Patents by Inventor Ralf Boehnke

Ralf Boehnke 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).

  • Publication number: 20160021692
    Abstract: A mobile device that enables a user friendly selection of a target wireless enabled device, a wireless enabled device being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices, includes an imaging unit that acquires images of the surrounding of the mobile device and a display that displays images acquired by the imaging unit. An object detection unit is provided to detect wireless enabled devices within images acquired by the imaging unit, the wireless enabled devices being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices. Further, a user interface and a wireless interface are provided to establish a wireless link to a selected wireless enabled device. The display is configured to indicate detected wireless enabled devices in images displayed on the display and the user inter-face is configured to enable a user to select a wireless enabled device indicated on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shin SAITO, Stefan KOCH, Ralf BOEHNKE
  • Patent number: 9223018
    Abstract: A method for displaying an active radar image of an object on a handheld screening device is provided comprising taking a sequence of active radar images of an object, the different active radar images of the sequence being representative for different distances of the object from the handheld screening device; selecting an image of the sequence of active radar images; and displaying the selected image on a display. A corresponding handheld screening device is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Furkan Dayi, Ralf Boehnke, Miquel Testar, Marcel Blech, Qi Wang
  • Publication number: 20150341065
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus transmits signals in a digital telecommunication system and a synchronising method is used for synchronizing such signals at a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus prepares for transmission of a reference symbol having at least two repetition patterns, whereby one of the at least two repetition patterns is phase-shifted in relation to the other repetition pattern, and a synchronizing mechanism in the digital telecommunication system uses the reference symbol once received for synchronization. The synchronizing mechanism uses a cross-correlation mechanism to cross-correlate at least one of the two repetition patterns within a correlation window having a predetermined length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf BOEHNKE, Thomas DOELLE, Tino PUGH
  • Publication number: 20150285898
    Abstract: A handheld screening device including: an antenna array including a plurality of antennas; an input mechanism to select an operation mode; and a controller to determine a group of antennas of the plurality of antennas, wherein the number of antennas in the group is based on the selected operation mode, and to control the group of antennas to emit electromagnetic waves. A corresponding method operates the handheld screening device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miquel Testar, Furkan Dayi, Ralf Boehnke, Marcel Blech, Qi Wang
  • Publication number: 20150268339
    Abstract: A method and device for generating an image, the method including: generating an active radar image of an object; displaying the active radar image in a first representation on a display of a handheld screening device; detecting a movement of the handheld screening device; generating a second representation of the displayed radar image based on the detected movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Furkan Dayi, Ralf Boehnke, Miquel Testar, Marcel Blech, Qi Wang
  • Patent number: 9121943
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a beam forming device, comprising a transmit unit comprising at least two transmit elements that transmit radiation towards a scene, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive elements that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights, wherein said beam forming weights are adapted to a distance between the scene and one or more transmit elements and/or receive elements, said distance being indicated by a distance indicator, and wherein said beam forming weights are changed if said distance changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Qi Wang, Ralf Boehnke
  • Patent number: 9111434
    Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area, includes a passive radiometer that detects radiation emitted from a predetermined monitored area in a predetermined frequency range between 1 GHz and 100 THz and that generates a radiation signal from the detected radiation, a radiation signal processor that processes the radiation signal and that generates, based on the processed radiation signal, a monitoring signal indicating the presence or absence of a person in the monitored area, and an application controller that controls an application based on the monitoring signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Ralf Boehnke
  • Patent number: 9070972
    Abstract: A beam forming device and method as well as to a beam steering device and method are described. The imaging beam forming device comprises a wideband transmit unit comprising at least one transmit antenna, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive antennas and at least one receive element that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to form a receive beam and obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights. For different samples or groups of subsequent samples of a receive signal, a sample representing said receive signal at a different frequency, a frequency-dependent weight is used for beam forming, which frequency-dependent weights are adapted to result in a predetermined shape of said receive beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke
  • Publication number: 20150161869
    Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area, includes a passive radiometer that detects radiation emitted from a predetermined monitored area in a predetermined frequency range between 1 GHz and 100 THz and that generates a radiation signal from the detected radiation, a radiation signal processor that processes the radiation signal and that generates, based on the processed radiation signal, a monitoring signal indicating the presence or absence of a person in the monitored area, and an application controller that controls an application based on the monitoring signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Ralf Boehnke
  • Publication number: 20150110164
    Abstract: For example in case of an OFDM multicarrier transmission system the transmission characteristics of subcarriers of a multicarrier transmission system using a plurality of antenna elements (3, 3?) can be adjusted. Particularly the power and the phase of the subcarriers can be adapted. To this object the subcarrier frequency channel (2, 2?) characteristics of the multicarrier transmission are detected (11, 11?) at the side of the transmitter (3). The power of each subcarrier is then distributed by a weighting unit (14, 14?). The subcarriers can be further pre-equalized (1, 1?) by dividing the subcarrier signal respectively by the sum of the squared magnitude of the frequency channel characteristics of all subcarrier signals or a frequency characteristic of the selected antenna element (3, 3?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf BÖHNKE, Seiichi IZUMI
  • Patent number: 9008224
