Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Pieters
Thomas A. Pieters 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: 20240147901Abstract: The present invention is related to a self-propelled forage harvester (1) comprising one or more sensors (15) mounted on the spout (30) of the harvester, and configured to measure the speed of the crop flow passing through the spout. The harvester is further equipped with a feed roll control unit (8) configured to receive a signal from the sensor and further configured to stop the rotation of the feed rolls (4,5) when the speed is lower than a pre-defined threshold, indicating that a blockage has occurred in the spout. According to an embodiment, the harvester is further provided with a hatch door arranged in the bottom of the spout. The hatch door enables the removal of the blocked crops after a blockage has occurred. In this way, a blockage can be detected quickly and removal of the blockage may also be realised in a fast and efficient way.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Thomas DEBBAUT, Geert P. MORTIER, Jan-Pieter VANDEN BROUCKE, Jeroen VERMANDER, Joachim BOYDENS, Michael CARPENTIER
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Patent number: 11934149Abstract: A device for a timepiece, comprising a support, an inertial regulating member mounted so as to rotate relative to the support by an elastic suspension connecting said regulating member to the support. The regulating member comprises a number n of rigid portions interconnected in pairs by n elastic coupling links. The elastic suspension comprises n elastic suspension links respectively connecting each rigid portion to the support.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LVMH Swiss Manufactures SAInventors: Guy Semon, Thomas Mercier, Florian Danard, Wout Johannes Benjamin Ypma, Maarten Pieter Lustig
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Patent number: 11765506Abstract: An automobile audio system for an automobile includes an audio processing unit, a set of external microphones to record external sound and a set of internal loudspeakers to internally reproduce audio. Furthermore, the automobile audio system includes a transmission switching mechanism. The transmission switching mechanism is manually configurable between at least two manual transmission configurations including a manually activated configuration wherein the set of external microphones is communicatively coupled to the set of internal loudspeakers such that the external sound is reproducible by at least a subset of the set of internal loudspeakers and a manually deactivated configuration wherein the set of external microphones is communicatively decoupled to the set of internal loudspeakers.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TYMPHANY WORLDWIDE ENTERPRISES LIMITEDInventors: Matthew Robinson, Thomas Pieter J. Peeters, Wade Forrest Conklin, Rowan Dylan Gower Williams
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Patent number: 11722820Abstract: A method for reproducing an external sound in an automobile includes recording external sound using external microphones located on an automobile exterior of the automobile; establishing recorded audio signals based on the recorded external sound; determining from the recorded audio signals a relative directionality of external sound sources of the recorded external sound with respect to at least one occupant within the automobile; establishing at least one directionality encoded audio signal by applying at least one frequency dependent directionality filter to the recorded audio signals, wherein at least one frequency dependent directionality filter is based on the determined relative directionality of external sound sources, thereby encoding the relative directionality into said at least one directionality encoded audio signal; reproducing a representation of the external sound based on at least one directionality encoded audio signal using internal loudspeakers located within an automobile interior of theType: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TYMPHANY WORLDWIDE ENTERPRISES LIMITEDInventors: Matthew Robinson, Thomas Pieter J. Peeters, Wade Forrest Conklin, Rowan Dylan Gower Williams
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Patent number: 11564031Abstract: An earphone body includes an internal chamber, a transducer housed in the internal chamber, a first tuned vent and a second tuned vent. The transducer has a front surface facing a direction of insertion of the earphone body in use and a rear surface 6B. The internal chamber provides a proximal acoustic volume adjacent the front surface of the transducer and a distal acoustic volume adjacent the rear surface of the transducer. The first tuned vent and the second tuned vent each extend between the distal acoustic volume and the ambient environment and are adapted to provide fluid communication between the distal acoustic volume and the ambient environment. The first tuned vent is tuned to a first frequency and the second tuned vent is tuned to a second frequency, the first frequency being lower than the second frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: TYMPHANY ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Thomas Pieter J. Peeters
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Patent number: 11497401Abstract: This invention relates generally to methods for localization and visualization of implanted electrodes and penetrating probes in the brain in 3D space with consideration of functional brain anatomy. Particularly, this invention relates to precise and sophisticated methods of localizing and visualizing implanted electrodes to the cortical surface and/or topological volumes of a patient's brain using 3D modeling, and more particularly to methods of accurately mapping implanted electrodes to the cortical topology and/or associated topological volumes of a patient's brain, such as, for example, by utilizing recursive grid partitioning on a manipulable virtual replicate of a patient's brain. This invention further relates to methods of surgical intervention utilizing accurate cortical surface modeling and/or topological volume modeling of a patient's brain for targeted placement of electrodes and/or utilization thereof for surgical intervention in the placement of catheters or other probes into it.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Nitin Tandon, Christopher Conner, Thomas A. Pieters, Cihan Mehmet Kadipasaoglu
