Patents by Inventor Martin Hellebrandt

Martin Hellebrandt 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).

  • System and method for alternatively interacting with elevators
    Patent number: 10457521
    Abstract: An electrical or electromechanical installation includes a central processor for controlling operation of the electrical or electromechanical installation, a computer communicatively coupled to the central processor to output a control signal to the central processor, and a first video camera communicatively coupled to the computer to output an image signal to the computer. The computer has a memory storing computer instructions to determine facial characteristics from a person's face data comprised in the image signal, to categorizing the facial characteristics into at least one of predefined emotion categories, and to generate a control signal corresponding to the at least one of predefined emotion categories. The central controller operates the electrical or electromechanical installation in accordance with one of several operational modes, wherein the one of several operational modes is selected as a function of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Benoît Légeret, Martin Hellebrandt
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALTERNATIVELY INTERACTING WITH ELEVATORS
    Publication number: 20170362054
    Abstract: An electrical or electromechanical installation includes a central processor for controlling operation of the electrical or electromechanical installation, a computer communicatively coupled to the central processor to output a control signal to the central processor, and a first video camera communicatively coupled to the computer to output an image signal to the computer. The computer has a memory storing computer instructions to determine facial characteristics from a person's face data comprised in the image signal, to categorizing the facial characteristics into at least one of predefined emotion categories, and to generate a control signal corresponding to the at least one of predefined emotion categories. The central controller operates the electrical or electromechanical installation in accordance with one of several operational modes, wherein the one of several operational modes is selected as a function of the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Benoït Légeret, Martin Hellebrandt