Patents by Inventor Tobias MOLL

Tobias MOLL 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: 20250135886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for adjusting a screen of a vehicle, wherein the screen is provided for a front passenger of the vehicle, and wherein it is originally provided to display at least one display element. The at least one display element is analyzed to determine, whether the at least one display element is dynamic and/or is provided only for the front passenger. Based on the determination, at least one static display element that differs from the display element originally provided for display is alternatively displayed from the driver's perspective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MÜLLER, Tobias MOLL
  • Patent number: 12271071
    Abstract: According to a method for activating a privacy device and a motor vehicle having a display device, which may be arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle and may include a liquid crystal display screen which may be assigned at least to a front passenger position, the liquid crystal display screen is divided into a plurality of segments. A respective segment includes an electronically switchable privacy device, which is configured in an activated state, to block a display of a display image of the respective segments from the viewing direction of a driver position and to permit the display from the viewing direction of the passenger position, and, in a deactivated state, to permit the display from both viewing directions. The display device is configured to determine the segments on which a moving entertainment content is displayed, and to activate the privacy device for these segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Ulrich Müller, Roland Sager
  • Patent number: 12181403
    Abstract: A spectrometry device includes a carrier medium, or waveguide, for transmitting light by internal reflection, and a transceiver device that has at least one light source and a detection device. A transceiver deflection structure couples at least the light emitted by the light source into the carrier medium. A measurement deflection structure, arranged at a distance from the transceiver deflection structure, decouples the light out of the carrier medium onto a measuring surface of the carrier medium so that the biological tissue can reflect the light back to the carrier medium. The reflected light is transmitted back onto the detection device via the measurement deflection structure, the carrier medium and the transceiver deflection structure. The detection device determines an intensity signal of the reflected light which is used by an analysis device to determine a pulse frequency signal and/or a pulse curve signal as a medical characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
  • Publication number: 20240399954
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for controlling a lighting device of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one display surface and/or at least one lighting unit. At least one image capable of being provided by a mobile terminal and/or by an external computing device automatically selected; image data describing the at least one selected image is received; and image content information, which describes a color gradient of the at least one selected image, is determined by applying an image content determination criterion to the provided image data. The lighting device is controlled considering the determined image content information, wherein an appearance generated by means of the lighting device is adapted to the color gradient of the at least one selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Bennemann, Tobias Moll
  • Publication number: 20240369867
    Abstract: According to a method for activating a privacy device and a motor vehicle having a display device, which may be arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle and may include a liquid crystal display screen which may be assigned at least to a front passenger position, the liquid crystal display screen is divided into a plurality of segments. A respective segment includes an electronically switchable privacy device, which is configured in an activated state, to block a display of a display image of the respective segments from the viewing direction of a driver position and to permit the display from the viewing direction of the passenger position, and, in a deactivated state, to permit the display from both viewing directions. The display device is configured to determine the segments on which a moving entertainment content is displayed, and to activate the privacy device for these segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Ulrich MÜLLER, Roland SAGER
  • Patent number: 12101537
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image sensor apparatus of a camera for detecting light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Markus Klug
  • Publication number: 20240288691
    Abstract: A method of operating virtual reality glasses in a vehicle, in which a risk of motion sickness for a wearer of the virtual reality glasses is reduced with the aid of the method. A virtual reality system (IO) includes the virtual reality glasses and the vehicle. According to the method, a vehicle movement of the vehicle is evaluated in such a way that ultimately, after the image data describing the virtual surroundings have been split into a background image dataset and a foreground image dataset, a lateral offset for a position of an object in the foreground in comparison with the background is determined, so that virtual surroundings which are processed in this way can be determined and displayed. Alternatively, the virtual surroundings can be enlarged in accordance with the vehicle movement, and processed virtual surroundings can be determined by a movement of the enlarged virtual surroundings along a movement trajectory, and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Tahar BOUAZIZ
