Patents by Inventor Markus Wohlschlager

Markus Wohlschlager 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).

  • Patent number: 11763921
    Abstract: A computing device arrangement (20) for receiving fetal monitoring data from a fetal monitoring system is disclosed. The computing device arrangement comprises a display device (30) arranged to display the fetal monitoring data, a touchscreen device (32) and a processor arrangement (24) communicatively coupled to the display device and the touchscreen device. The processor arrangement is arranged to receive the fetal monitoring data from the fetal monitoring system, control the display device to display the fetal monitoring data, receive a freeform input (36) in a region of the touchscreen device from the touchscreen device; modify the fetal monitoring data by annotating a displayed region (34) of the fetal monitoring data with the freeform input, said displayed region corresponding to the region of the touchscreen device; and generate an output of the modified fetal monitoring data for storage in a data storage device (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Hansjoerg Geywitz
  • Patent number: 11583256
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for health monitoring using one or more sensors comprising first measuring (100) a body composition via one or more sensors. The measured body composition is then classified (102) into one of a plurality of categories. An at least one setting to be used for the health monitoring is adjusted (104) based on the classified body composition. Then, the health monitoring is performed (106) using the adjusted at least one health monitoring setting, wherein at least one of the sensors used to measure the body composition may also be used to perform the health monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Hansjoerg Geywitz
  • Patent number: 11452004
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and a method for wireless health monitoring comprising dynamically adjusting sound data compression level and/or transmission bandwidth of transmission between a mobile transmitter and a receiver. In some embodiments, a method for wireless health monitoring may include calculating (202) a distance between a mobile transmitter (104) and a receiver (110). A data compression (108) level for compressing a signal, e.g., a sound signal, from the transmitter may be determined out of a plurality of data compression levels based on the distance between the transmitter and the receiver. A transmission bandwidth may then be determined (208) based at least in part on the determined data compression level. The compressed signal may be transmitted (210) using the determined transmission bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hansjoerg Geywitz, Markus Wohlschlager
  • Patent number: 11432796
    Abstract: A method for monitoring fetal health. The method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting (100) an ultrasound signal from an at least one transducer element in an array towards a maternal abdomen. An at least one ultrasonic echo signal corresponding to an at least one depth of the maternal abdomen is then received (102) by the at least one transducer element. The at least one Doppler signal is determined after the echo is received by the at least one transducer element is then processed (104) in an at least one channel. A multidimensional map is then generated (106) from the processed Doppler signal. A feedback (114) to reposition the at least one transducer element is then provided when the fetal heart is determined to lie outside an ultrasound beam volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Paul Hamelmann, Lars Schmitt, Alexander Franciscus Kolen, Markus Wohlschlager
  • Patent number: 11382598
    Abstract: The invention relates to determining a fetal heart rate from an ultrasonic Doppler echo signal, which comprises at least two channels, including a first channel obtained for a first depth range and a second channel obtained for a second depth range. A first heart rate is determined from the first channel (51, 53, 55) and a second heart rate is determined from the second channel (52, 54, 56). External information on the fetal heart rate and/or the maternal heart rate, extracted from an independent source (60, 61, 62) such as an ECG, is used to select one of the first heart rate and the second heart rate as the fetal heart rate to be determined. A preferred embodiment provides for elimination of double counting heart rates by cutting out unwanted signal contributions. The disclosure further provides for an adaptive signal processing and data acquisition controlled by patient related data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Hansjoerg Geywitz
  • Publication number: 20220167948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pregnancy monitoring system, the system comprising a fetal monitoring transducer (20) arranged to detect fetal medical condition information; and a control device (48) comprising a motion assessment unit (50) and a signal output unit (52); wherein the fetal monitoring transducer (20) is arranged to detect fetal movement indicative information, wherein the motion assessment unit (50) is arranged to process fetal movement grading information, in addition to the fetal movement indicative information, wherein the signal output unit (52) is arranged to simultaneously output a fetal condition signal, particularly a fetal heart rate signal, and an augmented fetal movement signal based on the fetal movement indicative information and the fetal movement grading information, wherein a characteristic property of the original fetal movement information is still present in the augmented fetal movement signal. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding pregnancy monitoring method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Lars Schmitt, Jakob Van De Laar, Markus Wohlschlager, Winfried Peter Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11304643
