Patents by Inventor Frank Wippermann

Frank Wippermann 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: 7839573
    Abstract: A device for the homogenization of radiation, preferably light, using chirped microlens arrays (cMLA) from the established regular microlens arrays (rMLA), chirped microlens arrays are an arrangement of non-identical lenses in one array. Non-identical means that the lens parameters of the lenses of the array, such as e.g. the radius of curvature, the free diameter, vertex position, and others, can vary from lens to lens or cell to cell. The parameters of each lens or cell can be determined by functions (analytically, numerically), the functions preferably being dependent upon the position of the cell or the lens in the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Frank Wippermann, Andreas Bräuer, Peter Schreiber
  • Publication number: 20100277627
    Abstract: Image sensor having a large number of image sensor units in an essentially array-like arrangement, the light-sensitive surfaces of the image sensor units being node points at a spacing relative to each other and these, together with the horizontal and vertical connection lines which connect the node points, spanning a two-dimensional network, and the array-like arrangement having a central region and an edge region, the central region and the edge region being connected to each other along at least connection line, characterised in that the spacing respectively of two adjacent node points of the array-like arrangement is different along the at least one connection line in the central region and in the edge region. Furthermore, a camera system with an image sensor according to the invention and an additionally disposed lens system is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Jacques Duparré, Frank Wippermann, Andreas Bräuer
  • Publication number: 20100033829
    Abstract: A device for the homogenization of radiation, preferably light, using chirped microlens arrays (cMLA) from the established regular microlens arrays (rMLA), chirped microlens arrays are an arrangement of non-identical lenses in one array. Non-identical means that the lens parameters of the lenses of the array, such as e.g. the radius of curvature, the free diameter, vertex position, and others, can vary from lens to lens or cell to cell. The parameters of each lens or cell can be determined by functions (analytically, numerically), the functions preferably being dependent upon the position of the cell or the lens in the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Frank Wippermann, Andreas Bräuer, Peter Schreiber