Patents by Inventor Jochen Weber
Jochen Weber 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: 20260086709Abstract: According to at least one implementation, a method includes identifying a gaze associated with a user of a device and identifying a first state of a gesture from the user. The method further includes causing display of a cursor over a first portion of content on a display of the device based on the gaze and the first state of the gesture. The method also includes identifying a second state of the gesture from the user and causing display of the cursor over a second portion of the content on the display based on the gaze and the second state of the gesture, the second portion being different than the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: March 26, 2026Inventors: Diego Rivas Vetencourt, Dongeek Shin, Ishan Chatterjee, Jochen Weber, Li-Te Cheng
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Patent number: 12517627Abstract: A method including determining an eye-gaze characteristic of a user of a wearable device, determining a head movement of the user, determining a gesture based on the eye-gaze characteristic, the head movement, and a correlation between the eye-gaze characteristic and the head movement, selecting a user interface (UI) element of a head-locked UI operating on the wearable device based on the gesture, and triggering a UI operation based on the selected UI element.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jochen Weber, Tobias Toft, Ryan Alexander West, Cosmo Rettig, Prasanthi Gurumurthy, Joost Korngold, Tarik Hany Abdel-Gawad, Samuel Legge, Jingying Hu
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Patent number: 12455632Abstract: Computing systems and computer-implemented methods are provided. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a user gesture from a user of the computing system. The computer-implemented method includes, responsive to detecting the user gesture, obtaining, by the computing system, data associated with one or more points of interest (POIs) proximate to a physical location of the user. The computer-implemented method includes determining, by the computing system, the user gesture is directed to a particular POI of the one or more POIs. The computer-implemented method includes providing, by the computing system, data associated with the particular POI for display to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2024Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ishac Bertran, Jochen Weber
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Publication number: 20250244828Abstract: A display device may receive eye tracking data. A display device may detect an eye gaze intent state based on the eye tracking data. A display device may receive an input device signal of an input device. A display device may determine to switch from a first input modality to a second input modality based on at least one of the eye gaze intent state or the input device signal. A display device may move a position indicator on a display of the display device using at least one of the first input modality or the second input modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: Khushman Jayantilal Patel, Mar Gonzalez Franco, Eric Jordan Gonzalez, Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan, Jacob Pawek, Ishan Chatterjee, Isaac Allen Fehr, Vrushank Shripad Phadnis, Jochen Weber, Diego Rivas Vetencourt, Lucy Abramyan, Li-Te Cheng, Andrea Colaco, Lee Payne
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Publication number: 20250244831Abstract: Computing systems and computer-implemented methods are provided. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a user gesture from a user of the computing system. The computer-implemented method includes, responsive to detecting the user gesture, obtaining, by the computing system, data associated with one or more points of interest (POIs) proximate to a physical location of the user. The computer-implemented method includes determining, by the computing system, the user gesture is directed to a particular POI of the one or more POIs. The computer-implemented method includes providing, by the computing system, data associated with the particular POI for display to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2024Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: Ishac Bertran, Jochen Weber
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Publication number: 20250110612Abstract: A method including determining an eye-gaze characteristic of a user of a wearable device, determining a head movement of the user, determining a gesture based on the eye-gaze characteristic, the head movement, and a correlation between the eye-gaze characteristic and the head movement, selecting a user interface (UI) element of a head-locked UI operating on the wearable device based on the gesture, and triggering a UI operation based on the selected UI element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jochen Weber, Tobias Toft, Ryan Alexander West, Cosmo Rettig, Prasanthi Gurumurthy, Joost Korngold, Tarik Hany Abdel-Gawad, Samuel Legge, Jingying Hu
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Publication number: 20240186803Abstract: A switching assembly for an electrical energy storage system having a first energy storage unit and a second energy storage unit, each having a first pole terminal and a second pole terminal, comprising: at least a first output and a second output for electrically conductive connection to at least one electrical component, a first switching unit arranged between the first pole terminal of the first energy storage unit and the first output, a second switching unit arranged between the second pole terminal of the first energy storage unit and the second output, a third switching unit arranged between the first pole terminal of the second energy storage unit and the first output, a fourth switching unit arranged between the second pole terminal of the second energy storage unit and the second output, a fifth switching unit arranged between the second pole terminal of the first energy storage unit and the first pole terminal of the second energy storage unit, wherein the first switching unit is connected to thType: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Berengar Krieg, Ian Patrick Moss, Jochen Weber, Johannes Swoboda, Josef Goeppert, Ngoc Ho Tran, Philipp Heimbucher, Samuel Vasconcelos Araujo
