Patents by Inventor Christian Winter
Christian Winter 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: 9145827Abstract: In an exhaust gas charger bleed valve with a valve disk by which the flow cross-section of a bypass duct, via which exhaust gas flow volume bypassing an impeller of the exhaust gas turbocharger is adjustable, the valve includes a valve disk with the exhaust gas turbocharger is adjustable, the valve includes a valve disk with a front end valve face which is formed so as to be asymmetric with respect to the valve disk attachment to a lever arm on which the valve disk is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: IHi CHARGING SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Bernhardt Lueddecke, Hermann Burmester, Jan Ehrhard, Dietmar Filsinger, Nobuguki Ikeya, Christian Winter, Achim-Hans Hinkelmann
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Patent number: 8874170Abstract: The present invention relates to a chip card comprising: an interface (112) to a master device (120), a single tasking processor (102) for receiving chip card commands from the master via the interface, first program instructions (106) for execution by the processor, the first program instructions implementing a chip card function, second program instructions (110) for execution by the processor, the second program instructions implementing an endless loop, third program instructions (108) for execution by the processor, the third program instructions being adapted to start execution of the second program instructions in response to a blocking signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Morpho Cards GmbHInventors: Fred Benkelberg, Christian Winter, Paolo Di Iorio
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Patent number: 8771172Abstract: In a sensor system and a corresponding method for image capture of an object, an imaging sensor is arranged in a recording area of an optical sensor, the recording area being defined for the object, in such a way as to be essentially stationary relative to said object. By means of an evaluation unit, relative movements between the imaging sensor and the object can be derived from the recorded image data of the optical sensor, and a three-dimensional object image can be reconstructed from the imaging data as a function of the relative movements. When determining the relative movements, it is in particular possible as well to detect relative movements caused by the object's own motion which can be taken into account when reconstructing the object image. As a result, a high image quality of the object image is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergInventors: Tobias Bergen, Christian Münzenmayer, Christian Winter, Thomas Wittenberg
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Patent number: 8768303Abstract: A telecommunications chip card (100) for enabling the login of a mobile telephone device (202) into a digital cellular mobile telecommunications network (200), the telecommunications chip card comprising: a chip card reader interface (102) adapted for allowing communications between the telecommunications chip card and the mobile telephone device, wherein the chip card reader interface is adapted for receiving physical parameter data (112, 118, 120, 224) via the chip card reader interface; a processor (104); a memory (106) for storing applications for execution by the processor; an application (108) stored in the memory comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor; and an application management program (110) stored in the memory comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor, wherein the applications management program enables or disables the application depending on at least the physical parameter data.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Morpho Cards GmbHInventor: Christian Winter
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Publication number: 20130305711Abstract: In an exhaust gas charger bleed valve with a valve disk by which the flow cross-section of a bypass duct, via which exhaust gas flow volume bypassing an impeller of the exhaust gas turbocharger is adjustable, the valve includes a valve disk with the exhaust gas turbocharger is adjustable, the valve includes a valve disk with a front end valve face which is formed so as to be asymmetric with respect to the valve disk attachment to a lever arm on which the valve disk is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicants: AUDI AG, IHI CHARGING SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Bernhardt Lueddecke, Hermann Burmester, Jan Ehrhard, Dietmar Filsinger, Nobuguki Ikeya, Christian Winter, Achim-Hans Hinkelmann
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Publication number: 20120309451Abstract: The present invention relates to a chip card comprising: an interface (112) to a master device (120), a single tasking processor (102) for receiving chip card commands from the master via the interface, first program instructions (106) for execution by the processor, the first program instructions implementing a chip card function, second program instructions (110) for execution by the processor, the second program instructions implementing an endless loop, third program instructions (108) for execution by the processor, the third program instructions being adapted to start execution of the second program instructions in response to a blocking signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: MORPHO CARDS GMBHInventors: Fred Benkelberg, Christian Winter, Paolo Di Iorio
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Publication number: 20120292547Abstract: In an actuating structure for a valve, in particular for a waste gate of an exhaust gas turbocharger, comprising a lever element and a valve closure element which is movably supported by the lever element and has a sealing surface for sealing a valve opening wherein the lever element and the valve element cooperate via respective contact areas, which are curved at least with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the valve, the curved contact areas are arranged concentrically with each other and have a common center of curvature which is arranged at least essentially at the level of the sealing surface of the valve closure element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Jaroslaw Kierat, Hermann Burmester, Christian Winter
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Publication number: 20120154562Abstract: In a device and a corresponding method for joining a plurality of individual digital images to form a total image, a plurality of features is determined in a first individual image by means of a selection unit using a feature-based algorithm and then tracked in a second individual image by means of a tracking unit. A transformation matrix, with which the individual images are joined in an output unit to form the total image, is calculated from the determined feature correspondences in a transformation unit. The individual images can be joined in real time and with a high degree of accuracy by means of the feature-based algorithm in combination with a robust algorithm to calculate the transformation matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Christian Münzenmayer, Christian Winter, Thomas Wittenberg, Stephan Rupp, Steffen Ruthotto, Tobias Bergen, Dietrich Paulus
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Patent number: 8073822Abstract: A method is provided for the storage-efficient management of electronic messages, wherein a message that is to be managed is first received, the message is decomposed into a basic structure and file attachments contained in the message, a unique identification value is calculated for each file attachment, the file attachment is stored as a file with a respective identification value for which no file exists in the storage, or a reference counter of the file attachment for whose identification value a file already exists in the storage, is incremented, and the basic structure with references to the files in the storage, which references correspond to the file attachments originally contained in the message, is stored.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Open Text Software GmbHInventors: Jörg-Stefan Sell, Christian Winter, Franz Heiβ
