Patents by Inventor Rene Pfeiffer

Rene Pfeiffer 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: 20230228557
    Abstract: A system and method for providing feedback on a quality of a 3D scan is provided. The system includes a coordinate scanner configured to optically measure and determine a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates to a plurality of locations on at least one surface in the environment, the coordinate scanner being configured to move through the environment while acquiring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates. A display having a graphical user interface. One or more processors are provided that are configured to determine a quality attribute of a process of measuring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates based at least in part on the movement of the coordinate scanner in the environment and display a graphical quality indicator on the graphical user interface based at least in part on the quality attribute, the quality indicator is a graphical element having at least one movable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Axel Ruhland
  • Patent number: 11692812
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, a method of measuring 3D coordinates, and a method of generating dense 3D data is provided. The method of measuring 3D coordinates includes using a first 3D measurement device and a second 3D measurement device in a cooperative manner is provided. The method includes acquiring a first set of 3D coordinates with the first 3D measurement device. The first set of 3D coordinates are transferred to the second 3D measurement device. A second set of 3D coordinates is acquired with the second 3D measurement device. The second set of 3D coordinates are registered to the first set of 3D coordinates in real-time while the second 3D measurement device is acquiring the second set of 3D coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Martin Ossig, Alexander Kramer
  • Patent number: 11614319
    Abstract: A system and method for providing feedback on a quality of a 3D scan is provided. The system includes a coordinate scanner configured to optically measure and determine a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates to a plurality of locations on at least one surface in the environment, the coordinate scanner being configured to move through the environment while acquiring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates. A display having a graphical user interface. One or more processors are provided that are configured to determine a quality attribute of a process of measuring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates based at least in part on the movement of the coordinate scanner in the environment and display a graphical quality indicator on the graphical user interface based at least in part on the quality attribute, the quality indicator is a graphical element having at least one movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Axel Ruhland
  • Patent number: 11293748
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, a method of measuring 3D coordinates, and a method of generating dense 3D data is provided. The method of measuring 3D coordinates includes using a first 3D measurement device and a second 3D measurement device in a cooperative manner is provided. The method includes acquiring a first set of 3D coordinates with the first 3D measurement device. The first set of 3D coordinates are transferred to the second 3D measurement device. A second set of 3D coordinates is acquired with the second 3D measurement device. The second set of 3D coordinates are registered to the first set of 3D coordinates in real-time while the second 3D measurement device is acquiring the second set of 3D coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Martin Ossig, Alexander Kramer
  • Publication number: 20220074733
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, a method of measuring 3D coordinates, and a method of generating dense 3D data is provided. The method of measuring 3D coordinates includes using a first 3D measurement device and a second 3D measurement device in a cooperative manner is provided. The method includes acquiring a first set of 3D coordinates with the first 3D measurement device. The first set of 3D coordinates are transferred to the second 3D measurement device. A second set of 3D coordinates is acquired with the second 3D measurement device. The second set of 3D coordinates are registered to the first set of 3D coordinates in real-time while the second 3D measurement device is acquiring the second set of 3D coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Martin Ossig, Alexander Kramer
  • Publication number: 20210404792
    Abstract: A system and method for providing feedback on a quality of a 3D scan is provided. The system includes a coordinate scanner configured to optically measure and determine a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates to a plurality of locations on at least one surface in the environment, the coordinate scanner being configured to move through the environment while acquiring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates. A display having a graphical user interface. One or more processors are provided that are configured to determine a quality attribute of a process of measuring the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates based at least in part on the movement of the coordinate scanner in the environment and display a graphical quality indicator on the graphical user interface based at least in part on the quality attribute, the quality indicator is a graphical element having at least one movable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Axel Ruhland
  • Publication number: 20200284574
