Patents by Inventor Matthias Flessner

Matthias Flessner 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: 11830175
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for the measurement of an object, wherein the method comprises the following steps: ascertainment of measurement data using a radiographic measurement of the object, wherein the measurement data generates a digital representation of the object with a large number of items of image information of the object; and carrying out the following steps at least before ending the ascertainment of measurement data: analysis of at least one portion of the digital representation of the object; optimization of at least one recording parameter of the radiographic measurement using the analysed portion of the digital representation of the object; and adaptation of the step of ascertainment of measurement data taking the at least one recording parameter into consideration. The invention thus provides a computer-implemented method that has an increased efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLUME GRAPHICS GMBH
    Inventors: Christof Reinhart, Daniela Handl, Sven Gondrom-Linke, Christoph Poliwoda, Matthias Flessner, Thomas Günther, Sören Schüller
  • Patent number: 11830226
    Abstract: Described is a method for compressing measurement data of a volume which comprises an object, wherein a digital representation of the object comprising a plurality of image information items of the object is generated by the measurement. The method comprises: providing an analysis specification for at least one predetermined region in the measurement volume; determining the measurement data in the measurement volume; defining a subset of the measurement data which corresponds to the at least one predetermined region of the analysis specification; selecting at least one compression rate for the subset on the basis of the analysis specification; selecting a first compression method for a remainder of the measurement data outside the subset, the first compression method having a compression rate; compressing the subset with the selected at least one compression rate, and compressing the remainder of the measurement data by way of the first compression method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLUME GRAPHICS GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Flessner, Christoph Poliwoda, Christof Reinhart, Thomas Günther
  • Publication number: 20230196546
    Abstract: Described is measuring an object by: determining measurement data using a device for measuring the object, wherein the measurement data generates a digital representation of the object with image data; and before the determining measurement data has ended: analyzing part of the digital representation to identify defects; if a defect is identified: determining at least one conformity result relating to the analyzed part, the conformity result indicating to what extent the analyzed part with the determined defect fulfils at least one predefined conformity criterion for the object; and if no defect is identified and sufficient measurement data have been acquired to determine that the analyzed part fulfils the at least one conformity criterion: generating a conformity result relating to the analyzed part, the conformity result indicating that the at least one predefined conformity criterion is fulfilled for the object; adapting the step of determining, taking the conformity result into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sören SCHÜLLER, Thomas GÜNTHER, Daniela HANDL, Matthias FLESSNER, Christof REINHART, Christoph POLIWODA, Sven GONDROM-LINKE
  • Publication number: 20230184697
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for measuring an object comprising the following steps: determining measurement data by means of a device for measuring the object, wherein the measurement data generates a digital representation of the object with a plurality of image data of the object; and carrying out the following steps at least before the step of determining measurement data has ended: analyzing at least one dimensional measurement variable of at least one part of the digital representation of the object, determining at least one conformity result relating to the analyzed part of the digital representation of the object, wherein the conformity result indicates to what extent the analyzed at least one dimensional measurement variable fulfils at least one predefined conformity criterion for the object, and adapting the step of determining measurement data taking the at least one conformity result into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Flessner, Christoph Poliwoda, Sören Schüller, Thomas Günther, Daniela Handl, Sven Gondrom-Linke, Christof Reinhart
  • Publication number: 20230186453
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for optimising a determining of measurement data of an object, where the measurement data is evaluated for geometrical characteristics of the object. The measurement data is determined by measuring the object using at least one recording parameter that includes at least one measurement geometry and/or at least one adjusting option for the measurement. The method includes the following steps: determining at least one measuring task for the object, wherein the measuring task is carried out by an evaluation method and it establishes the geometrical characteristics of the object; optimising the at least one recording parameter for the at least one measuring task for optimising the determining of measurement data; determining the measurement data for the object by measuring using the at least one optimised recording parameter; and carrying out the at least one measuring task for the object based on the determined measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias FLESSNER, Patrick FUCHS
  • Publication number: 20230175988
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for monitoring the status of a device for investigating objects, wherein the investigation of an object involves determining measurement data by measuring the object and operating data of the device is determined during the investigation of the object. The method includes: determining measurement data of the object by means of the device; determining operating data of the device during the determining measurement data of the object; determining at least one quality parameter from the measurement data; analysing the operating data and the at least one quality parameter; and determining a status characteristic value based on the analysing in order to monitor the status of the device, wherein the status characteristic value indicates a status of the device. The computer-implemented method comparatively easily monitors the functionality of devices for investigating objects during adaptive measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Gondrom-Linke, Matthias Flessner, Thomas Günther, Christoph Poliwoda, Sören Schüller, Christof Reinhart, Daniela Handl
  • Publication number: 20220197262
    Abstract: Described is determining defects of an object produced using an additive manufacturing process, including: determining spatially resolved first data relating to n objects, the first data defines a process coordinate system for each of the n objects, determining measurement data relating to the n objects by imaging the n objects, the measurement data defines, for each of the n objects, an object representation in a measurement coordinate system, determining which coordinates of at least one section of the measurement coordinate system are defect coordinates assigned to a defect in the object representation; correlating the at least one section with a corresponding section the process coordinate system in order to collect training data, training an adaptive algorithm for determining defect coordinates in spatially resolved data, by means of the training data, determining spatially resolved second data and analysing the second data for defects by means of the adaptive algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Gerd Schwaderer, Thomas Günther, Johannes Fieres, Matthias Flessner
  • Publication number: 20220180573
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for analysing measurement data of an object, said measurement data defining an object representation in a measurement coordinate system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: determining the measurement data of the object; providing an object coordinate system for at least one part of the object; providing an evaluation specification for the analysis, wherein the evaluation specification determines at least one set of coordinates from the provided object coordinate system for performing the analysis; determining a non-solid mapping between the provided object coordinate system and the object representation; and determining, by means of said non-solid mapping, at least one partial region of the measurement data for the analysis to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes FIERES, Gerd SCHWADERER, Thomas GÜNTHER, Matthias FLESSNER, Markus RHEIN