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Publication number: 20110288373Abstract: In a sensor system and a corresponding method for image capture of an object, an imaging sensor is arranged in a recording area of an optical sensor, the recording area being defined for the object, in such a way as to be essentially stationary relative to said object. By means of an evaluation unit, relative movements between the imaging sensor and the object can be derived from the recorded image data of the optical sensor, and a three-dimensional object image can be reconstructed from the imaging data as a function of the relative movements. When determining the relative movements, it is in particular possible as well to detect relative movements caused by the object's own motion which can be taken into account when reconstructing the object image. As a result, a high image quality of the object image is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Tobias Bergen, Christian Munzenmayer, Christian Winter, Thomas Wittenberg
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Publication number: 20110281558Abstract: A telecommunications chip card (100) for enabling the login of a mobile telephone device (202) into a digital cellular mobile telecommunications network (200), the telecommunications chip card comprising: a chip card reader interface (102) adapted for allowing communications between the telecommunications chip card and the mobile telephone device, wherein the chip card reader interface is adapted for receiving physical parameter data (112, 118, 120, 224) via the chip card reader interface; a processor (104); a memory (106) for storing applications for execution by the processor; an application (108) stored in the memory comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor; and an application management program (110) stored in the memory comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor, wherein the applications management program enables or disables the application depending on at least the physical parameter data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: SAGEM ORGA GMBHInventor: Christian Winter
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Publication number: 20110217918Abstract: A multiband heterodyne receiver, and method, having a source of a received signal, a local oscillator that outputs a local oscillator signal, and a mixer that combines the received signal and the local oscillator signal to generate a combined signal. The local oscillator signal can be adjusted in accordance with a detected jamming signal. A DC filter receives the combined signal and attenuates a DC component of the combined signal so as to output a DC filtered signal, and an analog-to-digital converter receives the DC filtered signal and converts the DC filtered signal to a digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: NXP B.V.Inventors: Andreas RECHBERGER, Christian WINTER, Reinhold SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20110001926Abstract: A device for a therapeutic treatment of the eye by means of a laser is provided, which allows a real-time monitoring of the treatment. In particular, the laser light is supplied to the treatment region via a fibre. The monitoring of the treatment happens by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT). To this end the OCT measurement beam and the treatment laser light are coupled in a probe that is put onto the eye and allows to focus the OCT measurement beam on the tissue region inside of the eye that is treated at that moment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicants: DIETER MANN GMBH, HEIDELBERG ENGINEERING GMBHInventors: Dieter Mann, Hans Hoerauf, Christian Winter, Ralf Engelhardt
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Publication number: 20100280781Abstract: A color value for an optical fiber of a fiberscope can be generated on the basis of the intensity values of a plurality of sensor elements of a sensor element arrangement that are sensitive to one spectral region each from a set of sensor spectral regions, if calibration values are provided for each of the spectral regions associated with the optical fiber. The intensity values of all sensor elements of the respective spectral region that are illuminated by the light guide can be combined with the provided calibration values, in order to obtain the color value associated with the optical fiber, which correctly reproduces the color of the light transported by the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewang e.V., Friedrich-Alexander UniversitaetInventors: Christian Winter, Thorsten Zerfass
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Patent number: 7801405Abstract: An image free from interfering structures may be generated by means of a fiber bundle of several optical fibers, when for the system of fiber bundle and sensor imaging parameters are provided, which describe the geometrical characteristics of the intensity course generated by each individual optical fiber on the sensor. In image reconstruction, for each individual optical fiber an amplitude value and/or luminosity information may be generated by fitting a function of the amplitude value and the imaging parameters of the respective optical fiber to an intensity picture of the sensor, so that an optimum amplitude and/or luminosity value may be generated considering the geometrical imaging characteristics for each individual optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Volker Daum, Klaus Spinnler, Robert Couronné, Matthias Elter, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter
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Publication number: 20090092363Abstract: An image free from interfering structures may be generated by means of a fiber bundle of several optical fibers, when for the system of fiber bundle and sensor imaging parameters are provided, which describe the geometrical characteristics of the intensity course generated by each individual optical fiber on the sensor. In image reconstruction, for each individual optical fiber an amplitude value and/or luminosity information may be generated by fitting a function of the amplitude value and the imaging parameters of the respective optical fiber to an intensity picture of the sensor, so that an optimum amplitude and/or luminosity value may be generated considering the geometrical imaging characteristics for each individual optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Volker Daum, Klaus Spinnler, Robert Couronne, Matthias Elter, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter
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Publication number: 20050283461Abstract: A method is provided for the storage-efficient management of electronic messages, wherein a message that is to be managed is first received, the message is decomposed into a basic structure and file attachments contained in the message, a unique identification value is calculated for each file attachment, the file attachment is stored as a file with a respective identification value for which no file exists in the storage, or a reference counter of the file attachment for whose identification value a file already exists in the storage, is incremented, and the basic structure with references to the files in the storage, which references correspond to the file attachments originally contained in the message, is stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Jorg-Stefan Sell, Christian Winter, Franz Heiss