Patents by Inventor Martin Reiche

Martin Reiche 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: 11270135
    Abstract: A method for classifying objects on a roadway in surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes: reading in image data from a vehicle camera of the vehicle. The image data represent an area of the surroundings which includes the roadway; evaluating the image data including generating a model of a surface of the roadway using identified roadway markings, and an object on the roadway being identified; ascertaining first distance values between the vehicle camera and object image points of the object represented by the image data, and second distance values between the vehicle camera and roadway image points, defined by the model, of the surface of the roadway in surroundings of the object; and comparing the distance values to at least one continuity criterion for distinguishing raised objects from flat objects to classify the object as a raised or flat object as a function of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 11248951
    Abstract: A sensor device, including a sensor having a sound transducer to emit sonic waves and convert received sonic waves to electrical signals. A sensor evaluation unit carries out surrounding-area monitoring during a normal operation of the sensor, by evaluating electrical signals of the sound transducer. During a monitoring mode of the sensor, a monitoring unit of the sensor device measures an impedance of the sound transducer for different excitation frequencies of excitation signals produced with a signal generator of the sensor device. The sensor device includes a first and a second signal path, which are each connected to the sound transducer and are connectable to the signal generator. To reset the sensor from normal operation to the monitoring mode, a first control unit of the sensor device is configured to decouple the signal generator from the first signal path and to connect it to the second signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Schmid, Karl-Heinz Richter, Martin Reiche, Michael Frank, Peter Preissler
  • Publication number: 20210166043
    Abstract: A method for classifying objects on a roadway in surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes: reading in image data from a vehicle camera of the vehicle. The image data represent an area of the surroundings which includes the roadway; evaluating the image data including generating a model of a surface of the roadway using identified roadway markings, and an object on the roadway being identified; ascertaining first distance values between the vehicle camera and object image points of the object represented by the image data, and second distance values between the vehicle camera and roadway image points, defined by the model, of the surface of the roadway in surroundings of the object; and comparing the distance values to at least one continuity criterion for distinguishing raised objects from flat objects to classify the object as a raised or flat object as a function of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20210131862
    Abstract: A sensor device, including a sensor having a sound transducer to emit sonic waves and convert received sonic waves to electrical signals. A sensor evaluation unit carries out surrounding-area monitoring during a normal operation of the sensor, by evaluating electrical signals of the sound transducer. During a monitoring mode of the sensor, a monitoring unit of the sensor device measures an impedance of the sound transducer for different excitation frequencies of excitation signals produced with a signal generator of the sensor device. The sensor device includes a first and a second signal path, which are each connected to the sound transducer and are connectable to the signal generator. To reset the sensor from normal operation to the monitoring mode, a first control unit of the sensor device is configured to decouple the signal generator from the first signal path and to connect it to the second signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Dirk Schmid, Karl-Heinz Richter, Martin Reiche, Michael Frank, Peter Preissler
  • Patent number: 10615206
    Abstract: An image-sensor module includes an image sensor and a protective layer that covers a subregion of an image-sensor surface of the image sensor, where at least two edge regions of the image-sensor surface, for example, edge regions situated at opposite edges of the image sensor, are not covered by the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Decker, Johannes Eschler, Martin Reiche, Nikolai Bauer, Thomas Braune
  • Publication number: 20190088703
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a camera. The method includes providing and connecting. In the providing, a wafer element, which includes a microlens unit and an image sensor, and a barrel element, which includes a lens system for concentrating light, are provided. In the connecting, the wafer element is connected to the barrel element to manufacture the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20180374885
    Abstract: An image-sensor module includes an image sensor and a protective layer that covers a subregion of an image-sensor surface of the image sensor, where at least two edge regions of the image-sensor surface, for example, edge regions situated at opposite edges of the image sensor, are not covered by the protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Decker, Johannes Eschler, Martin Reiche, Nikolai Bauer, Thomas Braune
  • Patent number: 9992598
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 9838579
    Abstract: A method for producing a camera includes: mounting an image sensor on a circuit carrier and contacting with a power device for recording image signals of the image sensor; measuring an objective while ascertaining a tilting angle of its optical axis in terms of an amount and azimuth; providing an objective holder having a tube and locating pins; placing the objective holder with its locating pins on at least one of the circuit carrier and the image sensor; inserting the objective in a specified rotational position or at an azimuth angle into the tube as a function of the ascertained tilting angle; and adjusting the focus. An axis of symmetry of the tube of the objective holder has a counter-tilting angle with respect to a surface normal of the image sensor, which is the opposite of the ascertained tilting angle or the image shell tilting of the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20170289420
    Abstract: An imager module for a vehicle camera, the imager module having at least: a lens holder, a lens accommodated in the lens holder, a flexible conductor device having leads, and an image sensor contacted by the leads of the flexible conductor device that has a front side having a sensitive surface; the image sensor being contacted by the leads using flip-chip technology via stud bumps provided at the front side thereof. The lens holder has a plastic part, in particular an injection-molded part, having a tubular region for accommodating the lens and a fastening region having a bottom side; and the flexible conductor device being integrally attached to the bottom side of the fastening region, and a non-conductive adhesive region being formed between the front side of the image sensor and the flexible conductor device around the stud bumps, preferably to produce a tensile stress. An insertion part is preferably received in the plastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Reiche, Thomas Braune, Ulrich Seger
  • Patent number: 9596389
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an imager module, includes: applying a flexible, in particular elastic, receiving area to a carrier device, for example, a metal plate, and applying an image sensor to the flexible receiving area, the image sensor being tiltable and/or pivotable with the flexible receiving area, attaching a lens, in particular including a guide device, on the image sensor so that the lens aligns the image sensor so that an axis, in particular an optical axis of the lens, extends essentially in parallel to a normal of the image sensor, and fixing the lens on the image sensor and/or the carrier device. The guide device may be formed by three guide pins here, whose lower pin ends define a support plane, which is placed on a sensor surface. In addition, an imager module manufactured in this way is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20170034637
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20160379066
    Abstract: Proposed is a camera system and a method for distance determination of objects from a vehicle using two cameras, which capture different and yet at least partially overlapping fields of view, wherein the cameras have differently configured optics and the images of the cameras are used to carry out a distance determination of an object in the overlap region of the cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Reiche, Julia Heroldt
  • Patent number: 9503830
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 8833167
    Abstract: A sensor device described having a sensor, in particular an ultrasound sensor, having a generating and detecting arrangement to generate and detect waves, in particular sound waves, the detection arrangement converting received waves into electric signals, and the electric signals being evaluable by an evaluation unit. A function-monitoring device is configured to determine an impedance characteristic curve of the sensor as a function of an excitation frequency is provided. Also described is a method for operating the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Reiche, Michael Frank, Dirk Schmid, Peter Preissler, Karl-Heinz Richter
  • Patent number: 8671762
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is described having a housing which has a circumferential side wall and a base surface. A transducer element for generating ultrasonic vibrations is mounted on the base surface. The side wall includes a lower side wall section, in which the side wall has an essentially rotationally asymmetrical profile in a plane parallel to the base surface, and an upper side wall section in which the side wall changes to an essentially rotationally symmetrical profile toward an upper edge of the side wall. In other respects, the present system provides a parking assistance system for a vehicle, having a control unit and such an ultrasonic sensor, as well as a method for manufacturing an ultrasonic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 8587182
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 8276445
    Abstract: A holding device for an ultrasonic transformer having a diaphragm cup, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes the following: a housing to accommodate the diaphragm cup; a decoupling component to position the diaphragm cup on the housing and on a holding section in vibration-damped manner; and a filler material to connect the diaphragm cup and the decoupling component to the housing in a vibration-damped and sealing, form-fitting manner, the decoupling component sealingly filling a gap between an edge of an opening of the housing and the diaphragm cup, as well as a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 8270536
    Abstract: A method for adapting a threshold value of a detection device comprising the following steps: Transmission of a signal burst having a predefined pulse-repetition interval, a predefined burst length and a defined signal frequency; receiving and processing of a receive signal, in particular by means of amplification, filtering and demodulation, so as to obtain the envelope; determining a receive-signal magnitude as interference-level sample from the receive signal following a first predefined time duration (?t1) starting with a signal burst within a predefined second time duration (?t2), preferably at the end of the pulse repetition interval; and adapting the threshold value of the detection device as a function of the interference level sample. Also provided is a device for adapting a threshold value of a detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 8107322
    Abstract: A device for the attenuation of an anti-resonant circuit which has a first capacitor and a secondary inductance. A signal is able to be coupled into the anti-resonant circuit via a primary inductance. An attenuator is connected in parallel to a switching device and to the secondary inductance and/or the primary inductanace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reiche