Patents by Inventor Stefanie Göttlicher
Stefanie Göttlicher 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).
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Publication number: 20240142079Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lighting device of a rear-view device adapted to be used with a vehicle comprising: at least two light sources arranged to emit light beams, wherein the at least two light sources comprise a first light source and a second light source, and the light beams comprise a first beam of light, in particular of a first color, and a second beam of light, in particular of a second color different from the first color; at least two lightguides, wherein the at least two lightguides comprises a first lightguide and a second lightguide; a housing, wherein the housing comprises an upper portion, a lower portion and a supporting element for, in particular detachably, supporting the at least two light sources and/or the at least two light guides; at least one reflective element, wherein the at least one reflective element is arranged to reflect at least a part of the light beams from one of the at least two light sources and is supported by the supporting element; a transparent lens arranged at leType: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Stefanie GÖTTLICHER, Dominik ERNEWEIN, Oliver SCHMIDT, Alf LIESENER
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Patent number: 11472290Abstract: A vehicle arrangement includes a display device for displaying at least one item of information on a display surface for at least one person being transported by the vehicle, a detection device for detecting disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface, and a further component which is compensating the detected disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface at least partially by at least one of movement relative to the display surface and alteration of its external shape. A vehicle includes at least one such vehicle arrangement, and a method provides a display in or on a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Christian Schär, Maximilian Kauffmann
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Patent number: 11458981Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more sensors arranged on at least one of a dashboard, a roof, and a center console of the vehicle, or one or more image capturing devices for capturing one or more images from a left side and a right side of the vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to communicate with the one or more sensors or the one or more image capturing devices, and at least one of a morphing surface, a windshield display, and one or more displays configured to be controlled by the ECU, where the one or more sensors are arranged under a black panel surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company LimitedInventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Reinhold Langbein, Matthias Koller, Yijun Zhao, Thomas Agung Nugraha, Gianluca Caretta, David-Kenneth Jaeger, Ilka Rötzer, Andreas Herrmann, Mukesh Patel, Jan Dormanns, Torsten Weingärtner, Yann Buchet, Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Patent number: 11396277Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle with at least one exterior camera includes detecting whether the motor vehicle is put into operation before a driver gets into the motor vehicle, determining whether there is any contamination of the at least one exterior camera, in particular of a lens and/or a cover of the exterior camera, and outputting at least one signal in the event of certain contamination and detected start-up. A motor vehicle includes a control or regulating device designed to carry out the method.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company LimitedInventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Patent number: 11358470Abstract: A method for operating a display device for a motor vehicle, in particular for an autonomously or partially autonomously operable motor vehicle, which includes a plurality of display areas, wherein a display area is selected from the plurality of display areas on the basis of a configuration of the motor vehicle that is adjustable by a driver of the motor vehicle. A motor vehicle includes a control device for implementing such a method.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.Inventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer
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Patent number: 11112873Abstract: A method of operating a display device for a motor vehicle having a plurality of display areas includes providing a plurality of non-contact input operations where a first non-contact input operation of a user is detected and verified by a second non-contact input operation of the user in order to select at least one display element on a first display area, and at least one third non-contact input operation of the user is detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: SMR PATENTS S.À.R.L.Inventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer
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Patent number: 11077832Abstract: A key device for opening or starting a vehicle includes a main body, and at least one cleaning means which is in or on the main body for cleaning an optical element of a rear view device of the vehicle. Further, a method is provided for cleaning an outer element of a vehicle, in particular at least one optical element of a rear view device of a motor vehicle by detecting a contamination state including a predetermined degree of contamination or a predetermined type of contamination of the outer element, emitting at least one signal that is characteristic for the detected degree of contamination including an input signal for a key device, and transmitting an optically, acoustically, or haptically detectable output signal by the key device, with a request for cleaning using the at least one cleaning means of the key device or which is connectable with the key device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: MOTHERSON INNOVATIONS COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Patent number: 11034288Abstract: An illumination and image acquisition unit for movable mounting on a vehicle body includes a movable section having an image acquisition section with at least one camera, a lighting member having at least one light source and an end section, the at least one light source being a component of a side boundary light, an ambient lighting, a signal or warning light, a flasher, a camper light, a laser display, a logo lamp, a floor light, or a projector. A motor vehicle includes such a lighting and imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SMR Patents S,á. r.l.Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Stefanie Göttlicher, Alf Liesener
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Publication number: 20200377060Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle with at least one exterior camera includes detecting whether the motor vehicle is put into operation before a driver gets into the motor vehicle, determining whether there is any contamination of the at least one exterior camera, in particular of a lens and/or a cover of the exterior camera, and outputting at least one signal in the event of certain contamination and detected start-up. A motor vehicle includes a control or regulating device designed to carry out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Publication number: 20200331486Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more sensors arranged on at least one of a dashboard, a roof, and a center console of the vehicle, or one or more image capturing devices for capturing one or more images from a left side and a right side of the vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to communicate with the one or more sensors or the one or more image capturing devices, and at least one of a morphing surface, a windshield display, and one or more displays configured to be controlled by the ECU, where the one or more sensors are arranged under a black panel surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Reinhold Langbein, Matthias Koller, Yijun Zhao, Thomas Agung Nugraha, Gianluca Caretta, David-Kenneth Jaeger, Ilka Rötzer, Andreas Herrmann, Mukesh Patel, Jan Dormanns, Torsten Weingärtner, Yann Buchet, Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Publication number: 20200310548Abstract: A method of operating a display device for a motor vehicle having a plurality of display areas includes providing a plurality of non-contact input operations where a first non-contact input operation of a user is detected and verified by a second non-contact input operation of the user in order to select at least one display element on a first display area, and at least one third non-contact input operation of the user is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer
