Patents by Inventor Tobias HIPP
Tobias HIPP 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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Patent number: 11940535Abstract: A multipulse LIDAR system, including: a transmitting device for generating a transmission laser beam from a temporal sequence of single laser pulses; a receiving device with a detection surface, including a subdetector system made up of multiple subdetectors, for receiving the transmission laser beam that is reflected/scattered on objects in an observation area, the receiving device imaging a sampling point on the detection surface in the form of a pixel; a scanning device generating a scanning movement for successive sampling of the observation area along multiple sampling points situated in succession, the scanning movement to image a pixel on the detection surface, in each case shifted along the subdetector system; and a control device for determining distance information of the sampling points based on propagation times of the particular single laser pulses, the control device grouping subdetectors to form a macropixel individually associated with the particular pixel, for shared evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Patent number: 11703574Abstract: A method for scanning a scan angle, in which at least one electromagnetic beam is generated, the at least one electromagnetic beam is deflected along the scan angle, and the at least one electromagnetic beam, reflected at an object, is received and detected, wherein after at least one first electromagnetic beam, at least one second electromagnetic beam is generated and the second electromagnetic beam is generated with a lower energy than the first electromagnetic beam. A LIDAR device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Publication number: 20230146785Abstract: A trigger token correlates with a need for maintenance of a system. A computer-implemented method comprises: receiving a logfile of the system, wherein the logfile includes a plurality of event descriptions, and a subset of the plurality of event descriptions is assigned a time stamp; receiving a point in time of a technical defect of the system; extracting tokens from the subset of the event descriptions based on a token category, wherein each of the extracted tokens is contained as a character string in the subset of the plurality of event descriptions; determining the trigger token from the extracted tokens based on a correlation of time stamps assigned to the extracted tokens with the point in time of the technical defect of the system; and provisioning the trigger token.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventor: Tobias HIPP
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Patent number: 11579262Abstract: An operating method for a LIDAR system that is operable by pulse sequence encoding and designed with a SPAD-based detector element, in which a down time of the SPAD-based detector element is detected, and in the transmission mode of the LiDAR system, a minimum time interval of transmission pulses of primary light to be transmitted in direct chronological succession is dimensioned in such a way that the minimum time interval at least approximately corresponds to the down time.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Patent number: 11307924Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring a computing device for predictive maintenance, a computer-implemented method for predictive maintenance as well as a predictive maintenance apparatus are disclosed. Training log files including event sequences are examined iteratively for sequences of increasing length in order to determine a set of configuration data containing event sequences that have high predictive power for a system failure. Forward and backward gap values are defined such that not only sequences in the exact same temporal order as in the training log files are examined but also sequences with slightly different temporal ordering. In this way, possibly imprecise and/or incorrect time stamps in log files are compensated.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBHInventors: Tobias Hipp, Thomas Hubauer, Ulli Waltinger
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Publication number: 20220028537Abstract: A computer-implemented method is for providing an item of satisfaction information about a customer's predicted satisfaction with regard to a medical device. In an embodiment, the method includes providing input data, the input data including at least one operating parameter of the medical device and at least one item of customer information. The method moreover includes applying a first trained function to the input data, to generate the satisfaction information. The method further includes providing the satisfaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: An NGUYEN, Stefan FOERSTEL, Michael SCHRAPP, Tobias HIPP, Marie MECKING
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Publication number: 20210311193Abstract: A LIDAR sensor for optically detecting a field of vision. The LIDAR sensor includes a transmitting unit including a laser pattern generation unit, the laser pattern generation unit being designed to generate an illumination pattern in the field of vision; a receiving unit including at least one detector unit for receiving secondary light which was reflected and/or scattered by an object in the field of vision; the at least one detector unit including a plurality of pixels, and at least some pixels in each case including a multitude of activatable single-photon avalanche diodes; at least one rotor unit rotatable about a rotation axis, the transmitting unit and the receiving unit being at least partially situated on rotor unit. The LIDAR sensor furthermore includes at least one linker, which is designed to link detection signals of at least two single-photon avalanche diodes of a pixel via a combinational logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp, Annemarie Holleczek, Thomas Maurer
