Patents by Inventor Rene Elspass

Rene Elspass 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: 12092446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measurement and/or sensor device, comprising a camera and a memory unit, and comprising data stored in the memory unit for controlling the measurement and/or sensor device, wherein the measurement and/or sensor device has a protection device for the memory unit, which protects the data stored in the memory unit against unauthorized alteration, and the data stored in the memory unit are adjustment data for adjustment of the measurement and/or sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: WIPOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Zinke, Stefan Schulz, Rene Elspass
  • Patent number: 11218692
    Abstract: A method for testing and/or calibrating a camera is provided. An optical test standard is produced. A plurality of subareas, with different grey tones, are applied to a substrate. At least one reference image of the substrate is captured using a reference camera, using a predetermined setting comprising at least one parameter. Reference greyscale values for the subareas are determined from the reference image and assigned to the substrate. At least one image of the optical test standard is captured by the camera using a predetermined setting of the camera, the setting comprising at least one parameter. Actual greyscale values for the subareas are determined from this image. An assertion about a sufficient or insufficient calibration of the camera is made based on a comparison of the actual greyscale values with the reference greyscale values or with a predetermined range of permissible actual greyscale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: WIPOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Schulz, Rene Elspass
  • Publication number: 20210156668
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measurement and/or sensor device, comprising a camera and a memory unit, and comprising data stored in the memory unit for controlling the measurement and/or sensor device, wherein the measurement and/or sensor device has a protection device for the memory unit, which protects the data stored in the memory unit against unauthorized alteration, and the data stored in the memory unit are adjustment data for adjustment of the measurement and/or sensor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd ZINKE, Stefan SCHULZ, Rene ELSPASS
  • Publication number: 20190373251
    Abstract: A method for testing and/or calibrating a camera is provided. An optical test standard is produced. A plurality of subareas, with different grey tones, are applied to a substrate. At least one reference image of the substrate is captured a reference camera, using a predetermined setting comprising at least one parameter. Reference greyscale values for the subareas are determined from the reference image and assigned to the substrate. At least one image of the optical test standard is captured by the camera using a predetermined setting of the camera the setting comprising at least one parameter. Actual greyscale values for the subareas are determined from this image. An assertion about a sufficient or insufficient calibration of the camera is made based on a comparison of the actual greyscale values with the reference greyscale values or with a predetermined range of permissible actual greyscale values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan SCHULZ, Rene ELSPASS
  • Patent number: 10138074
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for chronological grouping of individual goods, the groups which are formed being displaced one after another out of a first into a second collecting zone in such a way that an oldest group is always displaced as far as a target position which is defined in the second collecting zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Anders, Rene Elspass
  • Publication number: 20160362258
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for chronological grouping of individual goods, the groups which are formed being displaced one after another out of a first into a second collecting zone in such a way that an oldest group is always displaced as far as a target position which is defined in the second collecting zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Anders, Rene Elspass