Patents by Inventor Andreas KÜHM
Andreas KÜHM 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: 11454790Abstract: A microscope system having a plurality of microscope modules connected to one another for data transfer purposes. The microscope system includes a central clock generator, the clock signal of which is provided to all microscope modules. The microscope modules are configured to use the clock signal or a clock derived therefrom as an internal clock. Moreover, a corresponding method for operating such a microscope system is described.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Mirko Liedtke, Andreas Kühm, Burkhard Roscher, Nico Presser, Christian Kämmer
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Patent number: 11381774Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope with at least one microscope sensor. Each microscope sensor has a measurement device for recording sample signals; an analog-to-digital converter for converting recorded sample signals to digital data; a data compression device which produces a compressed data stream from the digital data; and a data output interface, which outputs the compressed data stream and a raw data stream that comprises digital data that were not compressed. The microscope system additionally includes a user computer to which the compressed data stream is transmitted and also a data memory to which the raw data stream is transmitted. The user computer calculates real-time images from the compressed data stream and reads and processes the raw data stream from the data memory for subsequent data analysis. In addition, a method for operating such a microscope system is described.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Andreas Kühm, Nico Presser
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Patent number: 11314070Abstract: A method for timing procedures in a microscope system, which has a plurality of microscope modules configured to carry out various processes, provision is made for a clock signal to be provided to all microscope modules by a central clock generator and for the clock signal to be modulated by a clock modulation circuit in order to produce a defined clock-pulse number. The microscope modules define a start time for carrying out a process by way of the clock-pulse number, carrying out the process as soon as the clock-pulse number is reached. Moreover, a corresponding microscope system is described.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Mirko Liedtke, Andreas Kühm, Nico Presser, Burkhard Roscher, Christian Kämmer
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Publication number: 20200201010Abstract: A microscope system having a plurality of microscope modules connected to one another for data transfer purposes. The microscope system includes a central clock generator, the clock signal of which is provided to all microscope modules. The microscope modules are configured to use the clock signal or a clock derived therefrom as an internal clock. Moreover, a corresponding method for operating such a microscope system is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Mirko LIEDTKE, Andreas KÜHM, Burkhard ROSCHER, Nico PRESSER
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Publication number: 20200162696Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope with at least one microscope sensor. Each microscope sensor has a measurement device for recording sample signals; an analog-to-digital converter for converting recorded sample signals to digital data; a data compression device which produces a compressed data stream from the digital data; and a data output interface, which outputs the compressed data stream and a raw data stream that comprises digital data that were not compressed. The microscope system additionally includes a user computer to which the compressed data stream is transmitted and also a data memory to which the raw data stream is transmitted. The user computer calculates real-time images from the compressed data stream and reads and processes the raw data stream from the data memory for subsequent data analysis. In addition, a method for operating such a microscope system is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBHInventors: Andreas KÜHM, Nico PRESSER
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Publication number: 20200073102Abstract: A method for timing procedures in a microscope system, which has a plurality of microscope modules configured to carry out various processes, provision is made for a clock signal to be provided to all microscope modules by a central clock generator and for the clock signal to be modulated by a clock modulation circuit in order to produce a defined clock-pulse number. The microscope modules define a start time for carrying out a process by way of the clock-pulse number, carrying out the process as soon as the clock-pulse number is reached. Moreover, a corresponding microscope system is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Mirko LIEDTKE, Andreas KÜHM, Nico PRESSER, Burkhard ROSCHER
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Patent number: 10579576Abstract: Forwarding devices and corresponding methods are provided in which a plurality of input data streams are distributed among a plurality of output data streams on the basis of synchronization marking. One example method of forwarding data includes receiving a plurality of input data streams, where at least some of the input data streams include synchronization markers indicating which data of the input data streams are to be output synchronously, in one or more common time segments. Further included in the method is distributing the data to be output synchronously among a plurality of output data streams on the basis of the synchronization markers. The distributing is carried out in such a way that data which, according to the synchronization markers, are to be transmitted in a common time segment are provided in the same time segment in all the output data streams to which the data are to be assigned.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Andreas Kuehm, Nico Presser, Hardy Thomas Koebe, Joerg Engel
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Publication number: 20190347235Abstract: Forwarding devices and corresponding methods are provided in which a plurality of input data streams (30A-30D) are distributed among a plurality of output data streams (313A-313D) on the basis of synchronization marking.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Andreas Kuehm, Nico Presser, Hardy Thomas Koebe, Joerg Engel
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Patent number: 8943228Abstract: A peripheral interface for use with a control computer and a peripheral device. The peripheral interface has a controller receiving an input data stream from the control computer and delivering an output data stream to the peripheral device, the controller obtaining an instruction from the input data stream for a modification of the output data stream. Prior art devices transfer data streams for peripheral devices blockwise by means of DMA using peripheral interfaces. In conventional peripheral interfaces, a burdensome real-time operating system must be used on the control computer in order have a sufficiently short reaction time to bring about a continuous, uninterrupted data stream. The invention achieves the object using a non-real-time operating system.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Andreas Kuehm, Nico Presser, Joerg Engel
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Patent number: 8214561Abstract: A peripheral interface and process for data transfer, especially for laser scanning microscopes. The peripheral interface permits a gap-free transfer of data with high transmission speed using a non-real-time-enabled operating system of the control computer. A peripheral connection for a peripheral device and a control unit serving for one-way transmission of a predetermined amount of data from the control computer to the peripheral device and/or vice versa accesses via a system bus of a control computer, a work memory region of the control computer serves as buffers preassigned to it, where the control unit prepares for the control computer a progress report of the transfer for retrieval and the control unit of the control computer is informed of the progress of the processing of the buffer independently of the transfer.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Andreas Kuehm, Nico Presser, Gunter Moehler
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Publication number: 20110179193Abstract: A peripheral interface for use with a control computer and a peripheral device. The peripheral interface has a controller receiving an input data stream from the control computer and delivering an output data stream to the peripheral device, the controller obtaining an instruction from the input data stream for a modification of the output data stream. Prior art devices transfer data streams for peripheral devices blockwise by means of DMA using peripheral interfaces. In conventional peripheral interfaces, a burdensome real-time operating system must be used on the control computer in order have a sufficiently short reaction time to bring about a continuous, uninterrupted data stream. The invention achieves the object using a non-real-time operating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Andreas KUEHM, Nico Presser, Joerg Engel
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Publication number: 20090228618Abstract: A peripheral interface and process for data transfer, especially for laser scanning microscopes. The peripheral interface permits a gap-free transfer of data with high transmission speed at low cost and using a non-real-time-enabled operating system of the control computer. In a peripheral interface having a connection for a system bus of a control computer, a peripheral connection for a peripheral device and a control unit serving for one-way transmission of a predetermined amount of data from the control computer to the peripheral device and/or vice versa accesses via the system bus, a work memory region of the control computer serves as buffers preassigned to it, where the control unit prepares for the control computer a progress report of the transfer for retrieval and the control unit of the control computer is informed of the progress of the processing of the buffer independently of the transfer, in which case it allows for the progress of the processing when accessing the buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Andreas Kuehm, Nico Presser, Gunter Moehler