Patents by Inventor Andreas Ernst
Andreas Ernst 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: 10086943Abstract: A system for moving loads comprising a cargo compartment floor, at least one roller track comprising rollers arranged one behind the other in the cargo compartment floor, at least one guideway in the floor and extending parallel to the at least one track, and at least one transport vehicle removably accommodated in and movable along the guideway. The transport vehicle comprises at least one connecting element movable between first and second operating positions. In the first operating position, the connecting element is configured so the transport vehicle is positionable beneath a load on the roller track, and in the second operating position, the connecting element is configured to interact with the load to connect the load to the transport vehicle, so the load is entrained when the transport vehicle moves along the guideway. The transport vehicle further comprises a drive mechanism to move the transport vehicle along the guideway.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Hans Joachim Schoen, Sascha Nowarre, Patrick Dittmer, Nils Hendrik Hoppe, Thies Andreas Ernst-Friedrich Beinke
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Patent number: 10074031Abstract: A 2D image analyzer includes an image scaler, an image generator and a pattern finder. The image scaler is configured to scale an image according to a scaling factor. The image generator is configured to produce an overview image including a plurality of copies of the received and scaled image, wherein every copy is scaled about a different scaling factor. Thereby, the respective position can be calculable by an algorithm, which considers a gap between the scaled images in the overview image, a gap of the scaled image towards one or more borders of the overview image and/or other predefined conditions. The pattern finder is configured to perform a feature transformation and classification of the overview image in order to output a position at which an accordance of the searched pattern and the predetermined pattern is maximal. A post-processing unit for smoothening and correcting the position of local maxima in the classified overview image may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Daniel Krenzer, Albrecht Hess, András Kátai, Christian Wiede, Andreas Ernst, Tobias Ruf
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Patent number: 10053410Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a macrocyclic diketone compound of the formula (I), which comprises the oxidation of a bicycloolefine compound of the formula (II) with an oxidizing agent, formulae (I) (II) where in formulae (I) and (II) A is (CH2)n with n being an integer from 2 to 12, where two hydrogen atoms may be replaced by C1-C4-alkyl, in particular methyl, or two hydrogen atoms, which are bound to adjacent carbon atoms may be replaced by a fused 5- or 6-membered saturated carbocycle; B is (CH2)m with m being 1 or 2, where 1 or 2 hydrogen atoms may be replaced by C1-C4-alkyl, in particular methyl.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stefan Rüdenauer, Miriam Bru Roig, Andreas Ernst, Thomas Fenlon
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Publication number: 20180141888Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a macrocyclic diketone compound of the formula (I), which comprises the oxidation of a bicycloolefine compound of the formula (II) with an oxidizing agent, formulae (I) (II) where in formulae (I) and (II) A is (CH2)n with n being an integer from 2 to 12, where two hydrogen atoms may be replaced by C1-C4-alkyl, in particular methyl, or two hydrogen atoms, which are bound to adjacent carbon atoms may be replaced by a fused 5- or 6-membered saturated carbocycle; B is (CH2)m with m being 1 or 2, where 1 or 2 hydrogen atoms may be replaced by C1-C4-alkyl, in particular methyl.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Stefan RÜDENAUER, Miriam BRU ROIG, Andreas ERNST, Thomas FENLON
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Publication number: 20170300741Abstract: A device includes an input to sequential data associated to a face; a predictor configured to predict facial parameters; and a corrector configured to correct the predicted facial parameters on the basis of input data, the input data containing geometric measurements and other information. A related method and a related computer program are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Dominik SEUSS, Teena Chakkalayil HASSAN, Johannes WOLLENBERG, Andreas ERNST, Jens-Uwe GARBAS
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Patent number: 9786059Abstract: An apparatus for providing object information based on an image sequence including a plurality of images is provided. The apparatus includes an object detector for conducting object detection on three or more images of the plurality of images of the image sequence to obtain the object information, wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is conducted, is an object-detected image of the image sequence, and wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is not conducted, is not an object-detected image of the image sequence. Moreover, the apparatus includes an object tracker for conducting object tracking on one or more images of the image sequence to obtain the object information.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Tobias Ruf, Andreas Ernst, Jens-Uwe Garbas, Anton Papst
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Publication number: 20170069083Abstract: An apparatus for determining a body portion of a user treated by the user using a personal hygienic device. The apparatus includes a camera configured to capture the user to obtain a pictorial representation of the user while treating the body portion using the personal hygienic device; an interface configured to receive sensor data from at least one inertial sensor residing in the personal hygienic device; and an analyzer configured to analyze the pictorial representation and the sensor data to determine the body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Ingo VETTER, Carl STÜCKRATH, Hansjorg REICK, Jens-Uwe GARBAS, Jochen SEITZ, Andreas ERNST, Marcus BOCKSCH
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Publication number: 20170032214Abstract: A 2D image analyzer includes an image scaler, an image generator and a pattern finder. The image scaler is configured to scale an image according to a scaling factor. The image generator is configured to produce an overview image including a plurality of copies of the received and scaled image, wherein every copy is scaled about a different scaling factor. Thereby, the respective position can be calculable by an algorithm, which considers a gap between the scaled images in the overview image, a gap of the scaled image towards one or more borders of the overview image and/or other predefined conditions. The pattern finder is configured to perform a feature transformation and classification of the overview image in order to output a position at which an accordance of the searched pattern and the predetermined pattern is maximal. A post-processing unit for smoothening and correcting the position of local maxima in the classified overview image may also be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Daniel KRENZER, Albrecht HESS, András KÁTAI, Christian WIEDE, Andreas ERNST, Tobias RUF
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Patent number: 9459128Abstract: A device for dispensing or receiving a liquid volume includes a liquid reservoir having an outlet, a pressure generator which provides a compressible enclosed gas volume of a constant amount of substance with a pressure, wherein the gas volume is in direct or indirect fluidic contact with the liquid in the liquid reservoir, a dosing device coupled to the outlet of the liquid reservoir and operable in order to enable the liquid to pass the outlet, a pressure sensor arranged to measure a current pressure in the gas volume and to output an output signal indicating the current pressure in the gas volume and a controller coupled to the pressure generator, the dosing device and the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignees: Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fuer angewandte Forschung e.V., Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet FreiburgInventors: Peter Koltay, Andreas Ernst, Chris Steinert, Laurent Tanguy
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Publication number: 20160163064Abstract: An apparatus for providing object information based on an image sequence including a plurality of images is provided. The apparatus includes an object detector for conducting object detection on three or more images of the plurality of images of the image sequence to obtain the object information, wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is conducted, is an object-detected image of the image sequence, and wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is not conducted, is not an object-detected image of the image sequence. Moreover, the apparatus includes an object tracker for conducting object tracking on one or more images of the image sequence to obtain the object information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Tobias Ruf, Andreas Ernst, Jens-Uwe Garbas, Anton Papst
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Patent number: 9340286Abstract: An automated transport device for moving a cargo unit within an aircraft cargo compartment is provided. The transport device comprises a base body and shifting means, wherein the base body is to carry the cargo unit. The shifting means is to generate a movement of the base body along a floor of the cargo compartment perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft and, after that, along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft without rotation of the base body.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Uwe Panzram, Sascha Nowarre, Hans-Joachim Schoen, Claudio Uriarte, Patrick Dittmer, Thies Andreas Ernst-Friedrich Beinke
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Publication number: 20160097782Abstract: CSF diagnostic in vitro method for the diagnosis of dementias and neuroinflammatory diseases, in which a determination of the procalcitonin immunoreactivity (PCT immunoreactivity) is carried out in a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (C SF) of a patient who is suffering from a dementia or neuroinflammatory disease or is suspected of suffering from such a disease. Conclusions about the presence, the course, the severity or the success of a treatment of the dementia or neuroinflammatory disease are drawn from a measured PCT immunoreactivity which is above a threshold value typical for healthy individuals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: B.R.A.H.M.S GmbHInventors: Andreas BERGMANN, Andrea ERNST, Harald HAMPEL
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Patent number: 9188591Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of protachykinin and/or fragments thereof that can be isolated from body fluids, tissues or other biological samples and therefore, serves as a marker peptide for medical diagnosis of diseases/disorders of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression and/or conditions of pain, neurological, endocrinological, cerebral, muscular, local, systemic, chronic, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases comprising bacterial and viral infections, meningitis, sepsis, Crohn's disease, colitis ulcerosa, sickle cell anemia, ischemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, arthritis comprising rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, hyperalgesia, asthma, intoxication comprising bacterial intoxication, immunological disorders, poly/-trauma comprising cranio-cerebral trauma, tumors/cancer, stroke, stress, atopis dermatitis, HIV, Huntington's disease, burns, schizophrenia, Hirschsprung's disease, allergies, familial dysautononmia (Riley Day syndrome), heType: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SPHINGOTEC GMBHInventors: Andreas Bergmann, Andrea Ernst
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Publication number: 20150198494Abstract: A pressure sensor for measuring a fluid pressure of a fluid within a measurement chamber has the measurement chamber having a mechanical deformable wall, a shape of the measurement chamber varying depending on a pressure within the measurement chamber. The pressure sensor further has a measurement electrode, wherein the measurement chamber is arranged relative to the measurement electrode to be arranged within a region of an electrical field originating from the measurement electrode upon application of a potential to the measurement electrode, wherein an influence of a variation of the shape of the measurement chamber on the electrical field can be detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Peter Koltay, Andreas Ernst
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Publication number: 20150108276Abstract: An automated transport device for moving a cargo unit within an aircraft cargo compartment is provided. The transport device comprises a base body and shifting means, wherein the base body is to carry the cargo unit. The shifting means is to generate a movement of the base body along a floor of the cargo compartment perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft and, after that, along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft without rotation of the base body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Uwe PANZRAM, Sascha NOWARRE, Hans-Joachim SCHOEN, Claudio URIARTE, Patrick DITTMER, Thies Andreas Ernst-Friedrich BEINKE
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Publication number: 20150050719Abstract: A dispensing assembly comprising a cartridge holder is presented. The cartridge holder can receive a cartridge for dispensing a fluid. The cartridge can comprise a reservoir for receiving the fluid. The reservoir can comprise an outlet. The reservoir can have an adjustable volume for forcing the fluid through the outlet. The cartridge can further comprise a nozzle for dispensing the fluid. The nozzle can be connected to the outlet. The dispensing assembly can further comprise an actuator for actuating the adjustable volume. The dispensing assembly can further comprise an impulse generator for imparting an impulse to the nozzle. The impulse generator can comprise an actor for contacting the nozzle. The dispenser assembly can further comprise a controller for controlling the actor and the impulse generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Stefan Borja Bammesberger, Andreas Ernst, Peter Koltay, Nadine Losleben, Laurent Tanguy
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Patent number: 8916388Abstract: In vitro multiparameter method for the diagnosis and early diagnosis, for determination of the severity and for assessing the course and prognosis of neurodegenerative disorders, in which the concentrations of at least two different vasotropic peptides are determined in a biological fluid from a person suffering from subjective or objectively detectable cognitive impairments, the resulting person-specific measurements are combined computationally to give a person-specific complex reference value, and conclusions are drawn concerning the presence of a neurodegenerative disorder in the person on the basis of the person-specific complex reference value found.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Sphingotec GmbHInventors: Andreas Bergmann, Andrea Ernst, Harald Hampel
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Patent number: 8768046Abstract: Apparatus for determining model parameters, the apparatus comprising an object model transformer, a region comparator, and a model parameter determiner. The object model transformer is configured to receive an object model of a known object and to transform the object model based on a set of model parameters from a first frame of reference to a second frame of reference, and is further configured to determine as result of this transformation a transformed object model comprising at least one region that is associated to an object region of the object. The region comparator is configured to receive the transformed object model and an image depicting the object, to determine for a selected region of the transformed object model a region-related similarity measure. The model parameter determiner is configured to determine an updated set of model parameters on the basis of the region-related similarity measure and an optimization scheme.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Andreas Ernst, Tobias Ruf, Felix Lautenschlager, Anton Papst, Joem Thielecke, Christian Kueblbeck
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Patent number: 8637256Abstract: The invention relates to an immunodiagnostic method for determining the release of neurotensin into the circulation of mammals based on the selective determination of an immunoreactivity of the N-terminal portion of a mammal proneurotensin (PNT immunoreactivity) in a serum or plasma sample of a mammal; this immunoreactivity is not neurotensin or neuromedin immunoreactivity.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2006Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Sphingotec GmbHInventor: Andrea Ernst
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Publication number: 20130336583Abstract: Apparatus for determining model parameters, the apparatus comprising an object model transformer, a region comparator, and a model parameter determiner. The object model transformer is configured to receive an object model of a known object and to transform the object model based on a set of model parameters from a first frame of reference to a second frame of reference, and is further configured to determine as result of this transformation a transformed object model comprising at least one region that is associated to an object region of the object. The region comparator is configured to receive the transformed object model and an image depicting the object, to determine for a selected region of the transformed object model a region-related similarity measure. The model parameter determiner is configured to determine an updated set of model parameters on the basis of the region-related similarity measure and an optimization scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Andreas ERNST, Tobias RUF, Felix LAUTENSCHLAGER, Anton PAPST, Joern THIELECKE, Christian KUEBLBECK