Patents by Inventor Guenther Kostka

Guenther Kostka 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).

  • Publication number: 20210310799
    Abstract: An apparatus for capturing at least partially reflective surfaces includes a detection surface assembly, an illumination device configured to emit an illumination pattern toward the at least partially reflective surface so as so project, by reflection via the at least partially reflective surface, a first reflection pattern and a second reflection pattern onto the detection surface assembly. The apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture the first reflection pattern and the second reflection pattern from the detection surface assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Peter SCHMITT, Günther KOSTKA, Lars SEIFERT, Carina BAUMGÄRTNER
  • Patent number: 11086029
    Abstract: Embodiments provide image capturing apparatuses having a screen, a plurality of mirrors and a plurality of cameras. The plurality of mirrors and the plurality of cameras is arranged such that the plurality of cameras capture a portion of the screen via a respective one of the plurality of mirrors, wherein the plurality of cameras is arranged obliquely with respect to the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Rolf Behrendt, Wolfgang Groeger, Peter Schmitt, Andreas Jobst, Guenther Kostka
  • Patent number: 10308464
    Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
  • Publication number: 20190049596
    Abstract: Embodiments provide image capturing apparatuses having a screen, a plurality of mirrors and a plurality of cameras. The plurality of mirrors and the plurality of cameras is arranged such that the plurality of cameras capture a portion of the screen via a respective one of the plurality of mirrors, wherein the plurality of cameras is arranged obliquely with respect to the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Rolf BEHRENDT, Wolfgang GROEGER, Peter SCHMITT, Andreas JOBST, Guenther KOSTKA
  • Patent number: 10204405
    Abstract: An apparatus for parameterizing a plant includes a recorder for recording a three-dimensional data set of the plant including not only volume elements of non-covered elements of the plant, but also volume elements of elements of the plants that are covered by other elements, and a parameterizer for parameterizing the three-dimensional data set for obtaining plant parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Franz Uhrmann, Matthias Kube, Guenther Kostka
  • Publication number: 20180047146
    Abstract: An apparatus for parameterizing a plant includes a recorder for recording a three-dimensional data set of the plant including not only volume elements of non-covered elements of the plant, but also volume elements of elements of the plants that are covered by other elements, and a parameterizer for parameterizing the three-dimensional data set for obtaining plant parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Franz Uhrmann, Matthias Kube, Guenther Kostka
  • Patent number: 9891168
    Abstract: Among a device and a method for sensing at least partially specular surfaces, the device includes a detection face and an illuminator configured to project a pattern onto the detection face by reflection via the at least partially specular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Christian Huegel, Lars Seifert
  • Patent number: 9886749
    Abstract: An apparatus for parameterizing a plant includes a recorder for recording a three-dimensional data set of the plant including not only volume elements of non-covered elements of the plant, but also volume elements of elements of the plants that are covered by other elements, and a parameterizer for parameterizing the three-dimensional data set for obtaining plant parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Franz Uhrmann, Matthias Kube, Guenther Kostka
  • Patent number: 9733126
    Abstract: A device for measuring a complexly formed object includes a plurality of light-section measuring devices, a rotator for causing a rotation between the complexly formed object and the plurality of light-section measuring devices around a rotation axis, wherein each of the plurality of light-section measuring devices is configured to generate a respective fan beam in a respective fan plane, wherein the fan planes are arranged such that the rotation axis extends within each of the fan planes, wherein the plurality of light-section measuring devices is configured such that the fan beams are directed to the complexly formed object from different fan directions which, when projected into a common plane through which the rotation axis extends, by rotation around the rotation axis, differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Christian Huegel, Ralf Goldstein
  • Publication number: 20160363676
    Abstract: Position errors of the flat-panel detector in the axes system of the radiation penetration system relative to a necessitated position which remain, for example, after a coarse setup of the radiation penetration system are balanced and thus the accuracy of the radiation penetration system is brought almost randomly close to the accuracy which would have resulted if the flat-panel detector had been exactly adjusted mechanically subsequently by executing a geometrical correction of the radiation penetration raw image, so that a change of a projection of the penetrated object in the radiation penetration raw image due to the position error is reduced or corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas JOBST, Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT
  • Patent number: 9429665
    Abstract: Position errors of the flat-panel detector in the axes system of the radiation penetration system relative to a necessitated position which remain, for example, after a coarse setup of the radiation penetration system are balanced and thus the accuracy of the radiation penetration system is brought almost randomly close to the accuracy which would have resulted if the flat-panel detector had been exactly adjusted mechanically subsequently by executing a geometrical correction of the radiation penetration raw image, so that a change of a projection of the penetrated object in the radiation penetration raw image due to the position error is reduced or corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Jobst, Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20160236892
    Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Ulf HASSLER
  • Publication number: 20160169798
    Abstract: Among a device and a method for sensing at least partially specular surfaces, the device includes a detection face and an illuminator configured to project a pattern onto the detection face by reflection via the at least partially specular surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT, Christian HUEGEL, Lars SEIFERT
  • Patent number: 9342895
    Abstract: A device for detecting a plant against a background includes a provider for providing a plurality of different photographs of the plant leaf against the background, the photographs differing in that image points of the different photographs relating to the same location of the plant leaf are illuminated with different levels of brightness, a selector for selecting such image points, from the different photographs, whose levels of brightness are within a predetermined range, an image point of a first photograph being selected for a first location of the plant leaf, and an image point of a second, different photograph being selected for a different location of the plant leaf to obtain a representation of the plant leaf against the background, the representation being composed of and/or merged from different photographs, and a segmenter for segmenting the composite photograph to obtain a segment representation having the plant leaf without the background or the background without the plant leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWAN
    Inventors: Franz Uhrmann, Lars Seifert, Oliver Scholz, Guenther Kostka
  • Patent number: 9322642
    Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
  • Patent number: 9300936
    Abstract: A camera arrangement for image detection includes radiation-sensitive sensor elements arranged to record a common object plane in offset fields of view, a balancer and a shading corrector. The balancer is implemented, for balancing the sensor elements, to post-process for each sensor element a sensor signal of the respective sensor signal n by means of balancing information determined in balancing and stored, so that a variation of the intensity I of incoming radiation in the respective field of view leads to a change of the respective post-processed sensor signal according to a desired mapping function Fn(anI), the mapping functions Fn( ) of all factory-balanced sensor elements being identical, and an being a sensor-individual factor. The shading corrector is implemented on the basis of a recording generated by means of the camera arrangement with the sensor elements, to change the sensor element-individual factors an so that intensity differences of the recording are balanced across the common object plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Guenther Kostka, Rolf Behrendt, Andreas Jobst, Matthias Kube
  • Publication number: 20160071257
    Abstract: An apparatus for parameterizing a plant includes a recorder for recording a three-dimensional data set of the plant including not only volume elements of non-covered elements of the plant, but also volume elements of elements of the plants that are covered by other elements, and a parameterizer for parameterizing the three-dimensional data set for obtaining plant parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Franz Uhrmann, Matthias Kube, Guenther Kostka
  • Publication number: 20150009510
    Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Guenther KOSTKA, Peter SCHMITT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Ulf HASSLER
  • Patent number: 8892396
    Abstract: A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Oliver Scholz, Ulf Hassler
  • Publication number: 20140334692
    Abstract: A device for detecting a plant against a background includes a provider for providing a plurality of different photographs of the plant leaf against the background, the photographs differing in that image points of the different photographs relating to the same location of the plant leaf are illuminated with different levels of brightness, a selector for selecting such image points, from the different photographs, whose levels of brightness are within a predetermined range, an image point of a first photograph being selected for a first location of the plant leaf, and an image point of a second, different photograph being selected for a different location of the plant leaf to obtain a representation of the plant leaf against the background, the representation being composed of and/or merged from different photographs, and a segmenter for segmenting the composite photograph to obtain a segment representation having the plant leaf without the background or the background without the plant leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Franz UHRMANN, Lars SEIFERT, Oliver SCHOLZ, Guenther KOSTKA