Patents by Inventor Nils Larcher

Nils Larcher 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: 11094145
    Abstract: A device for detecting a driving event of a vehicle, having a triaxial acceleration sensor and a processing unit. The device may be fixedly installed on the vehicle. The processing unit is configured to detect a plurality of acceleration values within a specific time span using the acceleration sensor, carry out a wavelet transform of the acceleration values to determine first coefficients, and compare the first coefficients at least to stored second coefficients. The second coefficients represent a predefined driving event. The processing unit is configured to detect the driving event represented by the second coefficients as an occurred driving event when the first coefficients are in agreement with the second coefficients, and is configured to determine characteristic parameters of the detected acceleration values, to ascertain a specific mother wavelet as a function of the characteristic parameters, and to carry out the wavelet transform based on the ascertained mother wavelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Henar Martin Rodriguez, Peter Bakucz
  • Publication number: 20200058175
    Abstract: A device for detecting a driving event of a vehicle, having a triaxial acceleration sensor and a processing unit. The device may be fixedly installed on the vehicle. The processing unit is configured to detect a plurality of acceleration values within a specific time span using the acceleration sensor, carry out a wavelet transform of the acceleration values to determine first coefficients, and compare the first coefficients at least to stored second coefficients. The second coefficients represent a predefined driving event. The processing unit is configured to detect the driving event represented by the second coefficients as an occurred driving event when the first coefficients are in agreement with the second coefficients, and is configured to determine characteristic parameters of the detected acceleration values, to ascertain a specific mother wavelet as a function of the characteristic parameters, and to carry out the wavelet transform based on the ascertained mother wavelet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Henar Martin Rodriguez, Peter Bakucz
  • Patent number: 10565879
    Abstract: A system for recognizing an occupancy status of, in particular unmarked, parking facilities is provided, which system includes: a) a plurality of occupancy sensors that are disposed, at a specific distance from one another, on or above an area to be detected; b) a central monitoring unit on which a virtual image of the area to be detected is stored and which is embodied to communicate with the occupancy sensors and to receive sensor data or information regarding the occupancy status at the location or in the vicinity of the respective sensor, the positions of the individual occupancy sensors being known to the central monitoring unit, and the central monitoring unit being embodied to create a virtual image of the occupancy status of the area to be detected and to recognize vacant and occupied sub-areas as a function of the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner
  • Patent number: 10290209
    Abstract: A method for operating a sensor device for detecting an object. including measuring a magnetic field using a magnetic field sensor to ascertain a measured value, the sensor unit being deactivated during the measurement, computing a first distance of the measured value from a first reference measured value that corresponds to a magnetic field when a measuring range is free of an object, computing a second distance of the measured value from a second reference measured value that corresponds to a magnetic field when an object is situated in the measuring range, activating the deactivated sensor unit as a function of the computed distances, carrying out a propagation time measurement using the activated sensor unit to ascertain sensor data that correspond to the propagation time measurement, and ascertaining, based on the sensor data, whether an object is situated in the surroundings of the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Fernando Suarez Lainez, Hannes Wolf
  • Patent number: 10148507
    Abstract: A parking lot management system includes a management server, a vehicle sensor for detecting a motor vehicle in a parking space and for transmitting a detection result to the management server, and furthermore a configuration server as well as a mobile device. The mobile device is designed to transmit an identification of the vehicle sensor to the configuration server. The configuration server is designed to transmit to a vehicle sensor, whose identification it previously received from the mobile device, a configuration that includes communication data for communicating with the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner, Wolf-Bastian Poettner
  • Patent number: 10121375
    Abstract: A method for controlling a parking lot sensor, which includes a sensor for scanning a predetermined measuring area, includes steps of determining an expected fluctuation of vehicles in the measuring area, of determining a scanning frequency on the basis of the expected fluctuation and of controlling, as a function of the scanning frequency, the sensor respectively for carrying out a scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner, Wolf-Bastian Poettner
  • Publication number: 20180268688
    Abstract: A method for operating a sensor device for detecting an object. including measuring a magnetic field using a magnetic field sensor to ascertain a measured value, the sensor unit being deactivated during the measurement, computing a first distance of the measured value from a first reference measured value that corresponds to a magnetic field when a measuring range is free of an object, computing a second distance of the measured value from a second reference measured value that corresponds to a magnetic field when an object is situated in the measuring range, activating the deactivated sensor unit as a function of the computed distances, carrying out a propagation time measurement using the activated sensor unit to ascertain sensor data that correspond to the propagation time measurement, and ascertaining, based on the sensor data, whether an object is situated in the surroundings of the sensor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Fernando Suarez Lainez, Hannes Wolf
  • Publication number: 20180268694
    Abstract: A system for recognizing an occupancy status of, in particular unmarked, parking facilities is provided, which system includes: a) a plurality of occupancy sensors that are disposed, at a specific distance from one another, on or above an area to be detected; b) a central monitoring unit on which a virtual image of the area to be detected is stored and which is embodied to communicate with the occupancy sensors and to receive sensor data or information regarding the occupancy status at the location or in the vicinity of the respective sensor, the positions of the individual occupancy sensors being known to the central monitoring unit, and the central monitoring unit being embodied to create a virtual image of the occupancy status of the area to be detected and to recognize vacant and occupied sub-areas as a function of the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner
  • Publication number: 20160370495
    Abstract: A method for controlling a parking lot sensor, which includes a sensor for scanning a predetermined measuring area, includes steps of determining an expected fluctuation of vehicles in the measuring area, of determining a scanning frequency on the basis of the expected fluctuation and of controlling, as a function of the scanning frequency, the sensor respectively for carrying out a scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner, Wolf-Bastian Poettner
  • Publication number: 20160359671
    Abstract: A parking lot management system includes a management server, a vehicle sensor for detecting a motor vehicle in a parking space and for transmitting a detection result to the management server, and furthermore a configuration server as well as a mobile device. The mobile device is designed to transmit an identification of the vehicle sensor to the configuration server. The configuration server is designed to transmit to a vehicle sensor, whose identification it previously received from the mobile device, a configuration that includes communication data for communicating with the management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Nils Larcher, Martin Werner, Wolf-Bastian Poettner