Patents by Inventor Peter Andres

Peter Andres 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: 8258747
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying individual cell monitoring controllers in an electric vehicle battery pack. Several cell monitoring controllers are serially connected to each other and to a master battery pack controller via a signal line, which is also used for communicating alarm signals between the controllers. The master battery pack controller sends a wake-up signal on the signal line. The first cell monitoring controller in the signal line wiring route receives the wake-up signal and receives an identification number from the master battery pack controller. Only then does the first cell monitoring controller allow the wake-up signal to be passed along to the second cell monitoring controller, which activates and receives its identification number, and so forth. In this way, identical cell monitoring controllers can be used in a battery pack, yet each cell monitoring controller can be uniquely identified by the master battery pack controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Peter Andres, Ryan M. Frakes
  • Publication number: 20120170824
    Abstract: The invention provides a system (102) for accurately detecting a patient's (114) movement during imaging procedures. The system comprises a camera (126) for providing a stream of camera images of a part of a patient's exterior (206). The system (102) furthermore comprises a fiducial element (116), which fiducial element (116) is mountable on said part of the patient's exterior (206), and which fiducial element (116) is detectable in the stream of camera images, and an image processor (128) for detecting a displacement of the fiducial element based on consecutive camera images comprised in at least the stream of camera images and for generating an output signal (129) indicative for said displacement. Herein, the fiducial element (116) has an in-plane stiffness which is substantially larger than an in-plane stiffness of said part of the patient's exterior. In addition, the fiducial element (116) and said part of the patient's exterior are provided with substantially equal outer in-plane dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Michael Cornelis Van Beek, Peter-Andre Redert, Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Drazenko Babic, Robert Johannes Frederik Homan, Ralph Braspenning, Wei Pien Lee, Karl Catharina Van Bree, Caifeng Shan
  • Publication number: 20120125261
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method of managing a group of dairy animals. More particularly, the invention relates to measuring one or more milk parameters, comparing this parameter to a criterion, and allowing an animal access to a pasture based on this comparison. The milk parameter is related to the composition of milk obtained from a dairy animal in as far as the composition is defined by at least one of the amount of protein and the energy intake of the dairy animal. The measured milk parameter is, for example, urea. Access to the pasture will be completely or partly blocked for a dairy animal having a high content of urea. This dairy animal is thus prevented from taking in an undesirably large amount of protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Karel VAN DEN BERG, Antoon Peter André THEELEN, Alexander VAN DER LELY
  • Patent number: 8132927
    Abstract: A display device includes a display arrangement and an optical attenuator arrangement. The display arrangement has inherent non-uniformity of an output intensity across the display area. The optical attenuator arrangement is positioned in front of the display arrangement and in registration with the display area. The optical attenuator arrangement has a light attenuation characteristic that varies across the display area and is adapted to optically reduce the inherent non-uniformity of the output intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Siebe Tjerk De Zwart
  • Publication number: 20120040224
    Abstract: A battery circuit for an electric vehicle that employs a resistor that provides both a pre-charging function at system start-up and battery heating. The battery circuit includes a positive high voltage bus line electrically coupled to a positive terminal of the battery and a negative high voltage bus line electrically coupled to the negative terminal of the battery. A first end of the resistor is electrically coupled to the positive high voltage bus line, a first switch is electrically coupled between a second end of the resistor and the positive high voltage bus line and a second switch is electrically coupled between the second end of the resistor and the negative high voltage bus line. The pre-charging operation is provided when the first switch is closed and the second switch is opened and the heating function is provided when the second switch is closed and the first switch is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Marc REISCHMANN, Peter ANDRES
  • Publication number: 20110318632
    Abstract: A battery cell for an electric vehicle battery pack, including surface-applied wires to facilitate connecting the cell to a controller. Resistive or non-resistive wiring is printed onto or otherwise applied to the outer surface of the battery cell, to eliminate the need for separate jumper wires routed around or through the battery pack. A surface-applied wire is directly connected to each terminal of the battery cell, and each wire is routed on the outer surface of the cell to a location convenient for connecting a cell monitoring controller. The surface-applied wires can be made of a suitable resistive material, such that the resistance of each wire is known and the wires can be used for dissipating power during cell state of charge equalization. An insulating layer can be applied over the surface-applied wire to minimize the risk of short circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Manfred Herrmann, Hartmut Stengelin, Peter Andres
