Patents by Inventor Nicolas Witt
Nicolas Witt 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).
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Publication number: 20240412612Abstract: Electronic component comprising a fall detection device, said fall detection device comprising: an acceleration sensor configured to determine an acceleration of the electronic component to obtain an acceleration signal; a further sensor configured to determine a further physical parameter to obtain a further signal; a processor configured to determine a fall event and/or fall event parameter based on the acceleration signal and the further signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Christian NICKEL, Nicolas WITT, Christopher SOBEL, Varnim GOYAL
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Patent number: 11397972Abstract: The invention relates to a method for assessing damage to a motor vehicle on the basis of at least one image file of the damaged motor vehicle, the method comprising ascertaining, on the basis of the at least one image file, whether there is damage to the vehicle zone, determining damage severity in the vehicle zones in which damage has been ascertained; establishing a degree of damage for each individual vehicle part within each damaged vehicle zone on the basis of the damage severity in the damaged vehicle zone and deciding, for each damaged vehicle part, whether a repair of the vehicle part may be performed or whether replacement of the vehicle part is required.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: ControlExpert GmbHInventors: Andreas Witte, Nicolas Witte, Sebastian Schoenen
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Publication number: 20200357029Abstract: The invention relates to a method for assessing damage to a motor vehicle on the basis of at least one image file of the damaged motor vehicle, the method comprising the following steps: ascertaining, on the basis of the at least one image file, for a plurality of prespecified vehicle zones of the motor vehicle, whether there is damage to the vehicle zone, using a first database, which contains information regarding the vehicle zones of the motor vehicle, and using an artificial neural network, which is trained to detect damage in prespecified vehicle zones of motor vehicles determining damage severity in the vehicle zones in which damage has been ascertained, this determination being made on the basis of the image file and using the first database and the artificial neural network; establishing a degree of damage for each individual vehicle part within each damaged vehicle zone on the basis of the damage severity in the damaged vehicle zone by means of a second database, which specifies each vehicle partType: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Andreas Witte, Nicolas Witte, Sebastian Schoenen
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Patent number: 10682549Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method for automatically evaluating a progression of a training exercise, including providing a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise and providing at least one predetermined exercise target. The plurality of location information is compared to the exercise target and a progression of the training exercise is evaluated based on the result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thorsten Edelhaeusser, Nicolas Witt, Matthias Voelker, David Voll, Stephan Otto, Ingmar Bretz, Norbert Franke
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Patent number: 9641601Abstract: Embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses (200) for synchronizing a first event (202), having associated therewith a first original event timing value based on a common clock signal, and a second event (204), having associated therewith a second original event timing value based on the common clock signal, wherein the first and the second event (202; 204) experience different delays while travelling through different paths of a distributed computing system (300; 700), and wherein at least one output event (206) is to be determined by an event detector (208) based on the first and the second event (202; 204).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christopher Mutschler, Stephan Otto, Nicolas Witt, Michael Philippsen
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Publication number: 20160271448Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method for automatically evaluating a progression of a training exercise, including providing a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise and providing at least one predetermined exercise target. The plurality of location information is compared to the exercise target and a progression of the training exercise is evaluated based on the result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewan dten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thorsten Edelhaeusser, Nicolas Witt, Matthias Voelker, David Voll, Stephan Otto, Ingmar Bretz, Norbert Franke
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Patent number: 9216347Abstract: A portable device includes a viewing direction sensor configured to determine the viewing direction of a user of the portable device in the real world and a position determiner configured to determine a position of the user in the real world. Furthermore, the portable device includes a processing unit configured to generate—based on the viewing direction of the user and the position of the user in the real world—a virtual world in which a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the real world leads to a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the virtual world. The portable device further includes a display configured to display the generated virtual world to the user while blocking a view of the real world.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANDEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Christopher Mutschler, Stephan Otto, Nicolas Witt
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Publication number: 20150051719Abstract: An apparatus for detecting an event of interest, comprises a first primitive event detector (8b) for generating a stream of first primitive events (10b) using a sensor data stream (4), the sensor data stream (4) carrying raw data at a sensor data rate, the raw data being associated to one or more properties determined for multiple observed objects (72) using one or more sensors, wherein a data rate of the stream of first primitive events (10b) is lower than the sensor data rate as well as a second primitive event detector (8c) for generating a stream of different second primitive events (10c) using the sensor data stream (4), wherein a data rate of the stream of the second primitive events (10c) is lower than the sensor data rate. An event detector (16) is operable to determine the event of interest using the streams (10b, 10c) of the first and second primitive events.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christopher Mutschler, Norbert Franke, Daniel Wolf, Nicolas Witt
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Publication number: 20140365551Abstract: Embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses (200) for synchronizing a first event (202), having associated therewith a first original event timing value based on a common clock signal, and a second event (204), having associated therewith a second original event timing value based on the common clock signal, wherein the first and the second event (202; 204) experience different delays while travelling through different paths of a distributed computing system (300; 700), and wherein at least one output event (206) is to be determined by an event detector (208) based on the first and the second event (202; 204).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christopher Mutschler, Stephan Otto, Nicolas Witt, Michael Philippsen
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Publication number: 20140221090Abstract: A portable device includes a viewing direction sensor configured to determine the viewing direction of a user of the portable device in the real world and a position determiner configured to determine a position of the user in the real world. Furthermore, the portable device includes a processing unit configured to generate—based on the viewing direction of the user and the position of the user in the real world—a virtual world in which a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the real world leads to a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the virtual world. The portable device further includes a display configured to display the generated virtual world to the user while blocking a view of the real world.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stockeler, Zinkler & PartnerInventors: Christopher Mutschler, Stephan Otto, Nicolas Witt