Patents by Inventor Holger Fillbrandt
Holger Fillbrandt 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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Patent number: 11823550Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device 1 for monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship section 4, wherein the ship section 4 is monitored by video technology using at least one camera 5a,5b and the camera 5a,5b is designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an evaluation device 7, said evaluation device 7 having an interface for receiving the video data, wherein the evaluation device 7 is designed to detect a moving object in the ship section 4 on the basis of the video data and to determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The evaluation device 7 is designed to determine a starting point in three dimensions on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable of the moving object and to evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the starting point.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Claudio Scaravati, Gabriele Mangiafico, Hans-Dieter Bothe, Paolo Mario France Terzon, Sarah Möhring, Stefano Riboli
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Patent number: 11595638Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration unit (2) for a monitoring device (1), wherein the monitoring device (1) is designed as man-overboard monitoring of a ship section (4), wherein the monitoring device has at least one camera (5a, 5b) for video-monitoring the ship section (4) and for providing video data, wherein the camera (5a, 5b) has at least one intrinsic calibration parameter (11) and at least one extrinsic calibration parameter (12), wherein the video data is provided to the calibration unit (2), comprising an input module (9) for a user to input one or more calibration elements (10) and comprising an evaluation module (8), wherein the evaluation module (8) is designed to determine the unknown calibration parameters (11, 12) based on the calibration elements (10), in particular their orientation and/or extension.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Claudio Scaravati, Gabriele Mangiafico, Hans-Dieter Bothe, Paolo Mario France Terzon, Sarah Schuette, Stefano Riboli
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Patent number: 11594035Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device 1 for monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship section 5, wherein the ship section 5 is monitored by video technology using at least one camera 2, and the camera 2 is designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an analysis device 9, said analysis device 9 having an interface 10 for transferring the video data, and the analysis device 9 is designed to detect a moving object in the ship section 5 on the basis of the video data and determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The analysis device 9 is also designed to determine a scale on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable in order to determine the extent 8 of the moving object and evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the extent 8 thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Thorsten Ike
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Publication number: 20220191467Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration unit (2) for a monitoring device (1), wherein the monitoring device (1) is designed as man-overboard monitoring of a ship section (4), wherein the monitoring device has at least one camera (5a, 5b) for video-monitoring the ship section (4) and for providing video data, wherein the camera (5a, 5b) has at least one intrinsic calibration parameter (11) and at least one extrinsic calibration parameter (12), wherein the video data is provided to the calibration unit (2), comprising an input module (9) for a user to input one or more calibration elements (10) and comprising an evaluation module (8), wherein the evaluation module (8) is designed to determine the unknown calibration parameters (11, 12) based on the calibration elements (10), in particular their orientation and/or extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Claudio Scaravati, Gabriele Mangiafico, Hans-Dieter Bothe, Paolo Mario France Terzon, Sarah Schuette, Stefano Riboli
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Publication number: 20220101713Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device 1 for monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship section 4, wherein the ship section 4 is monitored by video technology using at least one camera 5a,5b and the camera 5a,5b is designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an evaluation device 7, said evaluation device 7 having an interface for receiving the video data, wherein the evaluation device 7 is designed to detect a moving object in the ship section 4 on the basis of the video data and to determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The evaluation device 7 is designed to determine a starting point in three dimensions on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable of the moving object and to evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the starting point.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Claudio Scaravati, Gabriele Mangiafico, Hans-Dieter Bothe, Paolo Mario France Terzon, Sarah Schuette, Stefano Riboli
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Publication number: 20210312190Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device 1 for monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship section 5, wherein the ship section 5 is monitored by video technology using at least one camera 2, and the camera 2 is designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an analysis device 9, said analysis device 9 having an interface 10 for transferring the video data, and the analysis device 9 is designed to detect a moving object in the ship section 5 on the basis of the video data and determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The analysis device 9 is also designed to determine a scale on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable in order to determine the extent 8 of the moving object and evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the extent 8 thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Thorsten Ike
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Patent number: 10223886Abstract: In spacious areas or building complexes, it is customary to use monitoring systems that comprise monitoring cameras and other monitoring sensors that record monitoring data and forward said monitoring data to a monitoring control centre or the like for the purpose of evaluation. Depending on the size of the monitored area, the complexity of the monitoring system can increase to a great extent. Upwards of a certain size of monitoring area, it is necessary for several monitoring persons also to be employed in parallel in order to inspect the monitoring data.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Daniel Gottschlag, Frank Mattern, Jan Rexilius, Holger Fillbrandt, Stephan Heigl
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Patent number: 9547905Abstract: A monitoring system for monitoring a monitoring area, having an input interface for accepting monitoring images of the monitoring area, having a localization module for locating at least one moving monitoring object in the monitoring area, wherein the localization module is designed to locate a position of the monitoring object, having a definition module for defining a position-dependent protected area in the monitoring area, and having a monitoring module for monitoring the protected area, wherein the definition module is designed to define the position-dependent protected area on the basis of the position of the moving monitoring object.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Daniel Gottschlag, Frank Mattern, Jan Rexilius, Holger Fillbrandt, Stephan Heigl
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Publication number: 20150332569Abstract: In spacious areas or building complexes, it is customary to use monitoring systems that comprise monitoring cameras and other monitoring sensors that record monitoring data and forward said monitoring data to a monitoring control centre or the like for the purpose of evaluation. Depending on the size of the monitored area, the complexity of the monitoring system can increase to a great extent. Upwards of a certain size of monitoring area, it is necessary for several monitoring persons also to be employed in parallel in order to inspect the monitoring data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Daniel Gottschlag, Frank Mattern, Jan Rexilius, Holger Fillbrandt, Stephan Heigl
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Patent number: 9148559Abstract: A device assists focusing of a camera that is equipped with a manual focus-adjusting unit and that provides digital image contents, such as a smart camera. The device is configured to determine a focus value of the camera depending on an operation of the manual focus-adjusting unit and to display focusing information on the basis of the determined focus value to a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Jan Karl Warzelhan
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Publication number: 20150193936Abstract: The practice of monitoring public places, buildings, production halls etc. using monitoring cameras is frequently used nowadays. The invention proposes a monitoring system (1) for monitoring a monitoring area (2), having an input interface (5) for accepting monitoring images of the monitoring area (2), having a localization module (9) for locating at least one moving monitoring object (7) in the monitoring area (2), wherein the localization module (9) is designed to locate a position of the monitoring object (7), having a definition module (10) for defining a position-dependent protected area (6a, b, c) in the monitoring area (2), and having a monitoring module (13) for monitoring the protected area (2), wherein the definition module (10) is designed to define the position-dependent protected area (6a, b, c) on the basis of the position of the moving monitoring object (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Daniel Gottschlag, Frank Mattern, Jan Rexilius, Holger Fillbrandt, Stephan Heigl
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Publication number: 20130235254Abstract: A device for assisting focusing of a camera that is equipped with a manual focus-adjusting unit and that provides digital image contents, such as a smart camera. The device includes a means for determining a focus value of the camera depending on an operation of the manual focus-adjusting unit and means for displaying focusing information on the basis of the determined focus value to a user being provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Holger Fillbrandt, Jan Karl Warzelhan
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Publication number: 20060072845Abstract: The invention relates to a method of multi-resolution with gradient-adaptive filtering (MRGAF) of X-ray images in real time. For an image strip of 2K adjacent rows, a resolution into a Laplacian pyramid (L0, . . . L3) and a Gaussian pyramid (G0, . . . G3) is carried out up to the K-th stage. By limiting a processing operation to such a strip, it is possible to keep all relevant data ready in a local memory with rapid access (cache). A further acceleration compared to the conventional algorithm is achieved by calculating the gradient (D) from the Gaussian pyramid representations. By virtue of these and other optimization measures, it is possible to increase a multi-resolution with gradient-adaptive filtering to a processing rate of more than thirty (768 (E 564) images per second.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2003Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Kai Eck, Holger Fillbrandt