Patents by Inventor Harald Wellmann

Harald Wellmann 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: 9279692
    Abstract: An optimum route search may be conducted through the use of a tiling overlay on the network of road segments. Overlaying the tiling (grid) over the road segments allows for a reduction of the number of road segments considered for an optimum path as road segments can be evaluated on whether the road segment is part of an optimal path to the borders of a first tile and then successively larger frames of tiles around the initial tile. By reducing the number of road segments considered for the optimum route search to road segments that are part of optimal routes to various tile boundary edges, the computation of the optimum route for the route of interest may be quicker and less resource intensive than efforts to determine optimum routes through other methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES GMBH
    Inventor: Harald Wellmann
  • Publication number: 20110301837
    Abstract: An optimum route search may be conducted through the use of a tiling overlay on the network of road segments. Overlaying the tiling (grid) over the road segments allows for a reduction of the number of road segments considered for an optimum path as road segments can be evaluated on whether the road segment is part of an optimal path to the borders of a first tile and then successively larger frames of tiles around the initial tile. By reducing the number of road segments considered for the optimum route search to road segments that are part of optimal routes to various tile boundary edges, the computation of the optimum route for the route of interest may be quicker and less resource intensive than efforts to determine optimum routes through other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Harald Wellmann
  • Patent number: 7957894
    Abstract: An optimum route search may be conducted through the use of a tiling overlay on the network of road segments. Overlaying the tiling (grid) over the road segments allows for a reduction of the number of road segments considered for an optimum path as road segments can be evaluated on whether the road segment is part of an optimal path to the borders of a first tile and then successively larger frames of tiles around the initial tile. By reducing the number of road segments considered for the optimum route search to road segments that are part of optimal routes to various tile boundary edges, the computation of the optimum route for the route of interest may be quicker and less resource intensive than efforts to determine optimum routes through other methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Wellmann
  • Publication number: 20080221865
    Abstract: A Language Generating System (“LGS”) for generating and outputting natural language data for informing a user of a predetermined event in a plurality of different languages, is provided. The LGS may include a database including grammar data sets corresponding to each of a plurality of languages, the grammar data including transformation rules that may be used to obtain a sequence of words having an information content corresponding to the predetermined event. In addition, a universal speech driver may be provided, which constructs a grammatically correct sequence of words having the information content corresponding to the predetermined event on the basis of a grammar data set. The language generating system may additionally include an information unit that may generate an auditory output to via, for example, a loudspeaker, or a visual output via, for example, a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Harald Wellmann
  • Publication number: 20070129885
    Abstract: An optimum route search may be conducted through the use of a tiling overlay on the network of road segments. Overlaying the tiling (grid) over the road segments allows for a reduction of the number of road segments considered for an optimum path as road segments can be evaluated on whether the road segment is part of an optimal path to the borders of a first tile and then successively larger frames of tiles around the initial tile. By reducing the number of road segments considered for the optimum route search to road segments that are part of optimal routes to various tile boundary edges, the computation of the optimum route for the route of interest may be quicker and less resource intensive than efforts to determine optimum routes through other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventor: Harald Wellmann