Patents by Inventor Andreas Eckardt
Andreas Eckardt 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).
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Patent number: 11257859Abstract: The invention relates to a TDI line detector (1), comprising n TDI lines (Z1-Zn), wherein each TDI line (Z) has m pixels (P), and at least one read-out electronics (11-14), wherein the TDI line detector (1) is subdivided into x submodules (S1-S4), wherein the number of lines (Z) of a submodule (S1-S4) is n/x, wherein a discrete read-out electronics (11-14) is associated with the last line of each submodule (S1-S4), wherein the length (L1) of the read-out electronics (11-14) corresponds to an integer multiple of the length (L2) of a pixel (P), wherein x?2 is, wherein the associated pixels (P) of different submodules (S1-S4) are arranged pixel to pixel relative to one another or the submodules (S1-S4) or groups of submodules (S1-S4) are laterally interlinked alternately by half a pixel (P).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventor: Andreas Eckardt
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Publication number: 20200066785Abstract: The invention relates to a TDI line detector (1), comprising n TDI lines (Z1-Zn), wherein each TDI line (Z) has m pixels (P), and at least one read-out electronics (11-14), wherein the TDI line detector (1) is subdivided into x submodules (S1-S4), wherein the number of lines (Z) of a submodule (S1-S4) is n/x, wherein a discrete read-out electronics (11-14) is associated with the last line of each submodule (S1-S4), wherein the length (L1) of the read-out electronics (11-14) corresponds to an integer multiple of the length (L2) of a pixel (P), wherein x?2 is, wherein the associated pixels (P) of different submodules (S1-S4) are arranged pixel to pixel relative to one another or the submodules (S1-S4) or groups of submodules (S1-S4) are laterally interlinked alternately by half a pixel (P).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventor: Andreas ECKARDT
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Patent number: 8421133Abstract: A detector module, in particular for super-resolution satellites, contains a multi-chip carrier. At least one TDI-CCD detector and at least one CMOS chip are arranged on the multi-chip carrier, and are electrically connected to one another. The CMOS chip contains at least the digital output electronics for the TDI-CCD detector.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt E.V.Inventor: Andreas Eckardt
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Patent number: 8085299Abstract: Disclosed is a digital line scan camera, having at least at least one focal plane, on which at least one linear photosensitive sensor is arranged, an objective lens, and a location measurement system. The location measurement system is used to determine six external location parameters, where the location system measurement comprises a satellite-supported position determination device and an inertial navigation measurement unit. The line scan camera includes at least on two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, which is synchronously driven with the linear sensor. At least one displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is calculated from the data of the minimum of one two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, and where the displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is used to correct the date of the inertial measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Anko Börner, Andreas Eckardt, Frank Lehmann
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Publication number: 20110291165Abstract: A detector module, in particular for super-resolution satellites, contains a multi-chip carrier. At least one TDI-CCD detector and at least one CMOS chip are arranged on the multi-chip carrier, and are electrically connected to one another. The CMOS chip contains at least the digital output electronics for the TDI-CCD detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.Inventor: Andreas Eckardt
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Publication number: 20090073280Abstract: Disclosed is a digital line scan camera, having at least at least one focal plane, on which at least one linear photosensitive sensor is arranged, an objective lens, and a location measurement system. The location measurement system is used to determine six external location parameters, where the location system measurement comprises a satellite-supported position determination device and an inertial navigation measurement unit. The line scan camera includes at least on two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, which is synchronously driven with the linear sensor. At least one displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is calculated from the data of the minimum of one two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, and where the displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is used to correct the date of the inertial measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Anko BORNER, Andreas ECKARDT, Frank LEHMANN
