Patents by Inventor Eric Wahl
Eric Wahl 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: 11948407Abstract: A method for adapting driving behavior includes inspecting driving behavior of a motor vehicle (1) travelling consecutively with a road user (2). Consecutive travel is detected by at least one sensor of the motor vehicle (1). If the other road user (2) is not detected, the method uses traffic data to predict a position of the other road user (2). If the predicted position of the road user (2) reveals consecutive travel, the method inspects the driving behavior of the motor vehicle (1) as in the case of consecutive travel detected by the at least one sensor. The method adapts a driving behavior while using few sensors to provide a high level of road safety and/or a high level of driving comfort. Optionally, a human-machine interface may display or report back a virtual representation of the road user in the predicted position to the driver of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AGInventors: Görkem Büyükyildiz, Eric Wahl, Daniel Slieter
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Publication number: 20210383621Abstract: A method for adapting driving behavior includes inspecting driving behavior of a motor vehicle (1) travelling consecutively with a road user (2). Consecutive travel is detected by at least one sensor of the motor vehicle (1). If the other road user (2) is not detected, the method uses traffic data to predict a position of the other road user (2). If the predicted position of the road user (2) reveals consecutive travel, the method inspects the driving behavior of the motor vehicle (1) as in the case of consecutive travel detected by the at least one sensor. The method adapts a driving behavior while using few sensors to provide a high level of road safety and/or a high level of driving comfort. Optionally, a human-machine interface may display or report back a virtual representation of the road user in the predicted position to the driver of the motor vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Görkem Büyükyildiz, Eric Wahl, Daniel Slieter
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Patent number: 10052927Abstract: A method is provided for semi-automatically adjusting a chassis of a vehicle. The vehicle (10) assesses a state of the road by means of a sensor system of the vehicle and transmits the state of the road to a central server. A further vehicle (10) interrogates the state of the road from the server and recommends adjustment of the chassis as a function of the interrogated state of the road. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out such a method.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Timo Maise, Stefan Jacobi, Axel Hammann, Eric Wahl, Claudia Grumann
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Publication number: 20150343873Abstract: A method is provided for semi-automatically adjusting a chassis of a vehicle. The vehicle (10) assesses a state of the road by means of a sensor system of the vehicle and transmits the state of the road to a central server. A further vehicle (10) interrogates the state of the road from the server and recommends adjustment of the chassis as a function of the interrogated state of the road. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out such a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Timo Maise, Stefan Jacobi, Axel Hammann, Eric Wahl, Claudia Grumann
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Patent number: 8487876Abstract: A hand-held text input device includes a game controller and a keyboard. The device comfortably accommodates the hands of a user while the thumbs and fingers are associated with actuators of the game controller and keys of the keyboard. The overall configuration of the device and the arrangement of the actuators and keys permit the user to operate all of the functions provided by the device while the forearms are in a neutral posture zone between pronation and supination of the forearm, while the wrists are minimally extended, and while the fingers are comfortably flexed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Michael Baseflug, Eric Wahl, Jared Randall
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Patent number: 8154515Abstract: A computer mouse for use with a computing device, and a user input device assembly including a computer mouse and a communications dongle, are provided. The computer mouse may include a body having an outer casing, the outer casing having a battery compartment formed therein, and a battery door releasably secured to the outer casing in an orientation that covers the battery compartment. The battery door may include a mounting structure configured to releasably secure a communications dongle.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Monique Chatterjee, Eric Wahl, Ge Weiguo, William R. Wylde, KeLong Zhao
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Publication number: 20090146958Abstract: A hand-held text input device includes a game controller and a keyboard. The device comfortably accommodates the hands of a user while the thumbs and fingers are associated with actuators of the game controller and keys of the keyboard. The overall configuration of the device and the arrangement of the actuators and keys permit the user to operate all of the functions provided by the device while the forearms are in a neutral posture zone between pronation and supination of the forearm, while the wrists are minimally extended, and while the fingers are comfortably flexed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Michael Baseflug, Eric Wahl, Jared Randall
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Publication number: 20090102790Abstract: A computer mouse for use with a computing device, and a user input device assembly including a computer mouse and a communications dongle, are provided. The computer mouse may include a body having an outer casing, the outer casing having a battery compartment formed therein, and a battery door releasably secured to the outer casing in an orientation that covers the battery compartment. The battery door may include a mounting structure configured to releasably secure a communications dongle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Monique Chatterjee, Eric Wahl
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Publication number: 20090085778Abstract: A text input device for videogame controller may comprise a text input device housing comprising a keypad. The text input device housing forms a friction-fitting cavity for engaging the videogame controller. An electrical interface plug can be disposed inside the friction-fitting cavity, and can engage with a socket on the videogame controller when the text input device is engaged. The electrical interface plug transmits electrical signals to and from the videogame controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John K. Ikeda, Michael Wesley Baseflug, Eric Wahl, Jared Randall
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Publication number: 20080185312Abstract: A display package for a handheld device is described. One disclosed embodiment comprises a base packaging structure comprising a recess, and a substantially rigid device carrying case rotatably suspended within the recess such that the device carrying case is rotatable with respect to the base packaging structure. This may allow a prospective purchase to view features on different sides of the device without removing the display packaging from a display shelf, and also provides a downstream use for a portion of the display package.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2007Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jill Geurts, Eric Wahl, Shane Sykes, Young Kim, Steven William Fisher
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Publication number: 20060290671Abstract: An input device including a scroll wheel assembly for moving an image in multiple directions on a display screen. The scroll wheel assembly may include a finger-engagable control member that may be endlessly rotated about a rotation axis and a tilt sensor containing a tilt contact member coplanar with the finger-engagable control member and oriented in a substantially vertical, downward orientation such that pivoting of the finger-engagable control member may move the tilt contact member laterally to contact laterally disposed contact switches. In another example, the finger-engagable control member contains a flexible blade at an underside for biasing the scroll wheel assembly to an upright position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2005Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David Bohn, James Koo, Matthew Pedersen, Eric Wahl
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Patent number: 6359960Abstract: In a method for automatically determining coordinates, relative to a reference coordinate system, of markers contained in a 3D volume data set of a subject provided with markers imaged in 2D projections of the 3D volume data set are detected, the centers of gravity of the imaged markers are determined, and back projection straight lines through the markers are established. The intersection points of the back projection straight lines with each other are identified, or the points with the smallest distance from one another on different back projection straight lines are determined if the back projection lines arc skewed. Spatially limited areas are identified, which contain an accumulation of intersection points of back projection straight lines or an accumulation of points with the smallest distance from one another. The coordinates of the centers of gravity of these spatially limited areas are calculated and are used as the coordinates for the respective markers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2000Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Eric Wahl, Uwe Weber, Norbert Rahn, Rainer Graumann
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Patent number: D570356Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Jared Randall, Michael Baseflug, Eric Wahl
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Patent number: D582422Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Jared Randall, Michael Baseflug, Eric Wahl
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Patent number: D582423Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Jared Randall, Michael Baseflug, Eric Wahl
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Patent number: D794662Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: EKOS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis Genstler, William Russell Kanz, Michael George Svob, William Lyle Richardson, Jeff Ladwig, Amy Brumet, Eric Wahl, David Kalamen, Stephanie Seraphina, Alex Hay
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Patent number: D797918Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: EKOS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis Genstler, William Russell Kanz, Michael George Svob, William Lyle Richardson, Jeff Ladwig, Amy Brumet, Eric Wahl, David Kalamen, Stephanie Seraphina, Alex Hay
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Patent number: D819807Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: EKOS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis Genstler, William Russell Kanz, Michael George Svob, William Lyle Richardson, Jeff Ladwig, Amy Brumet, Eric Wahl, David Kalamen, Stephanie Seraphina, Alex Hay
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Patent number: D831058Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: EKOS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis Genstler, William Russell Kanz, Michael George Svob, William Lyle Richardson, Jeff Ladwig, Amy Brumet, Eric Wahl, David Kalamen, Stephanie Seraphina, Alex Hay