Patents by Inventor Carsten Koch

Carsten Koch 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).

  • Publication number: 20110286897
    Abstract: Microtiter plate made of plastic, having a plurality of wells in a plate which has at least one break line that divides the plate into various segments. The break line includes a joint line which is formed by molding together various segments of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventors: Thomas Uschkureit, Christian Ziegmann, Hanna Rethwisch, Carsten Koch, Matthias Haak, Martin Seippel, Rainer Juergen Schulz
  • Patent number: 7362882
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a computed digital image of a scene, which can be illuminated with different luminous intensities at a first illumination angle by a first light source. An image sensor records a number of individual images of the scene under different lighting conditions, and these images are set against one another in a pixel-by-pixel manner in a data processing device in order to generate a resulting image. The invention is characterized in that at least one additional light source is provided by means of which the scene can be illuminated at an illumination angle that is different from the illumination angle of the first light source. The different lighting conditions when recording the individual images are obtained by various combinations of luminous intensities of the first and of the at least one other additional light source. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the inventive method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Eisenmann, Carsten Koch, Jason Jeong-Suk Yoon
  • Patent number: 7151259
    Abstract: A method for operating a spatial-resolution opto-electronic sensor device is provided. In order to produce a computed image of the surroundings, the sensor surface is activated as a sequence of n-tuples of pairs from activation intervals and assigned subsets of sensor elements in such a way that, within an n-tuple, n subsets of sensor elements are activated during n activation intervals under different lighting conditions for the surroundings caused by appropriate control of the lighting source, and fields recorded within an n-tuple are processed with one another in a data-processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Koch, Semih Akisoglu
  • Publication number: 20050236555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a computed digital image of a scene, which can be illuminated with different luminous intensities at a first illumination angle by a first light source. An image sensor records a number of individual images of the scene under different lighting conditions, and these images are set against one another in a pixel-by-pixel manner in a data processing device in order to generate a resulting image. The invention is characterized in that at least one additional light source is provided by means of which the scene can be illuminated at an illumination angle that is different from the illumination angle of the first light source. The different lighting conditions when recording the individual images are obtained by various combinations of luminous intensities of the first and of the at least one other additional light source. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the inventive method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Eisenmann, Carsten Koch, Jason Yoon
  • Publication number: 20050224713
    Abstract: A method for operating a spatial-resolution opto-electronic sensor device is provided. In order to produce a computed image of the surroundings, the sensor surface is activated as a sequence of n-tuples of pairs from activation intervals and assigned subsets of sensor elements in such a way that, within an n-tuple, n subsets of sensor elements are activated during n activation intervals under different lighting conditions for the surroundings caused by appropriate control of the lighting source, and fields recorded within an n-tuple are processed with one another in a data-processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Koch, Semih Akisoglu
  • Patent number: 6674079
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring the interior space of a motor vehicle by means of IR radiation include at least one stationary IR transmitter and at least one stationary IR receiver arranged in a central position in the vehicle interior space. The interior space is at least temporarily irradiated. The reflected IR radiation is received by an IR camera as IR receiver. For suppression of interfering effects two images of the same object are recorded at different illumination levels. The two images are subtracted from one another with respect to their gray scale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sivart Sauer, Carsten Koch, Su-Birm Park
  • Publication number: 20020113209
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring the interior space of a motor vehicle by means of IR radiation include at least one stationary IR transmitter and at least one stationary IR receiver arranged in a central position in the vehicle interior space. The interior space is at least temporarily irradiated. The reflected IR radiation is received by an IR camera as IR receiver. For suppression of interfering effects two images of the same object are recorded at different illumination levels. The two images are subtracted from one another with respect to their gray scale values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sivart Sauer, Carsten Koch, Su-Birm Park