  • Publication number: 20240278773
    Abstract: A vehicle and method for a parking maneuver includes an electrically operated vehicle, having two axles with two drive and chassis modules which are spaced apart by a track width are arranged on each of the axles, and, on the basis of a straight-head position in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, each of the drive and chassis modules has a separate maximum steering angle with respect to a side of the vehicle and having a control device in which a plurality of steering functions for actuating a steering angle of the drive and chassis modules are configured and stored. A method for carrying out a parking maneuver, in which the drive and chassis modules are adjusted synchronously in accordance with one of the steering functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Lukas Holler, Andreas Woellner, Christian Harkort, Tobias Molls
  • Patent number: 12067988
    Abstract: A detection device provides a voice signal of a person and includes a light source, a first planar carrier medium, a second planar carrier medium, a sensor device, and an evaluation device. The first planar carrier medium includes an input coupling region and an output coupling region. The second planar carrier medium includes a light input coupling region and a light output coupling region. Light from the light source is emitted into the second planar carrier medium and output in the direction of a front neck region of the person, and the light reflected on the neck region is input into the first planar carrier medium and output out of the first planar carrier medium. The output light is detected by the sensor device which provides sensor data to the evaluation device which converts the sensor data into vibrational data and provides the voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
  • Patent number: 12055840
    Abstract: A camera apparatus records only those objects in a surround which are situated in a predetermined object plane at a distance from the camera apparatus. To this end, the camera apparatus includes an illumination device for illuminating the desired object with an illumination light and an image capture device (for capturing the illumination light reflected by the object. For recording that is dependent on the object plane, the camera apparatus additionally comprises a control device for driving the illumination device to provide the illumination light in the form of light pulses and for controlling the image capture device to capture the reflected illumination light within recording intervals assigned to the light pulses. To avoid interference effects on a resultant image representation, provision is additionally made for a deflection unit for deflecting the respective illumination light between the surround and the illumination device and the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Markus Klug, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
  • Patent number: 12013534
    Abstract: A method of operating virtual reality glasses in a vehicle in which a risk of motion sickness for a wearer of the virtual reality glasses is reduced with the aid of the method. A virtual reality system (IO) includes the virtual reality glasses and the vehicle. According to the method, a vehicle movement of the vehicle is evaluated in such a way that ultimately, after the image data describing the virtual surroundings have been split into a background image dataset and a foreground image dataset, a lateral offset for a position of an object in the foreground in comparison with the background is determined, so that virtual surroundings which are processed in this way can be determined and displayed. Alternatively, the virtual surroundings can be enlarged in accordance with the vehicle movement, and processed virtual surroundings can be determined by means of a movement of the enlarged virtual surroundings along a movement trajectory, and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Tahar Bouaziz
  • Patent number: 11882260
    Abstract: Cost-effective, spatially representative image data is recording in a stereoscopic or photogrammetric image of an environment by a camera apparatus having three holographic-optical elements arranged as coupling regions at different positions on a carrier medium to capture the environment from different perspectives. Light from the environment is coupled by the coupling regions into the carrier medium which provides a light guide that transfers the light to an additional holographic-optical element which provides a decoupling region to decouple the light from the carrier medium. An image capture device captures the decoupled light and produces image data therefrom. A separating device produces the spatially representative image data from the image data by capturing the light incident on the coupling regions in a manner separated temporally or by color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
  • Patent number: 11858313
    Abstract: A device for temperature control for a motor vehicle, includes a diffractive optical element disposed on a surface of the motor vehicle, and a radiator. The diffractive optical element couples in incident radiation and conducts the coupled-in incident radiation away from an area of the motor vehicle to be cooled. The radiator includes an absorber to absorb the coupled-in incident radiation which is conducted to the absorber from the diffractive optical element. The radiator releases energy based on the coupled-in incident radiation absorbed by the absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: AUDI AG, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mark Bennemann, Tobias Moll
  • Patent number: 11833743