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Publication number: 20210181315Abstract: A multipulse LIDAR system, including: a transmitting device for generating a transmission laser beam from a temporal sequence of single laser pulses; a receiving device with a detection surface, including a subdetector system made up of multiple subdetectors, for receiving the transmission laser beam that is reflected/scattered on objects in an observation area, the receiving device imaging a sampling point on the detection surface in the form of a pixel; a scanning device generating a scanning movement for successive sampling of the observation area along multiple sampling points situated in succession, the scanning movement to image a pixel on the detection surface, in each case shifted along the subdetector system; and a control device for determining distance information of the sampling points based on propagation times of the particular single laser pulses, the control device grouping subdetectors to form a macropixel individually associated with the particular pixel, for shared evaluation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Publication number: 20210080544Abstract: An operating method for a LIDAR system that is operable by pulse sequence encoding and designed with a SPAD-based detector element, in which a down time of the SPAD-based detector element is detected, and in the transmission mode of the LiDAR system, a minimum time interval of transmission pulses of primary light to be transmitted in direct chronological succession is dimensioned in such a way that the minimum time interval at least approximately corresponds to the down time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Publication number: 20200310900Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring a computing device for predictive maintenance, a computer-implemented method for predictive maintenance as well as a predictive maintenance apparatus are disclosed. Training log files including event sequences are examined iteratively for sequences of increasing length in order to determine a set of configuration data containing event sequences that have high predictive power for a system failure. Forward and backward gap values are defined such that not only sequences in the exact same temporal order as in the training log files are examined but also sequences with slightly different temporal ordering. In this way, possibly imprecise and/or incorrect time stamps in log files are compensated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: Tobias HIPP, Thomas HUBAUER, Ulli WALTINGER
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Publication number: 20200018859Abstract: A method for scanning a scan angle, in which at least one electromagnetic beam is generated, the at least one electromagnetic beam is deflected along the scan angle, and the at least one electromagnetic beam, reflected at an object, is received and detected, wherein after at least one first electromagnetic beam, at least one second electromagnetic beam is generated and the second electromagnetic beam is generated with a lower energy than the first electromagnetic beam. A LIDAR device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Tobias Hipp
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Patent number: 9323341Abstract: A method for determining gestures in the beam region of a projector includes: projecting an image onto a surface with the aid of the projector, using light; measuring a first set of light intensities of light backscattered from the direction of the surface, under the influence of a gesture made in the beam region of the projector; assigning the measured light intensities to, in each instance, a position of the image projected by the projector; at a first time point, generating a first light intensity function over a second set of positions, which are assigned measured light intensities; at a second time point, generating at least one second light intensity function over the second set of positions; and determining the gesture made, based on the result of a comparison between the first and second light intensity functions.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Georg Mrusek, Tobias Hipp, Reiner Schnitzer, Frank Fischer, Lutz Rauscher, Christoph Delfs, Ming Liu, Gael Pilard
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Publication number: 20140375553Abstract: A method for determining gestures in the beam region of a projector includes: projecting an image onto a surface with the aid of the projector, using light; measuring a first set of light intensities of light backscattered from the direction of the surface, under the influence of a gesture made in the beam region of the projector; assigning the measured light intensities to, in each instance, a position of the image projected by the projector; at a first time point, generating a first light intensity function over a second set of positions, which are assigned measured light intensities; at a second time point, generating at least one second light intensity function over the second set of positions; and determining the gesture made, based on the result of a comparison between the first and second light intensity functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Georg Mrusek, Tobias Hipp, Reiner Schnitzer, Frank Fischer, Lutz Rauscher, Christopher Delfs, Ming Liu, Gael Pilard
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Publication number: 20130285985Abstract: A method for ascertaining a gesture performed in the light cone of a projected image which has a plurality of pixels includes: detecting all pixels of the projected image and one or multiple parameter values of the individual pixels; comparing the one or the multiple detected parameter values of the individual pixels with a parameter comparison value; assigning a subset of the pixels to a pixel set as a function of the results of the comparison; and ascertaining a gesture performed in the light cone of the projected image based on the assigned pixel set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan PINTER, Reiner SCHNITZER, Frank FISCHER, Gael PILARD, Ming LIU, David SLOGSNAT, Daniel KREYE, Tobias HIPP