  • Publication number: 20220148211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for determining surfaces in measurement data from a measurement of a volume which contains an object, a digital representation of the object being produced by means of the measurement data, the object representation having a plurality of pieces of image information of the object, the method comprising the following steps: providing an evaluation specification for at least one predefined three-dimensional region of the volume, said region containing the object; ascertaining the measurement data; defining a subregion of the measurement data that corresponds to the at least one predefined three-dimensional region; and determining at least one surface of the object representation in the subregion. The invention makes the determination of the surfaces of the object representation fast and accurate. Therefore, a computer-implemented method that improves the provision of surface data from the measurement data is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Christof REINHART, Thomas GÜNTHER, Christoph POLIWODA, Matthias FLESSNER
  • Publication number: 20220148210
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for ascertaining a value of a geometric parameter of at least one part to be measured of an object from at least one two-dimensional image of a measurement volume, wherein the measurement volume includes the object and the part of the object that is to be measured has a position in the measurement volume, wherein the at least one two-dimensional image is assigned to a recording geometry, wherein the recording geometry describes a geometric relationship between a detector for ascertaining two-dimensional images and the object, wherein the method comprises: ascertaining at least one two-dimensional image of the measurement volume; and identifying the at least one part to be measured of the object in the at least one two-dimensional image, and ascertaining a value of the geometric parameter of the at least one part to be measured that has been identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Sven GONDROM-LINKE, Gerd SCHWADERER, Christof REINHART, Christoph POLIWODA, Sören SCHÜLLER, Matthias FLESSNER, Markus RHEIN, Thomas GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20220130081
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for determining at least one geometric parameter required for an evaluation of measurement data, wherein the measurement data are determined by means of a radiographic measurement of a component having a component geometry, wherein a digital component representation is generated by the measurement data, wherein the method comprises the following steps: determining the measurement data by means of a radiographic measurement of a component; identifying regions one of in the digital component representation or in the component geometry as reference regions; determining at least one geometric parameter required for an evaluation of the determined measurement data, by means of the reference regions. Less computing power than in the prior art is required with the method. Furthermore, the method is able to be employed without great complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph POLIWODA, Soren SCHÜLLER, Matthias FLESSNER, Thomas GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20220114765
    Abstract: Described is a method for compressing measurement data of a volume which comprises an object, wherein a digital representation of the object comprising a plurality of image information items of the object is generated by the measurement. The method comprises: providing an analysis specification for at least one predetermined region in the measurement volume; determining the measurement data in the measurement volume; defining a subset of the measurement data which corresponds to the at least one predetermined region of the analysis specification; selecting at least one compression rate for the subset on the basis of the analysis specification; selecting a first compression method for a remainder of the measurement data outside the subset, the first compression method having a compression rate; compressing the subset with the selected at least one compression rate, and compressing the remainder of the measurement data by way of the first compression method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias Flessner, Christoph Poliwoda, Christof Reinhart, Thomas Günther
  • Publication number: 20220074874
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analysing measurement data from a measurement of an object to assess whether the object corresponds to a target condition, by the following steps: determining measurement data of a plurality of objects; determining analysis data records from the measurement data, an analysis data record being assigned to one of the objects and having at least one analysis result about the conformity of the assigned object to the target condition; checking, by a user, some of the analysis results; adapting an analysis result if the checking results in a different analysis result about the conformity; and transmitting the adapted analysis data records to a learning algorithm that modifies itself on the basis of the adapted analysis data records, in order to determine analysis data records from additional measurement data of objects; and the steps are carried out one after another or with an at least partial temporal overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias FLESSNER, Christof REINHART, Thomas GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20210350526
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for the measurement of an object, wherein the method comprises the following steps: ascertainment of measurement data using a radiographic measurement of the object, wherein the measurement data generates a digital representation of the object with a large number of items of image information of the object; and carrying out the following steps at least before ending the ascertainment of measurement data: analysis of at least one portion of the digital representation of the object; optimization of at least one recording parameter of the radiographic measurement using the analysed portion of the digital representation of the object; and adaptation of the step of ascertainment of measurement data taking the at least one recording parameter into consideration. The invention thus provides a computer-implemented method that has an increased efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Christof REINHART, Daniela HANDL, Sven GONDROM-LINKE, Christoph POLIWODA, Matthias FLESSNER, Thomas GÜNTHER, Sören SCHÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10699401
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to determine the local quality of surface data (O) extracted from a volume data set (V) by means of a surface determination method. An environment in the volume data set (V) is determined for each surface point of the surface data (O). Using the curve of the grayscale values of voxels from said environment, at least one quality characteristic (Q) is derived which characterizes the quality of the respective examined surface point. The quality characteristic (Q) or each quality characteristic is output together with coordinates of the respective examined surface point as the method result (O?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: VOLUME GRAPHICS GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Flessner, Tino Hausotte
  • Publication number: 20170256048
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to determine the local quality of surface data (O) extracted from a volume data set (V) by means of a surface determination method. An environment in the volume data set (V) is determined for each surface point of the surface data (O). Using the curve of the grayscale values of voxels from said environment, at least one quality characteristic (Q) is derived which characterizes the quality of the respective examined surface point. The quality characteristic (Q) or each quality characteristic is output together with coordinates of the respective examined surface point as the method result (O?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Flessner, Tino Hausotte