Patents by Inventor Frank Egle

Frank Egle 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: 10120935
    Abstract: A method operates an infotainment system in order to provide an overview of audio data records detected by a music output device. An evaluation device arranges the detected audio data records into an audio data record group according to a selection criterion, e.g. the artist. The evaluation device determines a value of a predetermined user-relevant evaluation variable for each audio data record. On the basis of the respective values, the evaluation device then determines a ranking list of the audio data records in each audio data record group. The evaluation device generates a digital image for each audio data record and assigns the images of those audio data records that are combined into an audio data record group to an image group. The position of the images in an image group depends on the position of the respective associated audio data record in the ranking list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Frank Egle
  • Publication number: 20160110148
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has an infotainment system with a controller for providing infotainment functions and a display unit, which is structurally separate from the controller and which has a screen for displaying display data. The display unit is retained in a motor-vehicle interior by a retaining device. The display unit allows a suitable posture when viewing different infotainment functions on the display unit by making the retaining device and the display unit nondestructively and reversibly detachable from each other. The controller is designed to transfer the display data to the display unit even while the display unit is detached from the retaining device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: FRANK EGLE, MICHAEL SCHMAILZL, MATHIAS HALLIGER, ROBERT WITTMANN
  • Publication number: 20150356177
    Abstract: A method operates an infotainment system in order to provide an overview of audio data records detected by a music output device. An evaluation device arranges the detected audio data records into an audio data record group according to a selection criterion, e.g. the artist. The evaluation device determines a value of a predetermined user-relevant evaluation variable for each audio data record. On the basis of the respective values, the evaluation device then determines a ranking list of the audio data records in each audio data record group. The evaluation device generates a digital image for each audio data record and assigns the images of those audio data records that are combined into an audio data record group to an image group. The position of the images in an image group depends on the position of the respective associated audio data record in the ranking list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Frank EGLE
  • Patent number: 6733133
    Abstract: A device for projecting image data in a motor vehicle includes a projection surface secured to a roof inside the vehicle and a projector secured at the rear behind the passengers watching the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Frank Egle, Ralf Hinz
  • Publication number: 20030193651
    Abstract: A projection system for optical reproduction of information or entertainment data for employment in the area of passenger transport (airplane, automobile area). Therein a laser projector is used for generating an image line by line upon surfaces within the vehicle internal space. By rotation or pivoting of the laser projector or displacement along a guide rail practically all surfaces in the internal space of the vehicle can be reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventor: Frank Egle
  • Publication number: 20020093625
    Abstract: A device for projecting image data in a motor vehicle includes a projection surface secured to a roof inside the vehicle and a projector secured at the rear behind the passengers watching the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Egle, Ralf Hinz