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Publication number: 20220279276Abstract: A method for reproducing an external sound in an automobile includes recording external sound using external microphones located on an automobile exterior of the automobile; establishing recorded audio signals based on the recorded external sound; determining from the recorded audio signals a relative directionality of external sound sources of the recorded external sound with respect to at least one occupant within the automobile; establishing at least one directionality encoded audio signal by applying at least one frequency dependent directionality filter to the recorded audio signals, wherein at least one frequency dependent directionality filter is based on the determined relative directionality of external sound sources, thereby encoding the relative directionality into said at least one directionality encoded audio signal; reproducing a representation of the external sound based on at least one directionality encoded audio signal using internal loudspeakers located within an automobile interior of theType: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Matthew ROBINSON, Thomas Pieter J. PEETERS, Wade Forrest CONKLIN, Rowan Dylan Gower WILLIAMS
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Publication number: 20220279275Abstract: An automobile audio system for an automobile includes an audio processing unit, a set of external microphones to record external sound and a set of internal loudspeakers to internally reproduce audio. Furthermore, the automobile audio system includes a transmission switching mechanism. The transmission switching mechanism is manually configurable between at least two manual transmission configurations including a manually activated configuration wherein the set of external microphones is communicatively coupled to the set of internal loudspeakers such that the external sound is reproducible by at least a subset of the set of internal loudspeakers and a manually deactivated configuration wherein the set of external microphones is communicatively decoupled to the set of internal loudspeakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Matthew ROBINSON, Thomas Pieter J. PEETERS, Wade Forrest CONKLIN, Rowan Dylan Gower WILLIAMS
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Patent number: 11265640Abstract: A headphone assembly, including: a switching element for controlling a switch of at least one functional element in a headphone; a pressure sensor accommodated in a groove of a speaker board; and an ear pad covering the groove, when the ear pad is pressed, a trigger element may be moved to press against the pressure sensor, when detecting that pressure applied by the trigger element reaches a predetermined range, the pressure sensor switches on the switching element, otherwise, the pressure sensor switches off the switching element.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: TYMPHANY ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY (HUIZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Thomas Pieter J. Peeters, Hung-Fen Chen, Hung-Wei Lee, Chia-Hsin Hung
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Publication number: 20210392430Abstract: An earphone body includes an internal chamber, a transducer housed in the internal chamber, a first tuned vent and a second tuned vent. The transducer has a front surface facing a direction of insertion of the earphone body in use and a rear surface 6B. The internal chamber provides a proximal acoustic volume adjacent the front surface of the transducer and a distal acoustic volume adjacent the rear surface of the transducer. The first tuned vent and the second tuned vent each extend between the distal acoustic volume and the ambient environment and are adapted to provide fluid communication between the distal acoustic volume and the ambient environment. The first tuned vent is tuned to a first frequency and the second tuned vent is tuned to a second frequency, the first frequency being lower than the second frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventor: Thomas Pieter J. Peeters
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Patent number: 11057695Abstract: The present disclosure provides an in-ear headphone device including a loudspeaker having a loudspeaker diaphragm and a microphone, wherein the device is arranged to provide a noise cancelling audio signal to the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker and microphone are acoustically coupled within a device housing, and the device includes an acoustic tube coupling the device to an ear canal of a user. The acoustic tube is associated with an acoustic tube axis defining a projection plane perpendicular to the acoustic tube axis. The loudspeaker and microphone are arranged such that a projection area of the loudspeaker diaphragm onto the projection plane and a projection area of the microphone onto the projection plane are non-intersecting. The disclosure further provides an in-ear headphone device set including a first and a second in-ear headphone device.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Tymphany Acoustic Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rowan Dylan Gower Williams, Thomas Pieter J. Peeters, Chih-Hung Chen
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Publication number: 20200322712Abstract: The present disclosure provides an in-ear headphone device including a loudspeaker having a loudspeaker diaphragm and a microphone, wherein the device is arranged to provide a noise cancelling audio signal to the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker and microphone are acoustically coupled within a device housing, and the device includes an acoustic tube coupling the device to an ear canal of a user. The acoustic tube is associated with an acoustic tube axis defining a projection plane perpendicular to the acoustic tube axis. The loudspeaker and microphone are arranged such that a projection area of the loudspeaker diaphragm onto the projection plane and a projection area of the microphone onto the projection plane are non-intersecting. The disclosure further provides an in-ear headphone device set including a first and a second in-ear headphone device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Rowan Dylan Gower WILLIAMS, Thomas Pieter J. PEETERS, Chih-Hung CHEN
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Publication number: 20200322710Abstract: A headphone assembly, including: a switching element for controlling a switch of at least one functional element in a headphone; a pressure sensor accommodated in a groove of a speaker board; and an ear pad covering the groove, when the ear pad is pressed, a trigger element may be moved to press against the pressure sensor, when detecting that pressure applied by the trigger element reaches a predetermined range, the pressure sensor switches on the switching element, otherwise, the pressure sensor switches off the switching element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Thomas Pieter J. PEETERS, Hung-Fen CHEN, Hung-Wei LEE, Chia-Hsin HUNG
