Patents by Inventor Detlef Winter

Detlef 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).

  • Patent number: 7532332
    Abstract: A projector for an arrangement for three-dimensional optical measurement of objects (6) with the aid of a topometric measuring method in which images of projection patterns (2) projected onto an object (6) are acquired and evaluated, the projector having an illumination unit (4) and a carrier (1), provided with projection patterns (2), for projecting the light structures. The object is achieved by virtue of the fact that projection patterns (2) are arranged on the carrier (1) in the form of repeating geometrical individual structures, and the carrier (1) with the projection patterns (2) is movably arranged in such a way that during the movement and illumination selected regions of the projection pattern (2) are displaced into the beam path (7) between the illumination unit (4) and object (6), and a stripe-shaped pattern is imaged on the object (6) by means of the movement unsharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: GOM Gesellschaft fur Optische Messtechnik mbH
    Inventors: Mladen Gomercic, Detlef Winter
  • Patent number: 7489820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a pattern on a surface for measuring, using a projector and a slide. The invention also relates to various advantageous embodiments of the measuring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Muller, Detlef Winter, Detlef Sonnenschein, Rudolf Stockmeyer, Gustav Peuker
  • Publication number: 20070165245
    Abstract: The device 1 is described for three-dimensional optical measurement of objects 2 using a topometric measurement method, in which images of projection patterns which have been projected onto an object 2 are recorded and evaluated. The device 1 has a projector 3 with a light source, an image recording unit 5 and an image evaluation unit 6. The light source for the projector 3 is an arc lamp 4, and the image recording unit 5 is designed for synchronization of image recording with the light intensity of the arc lamp 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Mladen Gomercic, Detlef Winter, Sebastian Reiss
  • Publication number: 20060244977
    Abstract: A projector for an arrangement for three-dimensional optical measurement of objects (6) with the aid of a topometric measuring method in which images of projection patterns (2) projected onto an object (6) are acquired and evaluated, the projector having an illumination unit (4) and a carrier (1), provided with projection patterns (2), for projecting the light structures. The object is achieved by virtue of the fact that projection patterns (2) are arranged on the carrier (1) in the form of repeating geometrical individual structures, and the carrier (1) with the projection patterns (2) is movably arranged in such a way that during the movement and illumination selected regions of the projection pattern (2) are displaced into the beam path (7) between the illumination unit (4) and object (6), and a stripe-shaped pattern is imaged on the object (6) by means of the movement unsharpness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Mladen Gomercic, Detlef Winter
  • Publication number: 20050089210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flatness measurement and control system for metal strip, which makes it possible to obtain improved strip or coil quality by a simple and effective measurement of departures from flatness and to control the finishing parameters through the evaluation of a line pattern on the strip surface or on the end face of a coil as it is coiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Ulrich Muller, Gustav Peuker, Detlef Sonnenschein, Detlef Winter, Michael Degner, Gerd Thiemann
  • Patent number: 6286349
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flatness measurement and control system for metal strip, which makes it possible to obtain improved strip or coil quality by a simple and effective measurement of departures from flatness and to control the finishing parameters through the evaluation of a line pattern on the strip surface or on the end face of a coil as it is coiled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignees: Betriebsforschungsinstitut VDEh-Institut fur angewandte Forschung GmbH, Gesellschaft fur Optische Messtechnik GmbH, Krupp-Hoesch-Stahl AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Müller, Gustav Peuker, Detlef Sonnenschein, Detlef Winter, Michael Degner, Gerd Thiemann
  • Publication number: 20010012388
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flatness measurement and control system for metal strip, which makes it possible to obtain improved strip or coil quality by a simple and effective measurement of departures from flatness and to control the finishing parameters through the evaluation of a line pattern on the strip surface or on the end face of a coil as it is coiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Applicant: BETRIEBSFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT VDEH-INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE FORSCHUNG GMBH
    Inventors: ULRICH MULLER, GUSTAV PEUKER, DETLEF SONNENSCHEIN, DETLEF WINTER, MICHAEL DEGNER, GERD THIEMANN