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, a method of measuring 3D coordinates, and a method of generating dense 3D data is provided. The method of measuring 3D coordinates includes using a first 3D measurement device and a second 3D measurement device in a cooperative manner is provided. The method includes acquiring a first set of 3D coordinates with the first 3D measurement device. The first set of 3D coordinates are transferred to the second 3D measurement device. A second set of 3D coordinates is acquired with the second 3D measurement device. The second set of 3D coordinates are registered to the first set of 3D coordinates in real-time while the second 3D measurement device is acquiring the second set of 3D coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Döring, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rasmus Debitsch, Rene Pfeiffer, Martin Ossig, Alexander Kramer
  • Patent number: 10719947
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system and method is provided. The system includes a noncontact measurement device, an annotation member and a processor. The noncontact measurement device being operable to measure a distance from the noncontact measurement device to a surface. The annotation member is coupled to the noncontact measurement device. The processor is operably coupled to the noncontact measurement device and the annotation member, the processor operable to execute computer instructions when executed on the processor for determining 3D coordinates of at least one point in a field of view based at least in part on the distance, recording an annotation in response to an input from a user, and associating the annotation with the at least one point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Reinhard Becker, Martin Ossig, Joseph A. Arezone, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rene Pfeiffer, Daniel Döring
  • Publication number: 20180336690
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) measurement system and method is provided. The system includes a noncontact measurement device, an annotation member and a processor. The noncontact measurement device being operable to measure a distance from the noncontact measurement device to a surface. The annotation member is coupled to the noncontact measurement device. The processor is operably coupled to the noncontact measurement device and the annotation member, the processor operable to execute computer instructions when executed on the processor for determining 3D coordinates of at least one point in a field of view based at least in part on the distance, recording an annotation in response to an input from a user, and associating the annotation with the at least one point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Reinhard Becker, Martin Ossig, Joseph A. Arezone, Gerrit Hillebrand, Rene Pfeiffer, Daniel Döring
  • Patent number: 9289158
    Abstract: A support plate with a horizontal flat standing surface carries two posts, and is rotated about a vertical axis. A stationary triangulation measuring head having a camera and a light line projector, projects light lines, which are perpendicular to the plane of the support plate, onto a person who stands upright on the standing surface of the plate. Encoded, photogrammetrically evaluatable marks are arranged on the plate around the standing surface and on the post. Images taken by the camera during rotation of the plate are transferred to a computer to determine a three-dimensional shape of the person or of part of the person. Marking-free fields are arranged on the support plate and on the post. The computer determines the parameters of the triangulation measuring head to performs a self-calibration of the detection process based on positions of the photogrammetric marks and shapes of light traces on the marking-free fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CORPUS.E AG
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Dirk Rutschmann
  • Patent number: 8988503
    Abstract: A sensing device having a sensing arrangement with a sensing end (32) for coming into contact with a surface to be scanned of a body (26), a camera (30), and a connecting device (34) for rigidly connecting the camera with the sensing end, the camera being arranged such that it can detect a surface (12) which is provided with marks suitable to be automatically photogrammetrically evaluated and on which the body to be scanned has been placed, when the sensing end comes into contact with different points of the surface to be scanned of the body. The sensing device further has a photogrammetric evaluation program for a computing unit (18), the computing unit being configured such that image signals generated by the camera can be routed to the computing unit and the evaluation program can calculate the 3D coordinates of the surface to be scanned from the sequence of recorded and transmitted image sections using the marks (22) suitable to be automatically photogrammetrically evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Corpus.e AG
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Dirk Rutschmann
  • Publication number: 20130053702
    Abstract: A support plate with a horizontal flat standing surface carries two posts, and is rotated about a vertical axis. A stationary triangulation measuring head having a camera and a light line projector, projects light lines, which are perpendicular to the plane of the support plate, onto a person who stands upright on the standing surface of the plate. Encoded, photogrammetrically evaluatable marks are arranged on the plate around the standing surface and on the post. Images taken by the camera during rotation of the plate are transferred to a computer to determine a three-dimensional shape of the person or of part of the person. Marking-free fields are arranged on the support plate and on the post. The computer determines the parameters of the triangulation measuring head to performs a self-calibration of the detection process based on positions of the photogrammetric marks and shapes of light traces on the marking-free fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Dirk Rutschmann
  • Patent number: 8363927
