Patents by Inventor Tobias Breuninger

Tobias Breuninger 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: 20190033624
    Abstract: A depth information detection device detects an item of depth information relating to a user's head, including a distance from the user's head to the device. On the basis of this depth information and, if applicable, additional information such as images, an evaluation device determines the desired parameters for fitting the spectacles, such as centering parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Tobias Breuninger, Holger Wegendt, Oliver Schwarz, Jeremias Gromotka
  • Publication number: 20170336609
    Abstract: Catadioptric eyepiece system having an exit pupil, comprising a display having a surface disposed in an object plane; optics providing a beam path from the display to the exit pupil and being configured to image a portion of the object plane into an intermediate image formed in a curved intermediate image plane; wherein the optics comprise: a lens system of positive optical power comprising at least one lens, wherein the lens system is disposed in the beam path downstream of the display and upstream of the intermediate image; a concave first mirror disposed in the beam path downstream of the intermediate image and upstream of the exit pupil; and a first beam splitter disposed in the beam path between the lens system and the first mirror and between the first mirror and the exit pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LERNER, Markus SEESSELBERG, Tobias BREUNINGER, David SHAFER, Toufic JABBOUR
  • Patent number: 9582927
    Abstract: A multifocal representation device with a digital image generation module and a control unit, which conveys to the digital image generation module two-dimensional image data of a three-dimensional object to be represented, is provided, wherein the digital image generation module, based on the two-dimensional image data conveyed, generates two-dimensional images of the object from at least two different object planes in corresponding different focal planes in such a way that an observer can focus with his eye on the different focal planes in order to perceive the represented object three-dimensionally, and wherein the control unit determines for each two-dimensional image to be represented a sharpness value in sections and sets the image data to dark for the image sections the sharpness value of which lies outside a sharpness value range predetermined for the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Daniel Bublitz, Enrico Geissler, Tobias Breuninger, Norbert Kerwien, Christoph Nieten
  • Patent number: 9259152
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining an ametropia of an eye 3 comprises a measurement light source 15 and beam formation optics 17 and an analysis module 35 comprising a detector 39 and analysis optics 37. The analysis optics are configured to focus a parallel light beam, entering through the optical interface 27, along a predetermined line extending transverse to a direction of the analysis beam path. The detector is a spatially resolving detector, wherein an acute angle between a surface normal of the detection area and the predetermined line is less than 80°. A controller 53 is configured to obtain light intensity data detected by the detector and to determine ametropia-data representing the ametropia of the eye based on the light intensity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Markus Seesselberg, Tobias Breuninger, Marco Wilzbach
  • Publication number: 20150173609
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining an ametropia of an eye 3 comprises a measurement light source 15 and beam formation optics 17 and an analysis module 35 comprising a detector 39 and analysis optics 37. The analysis optics are configured to focus a parallel light beam, entering through the optical interface 27, along a predetermined line extending transverse to a direction of the analysis beam path. The detector is a spatially resolving detector, wherein an acute angle between a surface normal of the detection area and the predetermined line is less than 80°. A controller 53 is configured to obtain light intensity data detected by the detector and to determine ametropia-data representing the ametropia of the eye based on the light intensity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Markus SEESSELBERG, Tobias BREUNINGER, Marco WILZBACH
  • Publication number: 20150178980
    Abstract: A multifocal representation device with a digital image generation module and a control unit, which conveys to the digital image generation module two-dimensional image data of a three-dimensional object to be represented, is provided, wherein the digital image generation module, based on the two-dimensional image data conveyed, generates two-dimensional images of the object from at least two different object planes in corresponding different focal planes in such a way that an observer can focus with his eye on the different focal planes in order to perceive the represented object three-dimensionally, and wherein the control unit determines for each two-dimensional image to be represented a sharpness value in sections and sets the image data to dark for the image sections the sharpness value of which lies outside a sharpness value range predetermined for the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Daniel Bublitz, Enrico Geissler, Tobias Breuninger, Norbert Kerwien, Christoph Nieten
  • Patent number: 7913676
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine (1), in particular in a motor vehicle, having a fresh air system (3) for supplying fresh air, which is extracted from the environment (20) of the internal combustion engine (1), to combustion chambers (13) of the internal combustion engine (1), and having a degassing system (5) for discharging blowby gas from a crankcase (6) of the internal combustion engine (1) and for supplying the blowby gas to the fresh air of the fresh air system (3). Furthermore, the degassing system (5) has an oil separator (35) for removing oil from the blowby gas. In order to improve the performance of the oil separator (35), a vacuum opening valve (37) is connected to the crankcase (6). Said vacuum opening valve (37) opens as a function of a vacuum prevailing in the crankcase (6), and then permits an inflow of fresh air into the crankcase (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Breuninger, Hartmut Sauter, Yakup Ozkaya
  • Publication number: 20080295814
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine (1), in particular in a motor vehicle, having a fresh air system (3) for supplying fresh air, which is extracted from the environment (20) of the internal combustion engine (1), to combustion chambers (13) of the internal combustion engine (1), and having a degassing system (5) for discharging blowby gas from a crankcase (6) of the internal combustion engine (1) and for supplying the blowby gas to the fresh air of the fresh air system (3). Furthermore, the degassing system (5) has an oil separator (35) for removing oil from the blowby gas. In order to improve the performance of the oil separator (35), a vacuum opening valve (37) is connected to the crankcase (6). Said vacuum opening valve (37) opens as a function of a vacuum prevailing in the crankcase (6), and then permits an inflow of fresh air into the crankcase (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Tobias Breuninger, Hartmut Sauter, Yakup Ozkaya