Patents by Inventor Oliver Kern

Oliver Kern 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: 11816929
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system that may receive an identification of a first patient; may retrieve, based at least on the identification of the first patient, first eye identification information that includes a first plurality of iris structures associated with a first eye of the first patient; may determine a second plurality of iris structures of an eye of a current patient; may determine if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures; if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has been correctly identified; and if the second plurality of iris structures do match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has not been correctly identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wittnebel, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20230215217
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system that may receive an identification of a first patient; may retrieve, based at least on the identification of the first patient, first eye identification information that includes a first plurality of iris structures associated with a first eye of the first patient; may determine a second plurality of iris structures of an eye of a current patient; may determine if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures; if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has been correctly identified; and if the second plurality of iris structures do match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has not been correctly identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Wittnebel, Oliver Kern
  • Patent number: 11625951
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system that may receive an identification of a first patient; may retrieve, based at least on the identification of the first patient, first eye identification information that includes a first plurality of iris structures associated with a first eye of the first patient; may determine a second plurality of iris structures of an eye of a current patient; may determine if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures; if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has been correctly identified; and if the second plurality of iris structures do match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has not been correctly identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wittnebel, Oliver Kern
  • Patent number: 11579264
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor, including a transmitting unit for transmitting a plurality of optical signals in each case to a plurality of segments of an object, and a receiving unit that includes a first multichannel analog-digital converter device, including: an analog-digital converter unit; a plurality of signal processing channels, the signal processing channels of the plurality of signal processing channels in each case including: a detection antenna for receiving optical signals; and a modulator for generating an individual signal encoding. Signals of the plurality of signal processing channels, with individual signal encoding, are transmittable together to the analog-digital converter unit, are converted, and may be associated once again with the corresponding signal processing channels due to the individual signal encoding via algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Aquino Maier, Matthias Wichmann, Oliver Kern
  • Patent number: 11493607
    Abstract: A device for receiving light having at least one wavelength for the detection of an object, includes: an optical phased array including a plurality of optical phased sub-arrays, each optical phased sub-array including (a) a plurality of antennas and (b) a detector for coherently receiving light; and an evaluation unit connected to the optical phased sub-arrays and configured to determine the angle at which the object is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Kern, Jan Niklas Caspers
  • Publication number: 20220171070
    Abstract: A lidar sensor system. The lidar sensor system includes a transmission unit having a laser source, a phase modulator for modulating a phase of the light of the laser source, and a transmission optic for emitting the modulated light; a reception unit having a reception optic for receiving light reflected from an object and having an evaluation unit for evaluating the light received by the reception optic; the transmission unit being embodied to emit several transmission sequences of the light; each transmission sequence having a first portion and a second portion; the first portion being an unmodulated constant-phase signal; the second portion being a signal phase-modulated by the phase modulator; and the evaluation unit being embodied to determine at least an absolute value of a Doppler frequency based on the first portion, and to determine a distance to the object based on the Doppler frequency and the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Kern, Sebastian Banzhaf
  • Publication number: 20210081667
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system that may receive an identification of a first patient; may retrieve, based at least on the identification of the first patient, first eye identification information that includes a first plurality of iris structures associated with a first eye of the first patient; may determine a second plurality of iris structures of an eye of a current patient; may determine if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures; if the second plurality of iris structures match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has been correctly identified; and if the second plurality of iris structures do match the first plurality of iris structures, may provide an indication that the first eye has not been correctly identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Wittnebel, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20210063548
    Abstract: A transmitting device for emitting light having at least one frequency, the transmitting device being designed to emit light in different angular ranges in such a way that the frequency of the light in the particular angular range is varied in a respective frequency range dependent on time, frequencies in different frequency ranges not overlapping for different angular ranges at different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jan Niklas Caspers, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20210026018
    Abstract: An operating method for a LIDAR system. A laser device that includes an optical modulator optically coupled thereto for receiving and modulating the frequency of non-modulated light emitted by the laser device, using a frequency modulation function, and for outputting frequency-modulated light as primary light into a visual field, is used as a light source unit. Secondary light received from the visual field and non-modulated light of the laser device are optically superimposed to form superimposed detection light. The superimposed detection light is photoelectrically detected by generating and outputting a primary electrical detection signal that is representative of the detection light. For the evaluation, the primary electrical detection signal is electrically mixed with an electrical signal that is representative of the frequency modulation function of the optical modulator to form a first evaluation signal, and is assessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Oliver Kern, Gor Hakobyan, Robert Korn
  • Publication number: 20200341127
    Abstract: A sensor device for determining a distance and/or speed of an object, including a transmitting unit for emitting light of at least one frequency onto the object, the transmitting unit being designed for emitting light in at least one angular range, the light in the angular range being time-dependent varied essentially simultaneously with frequencies in different frequency ranges, a receiving unit for receiving light reflected by the object, the receiving unit being designed for scanning the received light in the particular frequency range at at least two points in time, and an evaluation unit, which is designed for determining the distance and/or the speed of the object on the basis of the emitted light and the points in time at which the received light was scanned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Brosche, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20200200882
    Abstract: A multichannel analog-digital converter device for an optoelectronic sensor, including: an analog-digital converter unit; and a plurality of signal processing channels, the signal processing channels of the plurality of signal processing channels each having: a detection antenna to receive optical signals that are reflected by a pixel of an object, a combining unit to combine the detected optical signals with a modulated reference signal, a modulator to produce an individual signal coding, and a photodetector, signals having individual signal coding of the plurality of signal processing channels being capable of being transmitted together to the analog-digital converter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Aquino Maier, Matthias Wichmann, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20200200881
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor, including a transmitting unit for transmitting a plurality of optical signals in each case to a plurality of segments of an object, and a receiving unit that includes a first multichannel analog-digital converter device, including: an analog-digital converter unit; a plurality of signal processing channels, the signal processing channels of the plurality of signal processing channels in each case including: a detection antenna for receiving optical signals; and a modulator for generating an individual signal encoding. Signals of the plurality of signal processing channels, with individual signal encoding, are transmittable together to the analog-digital converter unit, are converted, and may be associated once again with the corresponding signal processing channels due to the individual signal encoding via algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Aquino Maier, Matthias Wichmann, Oliver Kern
  • Publication number: 20200072952
    Abstract: A device for receiving light having at least one wavelength for the detection of an object, includes: an optical phased array including a plurality of optical phased sub-arrays, each optical phased sub-array including (a) a plurality of antennas and (b) a detector for coherently receiving light; and an evaluation unit connected to the optical phased sub-arrays and configured to determine the angle at which the object is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Oliver Kern, Jan Niklas Caspers
  • Publication number: 20090030283
    Abstract: An endoscope (1) having a handle (5) and a probe (2) that can be connected in an interchangeable manner, with an imaging system (40) having an imaging optic (29) and an illumination device (32) arranged in the handle (5). The handle (5), at its distal end, has a coupling (4) for connection to the probe (2), and the probe (2) is interchangeable and provided with an image conducting fiber bundle (8) and a light conducting fiber bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOLLY FIBEROPTIC GMBH
    Inventors: Volkmar Freystein, Tim-Oliver Kern