Patents by Inventor Martin Gorner

Martin Gorner 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: 20220388183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gripper device for a robot gripper, wherein the gripper device comprises a mechanical actuation with at least two contact elements guided linearly and in parallel in a direction of actuation, at least one mechanically activatable and/or deactivatable functional portion for objects to be gripped, and a transmission with at least two levers for converting a mechanical actuation power, and wherein the at least two contact elements on the one hand and the at least two levers on the other hand are each articulated to each other with a degree of freedom f=2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Roman WEITSCHAT, Martin GÖRNER
  • Patent number: 8830241
    Abstract: Conversion of text-based images to vector graphics (VG) is disclosed. The text-based images may include images of equations, custom typefaces, or other types of text that may not be included in a font selection of an optical character recognition (OCR) device or an application stored on a viewing device. A textual image may be converted from a raster graphics (RG) image to a VG image, which may enable resizing and alignment of the VG image with body text. In some aspects, the server may determine a body size of a reference character in the VG image. The server may determine a baseline of the VG image that may be used to align the image with the body text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Gorner
  • Patent number: 8621390
    Abstract: A method for providing table-of-contents extensions for items displayed on an electronic device may include displaying contents of the item other than a table of contents for the item. The method may also include receiving user selection of a navigation option while the contents of the item are being displayed. The navigation option may correspond to a part of the item that is listed in the table of contents for the item. The method may also include navigating to the part of the item corresponding to the navigation option in response to the user's selection of the navigation option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean J. Findley, Edward J. Gayles, Martin Görner
  • Patent number: 8442423
    Abstract: A digital media item, such as an electronic book (eBook), may include testing content. The testing content may include questions about the content of the digital media item. When is user is viewing the digital media item on an electronic device, such as an eBook reader, the user may be allowed to select whether the testing content is displayed. The user may also be allowed to select a particular mode of testing, such as automatic testing, selective testing, etc. If the user chooses to display the testing content, the user may also be allowed to provide answers to the testing questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Ryan, Edward J. Gayles, Laurent An Minh Nguyen, Steven K. Weiss, Martin Görner
  • Patent number: 8402366
    Abstract: Electronic content may be formatted using tag format stacks that store format information up to a predetermined location in the electronic content. The electronic content may be formatted for display using data in the format tag stack and without parsing the entire electronic content. In some aspects, an encoder may receive content that includes a predetermined format and body text. The encoder may parse the content via a sequential process to identify active format tags at certain locations within the content. Next, the encoder may store the active format tags as a format tag stack in the content. In further aspects, a decoder may select a portion of the content for display. The format tag stack may be updated by parsing the portion of the content that is not included in the format tag stack. The content may be formatted based on instructions of the updated format tag stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Gorner, Rangasamy Surendran, Palanidaran Chidambaram
  • Patent number: 6240058
    Abstract: The invention concerns a disk-changing unit comprising a tower housing (1) in which is fitted at least one interchangeable disk magazine (13), at least one disk drive (14), if necessary a disk-loading/ejecting drawer (12), a transporting device (17) for moving a disk between the disk magazine (13), the disk drive (14) and if necessary the disk-loading/ejecting drawer (12), an operating device (6) and a computer-controlled control unit (9). To be able to assemble the disk-changing unit individually with the disk magazine (13), the disk drive (14) and if necessary the disk-loading/ejecting drawer (12), the disk magazine (13), the disk drive (14) and the disk-loading/ejecting drawer (12) have the same external dimensions and are modulatively fitted next to each other by being pushed in or pulled out of corresponding recesses (10) and can thus be interchanged, replaced an/or added to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: NSM Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Pitz, Martin Görner, Horst Schellong, Börge Heidersberger, Wolfgang Theil