Patents by Inventor Dirk Haentzschel
Dirk Haentzschel 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: 9727119Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling power states of a device. In one aspect, a circuit is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving, on a data pin of an SPI control interface, a command to enter a reduced power mode; determining that a select signal on a select pin of the SPI control interface has been released; in response to receiving the command to enter the reduced power mode and determining that the select signal has been released, causing the circuit to enter the reduced power mode; determining that the select signal on the select pin of the SPI control interface has been asserted; and in response to determining that the select signal on the select pin has been asserted, causing the circuit to exit the reduced power mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Falk Hofmann
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Publication number: 20160124488Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling power states of a device. In one aspect, a circuit is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving, on a data pin of an SPI control interface, a command to enter a reduced power mode; determining that a select signal on a select pin of the SPI control interface has been released; in response to receiving the command to enter the reduced power mode and determining that the select signal has been released, causing the circuit to enter the reduced power mode; determining that the select signal on the select pin of the SPI control interface has been asserted; and in response to determining that the select signal on the select pin has been asserted, causing the circuit to exit the reduced power mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Falk Hofmann
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Patent number: 9036754Abstract: A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock generator by counting, in which the system clock generator is deactivated in a sleep mode, in which an output clock signal of a sleep clock generator is blanked as a function of an output signal of a modulo divider in the sleep mode, and the system time is determined by counting, wherein an output frequency of the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator is a non-integer multiple of a symbol frequency, in which the modulo divider divides the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator by a division factor, and in which the division factor of the modulo divider is produced by changing between at least two integer divisor values.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Lutz Dathe
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Patent number: 8999358Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous insecticidal preparations in the form of an aqueous dispersion of finely divided polymer particles which comprise at least one insecticidal organic active ingredient with a solubility in water of not more than 5 g/l at 25° C. at 1013 mbar and which have a mean particle size, determined by dynamic light scattering, of not more than 300 nm, where the polymer particles which comprise the at least one insecticidal active ingredient of a cationic surface charge and where the aqueous dispersion of the active-ingredient-comprising polymer particles is obtainable by subjecting a monomer composition of ethylenically unsaturated monomers M, in which the ethylenically unsaturated monomers M comprise the at least one insecticidal active ingredient in dissolved form, to radical aqueous emulsion polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Patrick Amrhein, Gunnar Kleist, Dirk Haentzschel, Joerg Habicht, Holger Schöpke
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Publication number: 20130124587Abstract: A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock generator by counting, in which the system clock generator is deactivated in a sleep mode, in which an output clock signal of a sleep clock generator is blanked as a function of an output signal of a modulo divider in the sleep mode, and the system time is determined by counting, wherein an output frequency of the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator is a non-integer multiple of a symbol frequency, in which the modulo divider divides the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator by a division factor, and in which the division factor of the modulo divider is produced by changing between at least two integer divisor values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Lutz Dathe
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Patent number: 8380137Abstract: Circuit, process, and use of a memory for transmitting and/or receiving in a radio network, with a memory, which has a first interface for reading and writing and a second interface for reading and writing, with an arithmetic logic unit, which is connected to the first interface for reading and writing, with a control unit, which is connected to the second interface for reading and writing, and with a transmit/receive unit, which is connected to the control unit for writing received data via the second interface of the memory and for reading transmit data via the second interface of the memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch
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Patent number: 8340236Abstract: A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock generator by counting, in which the system clock generator is deactivated in a sleep mode, in which an output clock signal of a sleep clock generator is blanked as a function of an output signal of a modulo divider in the sleep mode, and the system time is determined by counting, wherein an output frequency of the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator is a non-integer multiple of a symbol frequency, in which the modulo divider divides the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator by a division factor, and in which the division factor of the modulo divider is produced by changing between at least two integer divisor values.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Lutz Dathe
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Patent number: 7796707Abstract: A device is disclosed for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal into a digital baseband signal having: a) an analog filter unit to filter the complex-valued bandpass signal to produce only the real component from the filtered signal, and to provide a real-valued bandpass signal, b) one analog-to-digital converter that is connected to the analog filter unit and that is designed to convert the real-valued bandpass signal into a digital signal with sampled values with a width of one bit, c) a digital filter unit embodied as a lookup table, to provide a complex-valued filtered signal such that signal components outside of the useful band are suppressed, d) a sampling rate reduction unit to reduce the sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal and provide a reduced-rate signal, and e) a mixer unit to convert the reduced-rate signal into the digital baseband signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Atmel Automotive GmbHInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch, Michael Schmidt
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Publication number: 20100091923Abstract: A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock generator by counting, in which the system clock generator is deactivated in a sleep mode, in which an output clock signal of a sleep clock generator is blanked as a function of an output signal of a modulo divider in the sleep mode, and the system time is determined by counting, wherein an output frequency of the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator is a non-integer multiple of a symbol frequency, in which the modulo divider divides the output clock signal of the sleep clock generator by a division factor, and in which the division factor of the modulo divider is produced by changing between at least two integer divisor values.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Dirk HAENTZSCHEL, Lutz DATHE
