Patents by Inventor Ferdinand Maier

Ferdinand Maier 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: 8409740
    Abstract: The remote control system (1) has a battery compartment, which is disposed in a housing and which is closed by means of a removable cover lid (4). The cover lid (4) is held to the housing by means of at least one permanent magnet (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: 8400345
    Abstract: A multimedia assembly with a programmable universal remote control unit, which is configured to “learn” remote control codes from original remote control units, and which provides that remote control signals are transmitted from original remote control units to the control unit where they are analyzed, decoded, and newly encoded; and wherein newly encoded signals are then transmitted from the control unit to the universal remote control unit that is to be programmed, where they are stored in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Publication number: 20130063339
    Abstract: An apparatus for selecting multimedia information containing an operating unit that comprises an actuation device that is movable back and forth into and out of a neutral position causing an output signal depending on the shift position of the actuation device, which causes movement of display unit elements in a scrolling manner where the elements are represented one after the other on a display unit in such a manner that the respective forward element covers the subsequent elements only partially, and the respective rearward elements are smaller than the respective forward elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Publication number: 20130002341
    Abstract: The input device has a printed circuit board (5) to which a plurality of coils (L1-L8) has been fitted which, together with a capacitor (C2), each form a frequency-determining element of an oscillator (1). The coils (L1-L8) are arranged so as to be distributed along a path (K), which may also be a circular path. A movable magnet portion (M) can be displaced relative to the printed circuit board (5). At least one further stationary magnet portion (M1-M8) is mounted on the printed circuit board (5), which is opposite the movable magnet portion (M).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Thomas Fischer
  • Patent number: 8314729
    Abstract: A remote control having a touch-sensitive key pad, an energy store, a transmitter, two plates joined together on which these are arranged, and a position sensor which provides an on/off function depending on its position or orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: 8279049
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multimedia device comprising a remote control system for wirelessly controlling a multimedia appliance. In order to establish a connection between a remote control system and a multimedia appliance, the remote control system must identify itself to the multimedia appliance, by means of a hardware device, especially a SIM card. The individual user must also identify him/herself to the multimedia appliance, by means of a hardware device for detecting biometric data. The respective identification data is encoded by means of asymmetrical cryptography. During the initialization process between said two appliances, data encoded for the identification of the remote control system and each person is transmitted to the multimedia appliance and stored therein in an encoded manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Publication number: 20120242464
    Abstract: An input device with a housing which includes a displaceable cover wall attached to a circuit board to which is affixed a displaceable magnetic part, at least one sensor and a microprocessor; a second magnetic part which is permanently fixed relative to the housing cooperates with the displaceable magnetic part and, upon displacement of the cover wall, generates a haptically perceptible force; the position of the cover wall relative to the housing is detected by the at least one sensor in the form of a coil which varies its inductance value in response to the detected magnetic field of the two magnetic parts, whereby the coil is a frequency-determining component of an oscillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Thomas Fischer
  • Publication number: 20120206355
    Abstract: The remote control device contains two keypads, of which the second keypad is able to be slid into a housing or extracted from it. A sensor detects the sliding position of the second keypad and generates an output signal, that assigns differing control signals to preset keys of the first keypad depending on the sliding position of the second keypad. Additionally the remote control device has two transmission devices with differing directions of emission, with always only one transmission device being activated and in fact depending on the output signal of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Publication number: 20120126957
    Abstract: A wireless remote control comprising a sensor that generates an output signal as a function of its alignment that directly or indirectly activates or deactivates at least one electronic circuit, a plug socket, a first contact of the plug socket connected to a control input of a power supply device, an external plug that connects the first contact to a second contact when inserted into the plug socket and thus the power supply device is deactivated independently of the output signal of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Publication number: 20110140867
    Abstract: A remote control having a touch-sensitive control panel and a transmission unit for transmitting encoded signals which are produced on the basis of a direction of movement of contact with successive regions of the control panel, regardless of the location at which contact is made with the control panel. It is also possible to produce encoded signals on the basis of a movement by the remote control in combination with a motion sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: D634735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: D647509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Patent number: D647510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Patent number: D647511
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Patent number: D648327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Patent number: D655307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser, Detlev Magerer
  • Patent number: D658636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: fm marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser
  • Patent number: D671916
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser
  • Patent number: D671918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser
  • Patent number: D673137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Maier, Erwin Weitgasser