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Patent number: 11865925Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electric energy store (1), to an electric energy store (1), and to a device, having an electric energy storage module (18), a switch unit (4), and a first and second connection (5, 7). The method has the following steps which follow one another chronologically: in a first step, a signal of a sensor of the electric energy store (1) is evaluated; in a second step, a critical state of the electric energy store (1) is ascertained; in a third step, an electrically conductive connection between the electric energy storage module (18) and the first and second connection (5, 7) is interrupted in the charge direction by means of the switch unit (4), while simultaneously the electrically conductive connection between the electric energy storage module (18) and the first and second connection (5, 7) remains connected in the discharge direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Barabas
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Patent number: 11600991Abstract: Electrical circuit arrangement for an energy storage system comprising a first electrochemical energy storage device and a second electrochemical energy storage device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Kaiser
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Publication number: 20220250478Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electric energy store (1), to an electric energy store (1), and to a device, having an electric energy storage module (18), a switch unit (4), and a first and second connection (5, 7). The method has the following steps which follow one another chronologically: in a first step, a signal of a sensor of the electric energy store (1) is evaluated; in a second step, a critical state of the electric energy store (1) is ascertained; in a third step, an electrically conductive connection between the electric energy storage module (18) and the first and second connection (5, 7) is interrupted in the charge direction by means of the switch unit (4), while simultaneously the electrically conductive connection between the electric energy storage module (18) and the first and second connection (5, 7) remains connected in the discharge direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Barabas
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Patent number: 11362596Abstract: In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is suppliable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-voltType: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Josef Schmidt, Matthias Hauck, Jochen Weber
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Patent number: 11233414Abstract: A battery module (5) for a motor vehicle. The battery module (5) includes a battery unit (2), a negative pole (21), a positive pole (22), a switching unit (60), which is connected electrically in series with the battery unit (2) and has at least one controllable switching element, and a management system (30) for controlling the at least one switching element. A hold circuit (40) is provided, which is connected to the management system (30) and to the switching unit (60) in such a way that a control signal from the management system (30) can be transferred through the hold circuit (40) to the switching unit (60), and is designed such that, in an active state of the hold circuit (40), a control signal from the management system (30) to open the at least one switching element can be transferred to the switching unit (60) with a time delay.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Kaiser
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Publication number: 20210194379Abstract: In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is suppliable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-voltType: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Matthias HAUCK, Jochen WEBER
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Publication number: 20210098984Abstract: Electrical circuit arrangement for an energy storage system comprising a first electrochemical energy storage device and a second electrochemical energy storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Kaiser
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Patent number: 10951126Abstract: In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is supplyable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-voltType: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Josef Schmidt, Matthias Hauck, Jochen Weber
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Publication number: 20210006083Abstract: A battery module (5) for a motor vehicle. The battery modue (5) includes a battery unit (2), a negative pole (21), a positive pole (22), a switching unit (60), which is connected electrically in series with the battery unit (2) and has at least one controllable switching element, and a management system (30) for controlling the at least one switching element. A hold circuit (40) is provided, which is connected to the management system (30) and to the switching unit (60) in such a way that a control signal from the management system (30) can be transferred through the hold circuit (40) to the switching unit (60), and is designed such that, in an active state of the hold circuit (40), a control signal from the management system (30) to open the at least one switching element can be transferred to the switching unit (60) with a time delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jochen Weber, Joerg Schneider, Peter Kohn, Sabine Arnold, Thomas Kaiser
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Publication number: 20190252992Abstract: In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is supplyable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-voltType: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2017Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Matthias HAUCK, Jochen WEBER
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Publication number: 20190121238Abstract: The disclosure relates to a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography which includes an actuator system to mechanically actuate a component of the projection exposure apparatus. The actuator system has at least one mechanism to reduce and/or dampen the heat input into the component that is due to heat arising during the operation of the actuator system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Benjamin Sigel, Andreas Bertele, Peter Kloesch, Martin Mahlmann, Jochen Weber
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Patent number: 10070202Abstract: Electromechanical adapter having at least one controller, wherein the adapter comprises at least a first interface for communication with at least one monitoring unit at the battery, a second interface for communication with a monitoring unit that is superordinate to the monitoring unit at the battery, and a third interface for the connection of at least one sensor and/or actuator, wherein the controller converts signals between the first and second interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Schaedlich, Jochen Weber, Chrysanthos Tzivanopoulos, Sven Bergmann
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Patent number: D1124010Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Khushman Jayantilal Patel, Jochen Weber, Vrushank Shripad Phadnis