Patents by Inventor Marco Woerner

Marco Woerner 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119632
    Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating cameras of a multichannel medical visualization system, including capturing a capturing region respectively imaged via channels of the multichannel medical visualization system by a respective camera, determining a magnification center for each of the channels, setting at least two magnification levels of a common mechanical magnification optical unit, identifying an image region which does not move or which moves the least across the magnification levels for each of the channels in image representations which are captured, and, proceeding from the respectively determined magnification centers, defining an image portion for each of the channels in the captured image representations with the respectively identified magnification center as the center, and restricting an output of the captured image representations at all magnification levels to the image portion defined for the respective channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Richard BAEUMER, Marco WOERNER, Henrike VON HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230316573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a medical microscope, in particular in the field, with an interchange and/or a misalignment of at least one component of the medical microscope being followed by an identification of the interchanged and/or misaligned at least one component, with required adjustment measures and/or calibration measures being determined in automated fashion using the identified at least one interchanged and/or misaligned component as a starting point, and with the determined required adjustment measures and/or calibration measures being carried out. Furthermore, the invention relates to a medical microscope arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Felicia WALZ, Dominik SCHERER, Stefan SAUR, Marco WOERNER, Lars STOPPE, Christian PLATT
  • Publication number: 20230236407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting and/or calibrating a medical microscope, the following being implemented for at least one observer beam path of the medical microscope: capturing respective image representations of an object at different magnification levels of a zoom optical unit, and determining a zoom center using the captured image representations as a starting point, and i) capturing respective further image representations at different axis positions of at least one linear or rotational movement axis of the medical microscope, a rotation of the capture device relative to the at least one linear or rotational movement axis being determined using the captured further image representations as a starting point, and/or ii) capturing respective further image representations of the object in different focal planes and/or at different working distances in the case of an off-centered imaging optical unit, a rotation of the capture device being determined using the captured further image representa
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Richard BĂ„UMER, Marco WOERNER
  • Publication number: 20230236405
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a stereoscopic medical microscope, wherein deteriorated and/or invalid calibration data are recognized, wherein for this purpose mutually corresponding image representations of at least one feature arranged in capture regions of cameras of a stereo camera system of the medical microscope are captured by means of the cameras, the captured image representations are evaluated by means of feature-based image processing, wherein the at least one feature is recognized in this case in the captured image representations and a misalignment and/or a decalibration of the cameras of the stereo camera system are/is recognized on the basis of the at least one feature recognized; and wherein at least one measure is carried out depending on an evaluation result. Furthermore, the invention relates to a medical microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Felicia WALZ, Dominik SCHERER, Stefan SAUR, Marco WOERNER, Lars STOPPE, Christian PLATT
  • Patent number: D786719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marco Woerner, Rupert Blaesi