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a maternal monitoring transducer (20), comprising a housing (60), a substrate board (72), particularly a PCB (70), disposed in the housing (60) and comprising control components (74), and a displacement measurement arrangement (76) comprising a displacement-sensitive structure (78) that is arranged to detect deformations of a deflectable measurement section (80) of the substrate board (72), wherein the maternal monitoring transducer (20) supplies a signal that is representative of maternal motion. The disclosure further relates to a method of operating a maternal monitoring transducer (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Manuel Stephan
  • Patent number: 11266375
    Abstract: The invention relates to determining a fetal heart rate from an ultrasonic Doppler echo signal. Rather than extracting the Doppler signal from the carrier signal using synchronous demodulation, quadrature demodulation is used, which allows to distinguish between systolic and diastolic movements. This velocity direction can be used to cut out unwanted parts of the signal (systolic or diastolic heart activity), thus eliminating double counting heart rates. In particular, a binary sign signal (15?) may be used to cut out unwanted signal episodes, resulting in a processed reference signal (10?) having only the signal parts of one heart activity. Another aspect relates to determining a first and a second heart rate from at least two channels having a different depth range, and selecting one of the first and second heart rate based on external information of the fetal or maternal heart rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Harry Beitinger, Hansjoerg Geywitz
  • Patent number: 11253231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pregnancy monitoring system, the system comprising a fetal monitoring transducer (20) arranged to detect fetal medical condition information; and a control device (48) comprising a motion assessment unit (50) and a signal output unit (52); wherein the fetal monitoring transducer (20) is arranged to detect fetal movement indicative information, wherein the motion assessment unit (50) is arranged to process fetal movement grading information, in addition to the fetal movement indicative information, wherein the signal output unit (52) is arranged to simultaneously output a fetal condition signal, particularly a fetal heart rate signal, and an augmented fetal movement signal based on the fetal movement indicative information and the fetal movement grading information, wherein a characteristic property of the original fetal movement information is still present in the augmented fetal movement signal. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding pregnancy monitoring method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Lars Schmitt, Jakob Van De Laar, Markus Wohlschlager, Winfried Peter Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11246563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pregnancy monitoring system (10) and to a method for detecting medical condition information from a pregnant subject of interest (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Jakob Van De Laar, Haris Duric, Lars Schmitt, Markus Wohlschlager, Winfried Peter Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11234061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device (8) for wirelessly communicating with a sensor (4). The communication device (8) comprises a receiver for receiving signals, an amplifier for amplifying the received signals, a transmitter for transmitting signals, and a controller. The controller is operable in a first mode in which signal strength values are determined over time, which are indicative of a strength of an amplified received signal, and in a second mode in which signal transmission and reception are controlled based on the determined signal strength values. The determined signal strength values can be indicative of, for instance, a saturation of the amplifier caused by a transmission operation of another, neighboring communication device such that, by considering the determined signal strength values, the transmission carried out by the communication device (8) can be synchronized with the corresponding operation of the neighboring communication device. This can lead to reduced disturbances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Hansjoerg Geywitz, Daniel Gal, Andre Bigalke
  • Patent number: 11175781
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an ultrasound system comprising at least two ultrasound sensor units using gestures. The method comprises: detecting a gesture on a first ultrasound sensor unit; matching the detected gesture to one of the plurality of gestures in the gestures database; reading the assigned at least one system function in the gesture database related to the detected gesture; and activating the at least one system function. At least one system function includes switching a sound source from a second ultrasound sensor unit to said first ultrasound sensor unit and wherein the gesture assigned to this system function comprises a double-tap on the surface of the first ultrasound sensor unit. Further, the invention relates to a system for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wohlschlager, Albrecht Reinhard Kinzkofer
  • Publication number: 20210235172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device (8) for wirelessly communicating with a sensor (4). The communication device (8) comprises a receiver for receiving signals, an amplifier for amplifying the received signals, a transmitter for transmitting signals, and a controller. The controller is operable in a first mode in which signal strength values are determined over time, which are indicative of a strength of an amplified received signal, and in a second mode in which signal transmission and reception are controlled based on the determined signal strength values. The determined signal strength values can be indicative of, for instance, a saturation of the amplifier caused by a transmission operation of another, neighboring communication device such that, by considering the determined signal strength values, the transmission carried out by the communication device (8) can be synchronized with the corresponding operation of the neighboring communication device. This can lead to reduced disturbances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Hansjoerg GEYWITZ, Daniel GAL, Andre BIGALKE
  • Publication number: 20200375577