    Abstract: A 3D printing apparatus includes a synthetic resin bath for a photosensitive synthetic resin and a lifting apparatus. The photosensitive synthetic resin at the lifting apparatus is polymerizable by light of a specified wavelength. The 3D printing apparatus further includes a carrier medium having a coupling-in region and a coupling-out region, and an illumination apparatus to emit light onto the coupling-in region. The coupling-in region includes a coupling-in deflection structure to couple light of the specified wavelength incident on the coupling-in deflection structure from the illumination apparatus, into the carrier medium in a direction of the coupling-out region, and the coupling-out region is disposed below the synthetic resin bath and includes a coupling-out deflection structure configured to couple the light of the specified wavelength that is incident on the coupling-out deflection structure, as an exposure pattern, out of the carrier medium onto the photosensitive synthetic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug
  • Patent number: 11758273
    Abstract: A camera device having an enlarged or wide-angle field of view generates images of surroundings simultaneously using only one image capturing unit, such as an image sensor, for example. The camera device uses a diverting unit disposed upstream of the image capturing unit. The diverting unit includes so-called holographic optical elements which, based on their deflection structures, divert or deflect light so that the camera device can capture the wide-angle field of view, without generating imaging aberrations on the resulting image(s). The deflection structures are wavelength-selective and/or angle-selective. The total field of view is subdivided into individual angle-of-incidence regions by virtue of the properties of the deflection structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Tobias Moll
  • Publication number: 20230266600
    Abstract: A system for imaging a scene includes a capturing unit to capture two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional information of the scene, the information including light waves from the scene; a first diffractive optical element to receive the light waves from the capturing unit; a waveguide to forward the light waves received by the first diffractive optical element , the first diffractive optical element additionally to couple the light waves into the optical waveguide; and a second diffractive optical element to couple the light waves forwarded by the optical waveguide out of the optical waveguide. The system additionally includes a first image sensor and at least one second image sensor to capture the light waves coupled out of the optical waveguide and to generate first image data and second image data therefrom. The first image sensor and the second image sensor are in a region paired with the second diffractive optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Tobias MOLL
  • Publication number: 20230213702
    Abstract: An apparatus is described for converting light of a light source into electrical energy. The apparatus includes a layered body having flat elements, a photovoltaic cell, a light conducting element, a light-switching element , and a photovoltaic cell arranged on a boundary surface of the layered body. The light-switching element (16) can be set to either transmit or block light, In the case of blocking, the light-switching element couples light into the photovoltaic cell t to convert received light into electric energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Johannes SCHEUCHENPFLUG, Annegret MATTHAI
  • Publication number: 20230209154
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image sensor apparatus of a camera for detecting light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Markus KLUG
  • Publication number: 20230185165
    Abstract: A camera apparatus records only those objects in a surround which are situated in a predetermined object plane at a distance from the camera apparatus. To this end, the camera apparatus includes an illumination device for illuminating the desired object with an illumination light and an image capture device (for capturing the illumination light reflected by the object. For recording that is dependent on the object plane, the camera apparatus additionally comprises a control device for driving the illumination device to provide the illumination light in the form of light pulses and for controlling the image capture device to capture the reflected illumination light within recording intervals assigned to the light pulses. To avoid interference effects on a resultant image representation, provision is additionally made for a deflection unit for deflecting the respective illumination light between the surround and the illumination device and the image capture device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Markus KLUG, Johannes SCHEUCHENPFLUG
  • Patent number: 11580716
    Abstract: An apparatus for color-dependent detection of image contents includes a light input coupling apparatus, carrier medium, measuring region, output coupling region, and camera apparatus. The light input coupling apparatus includes a light source to emit light at a first wavelength. The carrier medium receives the light and transmits the light by internal reflection to the measuring region. The measuring region includes a first diffraction structure that outputs light at the first wavelength. The first diffraction structure is formed as a multiplex diffraction structure to input light in a second wavelength range. The output coupling region includes a second diffraction structure formed as a multiplex diffraction structure that outputs light at the first wavelength and the second wavelength range. The camera apparatus captures light output from the carrier medium to the camera apparatus, and provides the light in a form of image data which correlates with the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klug, Tobias Moll, Johannes Scheuchenpflug