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Patent number: 7432856Abstract: A signal simulation device for testing and developing radio receivers adapted to orientate antenna beams to different radio transmitters and to simultaneously suppress interference signals, comprises an antenna array, a signal generator generating reproducible digital signals in the complex baseband, and a digital matrix processor combined and synchronized with the signal generator. The processor has input signals generated by the signal generator and has output signals that form received signals of the antenna array. The input signals of the matrix processor are phase shifted according to a direction of incidence and to relative positions of the elements within the antenna array of the radio receiver, and are combined and supplied to outputs of the matrix processor. Amplitude and phase shift are simulated by weighting of the input signals from the signal generator, the weighting coefficients being calculated on a control computer and input into the matrix processor via an interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Achim Hornbostel, Arno Schroth, Andriy Konovaltsev, Alexander Steingass, Andreas Eckardt, Holger Venus
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Publication number: 20080135723Abstract: A focal plane assembly for an optical sensor system, includes at least two photosensitive components and a focal plane plate, on which the photosensitive components are mounted. The focal plane plate is formed out of a number of modules, where the photosensitive components are distributed over the modules and connected to them, and where the individual modules are mounted in a common focal plane frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Anko Borner, Andreas Eckardt, Ingo Walter, Stefan Hilbert
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Publication number: 20080013181Abstract: A mirror system includes a highly reflective coating which transmits some light, and a second coating applied on the highly reflective coating, wherein the second coating is subdivided into segments having a transmissivity that can be varied individually by electronic signals. A camera situated behind the highly reflective coating generates image data for light incident on the second coating, and a control unit uses the image data to control the transmissivity of the segments individually so that light reflected by the highly reflective coating through the segments does not exceed an adjustable brightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2005Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und-Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Andreas Eckardt, Hans Driescher
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Patent number: 7217943Abstract: A film scanner is configured with a broadband irradiation source and a film carrier. The film carrier has at least one light passage for a visible spectral channel, and the light passage is oriented to at least one photosensitive photodetector. The photosensitive photodetector is arranged in a housing, and the film carrier is connected to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrte e.V.Inventors: Andreas Eckardt, Christoph Dobler
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Publication number: 20060131519Abstract: A film scanner for digitizing a film includes a stabilized radiation source producing light, a film stage on which the film to be digitized is guided, a projection lens, and a photosensitive sensor. Light passing through the film to be digitized is projected by the projection lens onto the photosensitive sensor when the film is on the film stage, and the film is converted to digital image data by the photosensitive sensor. The film scanner also includes a photosensitive reference sensor arranged for determining brightness measurement values and brightness variations of the radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Mathias Uhlig, Andreas Eckardt, Michael Neidhardt
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Publication number: 20060055774Abstract: A film scanner for a color original comprises a film stage having a slit-shaped opening, the slit-shaped opening generating an image of the color original when the color original is moving across the film stage while the slit-shaped opening is illuminated by a source of white light; a photosensitive sensor; and a spectrum-splitting element positioned between the film stage and the photosensitive sensor for dividing the image of the color original into its spectral components. The photosensitive sensor is oriented so that desired regions of the spectral components strike the photosensitive sensor. A process for scanning a color original is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventors: Heinz-Wilhelm Hubers, Andreas Eckardt, Hans Driescher
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Publication number: 20050263726Abstract: A film scanner is configured with a broadband irradiation source and a film carrier. The film carrier has at least one light passage for a visible spectral channel, and the light passage is oriented to at least one photosensitive photodetector. The photosensitive photodetector is arranged in a housing, and the film carrier is connected to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Andreas Eckardt, Christoph Dobler
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Patent number: 6750488Abstract: A focal plane plate for a high-resolution camera with light-sensitive semiconductor sensors, includes an electrically nonconductive material for accommodating housed light-sensitive semiconductor sensors. Adjustment elements are arranged on the focal plane plate at arrangement locations of the housings of the light-sensitive semiconductor sensors, or the focal plane plate is designed with the adjustment elements. The adjustment elements are capable of being adapted in a complementary fashion to the form of the housings in the top sides of the light-sensitive semiconductor sensors lying in a common plane.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1999Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Hans Driescher, Bernd Biering, Andreas Eckardt, Michael Greiner-Bär, Ute Grote, Stefan Hilbert
