Patents by Inventor Andreas Brüninghaus

Andreas Brüninghaus 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: 11966069
    Abstract: A display including a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel, with a light guide with edge coupling, wherein the backlight is designed so the light intensity of the backlight is lower in a peripheral region of the display panel than in a central region of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Bäthis, Oliver Jakoby, Andreas Brüninghaus, Jochen Möller
  • Publication number: 20240080434
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a display device. The disclosure is further directed towards a method, a computer program code, and an apparatus for providing a correction map for such a display device. The disclosure is further related to a method and a computer program code for operating a display device. The display device comprises a display panel comprising pixels, a cover element, and a decorative element arranged on the cover element. An individual brightness of the pixels of the display panel is adapted to a light transmissivity of the decorative element at the respective pixel positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Weber, Andreas Brüninghaus, Jürgen Bäthis, Jochen Möller, Jan Hermes, Kai Hohmann
  • Publication number: 20230350124
    Abstract: A display element comprising a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel, with a light guide with edge coupling, wherein the backlight is designed so the light intensity of the backlight is lower in a peripheral region of the display panel than in a central region of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Bäthis, Oliver Jakoby, Andreas Brüninghaus, Jochen Möller
  • Patent number: 11231813
    Abstract: In an electro-optical touchscreen inputs into an electronic system are able to be realized by the electro-optical touchscreen being touched by an input member and wherein the electro-optical touchscreen comprises a display and a first sensing device for determining the location at which the electro-optical touchscreen is touched, and a second sensing device for determining a force applied to the electro-optical touchscreen, wherein the position of the electro-optical touchscreen with respect to a reference surface is variable by way of the force being applied to the surface of said electro-optical touchscreen, wherein the second sensing device is configured in capacitive fashion and comprises an electrode, it is provided that the electrode of the second sensing device lies in a plane with electrodes of the display or in a plane with electrodes of the first sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Brüninghaus, Kai Hohmann, Steffen Wildner
  • Patent number: 10983265
    Abstract: A touchscreen having a haptic feedback device includes an electrooptical display with an input area located in front of the electrooptical display and a carrier. The display is mechanically connected, rigidly, to the input area. The input area is movable relative to the carrier by a motor. The electrooptical display is illuminated by a light source connected immovably to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Weber, Andreas Brüninghaus, Steffen Wildner
  • Publication number: 20200319732
    Abstract: In an electro-optical touchscreen inputs into an electronic system are able to be realized by the electro-optical touchscreen being touched by an input member and wherein the electro-optical touchscreen comprises a display and a first sensing device for determining the location at which the electro-optical touchscreen is touched, and a second sensing device for determining a force applied to the electro-optical touchscreen, wherein the position of the electro-optical touchscreen with respect to a reference surface is variable by way of the force being applied to the surface of said electro-optical touchscreen, wherein the second sensing device is configured in capacitive fashion and comprises an electrode, it is provided that the electrode of the second sensing device lies in a plane with electrodes of the display or in a plane with electrodes of the first sensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Brüninghaus, Kai Hohmann, Steffen Wildner
  • Publication number: 20180292601
    Abstract: A touchscreen having a haptic feedback device includes an electrooptical display with an input area located in front of the electrooptical display and a carrier. The display is mechanically connected, rigidly, to the input area. The input area is movable relative to the carrier by a motor. The electrooptical display is illuminated by a light source connected immovably to the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Weber, Andreas Brüninghaus, Steffen Wildner
  • Patent number: 9035753
    Abstract: An operator control device for an on-board electronics system of a motor vehicle or for a mobile communications device, having an operator control unit arranged in a receptacle of a docking station located in the interior of the motor vehicle and an interface between the operator control unit and the docking station for data interchange of information. The operator control unit has an operator control panel which has a plurality of operator control elements which can be manually operated. The receptacle with the operator control unit accommodated therein can be driven so as to move in an alternating rhythm, which is associated with the respectively operated operator control element, by one or more actuators when one of the operator control elements is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Centinental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Brüninghaus, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Vitali Kudaschov
  • Publication number: 20150091874
    Abstract: A control display assembly includes a digital display for generating graphic features that represent vehicle system operating parameters and functions that are selectable by an operator. A plurality of buttons are spaced apart from the display and are associated with one of the graphic features generated by the display through a corresponding light path. The light path extends between one of the buttons and a corresponding graphic feature to provide a visual association between the button and the graphic feature generated by the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Susan Adelle Drescher, Robert Lee Drury, Andreas Brueninghaus, Alexander Klotz, Arthur Stephen Brown, Christian Andreas Schenkewitz, Robert John Hansen
  • Publication number: 20130328670
    Abstract: An operator control device for an on-board electronics system of a motor vehicle or for a mobile communications device, having an operator control unit arranged in a receptacle of a docking station located in the interior of the motor vehicle, and an interface between the operator control unit and the docking station for data interchange of information. The operator control unit has an operator control panel which has a plurality of operator control elements which can be manually operated. The receptacle with the operator control unit accommodated therein can be driven so as to move in an alternating rhythm, which is associated with the respectively operated operator control element, by one or more actuators when one of the operator control elements is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Brüninghaus, Thorsten Alexander Kern, Vitali Kudaschov