Patents by Inventor Christoph BIERWIPFL

Christoph BIERWIPFL 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: 20240181998
    Abstract: Motor vehicle headlight (1), comprising a lens ( ) a screen (3), a windscreen wiper (4) with a wiper blade (4a), which is arranged between the screen (3) and the lens (4a), a drive device (5), which is designed to move the wiper blade (4a) back and forth between a starting position and an end position, wherein an area (2b) of the lens (2) to be cleaned can be cleaned by moving the wiper blade (4a) from the starting position to the end position or from the end position to the starting position and by the contact of the wiper blade (4a) with the outside of the lens (2), wherein the wiper blade (4a) is located completely below an upper edge (3a) of the screen (3) in the starting position, and extends partially or completely over the upper edge (3a) of the screen (3) in the end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Rudolf LEONHARTSBERGER, Georg PITTERLE, Christian JACKL, Christoph BIERWIPFL, Roman POPP, Andreas KREUZER, Robert STAMMINGER
  • Publication number: 20230117346
    Abstract: The invention relates to system (1) for monitoring the environment of a motor vehicle (100), the system (1) comprising an image capture device (2) for sensing objects in the sensing region (E1), an illuminating device (3) for illuminating the sensing region (E1), and an environment sensing device (7) for sensing a part of the sensing region (E1) of the image capture device (2), wherein the system (1) is designed to classify, in terms of object type, an object situated in a sensing region of the at least one image capture device (2), when said object has been detected, and in each case to determine a confidence value, the so-called KO confidence value, “KO”, said KO indicating the probability that the object type of a detected object can be established, in particular correctly, by the image capture device (2), and wherein the system (1) is designed, when there is an object (OBJ) in the sensing region (E1), depending on the KO for the detected object (OBJ), or when the environment sensing device (7) detects the
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph BIERWIPFL, Thomas REITER, Stefan WEISSENSTEINER