Patents by Inventor Volker Daum

Volker Daum 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).

  • Method and device for generating a structure-free fiberscopic picture
    Patent number: 7801405
    Abstract: An image free from interfering structures may be generated by means of a fiber bundle of several optical fibers, when for the system of fiber bundle and sensor imaging parameters are provided, which describe the geometrical characteristics of the intensity course generated by each individual optical fiber on the sensor. In image reconstruction, for each individual optical fiber an amplitude value and/or luminosity information may be generated by fitting a function of the amplitude value and the imaging parameters of the respective optical fiber to an intensity picture of the sensor, so that an optimum amplitude and/or luminosity value may be generated considering the geometrical imaging characteristics for each individual optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
    Inventors: Volker Daum, Klaus Spinnler, Robert Couronné, Matthias Elter, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A STRUCTURE-FREE FIBERSCOPIC PICTURE
    Publication number: 20090092363
    Abstract: An image free from interfering structures may be generated by means of a fiber bundle of several optical fibers, when for the system of fiber bundle and sensor imaging parameters are provided, which describe the geometrical characteristics of the intensity course generated by each individual optical fiber on the sensor. In image reconstruction, for each individual optical fiber an amplitude value and/or luminosity information may be generated by fitting a function of the amplitude value and the imaging parameters of the respective optical fiber to an intensity picture of the sensor, so that an optimum amplitude and/or luminosity value may be generated considering the geometrical imaging characteristics for each individual optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Daum, Klaus Spinnler, Robert Couronne, Matthias Elter, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter