Patents by Inventor Andreas HEIMRATH

Andreas HEIMRATH 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: 11954920
    Abstract: A system for controlling visual protection for a display unit includes a camera which is configured to generate a video signal; a video signal processing unit which is configured, based on the video signal of the camera, to determine a particular position of each of one or more persons relative to the display unit and to determine a particular viewing direction of one of the one or more persons; a database which is configured to generate a prediction for a behaviour of each of the one or more persons based on the particular position and viewing direction of each of the one or more persons detected by the video signal processing unit, wherein the prediction includes one or more predicted viewing directions of the particular person; and a display control unit which is configured to control the visual protection for the display unit based on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Heimrath
  • Publication number: 20230303053
    Abstract: A control device for operating an on-board power supply system of a motor vehicle includes an input unit which is configured to determine operating parameters of the on-board power supply system of the motor vehicle and/or one or more environment parameters of the motor vehicle and to forward them to a processing unit of the control device. At least one environment parameter is a probability of an operating action of a third-party vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: Andreas HEIMRATH
  • Publication number: 20230289566
    Abstract: A system for processing at least a first information signal and a second information signal includes a shared unit and at least two separate units of a neural network. A signal input receives the first information signal and the second information signal. The shared unit performs a respective first signal processing step of the first information signal and the second information signal. The least two separate units of the neural network are arranged in the signal flow downstream of the shared unit. The first unit of the at least two separate units performs a second signal processing step of the first information signal, and the second unit of the at least two separate units performs a second signal processing step of the second information signal, in order to generate processed information signals. A signal output provides the processed information signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Andreas Heimrath
  • Publication number: 20230090528
    Abstract: A device monitors an on-board power supply system having different on-board system components and operated by way of a machine-learned power management system. The device includes a reference unit which is designed, for a state of the on-board power supply system and for an action effected on the basis of the state of the power management system, to determine a reference reward which would be produced during operation of a reference on-board system. Furthermore, the device includes a reward unit which is designed, for the state and for the action, to determine an actual reward which is produced during operation of the on-board power supply system. The device further includes a monitoring unit, which is designed to monitor the on-board power supply system on the basis of the actual reward and on the basis of the reference reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Joachim FROESCHL, Andreas HEIMRATH
  • Publication number: 20220391700
    Abstract: A method and device for training an energy management system in an on-board energy supply system simulation, includes: simulating a driving cycle having defined recuperation; plotting state variables of the on-board energy supply system; calculating a recuperation power from a recu-peration current and a battery voltage; producing input vectors for a neural network; producing a reward function; and training the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Fabian GRAF, Andreas HEIMRATH
  • Publication number: 20210406565
    Abstract: A system for controlling visual protection for a display unit includes a camera which is configured to generate a video signal; a video signal processing unit which is configured, based on the video signal of the camera, to determine a particular position of each of one or more persons relative to the display unit and to determine a particular viewing direction of one of the one or more persons; a database which is configured to generate a prediction for a behaviour of each of the one or more persons based on the particular position and viewing direction of each of the one or more persons detected by the video signal processing unit, wherein the prediction includes one or more predicted viewing directions of the particular person; and a display control unit which is configured to control the visual protection for the display unit based on the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Andreas HEIMRATH