Patents by Inventor Matthias Roland KAUFMANN

Matthias Roland KAUFMANN 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: 10504237
    Abstract: A method for determining a viewing direction of a person, such as a driver in a motor vehicle, is provided. The method includes detecting a surface contour of a surface of an eye of the person, ascertaining a normal vector on the surface of the eye depending on the detected surface contour, and determining the viewing direction of the person depending on the normal vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Roland Kaufmann, Felix Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10430952
    Abstract: A method for segmenting a first scene from a sequence of scenes is described. In this case, the sequence of scenes was captured by a camera in or on a vehicle such as by smartglasses. The method determines an optical flow of the first scene, on the basis of the sequence of scenes. In addition, the method determines statistical variables of the optical flow in different partial regions of the first scene. Furthermore, the method determines, on the basis of the statistical variables, a separating line between a foreground region and a background region of the first scene. In this case, determining the separating line includes determining, on the basis of the statistical variables, an indicator of whether the optical flow in the background region is attributable to a movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Roland Kaufmann, Vaibhav Kumar Mehta
  • Patent number: 10262433
    Abstract: Data eyeglasses include a first display, a camera, and an analyzing unit. The data eyeglasses is configured to: record the surroundings of the data eyeglasses via the camera, detect an image displayed by a second display in the recordings of the camera; detect that the displayed image has a marker for determining the pose of the data eyeglasses; detect the marker; and determine the pose of the data eyeglasses by use of the detected marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Spiessl, Matthias Roland Kaufmann, Michael Graef, Markus Gsinn
  • Patent number: 10162409
    Abstract: A head mounted display is configured to determine the posture of the head mounted display relative to a vehicle. The head mounted display includes a display, a camera and an electronic computing unit; and is set up to: create recordings of the environment of the head mounted display with the aid of the camera; receive details relating to the position and/or orientation of a movable object in the interior of the vehicle; detect the image of the object in the recordings from the camera; and determine the posture of the head mounted display taking into account the image of the object in the recordings relative to the vehicle. The posture of the head mounted display indicates the position of the pair of data glasses and the alignment of the pair of data glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Knebel, Matthias Roland Kaufmann, Wolfgang Spiessl, Wolfgang Haberl
  • Publication number: 20170287163
    Abstract: A method for determining a viewing direction of a person, such as a driver in a motor vehicle, is provided. The method includes detecting a surface contour of a surface of an eye of the person, ascertaining a normal vector on the surface of the eye depending on the detected surface contour, and determining the viewing direction of the person depending on the normal vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Roland KAUFMANN, Felix SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20170278252
    Abstract: A method for segmenting a first scene from a sequence of scenes is described. In this case, the sequence of scenes was captured by a camera in or on a vehicle such as by smartglasses. The method determines an optical flow of the first scene, on the basis of the sequence of scenes. In addition, the method determines statistical variables of the optical flow in different partial regions of the first scene. Furthermore, the method determines, on the basis of the statistical variables, a separating line between a foreground region and a background region of the first scene. In this case, determining the separating line includes determining, on the basis of the statistical variables, an indicator of whether the optical flow in the background region is attributable to a movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Roland KAUFMANN, Vaibhav Kumar Mehta
  • Publication number: 20170178359
    Abstract: Data eyeglasses include a first display, a camera, and an analyzing unit. The data eyeglasses is configured to: record the surroundings of the data eyeglasses via the camera, detect an image displayed by a second display in the recordings of the camera; detect that the displayed image has a marker for determining the pose of the data eyeglasses; detect the marker; and determine the pose of the data eyeglasses by use of the detected marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang SPIESSL, Matthias Roland KAUFMANN, Michael GRAEF, Markus GSINN
  • Publication number: 20170115730
    Abstract: A head mounted display is configured to determine the posture of the head mounted display relative to a vehicle. The head mounted display includes a display, a camera and an electronic computing unit; and is set up to: create recordings of the environment of the head mounted display with the aid of the camera; receive details relating to the position and/or orientation of a movable object in the interior of the vehicle; detect the image of the object in the recordings from the camera; and determine the posture of the head mounted display taking into account the image of the object in the recordings relative to the vehicle. The posture of the head mounted display indicates the position of the pair of data glasses and the alignment of the pair of data glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Karsten KNEBEL, Matthias Roland KAUFMANN, Wolfgang SPIESSL, Wolfgang HABERL