Patents by Inventor Hans Graf
Hans Graf 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).
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Publication number: 20240087196Abstract: Methods and systems for image generation include generating a latent representation of an image, modifying the latent representation of the image based on a trained attribute classifier and a specified attribute input, and decoding the modified latent representation to generate an output image that matches the specified attribute input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Renqiang Min, Kai Li, Shaobo Han, Hans Peter Graf, Changhao Shi
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Patent number: 10089621Abstract: The invention creates a data carrier, in particular chip card, in particular smart card, having a device for generating one-time passwords and having a display for displaying generated one-time passwords. Preferably the data carrier is a Eurocheque card or credit card with the integrated function of an electronic purse (cash card function) and the generated one-time password is a transaction number (TAN) for acknowledging a secure electronic payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBHInventors: Hans Graf, Eike Thomas Bode, Werner Strobl
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Patent number: 9317797Abstract: Chip card processor P and display controller C of chip card 1 with a display are realized in single chip 5 and the chip 5 is disposed on same substrate 4 on which display 2 is built up. This eliminates the need for connecting leads and contactings between the display controller and the processor chip. Display 2 and chip 5 form one mechanical unit and it is unnecessary to install processor chip P. Preferably, display substrate 4 extends with processor chip P, or at least with conductive paths leading to processor chip P, under contact pad 3 of chip card 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Arno Hohmann, Hans Graf
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Publication number: 20140042091Abstract: A method and system for processing a solution is provided. In at least one first membrane unit, a feed flow is separated into a permeate flow and a retentate flow. According to the invention, at least part of the retentate flow is fed to at least one second membrane unit. In the second membrane unit, retentate is located on one side of a membrane. Located on the other side is a solution in which the concentration of dissolved substances of which is lower than that of the retentate. Thus solvent of the solution passes through the membrane and thins the retentate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: KSB AktiengeselldchaftInventor: Hans Graf
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Patent number: 8371510Abstract: A module for insertion into a data carrier body to form a data carrier, the module having a contact interface with a contact area, at least one integrated circuit and a display device with a display area which are interconnected. Method for producing the module, the data carrier body and the data carrier. The contact interface and the display device of the module are disposable in the data carrier body such that the contact area of the contact interface and the display area of the display device point in opposite directions. The data carrier body thus possesses a through opening into which the module is insertable as described.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Christoph Schiller, Thomas Tarantino, Hans Graf, Stefan Kluge, Michael Stegmüller, Manuela Schröpf
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Patent number: 7837119Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus as well as a method for reliably determining the deliberate use of a contactless data carrier. Beside an antenna-based data transmission channel in dependence on the data to be transmitted additionally an optical data transmission channel between reading device and data carrier can be employed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Hans Graf, Klaus Finkenzeller, Alfred Rossmadl
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Publication number: 20100252639Abstract: The invention relates to a module (10) for insertion into a data carrier body (110), the module (10) comprising a contact interface (20) with a contact area (22), at least one integrated circuit (30, 30?, 30?) and a display device (40) with a display area (42) which are interconnected, and to the data carrier body (110) and to a data carrier (100) comprising the data carrier body (110) with the inserted module (10). The invention relates further to methods for producing the module (10), the data carrier body (110) and the data carrier (100). The contact interface (20) and the display device (40) of the module (10) are disposable in the data carrier body (110) such that the contact area (22) of the contact interface (20) and the display area (42) of the display device (40) point in opposite directions. The data carrier body (110) thus possesses a through opening (120) into which the module (10) is insertable as described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Christoph Schiller, Thomas Tarantino, Hans Graf, Stefan Kluge, Michael Stegmüller, Manuela Schröpf
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Publication number: 20080015861Abstract: Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a client device that relate to bridging delays in a dialog, storing sentence templates to be used in dialogs, generating a talking head response to a user inquiry from the client device, and determining whether sentences or stored templates stored in the client cache relate to the talking head response. If the stored sentences or stored templates relate to the talking head response, the method comprises instructing the client device to use the appropriate stored sentence or template from the client cache to render at least a part of the talking head response and transmitting a portion of the talking head response not stored in the client cache, if any, to the client device to render a complete talking head response.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Hans Graf, Joern Ostermann
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Publication number: 20070277044Abstract: The invention creates a data carrier, in particular chip card, in particular smart card, having a device for generating one-time passwords and having a display for displaying generated one-time passwords. Preferably the data carrier is a Eurocheque card or credit card with the integrated function of an electronic purse (cash card function) and the generated one-time password is a transaction number (TAN) for acknowledging a secure electronic payment transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2005Publication date: November 29, 2007Inventors: Hans Graf, Eike Bode, Werner Strobl
