Patents by Inventor Thomas NÄGELE

Thomas NÄGELE 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).

  • METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENABLING A SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETECTING OBJECTS IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20220390596
    Abstract: A method for obtaining approval of a sensor system for detecting objects in a vehicle's environment includes providing a combined probability distribution for deviations between output data from a sensor system and reference data at the programming level for detecting objects by the sensor system, at the sensor level and/or at the fusion level, sampling deviation combinations and calculating occurrence probabilities for the sampled deviation combinations using the combined probability distribution, subjecting the reference data to the sampled deviation combinations, processing these reference data with a fusion unit, and obtaining fusion results, removing occurrence probabilities from the combined probability distribution from which those fusion results are obtained that satisfy a predefined condition, and obtaining a residual probability distribution, taking the integral of the residual probability distribution and obtaining an absolute error probability, and obtaining approval of the sensor system based on
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin RUCHTI, Thomas NÄGELE, Stefan RINKENAUER, Jens KLIMKE, Tobias MOERS, Dominik RAUDSZUS, Hendrik WEBER, Maike SCHOLTES, Lutz ECKSTEIN
  • Calibration light source
    Patent number: 8998453
    Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration radiation source comprising the following: a housing (2) having an opening (12), a board (22) held in the housing (2), a semiconductor radiation source (18) mounted on the board (22) for generating a light beam, and an exit opening support element (14) having, in the area of the opening (12), a light exit opening (15) through which the light beam radiates outwards from the housing (2). The exit opening support element (14) is decoupled from the housing (2), and is attached to the board (22) of the semiconductor radiation source (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Instrument Systems Optische Meβtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Näegele, Detlef Hannak, Simon Sturm
  • Calibration Light Source
    Publication number: 20120140472
    Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration radiation source comprising the following: a housing (2) having an opening (12), a board (22) held in the housing (2), a semiconductor radiation source (18) mounted on the board (22) for generating a light beam, and an exit opening support element (14) having, in the area of the opening (12), a light exit opening (15) through which the light beam radiates outwards from the housing (2). The exit opening support element (14) is decoupled from the housing (2), and is attached to the board (22) of the semiconductor radiation source (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS OPTISCHE MESSTECHNIK GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Näegele, Detlef Hannak, Simon Sturm