    Abstract: In a cost-efficient method and arrangement for 3D digitization of bodies and body parts, which produces dense and exact spatial coordinates despite imprecise optics and mechanics, the body to be digitized is placed on a photogrammetrically marked surface, a photogrammetrically marked band is fitted to the body or body part to be digitized, and a triangulation arrangement comprised of a camera and a light pattern projector is moved on a path around the body. By a photogrammetric evaluation of the photogrammetric marks of the surface and the band situated in the image field of the camera, and of the light traces of the light projector on the marked surface and the marked band, all unknown internal and external parameters of the triangulation arrangement are determined, and the absolute spatial coordinates of the body or body part are established from the light traces on the non-marked body with high point density and high precision without any separate calibration methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: corpus.e AG
    Inventors: Dirk Rutschmann, Rene Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20110123099
    Abstract: A method for identifying a best fitting shoe includes the steps of scanning a foot using a photogrammetric 3D foot scanner for obtaining a digital 3D model of the foot, and providing a database in which 3D models of shapes of the 5 interiors of available shoes are stored. The 3D model of the digitized foot of the customer is compared with the 3D models of available shoes stored in the database and a shoe of which the 3D model of internal shape is the most similar to the 3D model of the customer foot is selected. The steps of comparing and selecting are performed using a computing unit. A sensing device for detecting a 10 three-dimensional spatial shape of a body includes a sensing end and a camera. A method of detecting a three-dimensional interior spatial shape includes providing the sensing device and scanning the spatial shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Dirk Rutschmann
  • Publication number: 20100296726
    Abstract: In a cost-efficient method and arrangement for 3D digitization of bodies and body parts, which produces dense and exact spatial coordinates despite imprecise optics and mechanics, the body to be digitized is placed on a photogrammetrically marked surface, a photogrammetrically marked band is fitted to the body or body part to be digitized, and a triangulation arrangement comprised of a camera and a light pattern projector is moved on a path around the body. By a photogrammetric evaluation of the photogrammetric marks of the surface and the band situated in the image field of the camera, and of the light traces of the light projector on the marked surface and the marked band, all unknown internal and external parameters of the triangulation arrangement are determined, and the absolute spatial coordinates of the body or body part are established from the light traces on the non-marked body with high point density and high precision without any separate calibration methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Dirk Rutschmann, Rene Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20100287022
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for generating a potential act up rank of an employee based on a current rank and one or more qualifications of the employee. The method and system receiving the current rank and the one or more qualifications associated with an employee from a workforce management application. An employee hierarchy table is updated with the current rank and the one or more qualifications of the employee. A potential act up rank is determined based on the current rank and the one or more qualifications of the employee. The potential act up rank specifies eligibility of the employee to perform an act up task. The potential act up rank is updated in the employee hierarchy table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Frank Haschick
  • Publication number: 20100238271
    Abstract: A sensing device having a sensing arrangement with a sensing end (32) for coming into contact with a surface to be scanned of a body (26), a camera (30), and a connecting device (34) for rigidly connecting the camera with the sensing end, the camera being arranged such that it can detect a surface (12) which is provided with marks suitable to be automatically photogrammetrically evaluated and on which the body to be scanned has been placed, when the sensing end comes into contact with different points of the surface to be scanned of the body. The sensing device further has a photogrammetric evaluation program for a computing unit (18), the computing unit being configured such that image signals generated by the camera can be routed to the computing unit and the evaluation program can calculate the 3D coordinates of the surface to be scanned from the sequence of recorded and transmitted image sections using the marks (22) suitable to be automatically photogrammetrically evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Rene Pfeiffer, Dirk Rutschmann
  • Patent number: 7769710
    Abstract: A method and system for generating data reports are provided. An offset parameter is received. A reporting length is determined from the offset parameter. A query is executed based upon the reporting length. A data record is extracted from a database based upon the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Haschick, René Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20090164290
    Abstract: A system and method for a shift management system which is implemented over a computer network and may include graphical user interfaces that allow users, such as mangers, to define shifts, define activities for those shifts, and create personnel profiles for employees. The same or different managers may also assign shifts to employees and assign activities to those shifts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Frank Haschick, Rene Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20090063407
    Abstract: A method and system for generating data reports are provided. An offset parameter is received. A reporting length is determined from the offset parameter. A query is executed based upon the reporting length. A data record is extracted from a database based upon the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: FRANK HASCHICK, Rene Pfeiffer