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Publication number: 20070094170Abstract: Disclosed is a parallel support vector machine technique for solving problems with a large set of training data where the kernel computation, as well as the kernel cache and the training data, are spread over a number of distributed machines or processors. A plurality of processing nodes are used to train a support vector machine based on a set of training data. Each of the processing nodes selects a local working set of training data based on data local to the processing node, for example a local subset of gradients. Each node transmits selected data related to the working set (e.g., gradients having a maximum value) and receives an identification of a global working set of training data. The processing node optimizes the global working set of training data and updates a portion of the gradients of the global working set of training data. The updating of a portion of the gradients may include generating a portion of a kernel matrix. These steps are repeated until a convergence condition is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Hans Graf, Igor Durdanovic, Eric Cosatto, Vladimir Vapnik
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Publication number: 20070063055Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus as well as a method for reliably determining the deliberate use of a contactless data carrier. Beside an antenna-based data transmission channel in dependence on the data to be transmitted additionally an optical data transmission channel between reading device and data carrier can be employed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Hans Graf, Klaus Finkenzeller, Alfred Rossmadl
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Publication number: 20060112026Abstract: Disclosed is an improved technique for training a support vector machine using a distributed architecture. A training data set is divided into subsets, and the subsets are optimized in a first level of optimizations, with each optimization generating a support vector set. The support vector sets output from the first level optimizations are then combined and used as input to a second level of optimizations. This hierarchical processing continues for multiple levels, with the output of each prior level being fed into the next level of optimizations. In order to guarantee a global optimal solution, a final set of support vectors from a final level of optimization processing may be fed back into the first level of the optimization cascade so that the results may be processed along with each of the training data subsets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.Inventors: Hans Graf, Eric Cosatto, Leon Bottou, Vladimir Vapnik
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Publication number: 20060074689Abstract: A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according to the prosodic analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Hans Graf, Thomas Isaacson, Volker Storm
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Publication number: 20060074688Abstract: A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according to the prosodic analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Hans Graf, Thomas Isaacson, Volker Storm
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Patent number: 6966497Abstract: A data carrier used for an electronic purse including a display arranged to indicate a credit balance present in the electronic purse, and a battery in combination with a device for detecting the usability or probability of use of the display. The device is configured to determine the opereability and brightness of the display. The device is arranged to selectively deactivate the display upon an indication of a predetermined criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2000Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Arno Hohmann, Hans Graf
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Patent number: 6902115Abstract: The invention relates to a portable data carrier having a display device. This data carrier contains a microprocessor and storage devices associated with the microprocessor as well as means for displaying data stored in the storage devices associated with the microprocessor. In addition, the data carrier contains a display controller for controlling the display means and an energy supply unit for supplying at least the display unit and its controller with energy. Such a data carrier is to be improved so as to reduce the energy demand for the display unit. This is obtained by a nonvolatile memory disposed separately from the microprocessor and its storage device, said memory being associated with the controller of the display means and containing the data intended for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2001Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Hans Graf, Arno Hohmann
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Publication number: 20050057570Abstract: A system and method for generating photo-realistic talking-head animation from a text input utilizes an audio-visual unit selection process. The lip-synchronization is obtained by optimally selecting and concatenating variable-length video units of the mouth area. The unit selection process utilizes the acoustic data to determine the target costs for the candidate images and utilizes the visual data to determine the concatenation costs. The image database is prepared in a hierarchical fashion, including high-level features (such as a full 3D modeling of the head, geometric size and position of elements) and pixel-based, low-level features (such as a PCA-based metric for labeling the various feature bitmaps).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2003Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Hans Graf, Gerasimos Potamianos, Juergen Schroeter
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Publication number: 20040263431Abstract: Chip card processor P and display controller C of chip card 1 with a display are realized in single chip 5 and the chip 5 is disposed on same substrate 4 on which display 2 is built up. This eliminates the need for connecting leads and contactings between the display controller and the processor chip. Display 2 and chip 5 form one mechanical unit and it is unnecessary to install processor chip P. Preferably, display substrate 4 extends with processor chip P, or at least with conductive paths leading to processor chip P, under contact pad 3 of chip card 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Arno Hohmann, Hans Graf
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Publication number: 20040056083Abstract: The invention relates to a portable data carrier having a display device. This data carrier contains a microprocessor and storage devices associated with the microprocessor as well as means for displaying data stored in the storage devices associated with the microprocessor. In addition, the data carrier contains a display controller for controlling the display means and an energy supply unit for supplying at least the display unit and its controller with energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Hans Graf, Arno Hohmann
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Patent number: 6135325Abstract: A liquid dispenser includes a valve block that can be attached onto a vessel or can be connected to a reservoir. The valve block is characterized by an intake valve, a supply and dosing cylinder in which a supply and dosing plunger is slidably accommodated, and an outlet device for the liquid. The valve block and the supply and dosing cylinder preferably form an integral unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1997Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Poulten & Graf GmbHInventors: Theodor Fessel, Siegfried Graf, Hans Graf