Patents by Inventor Stefan Heist

Stefan Heist 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: 20230071288
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) and a method for contactless measuring of an object surface (2). In the proposed method, a temporally variable temperature distribution on the object surface (2) is generated by serially imprinting a plurality of thermal patterns (9) on the object surface (2). Subsequently, a thermal image of the object surface (2) is recorded by at least one thermal imaging camera (16, 17) at each of a plurality of successive recording instants, so that a respective sequence of thermal image values is acquired for points in an image plane (18, 19) of the thermal imaging camera or each of the thermal imaging cameras (16, 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Landmann, Patrick Dietrich, Stefan Heist, Peter KÜHMSTEDT, Gunther Notni
  • Patent number: 10378888
    Abstract: A device, for spatially measuring surfaces, includes a projector for projecting patterns into an object space, two cameras for recording pictures of a surface in the object space, and a control and evaluation unit for activating the cameras and evaluating the pictures. The projector includes a light source, a projection lens, at least one rotatably arranged pattern structure, and a drive for rotating the at least one pattern structure. The control and evaluation unit to: activate the cameras for simultaneously recording a picture at each of a plurality of successive points in time; identify corresponding points in the picture planes of the cameras, by way of evaluating a correlation function between the sequences of brightness values acquired for potentially corresponding points and maximizing a value of the correlation; and determine spatial coordinates of surface points by way of triangulation on the basis of the identified corresponding points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN
    Inventors: Stefan Heist, Gunther Notni, Kevin Srokos, Peter Lutzke, Ingo Schmidt, Peter Kühmstedt
  • Patent number: 10302421
    Abstract: Method and device for non-contact measuring of surface contours. A sequence of stripe patterns, formed from a plurality of stripes of equal stripe direction are projected on a surface to be measured, wherein the stripe patterns are each aperiodic and have a sinusoidal brightness distribution and wherein, during the projecting of each of the stripe patterns, at least one image of the surface is captured by at least one camera. By the stripe pattern projected on the surface, corresponding points in the image planes of a camera and of a projection device used for projecting, or in the image planes of the cameras, are then identified by maximizing a correlation between sequences of brightness values recorded for each of the points, whereupon spatial coordinates of surface points on the surface are determined via triangulation on the basis of points identified as corresponding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Heist, Peter Kühmstedt, Gunther Notni
  • Publication number: 20180149472
    Abstract: A device, for spatially measuring surfaces, includes a projector for projecting patterns into an object space, two cameras for recording pictures of a surface in the object space, and a control and evaluation unit for activating the cameras and evaluating the pictures. The projector includes a light source, a projection lens, at least one rotatably arranged pattern structure, and a drive for rotating the at least one pattern structure. The control and evaluation unit to: activate the cameras for simultaneously recording a picture at each of a plurality of successive points in time; identify corresponding points in the picture planes of the cameras, by way of evaluating a correlation function between the sequences of brightness values acquired for potentially corresponding points and maximizing a value of the correlation; and determine spatial coordinates of surface points by way of triangulation on the basis of the identified corresponding points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Heist, Gunther Notni, Kevin Srokos, Peter Lutzke, Ingo Schmidt, Peter Kühmstedt
  • Publication number: 20160202051
    Abstract: Method and device for non-contact measuring of surface contours. A sequence of stripe patterns, formed from a plurality of stripes of equal stripe direction are projected on a surface to be measured, wherein the stripe patterns are each aperiodic and have a sinusoidal brightness distribution and wherein, during the projecting of each of the stripe patterns, at least one image of the surface is captured by at least one camera. By the stripe pattern projected on the surface, corresponding points in the image planes of a camera and of a projection device used for projecting, or in the image planes of the cameras, are then identified by maximizing a correlation between sequences of brightness values recorded for each of the points, whereupon spatial coordinates of surface points on the surface are determined via triangulation on the basis of points identified as corresponding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Heist, Peter Kuhmstedt, Gunther Notni