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Patent number: 10327055Abstract: An acoustical device includes a housing operative to be placed proximate to an ear of a wearer and a front volume partially defined by the housing. A controlled leakage path is disposed to acoustically and selectively couple the front volume of the housing with an exterior of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: TYMPHANY HK LIMITEDInventor: Thomas Pieter J. Peeters
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Publication number: 20190175020Abstract: This invention relates generally to methods for localization and visualization of implanted electrodes and penetrating probes in the brain in 3D space with consideration of functional brain anatomy. Particularly, this invention relates to precise and sophisticated methods of localizing and visualizing implanted electrodes to the cortical surface and/or topological volumes of a patient's brain using 3D modeling, and more particularly to methods of accurately mapping implanted electrodes to the cortical topology and/or associated topological volumes of a patient's brain, such as, for example, by utilizing recursive grid partitioning on a manipulable virtual replicate of a patient's brain. This invention further relates to methods of surgical intervention utilizing accurate cortical surface modeling and/or topological volume modeling of a patient's brain for targeted placement of electrodes and/or utilization thereof for surgical intervention in the placement of catheters or other probes into it.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Nitin TANDON, Christopher CONNER, Thomas A. PIETERS, Cihan Mehmet KADIPASAOGLU
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Patent number: 10149618Abstract: This invention relates generally to methods for localization and visualization of implanted electrodes and penetrating probes in the brain in 3D space with consideration of functional brain anatomy. Particularly, this invention relates to precise and sophisticated methods of localizing and visualizing implanted electrodes to the cortical surface and/or topological volumes of a patient's brain using 3D modeling, and more particularly to methods of accurately mapping implanted electrodes to the cortical topology and/or associated topological volumes of a patient's brain, such as, for example, by utilizing recursive grid partitioning on a manipulable virtual replicate of a patient's brain. This invention further relates to methods of surgical intervention utilizing accurate cortical surface modeling and/or topological volume modeling of a patient's brain for targeted placement of electrodes and/or utilization thereof for surgical intervention in the placement of catheters or other probes into it.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Nitin Tandon, Christopher R. Conner, Thomas A. Pieters, Cihan Mehmet Kadipasaoglu
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Publication number: 20180027317Abstract: An acoustical device includes a housing operative to be placed proximate to an ear of a wearer and a front volume partially defined by the housing. A controlled leakage path is disposed to acoustically and selectively couple the front volume of the housing with an exterior of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventor: Thomas Pieter J. PEETERS
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Patent number: 9107018Abstract: A sound reproduction system for reproducing an audio signal as originating from a first direction relative to a nominal position (211) and orientation of a listener is provided. The system comprises a first sound transducer arrangement (105) arranged to generate sound reaching the nominal position (211) from a first position corresponding to the first direction; and a second sound transducer arrangement (107) arranged to generate sound reaching the nominal position (211) from a second position corresponding to a different direction than the first direction. The arrangements may specifically be loudspeakers positioned at the given positions. A drive circuit (103) generates a first drive signal for the first sound transducer arrangement (105) and a second drive signal for the second sound transducer arrangement (107) from the audio signal. The first position and the second position are located on a sound cone of confusion for the nominal position (211) and the nominal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: William John Lamb, Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Thomas Pieter Jan Peeters
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Patent number: 8934643Abstract: An apparatus for generating a drive signal for a sound transducer (109) comprises a sound generator (101) which provides an input audio signal. A divider (101) divides the input audio signal into at least a low frequency signal and a high frequency signal and an expander (105) generates an expanded signal by applying a dynamic range expansion to the low frequency signal. A combiner (107) then generates the drive signal by combining the expanded signal and the higher frequency signal. The threshold for applying the dynamic range extension may be adjusted depending on the amplitude of the low frequency signal. The low frequency signal may furthermore be compressed into a narrow frequency band around a resonance frequency. The approach may allow improved audio quality especially from high Q low frequency sound transducers by attenuating decay parts of bass signals thereby reducing sustain or ringing for bass notes.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Ronaldus Maria Aarts, Thomas Pieter Jan Peeters
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Publication number: 20130121516Abstract: A sound reproduction system for reproducing an audio signal as originating from a first direction relative to a nominal position (211) and orientation of a listener is provided. The system comprises a first sound transducer arrangement (105) arranged to generate sound reaching the nominal position (211) from a first position corresponding to the first direction; and a second sound transducer arrangement (107) arranged to generate sound reaching the nominal position (211) from a second position corresponding to a different direction than the first direction. The arrangements may specifically be loudspeakers positioned at the given positions. A drive circuit (103) generates a first drive signal for the first sound transducer arrangement (105) and a second drive signal for the second sound transducer arrangement (107) from the audio signal. The first position and the second position are located on a sound cone of confusion for the nominal position (211) and the nominal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: William John Lamb, Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Thomas Pieter Jan Peeters