Patents by Inventor Stefan UHLICH

Stefan UHLICH 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: 20170017357
    Abstract: An electronic device, including an input interface configured to receive an input signal, a command determination unit configured to determine a plurality of possible commands based on the input signal, and an output interface configured to provide a plurality of output information corresponding to effects associated with each of the plurality of determined possible commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Stefan UHLICH, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP
  • Patent number: 9482703
    Abstract: A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network, comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network on the basis of the electrical characteristic of the power line network and a model profile. The model profile is based on electrical characteristics of one or more candidate appliances and on a configuration of the power line network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Altfried Dilly, Ben Eitel, Thomas Kemp, Sebastian Klenk, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 9465059
    Abstract: A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, extracting a line-neglecting feature from the electrical characteristic of the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network based on the extracted line-neglecting feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altfried Dilly, Ben Eitel, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 9401826
    Abstract: A receiver apparatus receives a transmit signal through a plurality of transmission channels, wherein each transmission channel is described by its channel vector. A sparseness evaluation unit (127) may obtain a sparseness measure containing sparseness information for previously estimated frequency-domain channel vectors. From the plurality of receive signals, an estimator unit (120) estimates updated channel vectors for the transmission channels by applying an iterative blind channel estimation algorithm that may consider a change of the sparseness measure, out-of-band energy information and/or signal-to-noise information and cross-relations between pairs of receive signals. A combining unit (130) may combine the receive signals on the basis of combining coefficients derived from the estimated channel impulse responses for a pre-selected diversity combining scheme to obtain a combined receive signal representing an estimation of the transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Eitel, Julian Zinsser, Rana Ahmed Salem, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20150278686
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
  • Publication number: 20140292304
    Abstract: A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, extracting a line-neglecting feature from the electrical characteristic of the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network based on the extracted line-neglecting feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Altfried DILLY, Ben EITEL, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
  • Publication number: 20140297209
    Abstract: A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network, comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network on the basis of the electrical characteristic of the power line network and a model profile. The model profile is based on electrical characteristics of one or more candidate appliances and on a configuration of the power line network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Altfried DILLY, Ben EITEL, Thomas KEMP, Sebastian KLENK, Stefan UHLICH