Patents by Inventor Stephan WERNER

Stephan WERNER 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: 20240365081
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting selective hearing includes a detector for detecting an audio source signal portion of one or more audio sources by using at least two received microphone signals of a hearing environment. A position determiner allocates position information to each of the one or more audio sources. An audio type classifier assigns an audio source signal type to the audio source signal portion of each of the one or more audio sources. A signal portion modifier varies the audio source signal portion of at least one audio source of the one or more audio sources depending on the audio signal type of the audio source signal portion of the at least one audio source so as to obtain a modified audio signal portion of the at least one audio source. The system includes a signal generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas SPORER, Georg FISCHER, Hanna LUKASHEVICH, Florian KLEIN, Stephan WERNER, Annika NEIDHARDT, Ulrike SLOMA, Christian SCHNEIDERWIND, Claudia STIRNAT, Estefania CANO CERON, Jakob ABESSER, Christoph SLADECZEK, Karlheinz BRANDENBURG
  • Patent number: 12069470
    Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for assisting selective hearing are provided. The system includes a detector for detecting an audio source signal portion of one or more audio sources by using at least two received microphone signals of a hearing environment. In addition, the system includes a position determiner for allocating position information to each of the one or more audio sources. In addition, the system includes an audio type classifier for assigning an audio source signal type to the audio source signal portion of each of the one or more audio sources. In addition, the system includes a signal portion modifier for varying the audio source signal portion of at least one audio source of the one or more audio sources depending on the audio signal type of the audio source signal portion of the at least one audio source so as to obtain a modified audio signal portion of the at least one audio source. In addition, the system includes a signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU
    Inventors: Thomas Sporer, Georg Fischer, Hanna Lukashevich, Florian Klein, Stephan Werner, Annika Neidhardt, Ulrike Sloma, Christian Schneiderwind, Claudia Stirnat, Estefania Cano Ceron, Jakob Abesser, Christoph Sladeczek, Karlheinz Brandenburg
  • Publication number: 20220159403
    Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for assisting selective hearing are provided. The system includes a detector for detecting an audio source signal portion of one or more audio sources by using at least two received microphone signals of a hearing environment. In addition, the system includes a position determiner for allocating position information to each of the one or more audio sources. In addition, the system includes an audio type classifier for assigning an audio source signal type to the audio source signal portion of each of the one or more audio sources. In addition, the system includes a signal portion modifier for varying the audio source signal portion of at least one audio source of the one or more audio sources depending on the audio signal type of the audio source signal portion of the at least one audio source so as to obtain a modified audio signal portion of the at least one audio source. In addition, the system includes a signal generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas SPORER, Georg FISCHER, Hanna LUKASHEVICH, Florian KLEIN, Stephan WERNER, Annika NEIDHARDT, Ulrike SLOMA, Christian SCHNEIDERWIND, Claudia STIRNAT, Estefania CANO CERON, Jakob ABESSER, Christoph SLADECZEK, Karlheinz BRANDENBURG
  • Publication number: 20200207203
    Abstract: The invention describes a locking device for a fuelling or charging recess, and a fuelling or charging recess, wherein the locking device has a locking pin (12) that has a locking section (14) on one end and can be translationally and rotationally moved for locking. The locking pin (12) has, on the locking section (14), a first holder (16) in which a pressure piece (20) is received that provides a tolerance compensation over the long term. A fuelling or charging recess having a locking device (10) of this kind further has a recess body, a lever arm and a tank filling pipe or charging module, wherein in an opening of the recess body, a tank filling pipe or charging module is inserted and the lever arm is pivotally mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicants: DR. SCHNEIDER KUNSTSTOFFWERKE GMBH, CEBI ITALY S.P. A. ANCONA
    Inventor: Stephan WERNER
  • Publication number: 20190390269
    Abstract: The method comprises: the reverse transcription of the template RNA, the amplification and high-throughput sequencing of the cDNAs obtained in this way, the mapping of the sequenced cDNAs/reads to the reference genome using computerized alignment methods, a computerized evaluation of the mapping results with regard to the reverse transcription event pattern (the RT signature) at the nucleotide positions and feeding the digitalised data of the RT signatures into a computerized machine learning based classification system. Reverse transcription is carried out in parallel reaction batches with different reverse transcriptases and/or under different reaction conditions. The evaluation of the mapping results with regard to the RT signature is carried out using the events ‘arrest’ and/or ‘readthrough with mismatch’ and/or ‘readthrough with sequence gap(s)’. RT signature data obtained using the parallel reaction batches are fed into the classification system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz
    Inventors: Mark HELM, Ralf HAUENSCHILD, Lyudmil TSEROVSKI, Stephan WERNER, Andreas HILDEBRANDT, Jennifer LECLAIRE, Thomas KEMMER
  • Patent number: 10003906
    Abstract: A device for determining room-optimized transfer functions for a listening room serving for room-optimized post-processing of audio signals in spatial production, is configured to analyze room acoustics of the listening room and to determine, based on the analysis of the room acoustics, the room-optimized transfer functions for the listening room where the spatial reproduction by means of a binaural close-range sound transducer is to take place. The spatial reproduction of the audio signals by means of the binaural close-range sound transducer may then be emulated using known head-related transfer functions und using the room-optimized transfer functions, wherein a room to be synthesized may be emulated based on the head-related transfer functions, and wherein the listening room may be emulated based on the room-optimized transfer functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU
    Inventors: Karlheinz Brandenburg, Stephan Werner, Christoph Sladeczek
  • Patent number: 9818588
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and an arrangement for the control of measuring systems such as a mass spectrometer or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument, the control being based on an online data analysis of the current measurements. Depending on the measurement experiment, the combined result of the data analysis can have either a direct influence on the next measurement or result in a dynamically organized sequence of measurements. The measuring systems may be controlled by establishing a database that comprises information on the objects to be measured, the measurement data which can be detected during the measurement experiments using the measuring systems, and information regarding the relationships between or among items of the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Kühn, Michael W. Linscheid, Katja Tham, Johann-Christoph Freytag, Stephan Werner Heymann
  • Publication number: 20170078820
    Abstract: A device for determining room-optimized transfer functions for a listening room serving for room-optimized post-processing of audio signals in spatial production, is configured to analyze room acoustics of the listening room and to determine, based on the analysis of the room acoustics, the room-optimized transfer functions for the listening room where the spatial reproduction by means of a binaural close-range sound transducer is to take place. The spatial reproduction of the audio signals by means of the binaural close-range sound transducer may then be emulated using known head-related transfer functions und using the room-optimized transfer functions, wherein a room to be synthesized may be emulated based on the head-related transfer functions, and wherein the listening room may be emulated based on the room-optimized transfer functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Karlheinz BRANDENBURG, Stephan WERNER, Christoph SLADECZEK
  • Publication number: 20120046872
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and an arrangement for the control of measuring systems such as a mass spectrometer or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument, the control being based on an online data analysis of the current measurements. Depending on the measurement experiment, the combined result of the data analysis can have either a direct influence on the next measurement or result in a dynamically organized sequence of measurements. The measuring systems may be controlled by establishing a database that comprises information on the objects to be measured, the measurement data which can be detected during the measurement experiments using the measuring systems, and information regarding the relationships between or among items of the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Kühn, Michael W. Linscheid, Katja Tham, Johann-Christoph Freytag, Stephan Werner Heymann
  • Patent number: 6375718
    Abstract: Connected in a water circuit for cooling or heating gaseous fuel in a fuel system for a gas turbine plant is a gas/liquid separation apparatus which serves to separate gases contained in the water from the water, and to detect them. The container of the separation apparatus is split up by a partition into a water entry chamber and a water exit chamber. The incoming water flow is split up in the water entry chamber into an upward-flowing and a downward-flowing water flow. Located above the water is a gas-filled space into which gas bubbles disperse. The upward-flowing water flows over an overflow weir, and the downward-flowing water flows into the water exit chamber through openings in the lower region of the partition. The separation apparatus thus includes a calm, free water level in the water entry chamber, and an irrotational flow from the water exit chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: Francisco Blangetti, Stephan Werner Doehler, Erhard Liebig, Rainer Schlageter