    Abstract: For example in case of an OFDM multicarrier transmission system the transmission characteristics of subcarriers of a multicarrier transmission system using a plurality of antenna elements (3, 3?) can be adjusted. Particularly the power and the phase of the subcarriers can be adapted. To this object the subcarrier frequency channel (2, 2?) characteristics of the multicarrier transmission are detected (11, 11?) at the side of the transmitter (3). The power of each subcarrier is then distributed by a weighting unit (14, 14?). The subcarriers can be further pre-equalized (1, 1?) by dividing the subcarrier signal respectively by the sum of the squared magnitude of the frequency channel characteristics of all subcarrier signals or a frequency characteristic of the selected antenna element (3, 3?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Publication number: 20150078492
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus transmits signals in a digital telecommunication system and a synchronising method is used for synchronizing such signals at a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus prepares for transmission of a reference symbol having at least two repetition patterns, whereby one of the at least two repetition patterns is phase-shifted in relation to the other repetition pattern, and a synchronizing mechanism in the digital telecommunication system uses the reference symbol once received for synchronization. The synchronizing mechanism uses a cross-correlation mechanism to cross-correlate at least one of the two repetition patterns within a correlation window having a predetermined length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: SONY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf BÖHNKE, Thomas Dölle, Tino Puch
  • Patent number: 8948302
    Abstract: For example in case of an OFDM multicarrier transmission system the transmission characteristics of subcarriers of a multicarrier transmission system using a plurality of antenna elements (3, 3?) can be adjusted. Particularly the power and the phase of the subcarriers can be adapted. To this object the subcarrier frequency channel (2, 2?) characteristics of the multicarrier transmission are detected (11, 11?) at the side of the transmitter (3). The power of each subcarrier is then distributed by a weighting unit (14, 14?). The subcarriers can be further pre-equalized (1, 1?) by dividing the subcarrier signal respectively by the sum of the squared magnitude of the frequency channel characteristics of all subcarrier signals or a frequency characteristic of the selected antenna element (3, 3?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Patent number: 8885774
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and an imaging apparatus and method, adapted to receive high frequency image signals. The apparatus includes two or more receiver channels, each receiver channel including an antenna pattern including plural antenna elements to receive high frequency image signals, a receiving mechanism to process the high frequency image signals received by the antenna elements into baseband signals, an analog-to-digital conversion mechanism to convert the baseband signals from the receiving mechanism into digital signals, a phase shifting mechanism to phase shift the digital signals, and a combining mechanism to combine the phase shifted digital signals from the receiver channels into combined signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke, Qi Wang, Stefan Koch, Marc Guthoerl
  • Patent number: 8861622
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus transmits signals in a digital telecommunication system and a synchronising method is used for synchronizing such signals at a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus prepares for transmission a reference symbol having at least two repetition patterns, whereby one of the at least two repetition patterns is phase-shifted in relation to the other repetition pattern, and a synchronizing mechanism in the digital telecommunication system uses the reference symbol once received for synchronization. The synchronizing mechanism uses a cross-correlation mechanism to cross-correlate at least one of the two repetition patterns within a correlation window having a predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnke, Thomas Dölle, Tino Puch
  • Publication number: 20140168007
    Abstract: A method for generating an image is provided including taking a first active radar image of an object from a first position with a handheld screening device; taking a second active radar image of the object from a second position with the handheld screening device; and generating a third image based on the first active radar image and the second active radar image. A corresponding handheld screening device is provided as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qi WANG, Furkan DAYI, Ralf BOEHNKE, Marcel BLECH, Miquel TESTAR
  • Publication number: 20140168008
    Abstract: A method for displaying an active radar image of an object on a handheld screening device is provided comprising taking a sequence of active radar images of an object, the different active radar images of the sequence being representative for different distances of the object from the handheld screening device; selecting an image of the sequence of active radar images; and displaying the selected image on a display. A corresponding handheld screening device is provided as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Furkan Dayi, Ralf Boehnke, Miquel Testar, Marcel Blech, Qi Wang
  • Publication number: 20140168013
    Abstract: A method for operating a handheld screening device is provided, including taking a first image; determining a region of interest in the first image; and generating a scanned image by an active radar scan of the region of interest. A corresponding handheld screening device is provided as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qi WANG, Furkan DAYI, Ralf BOEHNKE, Marcel Daniel BLECH, Miquel TESTAR
  • Publication number: 20140029688
    Abstract: For example in case of an OFDM multicarrier transmission system the transmission characteristics of subcarriers of a multicarrier transmission system using a plurality of antenna elements (3, 3?) can be adjusted. Particularly the power and the phase of the subcarriers can be adapted. To this object the subcarrier frequency channel (2, 2?) characteristics of the multicarrier transmission are detected (11, 11?) at the side of the transmitter (3). The power of each subcarrier is then distributed by a weighting unit (14, 14?). The subcarriers can be further pre-equalized (1, 1?) by dividing the subcarrier signal respectively by the sum of the squared magnitude of the frequency channel characteristics of all subcarrier signals or a frequency characteristic of the selected antenna element (3, 3?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf BÖHNKE, Seiichi IZUMI
  • Patent number: 8503586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus for receiving signals in a communication system in which the signals are transmitted on the basis of frames. Each frame includes a data part having data blocks, wherein the data blocks are respectively separated by a guard sequence. The receiving apparatus performs a correlation on the guard sequences of a received signal and performs a clock drift estimation in the frequency domain on the basis of the correlation results. The receiving apparatus also compensates the clock drift of the received signal on the basis of the clock drift estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Zhaocheng Wang, Qi Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke