Patents by Inventor Konrad Mayer

Konrad Mayer 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).

  • Blob-encoding
    Patent number: 9443165
    Abstract: A method is directed to identifying spatially extensive image features that are not pixelwise contiguous in a two-dimensional digital image to be examined having pixels arranged in grid form in the form of a rectangular grid. Each pixel of the two-dimensional digital image is respectively assigned two coordinate values corresponding to their position in the rectangular grid of the digital image, and the respective coordinate values of adjoining pixels respectively differ by one pixel dimension. The individual pixels are run through in the order of a regular scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH
    Inventors: Konrad Mayer, Daniel Soukup
  • Blob-Encoding
    Publication number: 20150117769
    Abstract: A method is directed to identifying spatially extensive image features that are not pixelwise contiguous in a two-dimensional digital image to be examined having pixels arranged in grid form in the form of a rectangular grid. Each pixel of the two-dimensional digital image is respectively assigned two coordinate values corresponding to their position in the rectangular grid of the digital image, and the respective coordinate values of adjoining pixels respectively differ by one pixel dimension. The individual pixels are run through in the order of a regular scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Konrad Mayer, Daniel Soukup