Patents by Inventor Burkhard Schoelpen

Burkhard Schoelpen 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: 9007665
    Abstract: Documents in a large-format scanning system are scanned by coarsely recognizing longitudinal or transverse transition regions between a reflector roller and a document by the substeps of dividing the scanning image transversely into uniform image strips, determining statistical parameters for each image strip, examining the scanning image in the image strips with fixed threshold values for deviations such that, if a value of one the statistical parameters of an image strip exceeds the threshold value, this region is recognized as being a transverse transition region between the reflector roller and the document, and examining the image strips to determine the longitudinal transition region by line-by-line generation of an average value and determining sufficiently strong and steep edges, the image strips being rotated incrementally from the transverse of the document to an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Roth + Weber GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Kaempflein, Burkhard Schoelpen
  • Patent number: 8824023
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning method for a large-size scanner system (1) comprising at least two image detection elements (2) that are used for scanning a large-size original (4) to be scanned and are arranged in a cascaded manner so as to have at least one overlapping area (13, 14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Roth + Weber GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Kaempflein, Burkhard Schoelpen
  • Publication number: 20140036323
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning method for a large-size scanner system (1) comprising at least two image detection elements (2) that are used for scanning a large-size original (4) to be scanned and are arranged in a cascaded manner so as to have at least one overlapping area (13, 14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Simon Kaempflein, Burkhard Schoelpen