  • Publication number: 20110279087
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying individual cell monitoring controllers in an electric vehicle battery pack. Several cell monitoring controllers are serially connected to each other and to a master battery pack controller via a signal line, which is also used for communicating alarm signals between the controllers. The master battery pack controller sends a wake-up signal on the signal line. The first cell monitoring controller in the signal line wiring route receives the wake-up signal and receives an identification number from the master battery pack controller. Only then does the first cell monitoring controller allow the wake-up signal to be passed along to the second cell monitoring controller, which activates and receives its identification number, and so forth. In this way, identical cell monitoring controllers can be used in a battery pack, yet each cell monitoring controller can be uniquely identified by the master battery pack controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Andres, Ryan M. Frakes
  • Patent number: 8048433
    Abstract: The current invention provides new Gram negative polypeptides exhibiting lipid A 3-O-deacylase activity and are capable of modifying and/or detoxifying gram negative LPS. The present invention also provides Gram negative bacteria, Gram negative bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and compositions comprising LPS, which are provided with or treated with a 3-O-deacylase activity according to the invention and which may be used for pharmaceutical and/or veterinary purposes, in particular for the preparation of whole cell or acellular vaccines against pathogenic Gram negatives such as Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: NVI Nederlands Vaccininstituut
    Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Tommassen, Peter André Van Der Ley, Jeroen Johannes Gerardus Geurtsen
  • Patent number: 8036451
    Abstract: A method of generating a depth map (122) comprising depth values representing distances to a viewer, for respective pixels of an image (100), is disclosed. The method comprises: computing a cost value for a first one of the pixels (108) of the image by combining differences between values of pixels which are disposed on a path (112) from the first one of the pixels (108) to a second one of the pixels (110) which belongs to a predetermined subset of the pixels of the image; and assigning a first one of the depth values corresponding to the first one of the pixels (108) on basis of the cost value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Fabian Edgar Ernst
  • Publication number: 20110242279
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device (580) for encoding three-dimensional video data, the device comprising: a first encoder (505) arranged to encode multiple simultaneous views (501) of a scene from different viewpoints; a second encoder (510) arranged to encode depth information of the scene and a third encoder (515) arranged to encode additional information indicative of a relationship between the multiple views and the depth information and a combiner (520) arranged to combine the encoded information into a representation (513) of the three-dimensional video data. The additional information comprises a group classifier indicating whether or not the depth information and at least one of the multiple views correspond to the same source material for, when corresponding, using the depth information and the at least one of the multiple views to render further views of the scene from further different viewpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Reinier B.M. Klein Gunnewiek, Bartolomeus W.D. Sonneveldt, Christiaan Varekamp
  • Publication number: 20110168097
    Abstract: A device for milking animals including a plurality of milking stations, wherein each milking station includes a milk collecting container and a displacing mechanism for displacing liquid from the milk collecting container. The milk collecting container (is connected to a first discharge line and to a second discharge line, a second central milk line is connected to the second discharge line for leading milk from a plurality of milking stations to a collective liquid discharge and further includes a line cleaning device connected to the second central milk line for cleaning at least the second central milk line with a cleaning liquid, wherein the connection of the line cleaning device with the second central milk line is located at least equally far from the liquid discharge as the connection of a second discharge line with the second central milk line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Villads KRISTENSEN, Antoon Peter André THEELEN, Wilhelmus Johannes Adrianus VAN LIER
  • Patent number: 7873992
    Abstract: A system for parsing an arbitrary input stream is provided that includes a plurality of parsers 304a-n operable to parse an input stream, each parser corresponding to a unique input structure, and a parser selection agent 300 operable to receive the input stream and select a subset of the plurality of parsers to parse the input stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Daily, Lisa Y. Kawahara, Peter Andre Christopher Kirslis
  • Patent number: 7840070
