Patents by Inventor Erhardt Barth
Erhardt Barth 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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Publication number: 20230069953Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for processing with a trained neural network, and for training of such neural network for image modification, which relate to image processing and in particular to modification of an image using the processing such as the neural network. The processing is performed to generate an output image. The output image is generated by processing the input image with the neural network. The processing with the neural network includes at least one stage including image down-sampling and filtering of the down-sampled image and at least one stage of image up-sampling. The image down-sampling is performed by applying a strided convolution. According to the application, efficiency of the neural network is increased, which may lead to faster learning and improved performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Hu Chen, Lars Hertel, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina, Anand Meher Kotra, Nicola GIULIANI
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Publication number: 20230076920Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing and in particular to modification of an image using a processing such as neural network. The processing is performed to generate a correction image based on an input image. Then, the input image is modified by combining it with the correction image. The processing with the neural network includes at least one stage including image down-sampling and filtering of the down-sampled image; and at least one stage of image up-sampling. An advantage of such approach is increased efficiency of the neural network, which may lead to faster learning and improved performance. The embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for the processing with a trained neural network, as well as methods and apparatuses for training of such neural network for image modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Hu Chen, Lars Hertel, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina, Anand Meher Kotra, Nicola GIULIANI
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Patent number: 9159134Abstract: The invention relates to a real time-capable analysis of a sequence of electronic images for estimating the pose of a movable object captured by means of the images. The invention further relates to implementing the invention in software and, in this connection, to a computer-readable medium that stores commands, the execution of which causes the method according to the invention to be carried out. The invention proceeds from a skeleton model, which is described by a small number of nodes in 3D space and permits a good data compression of the image information when the co-ordinates of the nodes describe at any time the position of predetermined parts of the moving object. The skeleton model simultaneously represents previous knowledge of the object, by defining e.g. node pairs and optionally also node triplets in the skeleton model that describe cohesive object parts or optionally object surfaces, which are contained in the measured 2½-D image information, i.e. are visible to the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Universitat Zu LubekInventors: Thomas Martinetz, Kristian Ehlers, Fabian Timm, Erhardt Barth, Sascha Klement
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Patent number: 9135502Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Universitat Zu LubeckInventors: Martin Haker, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Publication number: 20150206003Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Martin Haker, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Patent number: 9058661Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Universitat Zu LubeckInventors: Martin Haker, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Publication number: 20140328519Abstract: The invention relates to a real time-capable analysis of a sequence of electronic images for estimating the pose of a movable object captured by means of the images. The invention further relates to implementing the invention in software and, in this connection, to a computer-readable medium that stores commands, the execution of which causes the method according to the invention to be carried out. The invention proceeds from a skeleton model, which is described by a small number of nodes in 3D space and permits a good data compression of the image information when the co-ordinates of the nodes describe at any time the position of predetermined parts of the moving object. The skeleton model simultaneously represents previous knowledge of the object, by defining e.g. node pairs and optionally also node triplets in the skeleton model that describe cohesive object parts or optionally object surfaces, which are contained in the measured 2½-D image information, i.e. are visible to the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Universitat Zu LubeckInventors: Thomas Martinetz, Kristian Ehlers, Fabian Timm, Erhardt Barth, Sascha Klement
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Publication number: 20140098093Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Universitat Zu LubeckInventors: Martin Haker, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Patent number: 8637327Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the automatic fluorescence pattern recognition in immunodiagnosis. In this method, in addition to or together with the fluorescence dye, one or more other indicator dyes for the identification of relevant structures are incubated before an image is taken with a camera.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AGInventors: Stöcker Winfried, Hendrik Fauer, Christopher Krause, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Publication number: 20120120073Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Universitat Zu LubeckInventors: Martin Haker, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz
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Publication number: 20100047811Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the automatic fluorescence pattern recognition in immunodiagnosis. In this method, in addition to or together with the fluorescence dye, one or more other indicator dyes for the identification of relevant structures are incubated before an image is taken with a camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: EUROIMMUN MEDIZINISCHE LABORDIAGNOSTIKA AGInventors: Stöcker Winfried, Hendrik Fauer, Christopher Krause, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz