Patents by Inventor Horst Hortner
Horst Hortner 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: 11487494Abstract: A system (1) for displaying an optical image (2) by means of unmanned autonomous vehicles. Each vehicle has a display for displaying at least a part of the image (2) by way of stored or transmitted image information as well as a control unit (9). The control unit (9) is configured to control the image information and to move the vehicle using a drive unit (11) by means of stored or transmitted positon information. At least two vehicles are configured as land crafts (5), wherein the displays (3) of the land crafts (5) are oriented in parallel to a substantially horizontal image plane (6) and configured as displays (3) accessible by a human person.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: ARS ELECTRONICA LINZ GMBH & CO KGInventors: Horst Hörtner, Hideaki Ogawa, Peter Holzkorn
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Patent number: 11383835Abstract: A system composed of at least two unmanned aerial vehicles, each aerial vehicle comprising a drive unit, a flight control unit for controlling the trajectory of the aerial vehicle by means of the drive unit and a rechargeable power cell. Each aerial vehicle comprises an electrical first interface, and the system comprises at least one transport device with at least one chamber defined by boundary elements, in particular corner elements, for receiving the aerial vehicles stacked essentially vertically in the operating position and an electrical control and supply system for charging the power cells and/or for communicating with the flight control units via the first interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: ARS ELECTRONICA LINZ GMBH & CO KGInventors: Horst Hörtner, Harald Dirisamer
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Patent number: 11340608Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle having a drive unit for enabling the flight of the aerial vehicle in air space and having a flight control unit, which is configured to receive control information from a radio remote control or to control positions of the aerial vehicle in air space that employ stored position information in order to control the flight course of the aerial vehicle. A modular flight formation control unit has a first interface with the flight control unit and a second radio interface to a flight formation ground control unit or with flight formation control units of other aerial vehicles, and the flight formation control unit configured to generate or send control information corresponding to the radio remote control and is configured to output, via the first interface, flight formation control information relevant for the formation flight of at least two aerial vehicles to the flight control unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ARS ELECTRONICA LINZ GMBH & CO KGInventor: Horst Hortner
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Patent number: 11334076Abstract: A system for controlling at least two unmanned aerial vehicles in a flight formation, wherein each aerial vehicle has a flight control unit for controlling the flight path of the aerial vehicle and a camera that may be rotated by an orientation means about one axis, wherein in the system there is provided a flight formation control unit for the wireless communication with the aerial vehicles. The flight formation control unit is configured to control the flight control units and the orientation means during a recording of a moving object that will be filmed so that a spatial arrangement of the aerial vehicles in relation to the object and the orientation of the optical axis of each camera in relation to the object and/or in relation to the orientation(s) of the optical axis/axes of the other camera(s) is substantially maintained and optionally adjusted substantially in real time.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: ARS ELECTRONICA LINZ GMBH & CO KGInventor: Horst Hortner
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Publication number: 20210255817Abstract: A system (1) for displaying an optical image (2) by means of unmanned autonomous vehicles. Each vehicle has a display for displaying at least a part of the image (2) by way of stored or transmitted image information as well as a control unit (9). The control unit (9) is configured to control the image information and to move the vehicle using a drive unit (11) by means of stored or transmitted positon information. At least two vehicles are configured as land crafts (5), wherein the displays (3) of the land crafts (5) are oriented in parallel to a substantially horizontal image plane (6) and configured as displays (3) accessible by a human person.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Horst HÖRTNER, Hideaki OGAWA, Peter HOLZKORN
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Publication number: 20200404163Abstract: A system for presenting and identifying markers of a geometrical image within space, having at least one portable device with a shooting unit and an electronic data processing unit. The markers are configured as dynamic markers of a geometrical image variable in terrestrial space and the system has at least three vehicles for forming the dynamic markers, wherein each vehicle is configured to be autonomously moved within space by means of a control unit, wherein the control unit of at least one vehicle is configured to move the vehicle from a first marker position of a first image to a second marker position of a second image, wherein the data processing unit is configured to output the shots processed by way of the identified dynamic markers of the first image, of the second image, and optionally of all intermediate images that may be shot according to a shooting speed of the shooting unit, to a display means of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventor: Horst HÖRTNER
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Publication number: 20200201331Abstract: A system for controlling at least two unmanned aerial vehicles in a flight formation, wherein each aerial vehicle has a flight control unit for controlling the flight path of the aerial vehicle and a camera that may be rotated by an orientation means about one axis, wherein in the system there is provided a flight formation control unit for the wireless communication with the aerial vehicles. The flight formation control unit is configured to control the flight control units and the orientation means during a recording of a moving object that will be filmed so that a spatial arrangement of the aerial vehicles in relation to the object and the orientation of the optical axis of each camera in relation to the object and/or in relation to the orientation(s) of the optical axis/axes of the other camera(s) is substantially maintained and optionally adjusted substantially in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Horst Hortner
