Patents by Inventor Karin Donner

Karin Donner 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).

  • Measuring method and measuring unit for determining the spatial position of a wheel rim as well as a wheel alignment measuring system
    Patent number: 7860295
    Abstract: A method and a unit for determining the spatial position of a wheel rim with respect to a measuring unit having at least one camera, wherein the wheel rim lies in the viewing field of the camera, including making available of a model, that describes a model body of a localizable wheel rim geometry detail as well as the spatial position of the model body with respect to the measuring unit, through model parameters, capturing of a picture of the wheel rim geometry detail of the wheel rim with the camera, fitting the image of the model body resulting from the model parameters to the picture of the wheel rim geometry detail through changing the model parameters of the model, and tracking the changes of the model parameters upon the fitting, whereby the data related to the position of the model body of the wheel rim geometry detail reflect the spatial position of the wheel rim-geometry detail and, thereby, the wheel rim itself, when the image resulting from the model parameters, of the wheel rim-geometry detail fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Beissbarth GmbH
    Inventors: Karin Donner, Hermann Bux, Stefan Schommer, Rudolf Engl
  • Measuring Method and Measuring Unit for Determining the Spatial Position of a Wheel Rim as Well as a Wheel Alignment Measuring System
    Publication number: 20070283582
    Abstract: A method and a unit for determining the spatial position of a wheel rim with respect to a measuring unit having at least one camera, wherein the wheel rim lies in the viewing field of the camera, including making available of a model, that describes a model body of a localizable wheel rim geometry detail as well as the spatial position of the model body with respect to the measuring unit, through model parameters, capturing of a picture of the wheel rim geometry detail of the wheel rim with the camera, fitting the image of the model body resulting from the model parameters to the picture of the wheel rim geometry detail through changing the model parameters of the model, and tracking the changes of the model parameters upon the fitting, whereby the data related to the position of the model body of the wheel rim geometry detail reflect the spatial position of the wheel rim-geometry detail and, thereby, the wheel rim itself, when the image resulting from the model parameters, of the wheel rim-geometry detail fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Karin Donner, Hermann Bux, Stefan Schommer, Rudolf Engl