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Patent number: 6449458Abstract: A fixing station for a printer or copier includes a heating device for fusing toner to the carrier material and a cover that is selectively insertable between the heating element and the carrier material. The cover may be a window blind type cover. Where two sided fixing is provided, both heating devices have a cover. The cover may have an energy storage spring to cause the heating device to be covered in the event of an emergency. An electro-magnetic locking device may be provided to retain the cover in an open position.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Robert Lang, Werner Fuchs, Gerd Goldmann, Andreas Eckardt, Günter Rosenstock
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Patent number: 6377714Abstract: A method for archiving a master image, including the steps of pre-detecting a resolution of a master image which is at least one of a geometric, a radiometric and a spectral resolution, adaptively matching a resolution of an optical device to the pre-detected master image resolution such that the optical device resolution conforms with minimum resolution for an appropriate scanning theorem, scanning point values of the master image with the resolution from the matching step by the optical device having a photosensitive component, digitizing the point values of the master image from the scanning step, compressing the digitized point values, and storing the compressed point values.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventors: Stefan Hilbert, Ralf Reulke, Hans Driescher, Andreas Eckardt, Martin Scheele, Reinhard Schuster, Thomas Terzibaschian
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Patent number: 6138564Abstract: For regulating the pressure in a pressure chamber, in particular in a pneumatic brake apparatus for a web-type recording medium, an actual pressure is set in the pressure chamber dependent on an actual angle of rotation of a rotary valve. The actual angle of rotation of the rotary valve and the actual pressure in the pressure chamber are acquired. A target pressure and a target angle of rotation allocated to this target pressure are predetermined, and a pressure deviation between the actual pressure and the target pressure are determined, as is a deviation of the angle of rotation between the actual angle of rotation and the target angle of rotation. An adjusting unit sets the angle of rotation at the rotary valve, first dependent on the deviation of the angle of rotation and then dependent on the pressure deviation. Furthermore, a sensor for acquiring the angle of rotation is specified.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Andreas Eckardt, Josef Schreieder, Hans Winter
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Patent number: 6085060Abstract: A fixing station for fixing toner images on a carrier material is provided in a printer or copier. A flap or shutter mechanism having a plurality of flaps or shutters that are pivotable into an open and into a closed position are arranged between a heat radiation source and the carrier material for controlling fixing of the toner to the carrier material.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Gerd Goldmann, Andreas Eckardt, Guenter Rosenstock
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Patent number: 6055408Abstract: A printer for printing endless paper webs on both sides has two printing stations with a web turnover station therebetween. The paper web is fed in parallel side-by-side to the two printing stations which are on the same rollers. The drive of the web through the printer is by a positive drive, using pins to engage holes in the paper web, for example, into the first printing station. The drive of the paper web thereafter is by friction drive to permit slippage in the drive to compensate for variations in paper length during heating, etc. The slippage is controlled by brakes or other drag inducing devices acting on one or both of the two portions of the paper web.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1997Date of Patent: April 25, 2000Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Edmund Creutzmann, Andreas Eckardt, Walter Kopp, Hans Winter, Martin Silbersack
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Patent number: 5568241Abstract: A thermofixiug device for fixing toner images on a strip-shaped or sheet-like recording substrate (17) of an electrophotographic printing or copying machine contains a thermoprinting fixing station (11, 12) and a heated preheating saddle (15) located upstream of the thermoprinting fixing station in the recording substrate running direction. The preheating saddle (15) is designed as a low temperature saddle with the largest possible constructional length, so that the temperature difference between recording substrate (17) end saddle surface (24) is as small as possible. The preheating saddle has, in the recording substrate running direction, a plurality of heating zones (21, 23). A control device controls the heating zones (21, 23) in such a manner that, along the preheating saddle (15), an approximately constent thermal energy flow occurs on the saddle surface (24) to the recording substrate (17).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AktiengesellschaftInventors: Edmund Creutzmann, Andreas Eckardt, Joachim Hoffmann, Walter Kopp, Josef Windele