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Publication number: 20100062729Abstract: Circuit, process, and use of a memory for transmitting and/or receiving in a radio network, with a memory, which has a first interface for reading and writing and a second interface for reading and writing, with an arithmetic logic unit, which is connected to the first interface for reading and writing, with a control unit, which is connected to the second interface for reading and writing, and with a transmit/receive unit, which is connected to the control unit for writing received data via the second interface of the memory and for reading transmit data via the second interface of the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch
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Patent number: 7633996Abstract: A method for determining the occupancy of a transmission channel using a differentially demodulated signal generated at a transmitter-side with the use of PN sequences from a PN sequence set having a first group of first PN sequences and a second group of second PN sequences. The method provides a) at least two subsequences of an initial code sequence, which is assigned to one of the first PN sequences and can be derived from the sequence by logical operations, but is not identical to it, b) the calculation of at least two correlation results by correlating the differentially demodulated signal with each of the at least two subsequences, and c) the evaluation of the correlation results and generation of an output signal to indicate the occupancy of the transmission channel. Also a device for determining the occupancy of a transmission channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Atmel Automotive GmbHInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch, Eric Sachse
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Patent number: 7574184Abstract: A method for detecting occupation of an adjacent channel by a signal with the aid of a complex-valued bandpass signal having an information channel component and/or an adjacent channel component. In accordance with the invention, a) a real-valued bandpass signal is derived in that the complex-valued bandpass signal is filtered and the real component is produced from the filtered signal, b) the real-valued bandpass signal is transposed into a first baseband signal, c) the first baseband signal is filtered so that spectral components influenced by the information channel component are suppressed, and d) the first filtered signal is evaluated and a binary occupation signal is generated to indicate the occupation of the adjacent channel as a function of the evaluated first filtered signal. The invention further discloses a corresponding device for detecting occupation, as well as a transmitting/receiving device and an integrated circuit having such a device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Atmel Germany GmbHInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Eric Sachse, Michael Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090191894Abstract: A method for determining an unknown position of a transmitting/receiving unit of a number of transmitting/receiving units of a radio network, use of a signal quality, and radio network. In the method, a signal field strength and/or a transit time of a signal received through an antenna is measured. A signal quality of the signal received through the antenna is determined. The measured signal field strength and/or the transit time is weighted on the basis of the determined signal quality, wherein the unknown position of the transmitting/receiving unit among the transmitting/receiving units is calculated from multiple weighted signal field strengths and/or transit times and known positions of the transmitting/receiving units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Frank POEGEL, Dirk Haentzschel, Peter Dietzsch
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Publication number: 20080138371Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous insecticidal compositions embodied in the form of an aqueous polymer fine particle dispersion containing at least one type of organic insecticidal active substance whose water solubility is equal to or less than 5 g/l at 25° C./1013 mbar and a polymer particle average size, determined by dynamic light scattering, is equal to or less than 300 nm, wherein the polymer particles containing at least one insecticidal active substance exhibit a cationic surface charge and the aqueous dispersion of active substance containing polymer particles is obtained by radical aqueous emulsion polymerisation of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer composition M, in which said ethelenycally unsaturated monomer M contains at least one type of insecticidal active substance in a dissolved form. The use of the inventive aqueous insecticidal compositions for protecting lignocellulose-containing materials, in particular wood, against infest pest attacks is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Patrick Amrhein, Gunnar Kleist, Dirk Haentzschel, Joerg Habicht, Holger Schopke
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Patent number: 7245588Abstract: A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) receiver is provided that has a power normalization unit that receives an input signal having a signal power within a given power range. The power normalization unit outputs a signal that is derived from the input signal by applying one of at least two different power normalization functions to the input signal. The power normalization unit comprises a power determination unit for determining the signal power, and a function selection unit for determining one of at least two subranges of the power range. The determined subrange includes the signal power. The function selection unit is further arranged for selecting one of the power normalization functions dependent on the determined subrange. By subdividing the power range and applying power normalization functions dependent on the respective subrange, simplified circuitry may be used by avoiding the calculation of the reciprocal square root function.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Frank Poegel, Karsten Matt, Dirk Häntzschel
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Publication number: 20070071133Abstract: A device is disclosed for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal into a digital baseband signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: ATMEL Germany GmbHInventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch, Michael Schmidt
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Publication number: 20070047682Abstract: A method for detecting occupation of an adjacent channel by a signal with the aid of a complex-valued bandpass signal having an information channel component and/or an adjacent channel component. In accordance with the invention, a) a real-valued bandpass signal is derived in that the complex-valued bandpass signal is filtered and the real component is produced from the filtered signal, b) the real-valued bandpass signal is transposed into a first baseband signal, c) the first baseband signal is filtered so that spectral components influenced by the information channel component are suppressed, and d) the first filtered signal is evaluated and a binary occupation signal is generated to indicate the occupation of the adjacent channel as a function of the evaluated first filtered signal. The invention further discloses a corresponding device for detecting occupation, as well as a transmitting/receiving device and an integrated circuit having such a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Eric Sachse, Michael Schmidt
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Publication number: 20060274863Abstract: The invention discloses a method for determining the occupancy of a transmission channel with the help of a differentially demodulated signal, which was generated transmitter-side with the use of PN sequences from a PN sequence set, which has a first group of first PN sequences and a second group of second PN sequences, wherein the first and second PN sequences within their respective group differ from one another in a cyclic shift of their chip values and wherein the second group has for each first PN sequence a corresponding second PN sequence, which differs from the first PN sequence in an inversion of every second chip value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventors: Dirk Haentzschel, Thomas Hanusch, Eric Sachse