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing rendered images based on image segmentation with determining an edge within the image introduced by boundaries of image segments. To allow shift-based rendering, the invention provides determining an edge within the image introduced by boundaries of image segments, determining an edge region around the edge, determining a first displacement field for the segments, determining a second displacement field for the edge region, merging the first and the second displacement field into a third displacement field having a displacement of the first displacement field for the segments and a displacement of the second displacement field for the edge region, such that the edge region is treated as a separate object with a separate displacement, and shifting the image pixels according to the third displacement field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Fabian Edgar Ernst, Peter-Andre Redert
  • Publication number: 20100289883
    Abstract: A LCD display system comprises a LC panel (1), a backlight unit (2) for illuminating the LC panel (1) or a portion thereof, and a controller (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Roeland Focco Everhard GORIS, Peter-Andre REDERT
  • Publication number: 20100291153
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved vaccine against pertussis wherein mutants of Bordetella pertussis having a modified LPS molecule or the obtainable LPS molecules are used. These mutants or the obtainable LPS molecules may further be used as an adjuvant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: De Staat der Nederlanden, vert. door de minister van VWS
    Inventors: Jeroen Johannes Gerardus Geurtsen, Johannes Petrus Maria Tommassen, Peter André Van Der Ley
  • Publication number: 20100245406
    Abstract: A multi-view autostereoscopic display device comprises: a backlight having a plurality of backlight areas arranged in a width direction of the display device; a spatial light modulator arranged over and in registration with the backlight, the spatial light modulator having an array of display forming elements arranged in rows and columns for modulating light received from the backlight; and a view forming layer arranged over and in registration with the spatial light modulator, the view forming layer having a plurality of view forming elements arranged in the width direction of the display device, each view forming element being configured to focus modulated light from adjacent groups of the display forming elements into a plurality of views for projection towards a user in different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn
  • Patent number: 7787658
    Abstract: A method of generating a depth map (122) comprising depth values representing distances to a viewer, for respective pixels of an image (100), is disclosed. The method comprises: determining a contour (106) on basis of pixel values of the image (100), the contour comprising a collection of adjacent points; computing curvature vectors (108 114) at a number of the points; and assigning a first one of the depth values corresponding to the first one of the pixels on basis of the curvature vectors (108-114).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Peter-Andre Redert
  • Patent number: 7701637
    Abstract: An optical system or front end for adding an optical depth information to a two-dimensional image (1), wherein the optical system includes an array of optical lenses (2) arranged in front of the two-dimensional image (1). The optical lenses have adjustable focal length (strength) in response to the optical depth information (D). An optical barrier (3) is arranged in front of the array of optical lenses (2) with optical apertures aligned with the optical lenses of the array of optical lenses (2). Such optical front end can be used for 3D displays based on known 2D displays including LCD, LCOS, Plasma, and CRT type displays. Such a 3D display does not suffer from a resolution loss depending on a number of viewing angles. In embodiments adapted for pixelized 2D displays, the array of optical lenses preferably has one lens per pixel. The barrier (3) may be fixed or adjustable to allow adjustment of the characteristics of the added optical depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Peter-Andre Redert
  • Patent number: 7692646
    Abstract: A method of scaling a three-dimensional input model 100 in a three-dimensional input space into a three-dimensional output model 200 which fits in a predetermined three-dimensional output space 104 is disclosed. The scaling is such that a first input surface 106 in the three-dimensional input space, having a first distance to a viewpoint, is projected to a first output surface 110 in the predetermined three-dimensional output space by applying a first scaling factor and whereby a second input surface 108 in the three-dimensional input space, having a second distance to the viewpoint, which is smaller than the first distance, is projected to a second output surface 112 in the predetermined three-dimensional space, by applying a second scaling factor which is larger than the first scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Alexander Henricus Waltherus Van Eeuwijk
  • Patent number: 7692859
    Abstract: An optical system that can add an optical depth information to a two-dimensional image (72) represented by substantially collimated light, e.g. by using a collimated light source in front of a LCD display. The optical system includes a first array of optical lenses (70) arranged at a first distance in front of the two-dimensional image (72), and a second array of optical lenses (71) arranged at a second distance in front of the two-dimensional image (72), the second distance being larger than the first distance. Optical properties, e.g. focal length, can be adjusted for the optical lenses of the first and second array of optical lenses (70, 71) in response to the optical depth information. The optical system can serve as an optical front for 3D multiview displays. Depending on embodiment, both horizontal and vertical angular resolution can be obtained, and the front end exhibits only a small brightness loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Peter-Andre Redert, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn