Patents by Inventor Andreas Holzer

Andreas Holzer 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: 9462404
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jürgen Herre, Johannes Hilpert, Stefan Geyersberger, Andreas Hölzer, Claus Spenger
  • Patent number: 9179771
    Abstract: A coupling device for removably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide includes an adjusting device, by which a position of a drawer that is connected to the rail can be adjusted relative to the rail in the lateral direction and/or in the longitudinal direction (L) of the pull-out guide. The coupling device has a fixing part to be fixed to the drawer, and a coupling part to be coupled to the rail. The fixing part can be moved relative to the coupling part by the adjusting device in a linear manner. The adjusting device has an adjusting wheel rotatably mounted on the coupling part or on the fixing part. An actuating region is provided on the adjusting wheel in order to rotate the adjusting wheel, and the adjusting device includes a transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Haemmerle, Andreas Holzer
  • Patent number: 9125490
    Abstract: A device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide including an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction. The adjusting device includes a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part, and the adjustment device includes a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis. The adjustment device also includes at least two axially spaced transmission devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Haemmerle, Andreas Holzer
  • Patent number: 8919711
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pullout guide, comprising an adjusting apparatus by means of which a position of a drawer connected to the rail can be adjusted in the lateral direction relative to the rail, wherein the device has a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail, wherein the coupling part can be detachably coupled to the rail, and wherein the position of the fastening part and the coupling part relative to each other can be adjusted by the adjusting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Holzer, Kurt Haemmerle
  • Publication number: 20130334946
    Abstract: Locking and ejecting a movable furniture part involves two unlockable ejection devices arranged on both sides of a furniture body, or on the movable furniture part, and spring-loaded ejectors the unlockable ejection devices comprise a catch element mounted on a linearly displaceable carriage, the catch element engaging into a slotted guide path having the shape of a heart curve and by which the movable furniture part can be held in a closed latching position (E) via a locking element. This latching position (E) can be released by overpressing the movable furniture part towards the interior, wherein the linearly displaceable carriages of the two unlockable ejector devices are motionally coupled via a rotatable synchronization rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Emanuel NETZER, Andreas HOLZER
  • Publication number: 20130293078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide, having an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction, wherein the device comprises a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part and the adjustment device comprises a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis, wherein the adjustment device comprises at least two axially spaced devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kurt HAEMMERLE, Andreas HOLZER
  • Publication number: 20130293077
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (5) for removably coupling a drawer (2) to an extendable rail (3a) of a pull-out guide (3), comprising an adjusting device, by means of which a position of a drawer (2) that is connected to the rail (3a) can be adjusted relative to the rail (3a) in the lateral direction and/or in the longitudinal direction (L) of the pull-out guide. The device (5) has a fixing part (9) that can be fixed to the drawer (2) and a coupling part (12) that can be coupled to the rail (3a), and the fixing part (9) can be moved relative to the coupling part (12) by means of the adjusting device in a linear manner. The adjusting device has an adjusting wheel (8,38) that is rotatably mounted on the coupling part (9) or on the fixing part (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kurt HAEMMERLE, Andreas HOLZER
  • Patent number: 8534781
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for locking and ejecting a movable furniture part, comprising two unlockable ejection devices arranged on both sides of a furniture body or on the movable furniture part, and spring-loaded ejectors, wherein the unlockable ejection devices comprise a catch element mounted on a linearly displaceable carriage, the catch element engaging into a slotted guide path having the shape of a heart curve and by which the movable furniture part can be held in a closed latching position (E) via a locking element. According to the invention, this latching position (E) can be released by overpressing the movable furniture part towards the interior, wherein the linearly displaceable carriages of the two unlockable ejector devices are motionally coupled via a rotatable synchronization rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Emanuel Netzer, Andreas Holzer
  • Publication number: 20130016843
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG e.V.
