Patents by Inventor Matthias Schmieder

Matthias Schmieder 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: 9386238
    Abstract: In a thermal imaging camera (1), an infrared image data stream (5) of infrared images (4) is captured during a random movement of the thermal imaging camera (1), and the infrared images (4) are combined into a higher-resolution infrared image (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: TESTO AG
    Inventors: Martin Stratmann, Jan-Frisco Evers-Senne, Matthias Schmieder, Jan Flusser, Fillip Sroubek
  • Patent number: 9165341
    Abstract: In the case of a measuring device for recording a sequence of individual images (6, 7, 8) in a non-visible spectral range, a method for generating an SR image (11) having an image resolution that is higher than an image resolution of the individual images (6, 7, 8) is provided, wherein, for the individual images (6, 7, 8), a displacement vector field (11, 12) is determined with a calculation of the optical flow and the individual images (6, 7, 8) are segmented into segments (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25) with regard to the values of the displacement vector field (11, 12), and an optimization method is carried out for calculating the SR image (11) from the individual images (6, 7, 8) with variation parameters individually assigned to the segments (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Testo AG
    Inventors: Jan-Friso Evers-Senne, Martin Stratmann, Matthias Schmieder, Jorg Lange
  • Patent number: 9100595
    Abstract: For a thermal imaging camera (1), features are extracted from a series of at least two infrared images (10, 11) or visible images (19, 20) associated therewith by a feature analysis, and an optimal correspondence between features extracted from the images (9, 10, 19, 20) is determined, and a translation vector (18) that relates the pixels of the first infrared image (10) to pixels of the second infrared image (11) is determined for the image positions (16, 17) of the corresponding features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Testo AG
    Inventors: Matthias Schmieder, Martin Stratmann
  • Publication number: 20140363099
    Abstract: In the case of a measuring device for recording a sequence of individual images (6, 7, 8) in a non-visible spectral range, a method for generating an SR image (11) having an image resolution that is higher than an image resolution of the individual images (6, 7, 8) is provided, wherein, for the individual images (6, 7, 8), a displacement vector field (11, 12) is determined with a calculation of the optical flow and the individual images (6, 7, 8) are segmented into segments (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25) with regard to the values of the displacement vector field (11, 12), and an optimization method is carried out for calculating the SR image (11) from the individual images (6, 7, 8) with variation parameters individually assigned to the segments (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TESTO AG
    Inventors: Jan-Friso Evers-Senne, Martin Stratmann, Matthias Schmieder, Jorg Lange
  • Publication number: 20130321638
    Abstract: In a thermal imaging camera (1), an infrared image data stream (5) of infrared images (4) is captured during a random movement of the thermal imaging camera (1), and the infrared images (4) are combined into a higher-resolution infrared image (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: TESTO AG
    Inventors: Martin Stratmann, Jan-Frisco Evers-Senne, Matthias Schmieder, Jan Flusser, Fillip Sroubek
  • Patent number: 8476590
    Abstract: In a thermal imaging camera for acquisition of thermographic images of a measurement object, an electronic evaluation unit is integrated into the thermal imaging camera; it is designed for recognition of corresponding partial regions of the acquired thermographic images, and with it, the acquired images can be assembled into an overall image by overlapping the corresponding partial regions and displayed. The acquisition of the images preferably takes place during the swiveling of the thermal imaging camera over the solid angle region of the desired overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Testo AG
    Inventors: Martin Stratmann, Andreas Messerschmid, Patrick Zahn, Matthias Schmieder
  • Patent number: 8410441
    Abstract: In a thermal imaging camera for acquisition of thermographic images of a measurement object, an electronic evaluation unit is integrated into the thermal imaging camera; it is designed for recognition of corresponding partial regions of the acquired thermographic images, and with it, the acquired images can be assembled into an overall image by overlapping the corresponding partial regions and displayed. The acquisition of the images preferably takes place during the swiveling of the thermal imaging camera over the solid angle region of the desired overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: TESTO AG
    Inventors: Martin Stratmann, Andreas Messerschmid, Patrick Zahn, Matthias Schmieder
  • Publication number: 20130028477
    Abstract: For a thermal imaging camera (1), features are extracted from a series of at least two infrared images (10, 11) or visible images (19, 20) associated therewith by a feature analysis, and an optimal correspondence between features extracted from the images (9, 10, 19, 20) is determined, and a translation vector (18) that relates the pixels of the first infrared image (10) to pixels of the second infrared image (11) is determined for the image positions (16, 17) of the corresponding features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: TESTO AG
    Inventors: Matthias Schmieder, Martin Stratmann
  • Publication number: 20110199489
    Abstract: A thermal imaging camera (1) which, in order to extract IR-images (2) from a stream of crude data (12) of crude IR-images (3), performs a compensation (21) of pixel measurements (6) of the crude IR-images (3) with pixel-background values (8) pixel by pixel, with a new calculation (19) of the pixel-background value (8) being performed when the variation of the pixel measurements (6) in the measurement sequence of the crude data stream (12) for the pixels exceeds a lower limit for variations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Testo AG
    Inventors: Jörn Fischer, Matthias Schmieder, Martin Stratmann, Markus Appenzeller