Patents by Inventor Reto Häring

Reto Häring 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: 12339162
    Abstract: Methods and devices for the sequential measurement of a plurality of semiconductor-based light sources that operate faster, more accurately and more sensitively than known methods and devices. In accordance with one implementation, a current pulse is applied by a pulsed current source to the low-luminosity light sources consecutively or simultaneously. The emitted light pulse of LED is converted into electric charge carriers by a photodiode, the electric charge carries are added up by means an integrator circuit, the added-together charge carriers are converted by an A/D converter into a digital signal and the digital signal is forwarded to a measurement and control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Instrument Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Reto Häring, Christian Rixner, Florian Schewe, Siegbert Sadowski, Angel Gavrailov, Christian Dotzler, Martin Mangstl
  • Publication number: 20240344975
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an imaging system which is designed for two-dimensional, spatially resolved measurement of radiometric and/or photometric measured variables, for example the color coordinates of light emitted by a test object. An image sensor is provided for receiving a first part of the light and for generating a two-dimensional digital image of the light emission of the test object. A measuring unit receives a second part of the light and detects radiometric and/or photometric measured variables for different measuring spots or measuring angles. A computing unit transforms the image values of at least a few image points of the generated image, the transformation taking into account the measured variables detected for the measuring spots or measuring angles. The disclosure provides a system which is improved in relation to the prior art. For example, determining the color coordinates when measuring displays with spatially inhomogeneous spectral emission is more precise than in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Instrument Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Elisabeth BOTHSCHAFTER, Ferdinand DEGER, Markus ESTERMANN, Reto HÄRING, Christoph KAPPEL, Jürgen NEUMEIER, Roland SCHANZ, Christof THALHAMMER
  • Publication number: 20210396575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the sequential measurement of a plurality of semiconductor-based light sources such as LEDs, OLEDs or VCSELs, in particular comparatively low-luminosity light sources such as so-called micro-LEDs. The invention further relates to a device for carrying out the method. The object of the present invention is to provide a method that operates faster, more accurately and more sensitively than the known methods, which operate by scanning with a photodiode or with a spectrometer. The method according to the invention proposes for this that a current pulse is applied by means of a pulsed current source (1) to the low-luminosity light sources consecutively or simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Instrument Systems Optische Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Reto HÄRING, Christian RIXNER, Florian SCHEWE, Siegbert SADOWSKI, Angel GAVRAILOV, Christian DOTZLER, Martin MANGSTL
  • Publication number: 20160234490
    Abstract: A method for two-dimensional, spatially resolved measurement of tristimulus values of light emitted from a plurality of positions on a sample. In various embodiments, an improved method and system is provided for spatially resolved chromaticity and luminance measurement in a standardized color space for display testing. The method may include directing a first portion of the light to an RGB camera which produces a two-dimensional map of RGB color values; transforming the RGB color values into first tristimulus values to produce a map of tristimulus values; directing a second portion of the light to a colorimeter which produces second tristimulus values; deriving a tristimulus correction by comparing the second tristimulus values with at least a subset of the first tristimulus values; and applying the tristimulus correction to the first tristimulus values to produce a corrected map of tristimulus values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Taro Sasada, Jürgen Neumeier, Reto Häring
  • Publication number: 20160131524
    Abstract: A colorimeter with multiple sensings of light to provide higher accuracy measurements of the primaries of a human-standard observer based color space is provided. This color space (target color space) must have the characteristic of two chromaticity coordinates and an achromatic primary like CIELAB, CIELUV or xyY in CIE 1931. The calibration of the device includes training with a set of calibration illuminants. Two sets of calibration-factors are determined. The first set of calibration factors yields intensity of primaries optimized with respect to chromaticity, the second set yields the optimized intensity of the achromatic primary. The combination of these sets of calibration factors enable the colorimeter to deliver values of that light with respect to three primaries of a human-standard-observer-based color space optimized with respect to chromaticity and the achromatic primary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kurt Arenhold, Peter Khrustalev, Reto Häring