    Inventors: JÜRGEN HERRE, JOHANNES HILPERT, STEFAN GEYERSBERGER, ANDREAS HÖLZER, CLAUS SPENGER
  • Publication number: 20120292465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pullout guide, comprising an adjusting apparatus by means of which a position of a drawer connected to the rail can be adjusted in the lateral direction relative to the rail, wherein the device (5) has a fastening part (13) that can be fastened to the drawer (2) and a coupling part (12) that can be coupled to the rail (3a), wherein the coupling part (12) can be detachably coupled to the rail, and wherein the position of the fastening part (13) and the coupling part (12) relative to each other can be adjusted by the adjusting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas HOLZER, Kurt HAEMMERLE
  • Patent number: 8270618
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel of the original channels, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Juergen Herre, Johannes Hilpert, Stefan Geyersberger, Andreas Hölzer, Claus Spenger
  • Publication number: 20120038255
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for locking and ejecting a movable furniture part, comprising two unlockable ejection devices arranged on both sides of a furniture body or on the movable furniture part, and spring-loaded ejectors, wherein the unlockable ejection devices comprise a catch element mounted on a linearly displaceable carriage, the catch element engaging into a slotted guide path having the shape of a heart curve and by which the movable furniture part can be held in a closed latching position (E) via a locking element. According to the invention, this latching position (E) can be released by overpressing the movable furniture part towards the interior, wherein the linearly displaceable carriages of the two unlockable ejector devices are motionally coupled via a rotatable synchronization rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Emanuel NETZER, Andreas HOLZER
  • Patent number: 7961890
    Abstract: A parametric representation of a multi-channel audio signal describes the spatial properties of the audio signal well with compact side information when a coherence information, describing the coherence between a first and a second channel, is derived within a hierarchical encoding process only for channel pairs including a first channel having only information of a left side with respect to a listening position and including a second channel having only information from a right side with respect to a listening position. As within the hierarchical process the multiple audio channels of the audio signal are downmixed iteratively into monophonic channels, one can pick the relevant parameters from an encoding step involving only channel pairs carrying the information needed to describe the spatial properties of the multi-channel audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung, e.V., Coding Technologies AB, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Hölzer, Jürgen Herre, Heiko Purnhagen, Kristofer Kjörling, Jonas Röden, Lars Villemoes, Jonas Engdegard, Jeroen Breebaart, Erik Schuijers, Werner Oomen
  • Publication number: 20090003612
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel of the original channels, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Juergen Herre, Johannes Hilpert, Stefan Geyersberger, Andreas Holzer, Claus Spenger
  • Patent number: 7447317
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel of the original channels, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V
    Inventors: Jürgen Herre, Johannes Hilpert, Stefan Geyersberger, Andreas Hölzer, Claus Spenger
  • Patent number: 7326350
    Abstract: A system for the separation of magnetically attractable microparticles which are suspended in a liquid, which includes a magnet arrangement having at least two magnets in ring form, the magnet axis of which is oriented perpendicular to the ring plane, and the magnets are arranged above one another in the same direction or in opposite directions, and the ring inner spaces form a space for receiving a vessel. The invention also relates to methods for the separation of microparticles and to a system for the separation and suspension of microparticles in vessels including a magnet arrangement as described above and a vessel holder and a movement device for moving a vessel in the vessel holder in order to obtain a suspension of separated microparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Corporation
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Mueller, Andreas Holzer
  • Publication number: 20060233380
    Abstract: A parametric representation of a multi-channel audio signal describes the spatial properties of the audio signal well with compact side information when a coherence information, describing the coherence between a first and a second channel, is derived within a hierarchical encoding process only for channel pairs including a first channel having only information of a left side with respect to a listening position and including a second channel having only information from a right side with respect to a listening position. As within the hierarchical process the multiple audio channels of the audio signal are downmixed iteratively into monophonic channels, one can pick the relevant parameters from an encoding step involving only channel pairs carrying the information needed to describe the spatial properties of the multi-channel audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Andreas Holzer, Jurgen Herre, Heiko Purnhagen, Kristofer Kjorling, Jonas Roden, Lars Villemoes, Jonas Engdegard, Jeroen Breebaart, Erik Schuijers, Werner Oomen
  • Publication number: 20050074127
    Abstract: In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel of the original channels, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Jurgen Herre, Johannes Hilpert, Stefan Geyersberger, Andreas Holzer, Claus Spenger
  • Patent number: D625941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Holzer
  • Patent number: D638237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Holzer