Patents by Inventor Bernhard Froeba

Bernhard Froeba 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: 8320682
    Abstract: A physically demarcated body part is recognized and located using only a relatively small amount of computation, but with a sufficient degree of recognition accuracy. For this purpose a procedure is proposed for detecting physically demarcated body parts (face, hand, leg) of a person's image (5) if a body part (2) as depicted in front of a background (3). Borderlines (5d, 5e) in the image are only evaluated along line directions (5a?, 4a?, 4b?, 5c?) to determine, by comparing with model (30), whether the body part image corresponds to a type of body part given by the model. In addition, line directions (5d?, 5e?) inside a body part image and borderline directions (5a) of a physically demarcated body part are used to locate and store its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernhard Froeba, Christian Kueblbeck
  • Publication number: 20060216013
    Abstract: A method for altering the recording setting of an image recorder for the recording of an object is disclosed. A setting influencing at least the recording of the object, such as aperture, illumination time or focussing (30,40,50), is controlled using at least one object section (1a; 1b) in the object image (60). The object section is selected by means of a previously determined/fixed object type (9). The determined type is localized in the object image (1) by means of an image analysis (10) to give localisation information (PD). The object section (20) is determined from the localisation information to influence the setting of the image recorder from the at least one fixed object section (1a,1b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Christian Kueblbeck, Bernhard Froeba
  • Patent number: 7081581
    Abstract: In a method for characterizing a signal, which represents an audio content, a measure for a tonality of the signal is determined, whereupon a statement is made about the audio content of the signal based on the measure for the tonality of the signal. The measure for the tonality of the signal for the content analysis is robust against a signal distortion, such as by MP3 encoding, and has a high correlation to the content of the examined signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: m2any GmbH
    Inventors: Eric Allamanche, Juergen Herre, Oliver Hellmuth, Bernhard Froeba
  • Publication number: 20050036688
    Abstract: This invention concerns recognizing and locating a physically demarcated body part by using only a relatively small amount of computation, but still produces a sufficient degree of recognition accuracy. For this purpose a procedure is proposed for detecting physically demarcated body parts (face, hand, leg) of a person's image (5) if a body part (2) is depicted in front of a background (3). Borderlines (5d, 5e) in the image are only evaluated along line directions (5a?, 4a?, 4b?, 5c?) to determine, by comparing with model (30), whether the body part image corresponds to a type of body part given by the model. In addition, line directions (5d?, 5e?) inside a body part image and borderline directions (5a) of a physically demarcated body part are used to locate and store its position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2001
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Bernhard Froeba, Christian Kueblbeck
  • Publication number: 20040074378
    Abstract: In a method for characterizing a signal, which represents an audio content, a measure for a tonality of the signal is determined (12), whereupon a statement is made (16) about the audio content of the signal based on the measure for the tonality of the signal. The measure for the tonality of the signal for the content analysis is robust against a signal distortion, such as by MP3 encoding, and has a high correlation to the content of the examined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Eric Allamanche, Juergen Herre, Oliver Hellmuth, Bernhard Froeba