different predefined operating modes of the gyroscope device, at least one sensing operating mode, in which rotation rate sensor signals are detected and/or preprocessed, and at least one stand-by operating mode, in which no rotation rate sensor signals are detected and/or preprocessed, being predefined as operating modes. The sensor array further includes a further sensor device for detecting further sensor signals; and a digital data processing unit for the rotation rate sensor signals and the further sensor signals.

Abstract: A method is for determining a wearing state of earphones. The method includes determining an onto-ears event or off-ears event experienced by the earphones on the basis of first data indicating motion of the earphones. The method further includes determining a first wearing state of the earphones on the basis of second data indicating proximity of the earphones to a user's skin. The method additionally includes determining the wearing state of the earphones on the basis of the determined onto-ears event or off-ears event and the first wearing state. This increases the accuracy of detection of the wearing state of the earphones. Based on this more accurately determined wearing state, the earphones can switch appropriately between a low power consumption mode and a normal operating mode, thereby improving the energy consumption of the earphones.

Abstract: A MIMO radar sensor includes: an antenna arrangement including first and second arrays, in each of which a respective plurality of antennas are offset relative to one another in a first direction, the first and second arrays being offset from each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, the antennas of the first and second arrays being more strongly focused in the second direction than in the first direction in each case, and, in each of at least one of the first and second antenna arrays, at least two of the antennas of the respective array being offset from one another in the second direction and the antennas of the respective array being symmetrically arranged relative to an axis running in the second direction; a high frequency element; and a control and evaluation device for evaluating output from the high frequency element regarding the antennas.

Abstract: A method for providing a signal for actuating an at least partially automated vehicle includes receiving surroundings data; detecting a vehicle which is leaving a parking space and is initiating or executing a parking-space-exiting maneuver, on the basis of the surroundings data; predicting a maneuvering area which the vehicle which is leaving the parking space requires to execute the parking-space-exiting maneuver; and providing a signal for actuating the at least partially automated vehicle on the basis of the predicted maneuvering area.

Abstract: A controller for a hybrid vehicle capable of making a first control rule and a second control rule cooperate with each other is provided. In the first control rule, a gear ratio is controlled such that output from an internal combustion engine via a transmission satisfies requested drive power. In the second control rule, the gear ratio is controlled such that a sum of drive power by a motor and drive power by the internal combustion engine becomes the requested drive power.

Abstract: A battery pack having a specified number of battery cells connected to one another and having a monitoring unit, in particular of the type of an SCM circuit, for the individual battery cells. The monitoring unit has a passive input circuit, and is designed to recognize various electrical faults within the passive input circuit using a time measuring unit allocated to the monitoring unit, in particular on the basis of a measurement of rise times of a voltage.

Abstract: An anti-counterfeit product of manufacture includes a housing defining a cavity. The housing is constructed of a first and second bodies forming an original joint at a parting line. Inner workings of the product are enclosed within the cavity. An encryption device includes an encryption-coded ceramics-based pin grid array embedded in the first body of the housing. An RFID circuit is connected with the ceramics-based pin grid array. The RFID circuit is configured to report out a confirmation signal based on the code set by the connected ceramics-based pin grid array upon an RFID reader interrogation trigger. The RFID circuit is programmed to prevent future reporting of the confirmation signal upon detachment of the ceramics-based pin grid array from the RFID circuit, such that the confirmation signal is configured to confirm both product authenticity and integrity of the original joint.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting anomalous communications in a service oriented communication system. The method includes providing at least one decoy service, hosted by a decoy server communicably coupled to the service oriented communication system, wherein the at least one decoy service is addressable using a corresponding decoy service identifier; detecting, at the decoy server, a request to consume at least one instance of the at least one decoy service, wherein the request originates from a client communicably coupled to the decoy server via the service oriented communication system; and performing, at the decoy server, a response to the request to consume the at least one instance of the at least one decoy service.

Abstract: A method detects electrical fault states of at least one removable battery pack and/or an electrical device, in particular a charging device, a diagnostic device or an electrical consumer, that can be connected to the at least one removable battery pack, using a first monitoring unit integrated in the at least one removable battery pack and a further monitoring unit integrated in the electrical device. The first monitoring unit and the further monitoring unit each count the faulty charging or discharging processes.

Abstract: A method for operating a cache memory having a set having multiple memory blocks configured for storing data blocks. In a write process of a data block into a memory block of the set, the data block is written into the memory block, a relevance rank value of the data block and a first access time rank value are determined. Rank data associated with the memory block are determined using a write rank mapping from the relevance rank value and the first access time rank value, and the determined rank data are stored. If no memory block of the set is free, a memory block that is to be overwritten is selected from the memory blocks of the set based on the rank data, which are associated with the memory blocks, and the data block to be stored is written into the selected memory block by using the write process.

Abstract: A method for applying a spray, in particular a plant protection product, onto a field, including: detecting plants in a field section of the field with the aid of an optical and/or infrared detection unit; identifying at least one plant row in the detected field section; defining a plant area encompassing the at least one identified plant row and a weed area, different from the plant area, in the detected field section; ascertaining a plant identifier of the weed area; and applying spray onto the weed area, in particular onto the field section, depending on the ascertained plant identifier with the aid of a spraying device.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a vehicle sensor of a motor vehicle. The method includes the steps: ascertaining, by way of the vehicle sensor, sensor data at a plurality of measurement times, the motor vehicle moving in relation to objects in surroundings of the motor vehicle; computing object positions of the objects on the basis of the ascertained sensor data; computing a Hough transformation on the basis of the computed object positions; ascertaining an alignment of the vehicle sensor in relation to a driving axis of the motor vehicle on the basis of the computed Hough transformation; and calibrating the vehicle sensor on the basis of the ascertained alignment of the vehicle sensor in relation to the driving axis of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method for projecting image contents onto a user's retina using an optical system. A light beam is first projected onto a diverting unit of the optical system using a projector unit of the optical system. The light beam is subsequently diverted to the position of the user's eye. An ascertained deviation of an actual state of the projected light beam diverted by the diverting unit from a desired state is stored using memory unit. Second image data are generated using an image-processing device based on the stored and ascertained deviation of the actual state of the projected light beam from the desired state. The second image data are received using the projector unit. The received second image data are projected at successive second time intervals using the projector unit. At least two of the second time intervals differ from one another in terms of time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper frame (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a wiper blade (14), a liquid channel (30, 32) for carrying a cleaning liquid, and a heating unit (38). According to the invention, the heating unit (38) is substantially located inside the liquid channel (30, 32).