Patents by Inventor André Ebner

André Ebner 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).

  • Patent number: 11364926
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle system of a motor vehicle regardless of the driving situation. The method is performed by a personalization device of the motor vehicle and includes identifying the driver of the motor vehicle and using the identity of the driver to determine multiple driver-specific configuration data sets. Each of the determined configuration data sets describes configuration data of a respective user profile of the identified driver in order to personalize the motor vehicle system. The method further includes determining at least one additional occupant in the motor vehicle and using the result of the determination of the at least one occupant, determine an intention of the determined driver. The method further incudes using the determined intention to select a personalization mode from a plurality of personalization modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Lerzer, Nikoletta Sofra, Hans Georg Gruber, André Ebner, Ron Melz
  • Publication number: 20210253119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle system of a motor vehicle regardless of the driving situation. The method is performed by a personalization device of the motor vehicle and includes identifying the driver of the motor vehicle and using the identity of the driver to determine multiple driver-specific configuration data sets. Each of the determined configuration data sets describes configuration data of a respective user profile of the identified driver in order to personalize the motor vehicle system. The method further includes determining at least one additional occupant in the motor vehicle and using the result of the determination of the at least one occupant, determine an intention of the determined driver. The method further incudes using the determined intention to select a personalization mode from a plurality of personalization modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jürgen LERZER, Nikoletta SOFRA, Hans Georg GRUBER, André EBNER, Ron MELZ
  • Patent number: 9619926
    Abstract: A method for generating a 3D representation of a user interface in a vehicle, in which a scene, in particular a moving scene, containing at least one 3D object is rendered by a computing device inside the vehicle in order to determine the 3D representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: André Ebner, Mathias Halliger, Stefan Roedlmeier
  • Patent number: 9493169
    Abstract: A method and control system for operating a motor vehicle, sense a gesture directed at an object from a vehicle occupant using a gesture recognition unit, interpret the gesture and identify of the object using a data processing unit and generate a corresponding control command on the basis of the interpreted gesture and the identified object. An assistance system of the motor vehicle is actuated in accordance with the control command using the data processing unit. A voice command, uttered by the vehicle occupant is sensed before, during or after the sensing of the gesture, using a voice recognition unit. A combined interpretation of the gesture, the identified object and the voice command is performed, and the control command is generated on the basis of the combined interpretation, using the data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: André Ebner
  • Publication number: 20150336588
    Abstract: A method and control system for operating a motor vehicle, sense a gesture directed at an object from a vehicle occupant using a gesture recognition unit, interpret the gesture and identify of the object using a data processing unit and generate a corresponding control command on the basis of the interpreted gesture and the identified object. An assistance system of the motor vehicle is actuated in accordance with the control command using the data processing unit. A voice command, uttered by the vehicle occupant is sensed before, during or after the sensing of the gesture, using a voice recognition unit. A combined interpretation of the gesture, the identified object and the voice command is performed, and the control command is generated on the basis of the combined interpretation, using the data processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: André EBNER
  • Publication number: 20150062118
    Abstract: A method for generating a 3D representation of a user interface in a vehicle, in which a scene, in particular a moving scene, containing at least one 3D object is rendered by a computing device inside the vehicle in order to determine the 3D representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: André Ebner, Mathias Halliger, Stefan Roedlmeier
  • Patent number: 8682401
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a process and a system for wireless transmission of infotainment components between an in-vehicle network in a vehicle and a network external to the vehicle, the in-vehicle network having a reception readiness state and an idle state and by way of a remote control of the vehicle can be shifted from the idle state to the reception readiness state. Furthermore the invention relates to a remote control for transmission of a prompt signal, the in-vehicle network by actuating an actuating element of the remote control shifting the in-vehicle network into the reception readiness state, by which infotainment components can be received from a network external to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: André Ebner, Roman Ranzinger
  • Patent number: 7400894
    Abstract: A method performs synchronization in an at least partly self-organizing radio communication system with a number of mobile stations which lie across an air interface within two-way radio range. At least some mobile stations from the number of mobile stations transmit synchronization sequences, by which a part or all the mobile stations of the number of mobile stations synchronize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andre Ebner, Rüdiger Halfmann, Hui Li, Matthias Lott, Hermann Rohling, Egon Schulz
  • Publication number: 20080045168
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a process and a system for wireless transmission of infotainment components between an in-vehicle network in a vehicle and a network external to the vehicle, the in-vehicle network having a reception readiness state and an idle state and by way of a remote control of the vehicle can be shifted from the idle state to the reception readiness state. Furthermore the invention relates to a remote control for transmission of a prompt signal, the in-vehicle network by actuating an actuating element of the remote control shifting the in-vehicle network into the reception readiness state, by which infotainment components can be received from a network external to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Andre Ebner, Roman Ranzinger
  • Publication number: 20060030343
    Abstract: A method performs synchronization in an at least partly self-organizing radio communication system with a number of mobile stations which lie across an air interface within two-way radio range. Al least some mobile stations from the number of mobile stations transmit synchronization sequences, by which a part or all the mobile stations of the number of mobile stations synchronize.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Andre Ebner, Rudiger Halfmann, Hui Li, Matthias Lott, Hermann Rohling, Egon Schulz
  • Patent number: 6985090
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for controlling a system of multiple traffic signals for regulating the traffic of vehicles is described. Traffic data is transmitted by wireless transmission to traffic data processing units assigned individually to a locally limited group of traffic signals, and each traffic data processing unit performs an analysis of the local traffic situation for the environment of the locally limited group of traffic signals up to, at the maximum, the neighboring locally limited groups of traffic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andre Ebner, Matthias Lott, Egon Schulz, Ruediger Halfmann, Hermann Rohling
  • Publication number: 20030063015
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for controlling a system of multiple traffic signals for regulating the traffic of vehicles is described. Traffic data is transmitted by wireless transmission to traffic data processing units assigned individually to a locally limited group of traffic signals, and each traffic data processing unit performs an analysis of the local traffic situation for the environment of the locally limited group of traffic signals up to, at the maximum, the neighboring locally limited groups of traffic signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Andre Ebner, Matthias Lott, Egon Schulz, Ruediger Halfmann, Hermann Rohling