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Publication number: 20200290505Abstract: An illumination and image acquisition unit for movable mounting on a vehicle body includes a movable section having an image acquisition section with at least one camera, a lighting member having at least one light source and an end section, the at least one light source being a component of a side boundary light, an ambient lighting, a signal or warning light, a flasher, a camper light, a laser display, a logo lamp, a floor light, or a projector. A motor vehicle includes such a lighting and imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Stefanie Göttlicher, Alf Liesener
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Publication number: 20200233216Abstract: A vehicle arrangement includes a display device for displaying at least one item of information on a display surface for at least one person being transported by the vehicle, a detection device for detecting disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface, and a further component which is compensating the detected disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface at least partially by at least one of movement relative to the display surface and alteration of its external shape. A vehicle includes at least one such vehicle arrangement, and a method provides a display in or on a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Christian Schär, Maximilian Kauffmann
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Patent number: 10696206Abstract: A camera module housing of a vehicle includes at least a first light source adapted to radiate light having a first color, a second light source adapted to radiate light having a second color, wherein the first color is different from the second color, at least a first opening in the aperture of the camera module housing adapted to allow for light passing through from the first light source, at least a second opening in the aperture of the camera housing adapted to allow for light passing through from the second light source, where the first and second opening are arranged around a lens of the camera. A control circuit for controlling a lighting application in a vehicle includes at least a voltage input channel for receiving an input voltage; and at least a first output channel, a first lighting device, a second output channel, and a second lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Romeo Wieczorek, Daniel Fritz, Ilka Rötzer
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Publication number: 20200171950Abstract: A method for operating a display device for a motor vehicle, in particular for an autonomously or partially autonomously operable motor vehicle, which includes a plurality of display areas, wherein a display area is selected from the plurality of display areas on the basis of a configuration of the motor vehicle that is adjustable by a driver of the motor vehicle. A motor vehicle includes a control device for implementing such a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Romeo Wieczorek, Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer
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Patent number: 10647257Abstract: A rear-view sensor system for a motor vehicle includes at least one sensor in the form of at least one of a rear-view camera and a lidar sensor positioned in the motor vehicle interior between a bodywork roof and a rear window, and a position-changing apparatus which moves the at least one sensor back and forth between a rest position and at least one operating position, where the at least one sensor is arranged in a recess in the rest position and is arranged right behind an upper part of the rear window in the at least one operating position.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.Inventors: Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer, Matthias Koller
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Publication number: 20190077379Abstract: A key device for opening or starting a vehicle includes a main body, and at least one cleaning means which is in or on the main body for cleaning an optical element of a rear view device of the vehicle. Further, a method is provided for cleaning an outer element of a vehicle, in particular at least one optical element of a rear view device of a motor vehicle by detecting a contamination state including a predetermined degree of contamination or a predetermined type of contamination of the outer element, emitting at least one signal that is characteristic for the detected degree of contamination including an input signal for a key device, and transmitting an optically, acoustically, or haptically detectable output signal by the key device, with a request for cleaning using the at least one cleaning means of the key device or which is connectable with the key device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher
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Publication number: 20190061625Abstract: A rear-view sensor system for a motor vehicle includes at least one sensor in the form of at least one of a rear-view camera and a lidar sensor positioned in the motor vehicle interior between a bodywork roof and a rear window, and a position-changing apparatus which moves the at least one sensor back and forth between a rest position and at least one operating position, where the at least one sensor is arranged in a recess in the rest position and is arranged right behind an upper part of the rear window in the at least one operating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Stefanie Göttlicher, Ilka Rötzer, Matthias Koller
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Publication number: 20180147977Abstract: A camera module housing of a vehicle includes at least a first light source adapted to radiate light having a first color, a second light source adapted to radiate light having a second color, wherein the first color is different from the second color, at least a first opening in the aperture of the camera module housing adapted to allow for light passing through from the first light source, at least a second opening in the aperture of the camera housing adapted to allow for light passing through from the second light source, where the first and second opening are arranged around a lens of the camera. A control circuit for controlling a lighting application in a vehicle includes at least a voltage input channel for receiving an input voltage; and at least a first output channel, a first lighting device, a second output channel, and a second lighting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Romeo Wieczorek, Daniel Fritz, Ilka Rötzer
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Patent number: D901370Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company LimitedInventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Rustam Schogenow, Romain Friot, Manuela Schuster, Steve Emter, Lorenz Weiβ, Shuyong Liu, Sabrina Walz, Femke Piening