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for health monitoring using one or more sensors comprising first measuring (100) a body composition via one or more sensors. The measured body composition is then classified (102) into one of a plurality of categories. An at least one setting to be used for the health monitoring is adjusted (104) based on the classified body composition. Then, the health monitoring is performed (106) using the adjusted at least one health monitoring setting, wherein at least one of the sensors used to measure the body composition may also be used to perform the health monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Hansjoerg GEYWITZ
  • Publication number: 20200305839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an ultrasound system comprising at least two ultrasound sensor units using gestures. The method comprises: detecting a gesture on a first ultrasound sensor unit; matching the detected gesture to one of the plurality of gestures in the gestures database; reading the assigned at least one system function in the gesture database related to the detected gesture; and activating the at least one system function. At least one system function includes switching a sound source from a second ultrasound sensor unit to said first ultrasound sensor unit and wherein the gesture assigned to this system function comprises a double-tap on the surface of the first ultrasound sensor unit. Further, the invention relates to a system for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Albrecht Reinhard KINZKOFER
  • Publication number: 20200121188
    Abstract: A computing device arrangement (20) for receiving fetal monitoring data from a fetal monitoring system is disclosed. The computing device arrangement comprises a display device (30) arranged to display the fetal monitoring data, a touchscreen device (32) and a processor arrangement (24) communicatively coupled to the display device and the touchscreen device. The processor arrangement is arranged to receive the fetal monitoring data from the fetal monitoring system, control the display device to display the fetal monitoring data, receive a freeform input (36) in a region of the touchscreen device from the touchscreen device; modify the fetal monitoring data by annotating a displayed region (34) of the fetal monitoring data with the freeform input, said displayed region corresponding to the region of the touchscreen device; and generate an output of the modified fetal monitoring data to for storage in a data storage device (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Hansjoerg GEYWITZ
  • Publication number: 20190261220
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and a method for wireless health monitoring comprising dynamically adjusting sound data compression level and/or transmission bandwidth of transmission between a mobile transmitter and a receiver. In some embodiments, a method for wireless health monitoring may include calculating (202) a distance between a mobile transmitter (104) and a receiver (110). A data compression (108) level for compressing a signal, e.g., a sound signal, from the transmitter may be determined out of a plurality of data compression levels based on the distance between the transmitter and the receiver. A transmission bandwidth may then be determined (208) based at least in part on the determined data compression level. The compressed signal may be transmitted (210) using the determined transmission bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Hansjoerg GEYWITZ, Markus WOHLSCHLAGER
  • Publication number: 20190192027
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a maternal monitoring transducer (20), comprising a housing (60), a substrate board (72), particularly a PCB (70), disposed in the housing (60) and comprising control components (74), and a displacement measurement arrangement (76) comprising a displacement-sensitive structure (78) that is arranged to detect deformations of a deflectable measurement section (80) of the substrate board (72), wherein the maternal monitoring transducer (20) supplies a signal that is representative of maternal motion. The disclosure further relates to a method of operating a maternal monitoring transducer (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Manuel STEPHAN
  • Publication number: 20190142368
    Abstract: The invention relates to determining a fetal heart rate from an ultrasonic Doppler echo signal. Rather than extracting the Doppler signal from the carrier signal using synchronous demodulation, quadrature demodulation is used, which allows to distinguish between systolic and diastolic movements. This velocity direction can be used to cut out unwanted parts of the signal (systolic or diastolic heart activity), thus eliminating double counting heart rates. In particular, a binary sign signal (15?) may be used to cut out unwanted signal episodes, resulting in a processed reference signal (10?) having only the signal parts of one heart activity. Another aspect relates to determining a first and a second heart rate from at least two channels having a different depth range, and selecting one of the first and second heart rate based on external information of the fetal or maternal heart rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Markus WOHLSCHLAGER, Harry BEITINGER, Hansjoerg GEYWITZ
  • Publication number: 20190133549
    Abstract: A method for monitoring fetal health. The method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting (100) an ultrasound signal from an at least one transducer element in an array towards a maternal abdomen. An at least one ultrasonic echo signal corresponding to an at least one depth of the maternal abdomen is then received (102) by the at least one transducer element. The at least one Doppler signal is determined after the echo is received by the at least one transducer element is then processed (104) in an at least one channel. A multidimensional map is then generated (106) from the processed Doppler signal. A feedback (114) to reposition the at least one transducer element is then provided when the fetal heart is determined to lie outside an ultrasound beam volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Paul HAMELMANN, Lars SCHMITT, Alexander Franciscus KOLEN, MARKUS WOHLSCHLAGER