Patents by Inventor Thomas Nierhoff

Thomas Nierhoff 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: 20220222493
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for learning a strategy and/or method for learning a synthetic environment. The strategy is configured to control an agent, and the method includes: providing synthetic environment parameters and a real environment and a population of strategies. Subsequently, repeating the following steps for a predetermined number of repetitions as a first loop: carrying out for each strategy of the population of strategies subsequent steps as a second loop: disturb the synthetic environment parameters with random noise; train for a first given number of step the strategy on the disturbed synthetic environment; evaluate the trained strategy on the real environment by determining rewards of the trained strategies; updating the synthetic environment parameters depending on the noise and the rewards. Finally, outputting the evaluated strategy with the highest reward on the real environment or with the best trained strategy on the disturbed synthetic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Nierhoff, Fabio Ferreira, Frank Hutter
  • Publication number: 20220012636
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for creating a system, which is suitable for creating in an automated manner a machine learning system for computer vision. The method includes: providing predefined hyperparameters; determining an optimal parameterization of the hyperparameters using BOHB (Bayesian optimization (BO) and Hyperband (HB)) for a plurality of different training data sets; assessing all optimal parameterizations on all training data sets of the plurality of different training data sets with the aid of a normalized metric; creating a matrix, the matrix including the evaluated normalized metric for each parameterization and for each training data set; determining meta-features for each of the training data sets; optimizing a decision tree, which outputs as a function of the meta-features and of the matrix which of the optimal parameterization using BOHB is a suitable parameterization for the given meta-features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Marius Lindauer, Arber Zela, Danny Oliver Stoll, Fabio Ferreira, Frank Hutter, Thomas Nierhoff
  • Patent number: 10490073
    Abstract: A method for locating a body in the form of an object situated within a parking lot, the body including a communication interface for communicating via a wireless communication network, including the following steps: reception by the communication interface, via the wireless communication network, of position data of one or more vehicles traveling within the parking lot, the position data indicating a respective instantaneous position of the traveling vehicle or vehicles within the parking lot; location of the body within the parking lot based on the received position data. A corresponding device is also described. A method and a device for operating a vehicle traveling within a parking lot are also described. A body in the form of an object, a vehicle, and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Thomas Nierhoff
  • Publication number: 20180211531
    Abstract: A method for locating a body in the form of an object situated within a parking lot, the body including a communication interface for communicating via a wireless communication network, including the following steps: reception by the communication interface, via the wireless communication network, of position data of one or more vehicles traveling within the parking lot, the position data indicating a respective instantaneous position of the traveling vehicle or vehicles within the parking lot; location of the body within the parking lot based on the received position data. A corresponding device is also described. A method and a device for operating a vehicle traveling within a parking lot are also described. A body in the form of an object, a vehicle, and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Thomas Nierhoff
  • Patent number: 10019899
    Abstract: A method for determining a pickup position from multiple pickup positions for a vehicle incorporated by a parking facility, at which the vehicle is to be picked up after an automatic parking operation, including ascertaining a traffic situation inside and/or outside the parking facility, and determining the pickup position from the multiple pickup positions, based on the ascertained traffic situation, so that the automatic parking operation may end at the designated pickup position. A corresponding device, a corresponding parking facility, and a corresponding computer program are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Thomas Nierhoff
  • Publication number: 20170025004
    Abstract: A method for determining a pickup position from multiple pickup positions for a vehicle incorporated by a parking facility, at which the vehicle is to be picked up after an automatic parking operation, including ascertaining a traffic situation inside and/or outside the parking facility, and determining the pickup position from the multiple pickup positions, based on the ascertained traffic situation, so that the automatic parking operation may end at the designated pickup position. A corresponding device, a corresponding parking facility, and a corresponding computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Thomas Nierhoff