Patents by Inventor Stefan Ortmanns

Stefan Ortmanns 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: 20240091526
    Abstract: A neural implant for a brain area is provided. The neural implant has at least one stimulation section for generating stimulation signals for the brain area, an electrode section with at least one electrode, which is coupled to the stimulation section via a DC connection and can be arranged in the brain area and is designed to apply the stimulation signals to the brain area, and at least one first protection structure section, which is designed to monitor the stimulation section. The first protection structure section is powered by a first energy supply and the protective structure section is powered by a second energy supply, and the first energy supply is galvanically isolated from the second energy supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan REICH, Maurits ORTMANNS, Martin SCHUETTLER
  • Patent number: 10885919
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a portion of speech on an automated speech recognition system that includes a plurality of classifiers, thus defining a monitored portion of speech, wherein an operation is defined for each of the plurality of classifiers. A confidence score concerning the monitored portion of speech is associated with each of a plurality of classifiers, thus defining a plurality of confidence scores. If one of the plurality of confidence scores is an acceptable confidence score, the operation defined for the classifier associated with the acceptable confidence score is effectuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Songzhe Wang, Lior Ben-Gigi, Slawek Jarosz, David Ardman, Stefan Ortmanns
  • Patent number: 10677597
    Abstract: A method for creating a digital map in at least one mobile device including capturing an image sequence of an environment; detecting and classifying objects in the captured image sequence; determining object positions of the objects relative to the mobile device; establishing a section in the environment wherein the section has a predetermined size and predetermined boundaries; assigning the detected and classified objects to the determined object positions in the established section; determining a traffic lane provided in the section; transmitting object information and the object positions of the detected and classified objects, section information relating to the established section, traffic lane information and time information to the map creation device. In the map creation device, the data is received, compared, and sections are joined and merged to form a digital map. Also disclosed is an associated system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Titze, Stefan Ortmann
  • Patent number: 10621861
    Abstract: A method for creating a lane-accurate occupancy grid map for lanes. In at least one mobile device, an environment is sensed by a camera and evaluated by an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit defines a section in the environment and determines a lane in the section. Objects in the environment or in the section are also detected and classified by the evaluating unit. The object information, section information, time information, and the lane information are transmitted to a map-creating device, which creates a lane-accurate occupancy grid map for the lane therefrom. The lane-accurate occupancy grid map can be transmitted back to the mobile device. Also disclosed is an associated system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Titze, Stefan Ortmann
  • Publication number: 20190214016
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a portion of speech on an automated speech recognition system that includes a plurality of classifiers, thus defining a monitored portion of speech, wherein an operation is defined for each of the plurality of classifiers. A confidence score concerning the monitored portion of speech is associated with each of a plurality of classifiers, thus defining a plurality of confidence scores. If one of the plurality of confidence scores is an acceptable confidence score, the operation defined for the classifier associated with the acceptable confidence score is effectuated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Songzhe Wang, Lior Ben-Gigi, Slawek Jarosz, David Ardman, Stefan Ortmanns
  • Patent number: 10330695
    Abstract: A sensor unit for a vehicle includes a sensor circuit, a main part that supports the sensor circuit with at least one sensor contact, a connection cable, and a pot-shaped sleeve. The main part includes a sensor contact, a cable contact, and common contact support. The sensor contact is positioned on a first end of the contact support, and the cable contact is positioned on a second end of the contact support. The sensor contact is electrically connected to the at least one sensor contact via at least one sensor counter contact, and the cable contact is electrically connected to the connection cable via at least one cable contact. The sensor circuit is arranged on an end region of the contact support such that the sensor circuit is oriented in a predetermined detection direction. The detection direction is based on a bending angle of the end region relative to a longitudinal axis of the main part. The pot-shaped sleeve is fixed to the main part, and surrounds the sensor contact and the sensor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Steinbrink, Stefan Ortmann, Conrad Haeussermann, Anwar Hegazi, Andreas Fink, Bernd Lutz, Mirko Scheer
  • Patent number: 10175069
    Abstract: A sensor unit for a vehicle includes a sensor circuit that is electrically connected to a connection cable via a sensor contact-making-element, a cable contact-making element, and a coaxial contact-making element. The sensor contact-making element includes at least two sensor contacts, and the cable contact-making element includes at least two cable contacts. The coaxial contact-making element is positioned between the cable contact-making element and the sensor contact-making element and includes, at a cable end, a first inner contact point having at least two contacts and, at a sensor end, a second inner contact point having at least to mating contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Steinbrink, Stefan Ortmann, Anwar Hegazi, Mirko Scheer
  • Publication number: 20180347991
    Abstract: A system for precision-locating a motorized transportation vehicle in an environment including a device for capturing a sequence of images of the environment of the motorized transportation vehicle by at least one camera; detecting and classifying objects in the captured sequence of images by an evaluating unit; determining object positions of the objects relative to the motorized transportation vehicle by the evaluating unit; defining a section in the environment; allocating the objects to the determined object positions in the specified section; identifying a lane of the motorized transportation vehicle in the section; transmitting object information and the positions of the objects, section information on the defined section, lane information and time information to a map management apparatus by a transmitting apparatus. Also disclosed is a device, an associated map management apparatus, and to an associated system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas TITZE, Stefan ORTMANN
  • Publication number: 20180321046
    Abstract: A method for creating a digital map in at least one mobile device including capturing an image sequence of an environment; detecting and classifying objects in the captured image sequence; determining object positions of the objects relative to the mobile device; establishing a section in the environment wherein the section has a predetermined size and predetermined boundaries; assigning the detected and classified objects to the determined object positions in the established section; determining a traffic lane provided in the section; transmitting object information and the object positions of the detected and classified objects, section information relating to the established section, traffic lane information and time information to the map creation device. In the map creation device, the data is received, compared, and sections are joined and merged to form a digital map. Also disclosed is an associated system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas TITZE, Stefan ORTMANN
  • Publication number: 20180322777
    Abstract: A method for creating a lane-accurate occupancy grid map for lanes. In at least one mobile device, an environment is sensed by a camera and evaluated by an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit defines a section in the environment and determines a lane in the section. Objects in the environment or in the section are also detected and classified by the evaluating unit. The object information, section information, time information, and the lane information are transmitted to a map-creating device, which creates a lane-accurate occupancy grid map for the lane therefrom. The lane-accurate occupancy grid map can be transmitted back to the mobile device. Also disclosed is an associated system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas TITZE, Stefan ORTMANN
  • Publication number: 20170176223
    Abstract: A sensor unit for a vehicle includes a sensor circuit that is electrically connected to a connection cable via a sensor contact-making-element, a cable contact-making element, and a coaxial contact-making element. The sensor contact-making element includes at least two sensor contacts, and the cable contact-making element includes at least two cable contacts. The coaxial contact-making element is positioned between the cable contact-making element and the sensor contact-making element and includes, at a cable end, a first inner contact point having at least two contacts and, at a sensor end, a second inner contact point having at least to mating contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald STEINBRINK, Stefan ORTMANN, Anwar HEGAZI, Mirko SCHEER
  • Publication number: 20170176486
    Abstract: A sensor unit for a vehicle includes a sensor circuit, a main part that supports the sensor circuit with at least one sensor contact, a connection cable, and a pot-shaped sleeve. The main part includes a sensor contact, a cable contact, and common contact support. The sensor contact is positioned on a first end of the contact support, and the cable contact is positioned on a second end of the contact support. The sensor contact is electrically connected to the at least one sensor contact via at least one sensor counter contact, and the cable contact is electrically connected to the connection cable via at least one cable contact. The sensor circuit is arranged on an end region of the contact support such that the sensor circuit is oriented in a predetermined detection direction. The detection direction is based on a bending angle of the end region relative to a longitudinal axis of the main part. The pot-shaped sleeve is fixed to the main part, and surrounds the sensor contact and the sensor circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald Steinbrink, Stefan Ortmann, Conrad Haeussermann, Anwar Hegazi, Andreas Fink, Bernd Lutz, Mirko Scheer
  • Patent number: 9029702
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connection assembly for a sensor assembly having a connection element which is electrically and mechanically connected to one end of at least one wire of a connection cable in a first contacting region and can be electrically and mechanically connected to a sensor element in a second contacting region, wherein the connection element is at least partially enclosed by a plastic overmold which has a window-shaped recess in a transition region between the first contacting region and the second contacting region which is sealed in the injection molding die during the injection process of the plastic overmold and a corresponding sensor assembly. According to the disclosure, a positioning opening is arranged in the transition region such that the connection element can be positioned in the injection molding die and the transition region surrounding the positioning opening is sealed flat in the injection molding die to create the window-shaped recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Steinbrink, Sven Kluge, Stefan Ortmann, Steffen Schulze, Daniel Matthie, Jens Liebetrau, Frank Weishaeutel, Jan Beyersdorfer
  • Patent number: 8484582
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer program product for locating a desired entry in a list containing multiple list entries for use with a limited text display is described. A list of entries is partitioned into a number of sub-parts such that the desired entry is contained in one of the list sub-parts. At least one of the sub-parts is characterized within a limited text display to prompt a user for feedback regarding the location of the desired entry in the sub-parts. The user feedback is received from a view input element. In response to the user feedback, the sub-part containing the desired entry is selected. The partitioning, characterizing, receiving, and selecting steps are re-performed one or more times until a final sub-part is generated that contains a limited number of entries including the desired entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank H. Broicher, Brigitte Giese, Ludwig Gruber, Stefan Ortmanns, Friedhelm Wuppermann
  • Publication number: 20120198933
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connection assembly for a sensor assembly having a connection element which is electrically and mechanically connected to one end of at least one wire of a connection cable in a first contacting region and can be electrically and mechanically connected to a sensor element in a second contacting region, wherein the connection element is at least partially enclosed by a plastic overmold which has a window-shaped recess in a transition region between the first contacting region and the second contacting region which is sealed in the injection moulding die during the injection process of the plastic overmold and a corresponding sensor assembly. According to the disclosure, a positioning opening is arranged in the transition region such that the connection element can be positioned in the injection moulding die and the transition region surrounding the positioning opening is sealed flat in the injection moulding die to create the window-shaped recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ronald Steinbrink, Sven Kluge, Stefan Ortmann, Steffen Schulze, Daniel Matthie, Jens Liebetrau, Frank Weishaeutel, Jan Beyersdorfer
  • Publication number: 20100017393
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer program product for locating a desired entry in a list containing multiple list entries for use with a limited text display is described. A list of entries is partitioned into a number of sub-parts such that the desired entry is contained in one of the list sub-parts. At least one of the sub-parts is characterized within a limited text display to prompt a user for feedback regarding the location of the desired entry in the sub-parts. The user feedback is received from a view input element. In response to the user feedback, the sub-part containing the desired entry is selected. The partitioning, characterizing, receiving, and selecting steps are re-performed one or more times until a final sub-part is generated that contains a limited number of entries including the desired entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Frank H. Broicher, Brigitte Giese, Ludwig Gruber, Stefan Ortmanns, Friedhelm Wuppermann