Patents by Inventor Gunther Kuerbitz

Gunther Kuerbitz 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: 7456944
    Abstract: An apparatus for detection of optical systems in a terrain area, has at least: a laser arrangement with a laser light source, a moving mirror for scanning the terrain area and a photoelement for detection of retroreflected laser radiation from the laser light source, a scan position sensor for detection of a scanning direction, and a controller for determination of the position of an optical system to be detected, from a measurement which is carried out by means of the laser arrangement by evaluation of the intensity of retroreflected laser radiation from an optical surface of the optical system, and evaluation of the associated scanning direction detected by the scan position sensor, with the controller having an electronic interface via which information relating at least to the intensity and the elevation of the detected retroreflected laser radiation can be transmitted to at least one display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Optronics GmbH
    Inventors: Hubertus Haan, Gunther Kuerbitz, Herbert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7443494
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are used for detecting optical systems, for example a sniper within a terrain. The terrain is optically scanned by means of a movable mirror and the position of the optical system is determined from a measurement made by a laser unit and is optically displayed. The position of the optical system is directly determined from the measurement made by the laser unit by evaluating the intensity of a light beam from the laser unit, after having been reflected by an optical surface of the optical system. The position is optically reflected into the field of vision of a telescope. The apparatus comprises a laser unit having a movable mirror, a control unit for detecting the position of the optical system from a measurement made by the laser unit, and a device for optically displaying the position. The device for optically displaying is a telescope, and means are provided for optically reflecting the position of the optical system into the field of vision of the telescope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Optronics GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Kuerbitz
  • Publication number: 20080259320
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are used for detecting optical systems, for example a sniper within a terrain. The terrain is optically scanned by means of a movable mirror and the position of the optical system is determined from a measurement made by a laser unit and is optically displayed. The position of the optical system is directly determined from the measurement made by the laser unit by evaluating the intensity of a light beam from the laser unit, after having been reflected by an optical surface of the optical system. The position is optically reflected into the field of vision of a telescope. The apparatus comprises a laser unit having a movable mirror, a control unit for detecting the position of the optical system from a measurement made by the laser unit, and a device for optically displaying the position. The device for optically displaying is a telescope, and means are provided for optically reflecting the position of the optical system into the field of vision of the telescope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: Gunther Kuerbitz
  • Publication number: 20070222970
    Abstract: Abstract An apparatus for detection of optical systems in a terrain area, has at least: a laser arrangement with a laser light source, a moving mirror for scanning the terrain area and a photoelement for detection of retroreflected laser radiation from the laser light source, a scan position sensor for detection of a scanning direction, and a controller for determination of the position of an optical system to be detected, from a measurement which is carried out by means of the laser arrangement by evaluation of the intensity of retroreflected laser radiation from an optical surface of the optical system, and evaluation of the associated scanning direction detected by the scan position sensor, with the controller having an electronic interface via which information relating at least to the intensity and the elevation of the detected retroreflected laser radiation can be transmitted to at least one display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Hubertus Haan, Gunther Kuerbitz, Herbert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6937395
    Abstract: A panoramic viewing apparatus has an imaging system that is arranged in a housing provided with a rotary drive. The imaging system has a lens system by means of which the images of the objects are imaged on a detector after passing through the lens system. There is provided in the beam path for the purpose of compensating the image motion caused by the rotation a counter-motion device that produces during the imaging time a motion directed at least approximately synchronously against the rotation produced by the rotary drive. The counter-motion device is arranged in a convergent beam path of the lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Zeiss Optronik GmbH
    Inventors: Jens-Rainer Hoefft, Gunther Kuerbitz, Dieter Marx
  • Publication number: 20030231392
    Abstract: A panoramic viewing apparatus has an imaging system that is arranged in an units housing provided with a rotary drive. The imaging system has a lens system by means of which the images of the objects are imaged on a detector after passing through the lens system. There is provided in the beam path for the purpose of compensating the image motion caused by the rotation a counter-motion device that produces during the imaging time a motion directed at least approximately synchronously against the rotation produced by the rotary drive. The counter-motion device is arranged in a convergent beam path of the lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: Zeiss Optronik GmbH
    Inventors: Jens-Rainer Hoefft, Gunther Kuerbitz, Dieter Marx
  • Patent number: 4238674
    Abstract: The invention contemplates a heat-detection system with optical, scanner and display components for periodic mechanical heat-scanning of a given field and for so correcting the phase of electrical signals developed in the course of scanning as to enable development of a visible display of the field without phase-shift errors which are attributable to mechanical motion of the scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss-Stiftung
    Inventors: Gunther Kuerbitz, Walter Wegener