Patents by Inventor Veith ROETHLINGSHOEFER

Veith ROETHLINGSHOEFER 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).

  • Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method
    Patent number: 12229987
    Abstract: A method for determining an ego pose of a mobile system and creating a surfel map of a surrounding area of the mobile system via an optimization problem represented by a factor graph includes the steps of: receiving environment sensor data generated by an environment sensor attached to the mobile system, wherein the environment sensor surveys the surrounding area of mobile system, and wherein the environment sensor data represent the surrounding area of the mobile system as a point cloud; generating surfels by converting the point cloud of the received environment sensor data into surfel data; identifying new surfels and known surfels in the generated surfels by comparing the surfel data with the surfel map; and adding a surfel factor for the known surfels to the factor graph and/or adding a surfel node and a surfel factor for the new surfels to the factor graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Biester, Boris Neubert, Veith Roethlingshoefer
  • SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM) METHOD
    Publication number: 20240303856
    Abstract: A method for determining an ego pose of a mobile system and creating a surfel map of a surrounding area of the mobile system via an optimization problem represented by a factor graph includes the steps of: receiving environment sensor data generated by an environment sensor attached to the mobile system, wherein the environment sensor surveys the surrounding area of mobile system, and wherein the environment sensor data represent the surrounding area of the mobile system as a point cloud; generating surfels by converting the point cloud of the received environment sensor data into surfel data; identifying new surfels and known surfels in the generated surfels by comparing the surfel data with the surfel map; and adding a surfel factor for the known surfels to the factor graph and/or adding a surfel node and a surfel factor for the new surfels to the factor graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Tobias BIESTER, Boris NEUBERT, Veith ROETHLINGSHOEFER