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Publication number: 20200189734Abstract: A system composed of at least two unmanned aerial vehicles, each aerial vehicle comprising a drive unit, a flight control unit for controlling the trajectory of the aerial vehicle by means of the drive unit and a rechargeable power cell. Each aerial vehicle comprises an electrical first interface, and the system comprises at least one transport device with at least one chamber defined by boundary elements, in particular corner elements, for receiving the aerial vehicles stacked essentially vertically in the operating position and an electrical control and supply system for charging the power cells and/or for communicating with the flight control units via the first interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Horst HÖRTNER, Harald DIRISAMER
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Publication number: 20200057439Abstract: System for providing a visual aerial presentation comprising a ground-based control station and at least two UAVs, wherein each UAV comprises a body, an integral display and a control unit configured to move the UAV according to position information. The control unit is configured to move the UAV to an image position to present a portion of pixels. The pixel information and the position information comprise dynamic information and are preset and stored in a storage unit and/or transmitted by the control station in real-time. The image position of at least one UAV changes at least one time between two points in time. The control station and/or the control units are configured to change the displayed portion of pixels based on the pixel information essentially in real-time based on the change of the image position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Dave A Green, Horst Hortner
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Publication number: 20190391575Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle having a drive unit for enabling the flight of the aerial vehicle in air space and having a flight control unit, which is configured to receive control information from a radio remote control or to control positions of the aerial vehicle in air space that employ stored position information in order to control the flight course of the aerial vehicle. A modular flight formation control unit has a first interface with the flight control unit and a second radio interface to a flight formation ground control unit or with flight formation control units of other aerial vehicles, and the flight formation control unit configured to generate or send control information corresponding to the radio remote control and is configured to output, via the first interface, flight formation control information relevant for the formation flight of at least two aerial vehicles to the flight control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventor: Horst Hortner
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Publication number: 20190291893Abstract: In one example, an unmanned aerial vehicle includes a propulsion unit for enabling the aerial vehicle to fly in the air, and a data processing unit adapted to steer for a position or a temporal sequence of positions of the aerial vehicle in the air essentially in real time based on positional information, where the aerial vehicle includes at least one LASER for emitting and/or manipulating at least one LASER beam and the aerial vehicle includes a communication unit, where the data processing unit is adapted to receive and/or transmit the positional information via the communication unit essentially in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: Horst HÖRTNER
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Patent number: 7216035Abstract: According to the invention, navigational information for a vehicle is displayed intuitively and in an easily comprehensible manner in the form of a virtual pilot vehicle, superimposed on an image of the vehicle environment. The display mode and/or position and/or orientation and/or size of the virtual pilot vehicle are determined for example in accordance with the route information, speed, reference points for a recommended route, position and orientation of the vehicle or the camera that records the vehicle environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Siemens AktiengeselschaftInventors: Horst Hörtner, Dieter Kolb, Gustav Pomberger, Jan Wieghardt
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Publication number: 20060155467Abstract: According to the invention, navigational information for a vehicle is displayed intuitively and in an easily comprehensible manner in the form of a virtual pilot vehicle, superimposed on an image of the vehicle environment. The display mode and/or position and/or orientation and/or size of the virtual pilot vehicle are determined for example in accordance with the route information, speed, reference points for a recommended route, position and orientation of the vehicle or the camera that records the vehicle environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2003Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: Horst Hortner, Dieter Kolb, Gustav Pomberger, Jan Wieghardt
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Patent number: 7039521Abstract: A method and device is for displaying driving instructions. The aim is to achieve a better consistency between the image recorded of the surrounding terrain by the vehicle camera and presented in the driver's field of vision, and the keyed-in calculated driving instruction. For this purpose, the inclination of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis and lateral axis relative to the road surface as well as the incline of the road or the three-dimensionality of the terrain are taken into consideration when a keyed-in driving instruction from the angle of view of the driver is produced.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Horst Hörtner, Dieter Kolb, Gustav Pomberger
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Publication number: 20040236506Abstract: A method and device is for displaying driving instructions. The aim is to achieve a better consistency between the image recorded of the surrounding terrain by the vehicle camera and presented in the driver's field of vision, and the keyed-in calculated driving instruction. For this purpose, the inclination of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis and lateral axis relative to the road surface as well as the incline of the road or the three-dimensionality of the terrain are taken into consideration when a keyed-in driving instruction from the angle of view of the driver is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Dieter Kolb, Horst Hortner, Gustav Pomberger