Patents by Inventor Alexander Knobloch

Alexander Knobloch 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: 20240005292
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a self-service checkout terminal can comprise: an image capture device configured to capture image data of a capture region; a product capture device for capturing a product identifier of a product in the capture region when the product is presented to the product capture device; a control device configured: for determining payment information on the basis of the product identifier; for determining a movement pattern on the basis of the image data, wherein the movement pattern represents a movement of a product in the capture region; for determining an indication about a trustworthiness of the payment information on the basis of the movement pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastian ENGELNKEMPER, Alexander KNOBLOCH, Jonathan STIEBER
  • Publication number: 20230129779
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a method (100) for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container (402) being empty can comprise: determining (101) one or more than one segment of image data of the transport container (402) using depth information assigned to the image data; assigning (103) the image data to one from a plurality of classes, of which a first class represents the transport container (402) being empty, and a second class represents the transport container (402) being non-empty, wherein the one or more than one segment is not taken into account in the assigning; outputting (105) a signal which represents the filtered image data being assigned to the second class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Sommer, Alexander KNOBLOCH, Sebastian ENGELNKEMPER
  • Publication number: 20230119154
    Abstract: According to various aspects, a self-service terminal (100) may include: a user interface (1008) accessible to a user of the self-service terminal (100); a sensing device (206) configured to sense information about the user; a control device (106) configured to: determine a physiological condition of the user based on the information; select an interface profile from a plurality of predefined (e.g., saved) interface profiles based on the physiological condition; instruct a reconfiguration of the user interface (1008) based on the selected interface profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Eduard Weis, Alexander Knobloch, Sebastian Engelnkemper, Jochen Linck
  • Publication number: 20230034021
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a self-service checkout terminal can comprise: a capture device having at least one sensor, wherein the capture device is configured: to capture first biometric data with reference to a person at the self-service checkout terminal; to capture second biometric data with reference to an official identity certificate if the identity certificate is presented to the capture device; to capture a product identifier of a product if the product is presented to the capture device; a control device configured for: firstly determining a sales restriction to which the product is subject, on the basis of the product identifier; comparing the first biometric data with the second biometric data; secondly determining whether the person satisfies a criterion of the sales restriction on the basis of a result of the comparing and on the basis of the second biometric data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Eduard WEIS, Alexander KNOBLOCH, Sebastian ENGELNKEMPER
  • Publication number: 20230013078
    Abstract: A self-service terminal (100) and a method (300, 600) for operating a self-service terminal are disclosed, wherein the self-service terminal (100) comprises: an imaging device (102), configured for providing at least one digital image (104); at least one processor (110), configured for: determining whether the at least one digital image (104) comprises a face of a person; if the at least one digital image (104) comprises the face of the person, cutting out from the at least one digital image (104) an image region which comprises the face of the person; and a storage device (108), configured for storing the image region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Eduard WEIS, Alexander KNOBLOCH, Sebastian ENGELNKEMPER
  • Publication number: 20220406092
    Abstract: A self-service terminal and a method for providing security at a self-service terminal are disclosed, wherein the self-service terminal comprises: an imaging device, configured for providing at least one digital image; at least one processor, configured for applying a facial recognition method to the at least one digital image; and for controlling the self-service terminal using a facial recognition criterion depending on the result of the facial recognition method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Eduard WEIS, Alexander KNOBLOCH, Sebastian ENGELNKEMPER
  • Patent number: 11380172
    Abstract: In various embodiments, there is provided a method of using an automated teller machine, wherein the ATM is coupled to a mobile phone of a user of the ATM via a Bluetooth low energy connection; a first string representative of what operating capabilities the ATM currently provides to the user is sent from the ATM to the mobile phone of the user via the Bluetooth low energy connection; and from the mobile phone, the first string is read to the user using a text-to-speech function, wherein based on the reading of the first string, the user knows what operating options the user currently has to use the ATM and can then use the ATM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Weis, Alexander Knobloch
  • Publication number: 20220139176
    Abstract: In various embodiments, there is provided a method of using an automated teller machine, wherein the ATM is coupled to a mobile phone of a user of the ATM via a Bluetooth low energy connection; a first string representative of what operating capabilities the ATM currently provides to the user is sent from the ATM to the mobile phone of the user via the Bluetooth low energy connection; and from the mobile phone, the first string is read to the user using a text-to-speech function, wherein based on the reading of the first string, the user knows what operating options the user currently has to use the ATM and can then use the ATM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Eduard Weis, Alexander Knobloch
  • Patent number: 9513758
    Abstract: Transparent electrically conductive functional layer, production process and use thereof. The invention concerns a transparent electrically conductive functional layer, in particular a laminate body. The invention makes it possible for the first time to produce thin conductive functional layers for use in resistive touch screens, for example in a printing process. By way of example with a coverage of 5% and adequate conductivity the functional layer still works at 95% transparent for the human eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Fix, Alexander Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann, Jasmin Wörle
  • Patent number: 8450731
    Abstract: A multi-layer film body comprises a plastic substrate strip conveyed in a first direction in a roll-to-roll process for printing electronic organic components on the substrate. A first electrically conducting layer is on the substrate, a semiconductor layer is on the first layer, an insulator layer is on the semiconductor layer and a second electrically conducting layer is on the insulator layer, the layers comprising a first interconnection assembly portion and a second electronic assembly portion successively positioned in the first direction, each portion comprising a central zone and a respective conductor tract input zone and conductor tract output zone bordering the respective central zones, the input, central and output zones of each portion each comprising parallel conductor tracts in the first conducting layer. Electrical connectors in the second conducting layer interconnect selected ones of the conductor tracts in the two portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Jurgen Krumm
  • Patent number: 8350259
