Patents by Inventor Heinz-Erwin Schäffer

Heinz-Erwin Schäffer 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: 9942510
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for processing input image data by an image processing device, to reach a desired visual effect within an output image, wherein input image data are stored within an input memory device and the input image data are transferred based on data of a lookup table into respective output image data stored within an output memory device, the lookup table being generated based on at least one data remapping function to reach the desired visual effect, wherein further the entries within the lookup table are arranged in such a way that when processing the lookup table the input memory device is addressed in a sequential reading order; a computer readable medium having stored thereon program code to carry out the inventive method as well as an image processing device to carry out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SMR Patents S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Heinz-Erwin Schäffer, Oleg Konevsky
  • Publication number: 20110010041
    Abstract: The invention is related to a software for an automotive hazard detection and information system for vehicles running on at least one controller, wherein the software uses data of at least one optical sensor or a sensor group including an optical sensor, and comprises at least one analysis and interpretation unit per sensor or sensor group to determine geometry data and motion data of vehicle equipped with the software and/or of objects that arise hazardous situation and/or information requiring situation in the surrounding of the vehicle. The software provides the analysed data for at least one display unit and/or warning indicator for each sensor or sensor group. The software comprises software modules for different detection and information functions that use the same optical sensor data parallel for analysing and providing the different functions and that at least two modules are activated the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: SMR Patents S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Daniel Wagner, Hans-Clemens Steffel, Heinz-Erwin Schaeffer