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes at least two organic components interconnected by conductor tracks and having a common carrier substrate. The components and the conductor tracks are formed from layer portions. An uppermost layer portion, remote from the carrier substrate, of the electronic circuit is of a patterned configuration comprising an electrically conducting material. The patterned uppermost layer portion on its side remote from the carrier substrate is provided with at least one protective layer arranged in congruent relationship with the uppermost layer portion. The at least two organic components include at least one first component of a first component type and at least one second component of a second component type different therefrom. Components of the same component type are respectively protected by a protective layer of the same composition and/or the same structure corresponding to that component type and differing from one another according to the corresponding component type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Knobloch, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 8315061
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic circuit and to a method for the manufacture of an electronic circuit comprising at least two electronic components on a common flexible substrate, wherein the at least two electronic components in each case have at least one electrical functional layer composed of identical functional layer material. The electrical functional layers are formed from identical functional layer material and from layer regions of a layer formed in strip-type fashion on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20120193130
    Abstract: Transparent electrically conductive functional layer, production process and use thereof. The invention concerns a transparent electrically conductive functional layer, in particular a laminate body. The invention makes it possible for the first time to produce thin conductive functional layers for use in resistive touch screens, for example in a printing process. By way of example with a coverage of 5% and adequate conductivity the functional layer still works at 95% transparent for the human eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Walter Fix, Alexander Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann, Jasmin Wörle
  • Publication number: 20120112353
    Abstract: A multi-layer film body comprises a plastic substrate strip conveyed in a first direction in a roll-to-roll process for printing electronic organic components on the substrate. A first electrically conducting layer is on the substrate, a semiconductor layer is on the first layer, an insulator layer is on the semiconductor layer and a second electrically conducting layer is on the insulator layer, the layers comprising a first interconnection assembly portion and a second electronic assembly portion successively positioned in the first direction, each portion comprising a central zone and a respective conductor tract input zone and conductor tract output zone bordering the respective central zones, the input, central and output zones of each portion each comprising parallel conductor tracts in the first conducting layer. Electrical connectors in the second conducting layer interconnect selected ones of the conductor tracts in the two portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Jurgen Krumm
  • Publication number: 20120057311
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic circuit and to a method for the manufacture of an electronic circuit comprising at least two electronic components on a common flexible substrate, wherein the at least two electronic components in each case have at least one electrical functional layer composed of identical functional layer material. The electrical functional layers are formed from identical functional layer material and from layer regions of a layer formed in strip-type fashion on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20110115101
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes at least two organic components interconnected by conductor tracks and having a common carrier substrate. The components and the conductor tracks are formed from layer portions. An uppermost layer portion, remote from the carrier substrate, of the electronic circuit is of a patterned configuration comprising an electrically conducting material. The patterned uppermost layer portion on its side remote from the carrier substrate is provided with at least one protective layer arranged in congruent relationship with the uppermost layer portion. The at least two organic components include at least one first component of a first component type and at least one second component of a second component type different therefrom. Components of the same component type are respectively protected by a protective layer of the same composition and/or the same structure corresponding to that component type and differing from one another according to the corresponding component type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander Knobloch, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 7846838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electronic component on a surface of a substrate with the electronic component having, seen at right angles to the surface of the substrate, at least two electrical functional layers which are arranged one above the other and such that they overlap at least in a surface area F, with the at least two electrical functional layers on the substrate being structured directly or indirectly using a continuous process, with a first electrical functional layer of the at least two electrical functional layers being structured such that a first length/width dimension of the first electrical functional layer parallel to the surface of the substrate and in a relative movement direction of the substrate is at least 5 ?m longer/wider, preferably more than 1 mm longer/wider, than a length/width dimension of the surface area F in the relative movement direction and parallel to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Polyic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann, Walter Fix, Merlin Welker
  • Patent number: 7843342
    Abstract: An organic electronic module has a clock generator having n organic switching elements connected in series. The output of the nth organic switching element is connected to the input of the first organic switching element. The outputs of two or more organic switching elements are connected to respective inputs of a first electronic circuit of the electronic module tapping off two or more clock signals such that a first clock signal for a first electronic circuit is tapped from the output of a first one of the switching elements and a second clock signal, phase-shifted with respect to the first clock signal, for the first electronic circuit is tapped from the output of a second switching element different than the first switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Polyic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 7812343
    Abstract: A multilayer composite body has an electronic function, in particular, an electronic subassembly comprising a plurality of organic electronic components, such as transistors, diodes, capacitors and so on, having at least one common layer, e.g., a semiconductor layer and/or insulation layer, wherein the common layer may be superfluous in one or more of the components. There thus is provided a structure of an entire subassembly such as an RFID tag, wherein the entire tag with all of its components is implemented in one production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 7589553
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module having two or more organic circuit elements connected together to give a logic circuit, said organic circuit elements being made up of organic components, in particular organic field effect transistors. The logic circuit comprises at least one filter module (5), which has an input (53) connected to one of the organic logic circuit elements, and an output (55), and is designed to filter out from the signals present at the input (53) the spurious signals generated by different signal propagation times in the organic components of the logic circuit elements, and to provide a regenerated binary signal at the output (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix