| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. Patent applications |
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| 20120135217 | Hybrid Polymers from Cyanates and Silazanes, Process for Their Production and Use - This invention refers to hybrid pre-polymers and polymers, produced through conversion from difunctional, oligofunctional and/or polyfunctional cyanates and/or from their pre-polymers with monomeric, oligomeric and/or polymeric silazanes. The polymers are duromers with high glass transition temperature and fracture toughness, compared to duromers from the respective cyanate source material. In their pre-polymerized state, they can be dissolved in solvents and are therefore suitable as impregnating resins for prepregs. In addition, they can be processed to become moldings. Their burning properties are described as particularly outstanding. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120132710 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING AN RFID COMPONENT WITH ENERGY - An apparatus for supplying an RFID component with energy includes an antenna and an energy store. The energy store stores energy induced into the antenna by an alternating electromagnetic field during a first time interval. In addition, the energy store supplies the RFID component with stored energy in order to maintain its functionality during a later, second time interval if an energy induced by an alternating electromagnetic field during the later, second time interval is not sufficient for supplying the RFID component. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120097529 | MAGNETRON COATING MODULE AND MAGNETRON COATING METHOD - The invention relates to a new basic technology for magnetron sputtering of ceramic layers, in particular for optical applications. The new concept enables the construction of magnetron sputtering sources which, in comparison with the known methods, such as reactive DC-, MF- or RF magnetron sputtering or the magnetron sputtering of ceramic targets, enables significantly improved precision in the deposition of ceramic layers at an exactly defined rate and homogeneity and also with very good reproducibility. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120088229 | SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR - The application relates to a sensor using a gold layer ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120082343 | DETECTING A CHANGE BETWEEN IMAGES OR IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES - Detecting a change between images is performed more effectively when a measure of change is used for the detection that depends on a length of the code blocks to which the images are individually entropy-encoded, and which are allocated to different sections of the respective image, since the length of these code blocks is also available without decoding. This uses the fact that the length or amount of data of a code block directly depends, in large parts, on the entropy and hence on the complexity of the allocated image section, and that changes between images are, with high probability, also reflected in a change of complexity. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081801 | LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In a method for manufacturing a lens, a substrate is provided which includes recess in a first surface thereof. A lens structure having a first desired lens surface and a second desired lens surface is formed in the substrate's recess. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120079990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSERVING DEEP-SEA ORGANISMS - The invention relates to a method for conserving at least one biological deep-sea organism ( | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120076308 | ACOUSTIC ECHO SUPPRESSION UNIT AND CONFERENCING FRONT-END - An acoustic echo suppression unit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes and input interface for extracting a downmix signal from an input signal, the input signal including the downmix signal and parametric side information, wherein the downmix and the parametric side information together represent a multichannel signal, a calculator for calculating filter coefficients for an adaptive filter, wherein the calculator is adapted to determine the filter coefficients based on the downmix signal and a microphone signal or a signal derived from the microphone signal, and an adaptive filter adapted to filter the microphone signal or the signal derived from the microphone signal based on the filter coefficients to suppress an echo caused by the multichannel signal in the microphone signal. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075685 | ELECTROSTATIC COMB-DRIVE MICROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR - The invention relates to a micromechanical actuator, especially a micro-mirror scanner, comprising an actuator unit in an outer frame which unit is suspended in the outer frame via two torsion elements, and electrostatic tilt drives from intermeshing first and second comb-type electrodes which are off-set from each other vertically. The first electrodes are rigidly connected to the outer frame and the second electrodes to the outer frame via an outer connecting element and to the actuator unit via an inner connecting element. The inner connecting element has a spring which extends in parallel to the outer tilting axis, which is connected to the same in a section of the actuator unit close the outer tilting axis, and which is designed and arranged to be rigid in the vertical direction and flexible at a right angle to the vertical direction. The micromechanical actuator according to the invention allows the use in a micro-mirror scanner whose slow axis is non-resonantly driven with excursions of >+/−7°, lateral mirror sizes having dimensions of 1 mm and more and a resonant frequency of >1 kHz and can be integrated even into flat mobile phones. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120069857 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION SIGNALS IN FLEXIBLE TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - Exact data-rate analysis of the information signal portions to be transmitted in a subsequent transmission cycle per time-division multiplexing process shall be initially omitted. Instead, on the basis of highly accurate estimated values for the subsequent data rates, estimated values for relative waiting times are transmitted, in a current transmission cycle, from the current time slice to the subsequent time slice of the same service. In the subsequent transmission cycle, actual data rates may be set which may deviate from the estimated data rates for the individual information signals, as a result of which predicted time-slice boundaries for the subsequent transmission cycle may shift. However, the potential shift in the time-slice boundaries is subject to several boundary conditions. No time slice of the subsequent transmission cycle can start prior to its signaled estimated starting time. With constant data rates, the estimated time-slice structure and the actual time-slice structure are identical. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120065525 | PRESSURE GAUGE, BLOOD PRESSURE GAUGE, METHOD OF DETERMINING PRESSURE VALUES, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A PRESSURE GAUGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A pressure gauge for determining at least one pressure value describing a pressure of a fluid flowing in a pulsating manner in a phase of the pulsating flow, includes a pulse wave characterizer. The pulse wave characterizer is configured to obtain transmit time information of a pulse wave, and amplitude information of the pulse wave. The pressure gauge additionally includes a pressure value determiner configured to obtain a first pressure value describing a pressure of the fluid in a first phase, on the basis of the transmit time information and while using a mapping. The pressure value determiner is further configured to obtain a second pressure value describing a pressure of the fluid in a second phase, on the basis of the first pressure value and the amplitude information while using a mapping. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120038716 | AEROSOL PRINTER, USE THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LINE INTERRUPTIONS IN CONTINUOUS PRINTING METHODS - The invention relates to an aerosol printer which has at least one atomising chamber and at least one printing head with at least one nozzle, these being connected directly or via connection lines. Furthermore, the aerosol printer has process gas-, transport gas- and focusing gas lines. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120037209 | METHOD FOR TRACKING A SOLAR GENERATOR TO THE SUN, CONTROL FOR A SOLAR PLANT AND SOLAR PLANT - The present invention describes a method for tracking a solar generator having a plurality of solar modules to the sun, wherein at least one electric output quantity of part of the solar module of the solar generator is detected and a tracker, on which the solar generator is mounted, is controlled such that the detected electric output quantity has a predetermined value. Further, a control for a solar plant and a solar plant having such a control are described. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120026093 | OPTICAL NAVIGATION DEVICE AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to an optical navigation device based on production on wafer scale, in which both the illumination path and the imaging lens system are integrated on a common carrier structure. The optical navigation devices according to the invention are used for controlling a cursor on an image output device or in the field of finger navigation. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120008812 | LOUDSPEAKER - A loudspeaker includes a two-dimensional array of non-housed individual speakers having flat shapes. The non-housed individual speakers are accommodated within a flat housing, the depth of the housing being smaller than 5 cm, for example. Non-housed individual speakers used are advantageously headphone capsules and/or miniature loudspeakers having diaphragm diameters of less than 5 cm. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20110317842 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for upmixing a downmix audio signal describing one or more downmix audio channels into an upmixed audio signal describing a plurality of upmixed audio channels includes an upmixer configured to apply temporally variable upmixing parameters to upmix the downmix audio signal in order to obtain the upmixed audio signal. The apparatus also includes a parameter interpolator, wherein the parameter interpolator is configured to obtain one or more temporally interpolated upmix parameters to be used by the upmixer on the basis of a first complex-valued upmix parameter and a subsequent second complex-valued upmix parameter. The parameter interpolator is configured to separately interpolate between a magnitude value of the first complex-valued upmix parameter and a magnitude value of the second complex-valued upmix parameter, and between a phase value of the first complex-valued upmix parameter and a phase value of the second complex-valued upmix parameter, to obtain the one or more temporally interpolated upmix parameters. A respective method can be implemented, for example, as a computer program. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317732 | Edge Emitting Semiconductor Laser - An edge emitting semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor body having a wave guide area. The wave guide area comprises a lower cover layer, a lower wave guide layer, an active layer for generating laser radiation, an upper wave guide layer and an upper cover layer. The wave guide area also includes at least one structured laser radiation scattering area in which a lateral base laser radiation mode experiences less scattering losses than the radiation of higher laser modes. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315778 | CASING ELEMENTS AND DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING IDENTIFIERS TO CASING ELEMENTS - A casing element includes a casing frame and a casing shell spanning at least one opening in the casing frame. An RFID tag is arranged at or within a portion of the casing shell spanning the opening of the casing frame. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110313777 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OBTAINING A PARAMETER DESCRIBING A VARIATION OF A SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A SIGNAL - An apparatus for obtaining a parameter describing a variation of a signal characteristic of a signal on the basis of actual transform-domain parameters describing the audio signal in transform-domain includes a parameter determinator. The parameter determinator is configured to determine one or more model parameters of a transform-domain variation model describing an evolution of the transform-domain parameters in dependence on one or more model parameters representing a signal characteristic, such that a model error, representing a deviation between a modeled temporal evolution of the transform-domain parameters and an evolution of the actual transform-domain parameters, is brought below a predetermined threshold value or minimized. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110305413 | OPTICAL MODULATOR, INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT, AND METHOD FOR MODULATING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL - The invention relates to an optical modulator, comprising a first waveguide for a signal to be modulated, a second waveguide for a control signal, and an auxiliary waveguide, wherein the auxiliary waveguide is supported by a carrier which can be deflected to change a distance between the first waveguide and the auxiliary waveguide, wherein the carrier also comprises two layers with different coefficients of thermal expansion and the second waveguide is guided in such a way that a temperature of the carrier at least in a section can be manipulated by light transported by the second waveguide. The invention further relates to an integrated optical circuit comprising such an optical modulator, and to a modulation method which can be performed with such a modulator. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304825 | PROJECTION DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING AN OVERALL PICTURE - A projection display includes at least one light source, at least one reflective image generator configured to represent frames in a two-dimensional distribution of subareas of same, a projection optics arrangement having a two-dimensional arrangement of optical projection elements and being configured to image an associated subarea of the at least one image generator onto an image plane in each case, so that images of the frames superimpose within the image plane to form an overall picture, and at least one beam splitter arranged within an optical path between the at least one reflective image generator and the two-dimensional arrangement of optical projection elements, on the one hand, and the optical path between the at least one light source and the at least one reflective image generator, on the other hand. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303515 | ELECTROSTATICALLY ACTUATED MICRO-MECHANICAL SWITCHING DEVICE - An electrostatically actuated micro-mechanical switching device with movable elements formed in the bulk of a substrate for closing and releasing at least one Ohmic contact by a horizontal movement of the movable elements in a plane of the substrate. The switching device has a drive with comb-shaped electrodes including fixed driving electrodes and movable electrodes. A movable push rod is mechanically connected with the movable electrodes, extends through the electrodes, has a movable contact element at one side, and at least one restoring spring. A signal line has two parts interrupted by a gap. The micro-mechanical switching device is in shunt-configuration with low loss, high isolation in a wide frequency range, low switching time at low actuation voltage and sufficient reliability. The line impedance of the signal line and its variation is as small as possible. The switching device is in shunt-configuration for closing and releasing the Ohmic contact between a ground line and the signal line. The contact element has a movable contact beam extending at least partially opposite to the signal line and being electrically and mechanically connected to both parts of the signal line, respectively. The ground line is formed with a contact bar that leads through the gap of the signal line for forming the Ohmic contact between the contact beam and the ground line. A contact metallization is provided at least on top and on the side walls of the contact beam, of the signal line and of the ground line. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110300530 | IN VITRO TEST SYSTEM FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS - The invention relates to a multi-layered biological in vitro tissue containing: dermis layer, containing a collagen biomatrix with fibroblasts embedded therein and epidermis layer, containing epithelial cells. It is provided that latently virally infected neuronal cells are integrated at least into the dermis layer. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300310 | Method and Device for Coating Functional Surfaces - A method and system for coating the functional surfaces of symmetrically serrated components, in particular the tooth flanks of gears, includes a coating source emitting coating material in the form of electrically charged particles in the direction of a revolving component. A high-quality functional surface coating of the component is achieved in that a shield is arranged in the beam path between the component and the coating source transversely to the irradiation direction, which shields the component from the coating beam in a contour area with a functional surface orientation inclined flatly with respect to the irradiation direction. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300281 | Method for Producing Fatty Acid Esters of Monovalent or Polyvalent Alcohols Using Special Hydroxy-Functional Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Catalysts - The present invention relates to a method for producing fatty acid esters from fats and/or oils of biogenic origin by transesterification with monovalent or polyvalent alcohols in the presence of a special hydroxy-functional quaternary ammonium compound as the catalyst. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299702 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A SET OF SPATIAL CUES ON THE BASIS OF A MICROPHONE SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL AND A SET OF SPATIAL CUES - An apparatus for providing a set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels on the basis of a two-channel microphone signal has a signal analyzer and a spatial side information generator. The signal analyzer is configured to obtain a component energy information and a direction information on the basis of the two-channel microphone signal, such that the component energy information describes estimates of energies of a direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal and of a diffuse sound component of the two-channel microphone signal, and such that the directional information describes an estimate of a direction from which the direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal originates. The spatial side information generator is configured to map the component energy information and the direction information onto a spatial cue information describing the set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299096 | POSITION SENSOR - A position sensor for detecting a position of a movably arranged component with respect to its original position including a channel which is implemented to guide electromagnetic radiation and direct the same to the component, a detector, at least two back channels which are implemented to receive the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the device and direct the same to the detector, wherein the channel and the at least two back channels are arranged with respect to each other such that the at least two back channels each receive a predefined portion of the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the component. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298710 | HAND-HELD POINTING DEVICE, SOFTWARE CURSOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOVEMENT OF A SOFTWARE CURSOR - A hand-held pointing device for controlling a movement of a software cursor comprises an acceleration detector and an image capturing unit. The acceleration detector determines an inclination parameter, wherein the movement of the software cursor in a vertical direction is controllable based on the inclination parameter. Further, the image capturing unit records images within the visible spectral range, wherein the movement of the software cursor in a horizontal direction is controllable based on the recorded images. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110291858 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A HORN OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, MOTOR VEHICLE AND ALARMING SYSTEM - A device for activating a horn of a motor vehicle by a remote transmitter independent of a vehicle user includes a receiver and a control unit. The receiver is implemented to receive an activation signal from the remote transmitter. The control unit is implemented to activate the horn of the motor vehicle in response to the activation signal. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289391 | INTERLEAVER DEVICE AND RECEIVER FOR A SIGNAL GENERATED BY THE INTERLEAVER DEVICE - The inventive concept enables backward-compatible extension of existing interleaver-based transmission systems to the effect that in addition to an existing logical transport channel, which is interleaved using a standardized interleaver profile, further logical transport channels may be transmitted via the same physical transmission channel. In this context, the first transport channel obviously is reduced in terms of data rate, so that the additional transport channels may actually obtain a transmission capacity that is needed accordingly. Interleaver profiles of the further logical transport channels are derived, to this end, from the interleaver profile of the first transport channel. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110288873 | AUDIO ENCODER AND BANDWIDTH EXTENSION DECODER - An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal includes a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal includes a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band of the bandwidth extension high-frequency signal is based on a low frequency band of the input audio signal. A comparator calculates a plurality of comparison parameters. A comparison parameter is calculated based on a comparison of the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Each comparison parameter of the plurality of comparison parameters is calculated based on a different offset frequency between the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Further, the comparator determines a comparison parameter from the plurality of comparison parameters, wherein the determined comparison parameter fulfils a predefined criterion. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286479 | Pulsed light source - It is an object of the present invention to provide a compact and low-cost system for generating ultra short high energy laser light pulses that does not use the known CPA scheme. The proposed approach is based on spectral filtering of laser light pulses of a mode locked laser source. The used mode locked laser source can be of any kind as long as its filtered residual pulse bandwidth supports pulse durations longer than 20 ps and up to 1 ns. After filtering the laser light pulses are directly amplified in an amplification element consisting of one or more amplification stages. At the same time or just after amplification the light pulses are spectrally broadened through a spectral broadening element, for example a fiber of suitably chosen core diameter and length to achieve a spectral bandwidth that is wide enough to support sub 10 ps pulses. Finally, the spectrally broadened laser light pulses are compressed by a compact dispersive element consisting of one or more Bragg gratings or a grating pair. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110278947 | ANTENNA DEVICE, TRANSPONDER READER, INDUCTION COOKER - An antenna device has an inductive transmitting antenna having a main radiation direction, a plurality of spaced apart, adjacent conductors and a reference potential terminal. The plurality of spaced apart, adjacent conductors is connected to the reference potential terminal and arranged in a predetermined distance from the transmitting antenna along the main radiation direction in a plane antiparallel to the main radiation direction. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277486 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE DEVICE COMPRISING A TRANSPONDER - A method for operating a cryostorage device ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110272884 | TRANSPORT OF AN OBJECT ACROSS A SURFACE - A basic idea of the present application is that in case of determining a position of the object on the surface, it is possible to also use transport mechanisms for the transport of the object on the surface which leads to less reproducible transport movements as the regulation may be executed directly on the basis of the observed movement as compared to the desired movement. Embodiments using compressed air, magnetism and/or bending waves are described. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110264456 | BINAURAL RENDERING OF A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - Binaural rendering a multi-channel audio signal into a binaural output signal is described. The multi-channel audio signal has a stereo downmix signal into which a plurality of audio signals are downmixed, and side information having a downmix information, as well as object level information of the plurality of audio signals and inter-object cross correlation information. Based on a first rendering prescription, a preliminary binaural signal is computed from the first and second channels of the stereo downmix signal. A decorrelated signal is generated as an perceptual equivalent to a mono downmix of the first and second channels of the stereo downmix signal being, however, decorrelated to the mono downmix. Depending on a second rendering prescription, a corrective binaural signal is computed from the decorrelated signal and the preliminary binaural signal is mixed with the corrective binaural signal to obtain the binaural output signal. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110263780 | POLYSILANE-POLYCARBOSILANES WITH REDUCED CHLORINE CONTENT BASED ON METHYLCHLOROPOLYSILANES, AND SPINNING DOPES AND CERAMIC MOLDINGS PRODUCED THEREFROM - The present invention pertains to a process for producing unmeltable polysilane-polycarbosilane copolymers which are soluble in inert solvents, comprising the steps
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| 20110262798 | ELECTROCHEMICAL STORAGE ELEMENT - The invention relates to an improved electrochemical construction or storage element for storing and discharging electric energy, characterized by a reduction or the prevention of a formation of magnetic stray fields. For this purpose the element has at least two electrochemical cells comprising the typical components. Said cells are disposed relative to each other such that a tag ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261967 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for generating a multi-channel audio signal based on an input audio signal comprises a main signal upmixer, a section selector, a section signal upmixer and a combiner. The main signal upmixer is configured to provide a main multi-channel audio signal based on the input audio signal. The section selector is configured to select or not select a section of the input audio signal based on an analysis of the input audio signal. The selected section of the input audio signal, a processed selected section of the input audio signal or a reference signal associated with the selected section of the input audio signal is provided as section signal. The section signal upmixer is configured to provide a section upmix signal based on the section signal, and the combiner is configured to overlay the main multi-channel audio signal and the section upmix signal to obtain the multi-channel audio signal. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110259858 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER DEPOSITION WELDING USING A POWDERY WELDING MATERIAL - An apparatus and method are provided for the laser deposition welding of powdery welding material having increased flexibility and reduced costs, in particular for systems engineering. The powdery welding material is conveyed via a nozzle coaxial with respect to a laser beam directed in a focused manner with a constant focal length onto a processing region of a workpiece through the nozzle onto the processing region. A plurality of optical elements are statically arranged in a laser optical unit for the shaping and beam guidance of the laser beam. The laser optical unit it attached to a processing head and can be moved with the processing head parallel to the optical axis of the laser beam by a first drive. The plane of the focal point can thereby be changed with respect to the workpiece surface and to the size of the surface of the focal point in the processing region. The nozzle can be moved independently of the laser optical unit parallel to the optical axis of the laser beam by a second drive. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110255714 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPMIXING A DOWNMIX AUDIO SIGNAL USING A PHASE VALUE SMOOTHING - An apparatus for upmixing a downmix audio signal describing one or more downmix audio channels into an upmixed audio signal describing a plurality of upmixed audio channels includes an upmixer and a parameter determinator. The upmixer is configured to apply temporally variable upmix parameters to upmix the downmix audio signal in order to obtain the upmixed audio signal, wherein the temporally variable upmix parameters include temporally variable smoothened phase values. The parameter determinator is configured to obtain one or more temporally smoothened upmix parameters for usage by the upmixer on the basis of a quantized upmix parameter input information. The parameter determinator is configured to combine a scaled version of a previous smoothened phase value with a scaled version of an input phase information using a phase change limitation algorithm, to determine a current smoothened phase value on the basis of the previous smoothened phase value and the phase input information. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110248729 | SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR THE CAPACITIVE MEASUREMENT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS HAVING A BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN - The invention relates to a sensor system and several method for the capacitive measurement of electromagnetic signals having a biological origin. Such a sensor system comprises a capacitive electrode device ( | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110242646 | DEVICE FOR AMPLIFYING LIGHT PULSES - The present invention relates to a device ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241972 | LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA - A leaky-wave antenna includes a sheet arrangement having first, second and third metalized sheets that are arranged on top of and in parallel with one another and are separated by two di-electric layers, the first metalized sheet having a first two-dimensionally periodic metalization structure, the second metalized sheet having a second two-dimensionally periodic metalization structure, and the third metalized sheet having a continuous metalization area, and an excitation structure above the first metalized sheet for exciting a leaky-wave mode in the sheet arrangement at a working frequency f | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110237854 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING GASEOUS HYDROCARBONS FROM BIOGENIC RAW MATERIALS - The invention relates to a method for extracting gaseous hydrocarbons, in particular liquid gas and/or a gas mixture resembling natural gas or one or more components contained in liquid gas or in the gas mixture resembling natural gas. The starting material used contains oxygen-containing hydrocarbons. The method comprises the following steps: providing the starting material—contacting the starting material with a porous catalyst in the absence of oxygen at a temperature of 300-850° C. in a converting reactor, resulting in a hydrocarbon-containing product gas mixture, in which the proportion by weight of the gaseous hydrocarbons is greater than that of the liquid hydrocarbons, —collecting the hydrocarbon-containing product gas stream and supplying the product gas stream to a separating device, where product separation is performed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234840 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECOGNIZING A GESTURE IN A PICTURE, AND APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE - An apparatus for recognizing gestures in a picture includes a Hough transformer configured to identify elements in the picture or in a pre-processed version of the picture as identified gesture elements and to obtain information about the identified gesture elements. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110228142 | DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL IMAGING - An optical device for imaging is disclosed having at least one micro lens field with at least two micro lenses and one image sensor with at least two image detector matrices. The at least two image detector matrices each include a plurality of image detectors and there is an allocation between the image detector matrices and the micro lenses, so that each micro lens together with an image detector matrix forms an optical channel. The center points of the image detector matrices are shifted laterally by different distances, with respect to centroids, projected onto the image detector matrices, of the micro lens apertures of the associated optical channels, so that the optical channels have different partially overlapping detection areas and so that an overlapping area of the detection areas of two channels is imaged onto the image detector matrices offset with respect to an image detector raster of the image detector matrices. Further, an image processing device and a method for optical imaging are described. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110219788 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE DEVICE - The invention relates to a cryogenic storage device and to a method for operating a cryogenic storage device, particularly for cryogenic storage of biological samples, comprising a sample carrying device that is set up to accommodate samples, a cryogenic container that is set up to accommodate the sample carrying device, a container cooling device with which the cryogenic container can be cooled, an intermediate storage container that is set up for intermediate storage of the sample carrying device, a transport device with which the sample carrying device can be moved between the cryogenic container and the intermediate storage container and a sensor device with which at least one operating parameter of the cryogenic storage device can be registered. The transport device is set up to be activated in dependence on an output signal from the sensor device upon registering a predetermined operating condition of the cryogenic storage device, so that the sample carrying device is moved from the cryogenic container to the intermediate storage container. Additionally or alternatively, an intermediate storage cooling device that is set up for cooling the intermediate storage container can be activated in dependence on an output signal of the sensor device. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110198622 | ORGANIC OPTO-ELECTRIC DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ORGANIC OPTO-ELECTRIC DEVICE - An organic opto-electric device has a layer stack with a base electrode, an organic layer assembly, a cover electrode and a contact layer. The organic layer assembly is arranged between the base electrode and the cover electrode and the cover electrode is arranged between the organic layer assembly and the contact layer. The cover electrode and the base electrode are structured to form several laterally adjacent optically active areas and the base electrode, the organic layer assembly, the cover electrode and the contact layer are interconnected by vias such that at least two optically active areas are connected in series so that a current flow through the at least two optically active areas passes in a direction between the base electrode and a cover electrode. The current flow between the at least two optically active areas passes through the contact layer, wherein the contact layer contacts the base electrode above one of the vias laterally in the interior of the two optically active areas. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110194807 | OPTICAL SENSOR - An optical sensor for detecting a substance includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide optically coupled via a directional coupler to the first waveguide. The sensor has a functional surface in a region of the directional coupler for accumulating or storing the substance to be detected so that an intensity of a coupling arranged by the directional coupler between the first waveguide and the second waveguide can be changed by the accumulating or storing of this substance. The first waveguide extends in a freely floating manner over a coupling path covered by the directional coupler or rests on a swellable material. The first waveguide is guided in a vicinity of the coupling path so that a spacing between the first waveguide and the second waveguide can be changed there by a deformation or movement of the first waveguide or of a carrier of the first waveguide. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110193418 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT AND TRANSPONDER READER - An antenna arrangement has an inductive transmitting antenna having a main radiating axis, an inductive receiving antenna having a main receiving axis, and an inductive compensator. The inductive receiving antenna is arranged in the main radiating axis of the transmitting antenna. The inductive compensator is electrically connected in series to the receiving antenna and is arranged in a first plane which intersects a second plane. The main receiving axis of the receiving antenna here is normal to the second plane. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110188342 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC DISPLAY - A device for acoustic display of a position of an object in a reproduction space, a plurality of loudspeakers being arranged in the reproduction space at spatially different positions such that different spatial positions may be represented acoustically by differently driving the loudspeakers, includes a signal associater and a loudspeaker driver. The signal associater is configured to associate an acoustic signal to the object. The loudspeaker driver is configured to establish one or several loudspeaker signals for the plurality of loudspeakers, wherein the one or several loudspeaker signals by which the position of the object is displayed are based on the acoustic signal associated to the object by the signal associater. The one or several loudspeaker signals may be established such that, when reproducing the one or several loudspeaker signals, the position of the object in the reproduction space is displayed acoustically. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110183054 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A MOIST PROTEIN BIOMASS AND ITS USE - A process is described for preparing a plant protein preparation for a foodstuff. In the process, a proteinaceous vegetable raw material is introduced into a salty, aqueous extractant for the extraction of proteins, whereby a salty plant protein solution is obtained. The proteins are precipitated by lowering the temperature and/or the ionic strength of the plant protein solution and separated from the aqueous extractant as a moist protein-rich substance. The process is distinguished by the fact that the plant protein solution, before or after the protein precipitation step, or the protein-rich substance, before or after introduction into the foodstuff and before finishing the foodstuff, is heated to a temperature of ≧45° C. and held at this temperature for a period of time, the period of time and the temperature being chosen so that the use properties and processing properties of the protein-rich substance are not altered by this step. Due to this pre-heating operation, the plant protein preparation causes a lower degree of undesired off-flavors upon heating of the foodstuff in which it has been processed. Also described is a method for producing a plant protein preparation in the form of a moist protein mass for improving the texture of foodstuffs with improved organoleptic properties. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182148 | Method and Apparatus for Locating at Least One Object - The invention relates to a method and a device for locating at least one object, in which a) a microphone device of the at least one object at least one acoustic signal of at least one acoustic source is received, b) the temporal profile of the at least one acoustic signal is automatically searched by a data processing device by the means of pre-defined criteria for at least one pattern, whereby c) the at least one pattern is an onset of the at least one acoustic signal or comprises an onset of the at least one acoustic signal and d) the localization of the at least one object occurs in dependency of the reception of the pattern by the means of a time synchronization. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110179279 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A BACKUP OF RIGHTS OBJECTS - A common backup format of a backup rights object according to embodiments of the present invention has the following features: License information that is not critical for cryptographic security of the rights object is kept in “plain text” with a well defined syntax in a first data container, license information that is critical for cryptographic security of the rights object is stored in cryptographically protected form that is specific for the originating device to which the rights object is bound to in a second data container, and the rights object is cryptographically signed by the originating device such that it may not be manipulated. The signature is stored in a third data container. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110167399 | DESIGN TOOL FOR THE TYPE AND FORM OF A CIRCUIT PRODUCTION - The invention relates to a method for influencing a selecting a “type and form of a circuit implementation” in at least one layer (L | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110153632 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING A CURRENT MEASUREMENT VALUE FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION TO A MAP OBJECT - An apparatus for allocating a current measurement value for a geographical position to a map object of a geographical map, wherein the current measurement value originates from a series of adjacent measurement values for adjacent geographical positions, having a processor for determining a first probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a first map object to which at least one adjacent measurement value of the series has already been allocated previously, and for determining a second probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a second map object having an intersection with the first map object, if the first probability measure indicates that an allocation of the current measurement value to the first map object is unlikely. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110144473 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE SEX OF BIRDS' EGGS - The invention relates to methods for determining the sex of birds' eggs. It can be used for an early determination of the sex, in particular in poultry farming, and in this respect also with non-incubated eggs. In the method in accordance with the invention, electromagnetic radiation is emitted onto the blastodisk of an egg by a radiation source and, after a switching off of the radiation source, the decay behavior of the autofluorescence intensity excited by the electromagnetic radiation is detected by a detector at the irradiated region of the blastodisk with time resolution and spectral resolution for at least one wavelength of the autofluorescence. The fractal dimension D | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110133894 | PASSIVE TRANSPONDER FOR AN RFID SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA FROM/TO A DATA SOURCE OF SUCH A PASSIVE TRANSPONDER - A passive transponder includes an antenna, an antenna oscillator circuit and a data source. The antenna oscillator circuit is configured to operate at a first resonant frequency or at a second resonant frequency, depending on reception of energy at the transponder or on a data transmission from/to the data source. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110129662 | Substrates Supplied with a Dust and Aerosol-Repellent Coating, Method for the Production Thereof g and Materials for this Purpose - The present invention relates to a coating material containing (a) first oxidic particles formed by hydrolytic condensation, in a size range of 5-20 nm, (b) second particles with a diameter in the size range of 80-300 nm, (c) a first aqueous solvent in which the source material for the oxidic particles formed by hydrolytic condensation can be dissolved and which allows or promotes the hydrolysis and condensation thereof, and (d) at least one second solvent, selected among specifically defined alcohols, ethers, organic acids, esters, ketones, amines and amic acids and mixtures thereof. The invention relates in addition to a substrate supplied with a coating, particularly a glass suitable for the photovoltaic and warm water collector domain, wherein the coating is composed of at least two particle fractions, wherein the particles of the first fraction have a diameter in the size range of 5-20 nm, and the particles of the second fraction have a diameter in the size range of 80-300 nm, wherein the particles of the second fraction have an average distance from each other, measured from cone to cone of these particles, of on average 20-200 nm, and wherein the particles of the first particle fraction have pores with a pore radius distribution of which the maximum is between 1 and 6 nm. The coating of the substrate can be achieved by means of the named coating material. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110129025 | APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING AND ESTIMATING TRANSMISSION SYMBOLS - An apparatus for assigning transmission symbols to a media data stream of information symbols is described, the media data stream including a first substream for representing a media content in a basic quality and a second substream including additional data for representing the media content, along with the first substream, in an improved quality. The apparatus includes a first means for assigning first transmission symbols to the information symbols of the first substream and a second means for assigning second transmission symbols to the information symbols of the second substream, the first transmission symbols being transmissible, via a transmission channel, with reduced error probability as compared to the second transmission symbols. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128356 | Method for displaying image information and autostereoscopic screen - The invention relates to a method for displaying image information in which pixels of a matrix screen ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110123090 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CONTOUR AND A CENTER OF AN OBJECT - A method for determining a contour of an object in a digital image includes determining a preliminary object center and determining contour candidate image points. The contour candidate image points are determined as image points on a plurality of paths leading away from a preliminary object center by detecting a change from a first section to a second section on a feature space based on the image point value range of the digital image or by detecting the exceeding of a predetermined strength of a feature change in the feature space, wherein the contour candidate image points have a distance to the preliminary or to an improved object center and are ordered according to a polar angle. Further, the method includes determining zones of neighboring contour candidate image points within which a change of the distance of the contour candidate image points lies above a threshold value and an elimination of contour candidate image points which lie between the zones of neighboring contour candidate image points. Finally, a determination of the contour is executed on the basis of the remaining contour candidate image points. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110110531 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING A SOUND SOURCE - An apparatus for localizing a sound source includes at least two rotatably arranged microphones, a drive formed to set the microphones into rotation, and an evaluator. The evaluator is formed to receive microphone signals of the at least two microphones, while the at least two microphones are moving, and to obtain information on a direction from which sound arrives from the sound source or information on a position of the sound source, using the microphone signals obtained during the movement of the microphones. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110106545 | TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SHAPING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS - A selected channel of a multi-channel signal which is represented by frames composed from sampling values having a high time resolution can be encoded with higher quality when a wave form parameter representation representing a wave form of an intermediate resolution representation of the selected channel is derived, the wave form parameter representation including a sequence of intermediate wave form parameters having a time resolution lower than the high time resolution of the sampling values and higher than a time resolution defined by a frame repetition rate. The wave form parameter representation with the intermediate resolution can be used to shape a reconstructed channel to retrieve a channel having a signal envelope close to that one of the selected original channel. The time scale on which the shaping is performed is shorter than the time scale of a framewise processing, thus enhancing the quality of the reconstructed channel. On the other hand, the shaping time scale is larger than the time scale of the sampling values, significantly reducing the amount of data needed by the wave form parameter representation. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110100198 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A NOTE SIGNAL UPON A MANUAL INPUT - An embodiment of a device for generating a note signal upon a manual input includes an operator to enable a user of the same as an input to define one or several points as an input signal, and a controller which is implemented to receive the input signal and to generate a note signal based on the input signal and an allocation function. The allocation function allocates one single or no tone to each point of a two-dimensional definition amount with a tone quality axis and a frequency axis. The definition amount has a plurality of base points. Here, exactly one tone is allocated to each of the base points. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110098878 | MOTOR VEHICLE IGNITION KEY, MOTOR VEHICLE NAVIGATION DEVICE, MOTOR VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND METHODS - What is described is a motor vehicle ignition key and a method including a movement sensor for detecting the movement of the motor vehicle ignition key, a motor vehicle navigation device, and a method including a calculator for calculating a driving route in dependence of movement data, and a motor vehicle system and a method including a motor vehicle ignition key and a motor vehicle controller. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110090959 | BIT-DEPTH SCALABILITY - To increase efficiency of a bit-depth scalable data-stream an inter-layer prediction is obtained by mapping samples of the representation of the picture or video source data with a first picture sample bit-depth from a first dynamic range corresponding to the first picture sample bit-depth to a second dynamic range greater than the first dynamic range and corresponding to a second picture sample bit-depth being higher than the first picture sample bit-depth by use of one or more global mapping functions being constant within the picture or video source data or varying at a first granularity, and a local mapping function locally modifying the one or more global mapping functions and varying at a second granularity smaller than the first granularity, with forming the quality-scalable data-stream based on the local mapping function such that the local mapping function is derivable from the quality-scalable data-stream. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110057550 | Actuator with Integrated Equipment for Condition Monitoring and Method for Condition Monitoring and Method for Producing an Actuator - This invention relates, in the field of aviation and vehicle technology, in particular in the field of control technology, to an actuator with integrated condition monitoring system for the detection and monitoring of mechanical irregularities of individual components of the actuator and/or for the measurement of a load distribution on the actuator. This invention further relates to a method for the monitoring the condition of the actuator and a method for its manufacture. The actuators claimed by the invention can be used in actuator systems in the field of aviation control and vehicle control technology as well as in the field of power generation. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110050491 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DATA STREAM ON THE BASIS OF DATA PACKETS PROVIDED WITH PACKET SEQUENCE MARKS, AND SATELLITE RECEIVERS FOR PROVIDING THE DATA STREAM - A device for determining a position of a satellite receiver on the basis of data packets that are received from the satellite receiver, include a satellite signal, and are provided with packet sequence marks includes a packet loss detector for detecting, while using the packet sequence marks, whether one or more data packets between two received data packets have been lost, and a data packet processor configured to replace the one or more lost packets by one or more fill-in packets so as to generate a data stream as a sequence of the received data packets and of the fill-in packets inserted in place of the lost data packets. The device further includes a correlator configured to correlate the data stream with a reference data sequence to obtain a correlation result, and a position determiner configured to determine the position of the satellite receiver by means of the correlation result. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110047793 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLEXIBLE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WHICH MAY BE PROVIDED CONTIGUOUSLY - The present invention provides a method for producing integrated circuits which are mechanically flexible and can be provided contiguously on a common flexible carrier substrate. The method includes a step of continuously providing a first flexible substrate which has conductor-line patterns, and a step of mounting the integrated circuits on the first flexible substrate and connecting the integrated circuits to the conductor-line patterns of the first flexible substrate, and a step of covering the circuits mounted on the first flexible substrate with a second flexible substrate, recesses being provided in the first or second flexible substrates in order to make the conductor-line patterns of the first flexible substrate accessible. The step of covering has the sub-step of continuously providing a flexible film with recesses and laminating same onto the flexible integrated circuits mounted on the first flexible substrate, or a sub-step of applying, by a printing technique, a cover on the flexible integrated circuits mounted on the first flexible substrate. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110044461 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING CONTROL INFORMATION FOR AN ECHO SUPPRESSION FILTER AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING A DELAY VALUE - An embodiment of an apparatus for computing control information for a suppression filter for filtering a second audio signal to suppress an echo based on a first audio signal includes a computer having a value determiner for determining at least one energy-related value for a band-pass signal of at least two temporally successive data blocks of at least one signal of a group of signals. The computer further includes a mean value determiner for determining at least one mean value of the at least one determined energy-related value for the band-pass signal. The computer further includes a modifier for modifying the at least one energy-related value for the band-pass signal on the basis of the determined mean value for the band-pass signal. The computer further includes a control information computer for computing the control information for the suppression filter on the basis of the at least one modified energy-related value. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110037969 | CONCEPT FOR OPTICAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT - The present invention relates to a concept for optical distance measurement, wherein a radiation pulse is emitted in the direction of an object of measurement. At least two different transfer gates which couple a photoactive region to at least two different evaluating capacities are driven during different drive intervals so that charge carriers generated during the drive intervals by a radiation pulse reflected from the object of measurement and/or by ambient radiation can be transported from the photoactive region to the evaluating capacities each coupled to the at least two transfer gates. Another transfer gate is driven during a time outside the drive intervals of the at least two transfer gates to connect the photoactive region to a reference potential terminal acting as a charge carrier sink during the time outside the drive intervals of the at least two transfer gates. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110033680 | TRANSPARENT BARRIER LAYER SYSTEM - The invention relates to a transparent barrier layer system on a substrate, wherein the barrier layer system comprises a sequence of individual layers, wherein the individual layers are composed alternately of a layer A and a layer B and wherein a layer A differs from a layer B in terms of the activation energy in the permeation of water vapor with a difference of at least 1.5 kJ/mol. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110023930 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THERMOELECTRIC COMPONENT AND THERMOELECTRIC COMPONENT - A method is provided for producing a thermoelectric component having at least one pair of thermoelectric legs, including an n-leg and a p-leg, wherein both legs are welded to an electrically conductive contact material, and wherein the n-leg and the p-leg of the pair of legs are welded in separate welding steps to the contact material. A thermoelectric component produced by the method is also provided. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110020933 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING BIOLOGICAL CELLS FROM A STEM CELL CULTURE - A method for receiving biological cells ( | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110016972 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL INERTIAL SENSOR WITH ATMOSPHERIC DAMPING - The present invention relates to an inertial sensor, preferably an acceleration sensor or multi-axis acceleration sensor as a microelectromechanical construction element, said sensor comprising a housing with at least one first gas-filled cavity in which a first detection unit is disposed moveably relative to the housing for detection of an acceleration to be detected, wherein the inertial sensor comprises a damping structure. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100329513 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION ON THE BASIS OF A CAMERA IMAGE FROM A CAMERA - An apparatus for determining a position on the basis of a camera image from a camera includes a Hough transformer, a positional description establisher and a database comparator. The Hough transformer is formed to identify circular arcs or elliptical arcs in the camera image or in a preprocessed version of the camera image derived therefrom, and to identify a plurality of straight stretches passing in various directions through the camera image or through the preprocessed version. The positional description establisher is formed to obtain a positional description describing the identified circular arcs or elliptical arcs and the identified straight stretches by parameters, on the basis of the identified circular arcs or elliptical arcs and on the identified straight stretches. The database comparator further is formed to compare the positional description with a plurality of comparative positional descriptions and to obtain information on a position as a result of the comparison. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100328972 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR A CLOCK SUPPLY OF ENERGY TO AN ENERGY STORAGE - The present invention provides a voltage converter circuit for the clocked supply of energy to an energy storage based on an input voltage applied at an input applied at an input of the voltage converter circuit. The voltage converter circuit includes an energy storage and a switch arrangement, wherein the switch arrangement has a first switch and a second switch which are connected in parallel to each other and coupled to the energy storage. The first switch of the switch arrangement has a smaller turn-on voltage according to amount than the second switch, wherein a control terminal of the first switch is wired up such that the first switch is active in a startup phase of the voltage converter circuit to supply energy to the energy storage, and wherein a control terminal of the second switch is wired up such that the second switch is active after the startup phase to supply energy to the energy storage in a clocked way. Further, the voltage converter circuit has a feedback circuit which is implemented to provide a feedback signal depending on a change of the energy stored in the energy storage or depending on an amount of energy stored in the energy storage, wherein the feedback circuit has a switchable coupling element which is implemented to couple the feedback signal to the control terminal of the second switch, and wherein the switchable coupling element is implemented to provide a stronger coupling effect in a startup phase than after the startup phase. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100319079 | ISOLATED PROLIFERATING CELLS WITH STEM CELL PROPERTIES FROM ADULT TISSUE OF POIKILOTHERMIC VERTEBRATES, STABLE CELL CULTURES THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR THEIR PREPARATION - A method of preparing adult proliferating cells with stem cell properties includes removing tissue from pronephros or pyloric appendates of an intestine of poikilothermic vertebrates, comminuting removed tissue, cultivating comminuted tissue, and propagating cells persisting in a culture. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100307584 | SOLAR ELEMENT WITH INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND METHOD FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY - A solar element with increased efficiency and also a method for increasing the efficiency of a solar cell are provided. The solar cell comprises a luminescent element, an upconverter, and also at least one selectively reflecting structure. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100305851 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING CARTOGRAPHIC DATA - A device for updating cartographic data for a predetermined region, having a collector for collecting location information of a path covered in the predetermined region, an overlayer for overlaying the collected location information with the cartographic data for the predetermined region, a determiner for determining portions contradictory or missing in the cartographic data for the predetermined region on the basis of the overlaid collected location information, and an updater for updating the cartographic data in the missing or contradictory portions on the basis of the overlaid collected location information. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100304151 | METHOD FOR LASER-ASSISTED BONDING, SUBSTRATES BONDED IN THIS MANNER AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method for laser-assisted bonding of substrates, in which these are connected together firstly frictionally by pressing together and subsequently strengthening of the connection between the substrates is effected by activation in regions which is induced by laser irradiation. The invention likewise relates to substrates produced accordingly. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100297975 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A RECEIVING SIGNAL - A signal processor for processing a receiving signal having a first usable frequency band and a second usable frequency band includes a first mixer for mixing the receiving signal with a first local oscillator signal, wherein a frequency of the first local oscillator signal is asymmetrical between the first usable frequency band and the second usable frequency band. The first mixer is implemented to obtain an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal, having a first signal portion representing a mixed image of the first usable frequency band, and having a second signal portion representing a mixed image of the second usable frequency band. The signal processor comprises a second mixer) for mixing the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal by using the second local oscillator signal. A frequency of the second local oscillator signal is selected such that the mixed image of the first usable frequency band and the mixed image of the second usable frequency band are at least partly image bands of each other with regard to the second local oscillator signal. The second mixer is implemented to separately provide information content of the first usable frequency band and the second usable frequency band at its output, for obtaining a first output signal, which substantially comprises information content of the first usable frequency band, and for obtaining a second output signal which substantially comprises information content of the second usable frequency band. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100290935 | PUMP ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING A SAFETY VALVE - A pump arrangement includes a pump having a pump inlet and a pump outlet, and a safety valve arranged between the pump outlet and an outlet of the pump arrangement and having a valve seat and a valve lid. The valve seat, the pump outlet and the pump inlet are patterned in a first surface of a first integrated part of the pump arrangement, whereas the valve lid is formed in a second integrated part of the pump arrangement. An inlet of the pump arrangement and a fluid region fluidically connected thereto are formed in a third part of the pump arrangement. The second integrated part is arranged between the first integrated part and the third part of the pump arrangement such that a pressure in the fluid region has a closing effect on the safety valve, the pump inlet and the inlet of the pump arrangement being connected fluidically. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100288709 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THIXOTROPIC SUSPENSIONS BY MEANS OF ULTRASOUND - A method for a disintegration of a thixotropic suspension by ultrasound, includes diverting at least one partial flow from a total suspension flow downstream of an ultrasonic treatment unit, increasing a flow rate of the at least one partial flow and mechanically stressing a thixotropic suspension flow. Additionally, the method includes adding the at least one partial flow to the stressed thixotropic suspension flow to establish the total suspension flow and ultrasonically treating the total suspension flow. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100286546 | GARMENT FOR DETECTING RESPIRATORY MOVEMENT - A garment for detecting respiratory movement of a living being, wherein the garment can be pulled over the thorax of the living being, including an electric conductor integrable at the height of the thorax of the living being into the garment, which is attached to the garment in order to change an electrically measurable characteristic in dependence on the respiratory movement of the thorax, and a holder for fixing evaluation electronics integrable into the garment, which can be coupled to the electric conductor and which is implemented to detect the electrically measurable characteristic and which further includes an interface for outputting or storing data derived from the electrically measurable characteristic. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100284586 | SEGMENTATION OF MICROCALCIFICATIONS IN A MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE - Apparatus for segmenting microcalcifications in a mammographic image having a bandpass filter for bandpass filtering the mammographic image obtaining the filtered mammographic image, a marker and a processor for individual processing. The marker marks image points in the filtered mammographic image as potential regions of microcalcifications when a they exceed or fall below a predetermined threshold. The processor for individual processing processes one of the regions of adjacent marked image points for changing an extension of the one region for illustrating a segmentation of microcalcifications. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100277593 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN IMAGE - In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100235706 | INTERLEAVER APPARATUS AND RECEIVER FOR A SIGNAL GENERATED BY THE INTERLEAVER APPARATUS - A convolution interleaver for processing a codeword derived from an input block of symbols using a redundancy-adding coding, and having more symbols than the input block, wherein the codeword has a sequence of interleaving units, wherein each interleaving unit has at least two symbols, includes an interleaver. The interleaver changes the sequence of interleaving units to obtain an interleaved codeword having a changed sequence of interleaving units. In particular, the order of the symbols within an interleaving unit is not changed by the interleaver. The order of the interleaving units in the codeword among each other or with respect to a previous or subsequent codeword is changed, however. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100233511 | BODIES COATED WITH A HARD MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to bodies coated with a hard material, comprising a multi-layer coating system containing at least one Ti | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100232631 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A FILTERED ACTIVITY PATTERN, SOURCE DIVIDER, METHOD FOR GENERATING A DEBUGGED AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A device for generating a filtered activity pattern based on a first activity pattern at an auditory model of a first ear and a second activity pattern at an auditory model of a second ear includes an identifier for identifying a first trajectory in the first activity pattern and a second trajectory in the second activity pattern which are associated with the same sound event. The device further includes a determiner for determining whether the two trajectories are associated with a sound event of a useful sound source. The device further includes a filter for filtering the first activity pattern or the second activity pattern based on a result of determining whether a trajectory is associated with a sound event of the useful sound source. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100232619 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL INCLUDING SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING - In order to generate a multi-channel signal having a number of output channels greater than a number of input channels, a mixer is used for upmixing the input signal to form at least a direct channel signal and at least an ambience channel signal. A speech detector is provided for detecting a section of the input signal, the direct channel signal or the ambience channel signal in which speech portions occur. Based on this detection, a signal modifier modifies the input signal or the ambience channel signal in order to attenuate speech portions in the ambience channel signal, whereas such speech portions in the direct channel signal are attenuated to a lesser extent or not at all. A loudspeaker signal outputter then maps the direct channel signals and the ambience channel signals to loudspeaker signals which are associated to a defined reproduction scheme, such as, for example, a 5.1 scheme. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100220755 | SPECTRALLY TUNABLER LASER MODULE - The present invention relates to a laser module, comprising a flat substrate basis with a mounting region and with at least one heat conducting region adjoining the mounting region, one heating element arranged in the mounting region and one temperature sensor element arranged in the mounting region. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220204 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIDEO SIGNAL OF A VIRTUAL IMAGE - A device for providing a video signal of a virtual image based on a real image of a camera, the real image having an object, includes a processing device. One piece of positional information each is associated with the camera and the object. The processing device generates the video signal of the virtual image based on the real image, the positional information of the camera and the positional information of the object. The virtual image includes an illustration of the object or object information with regard to the object. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100214555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THICKNESS MEASUREMENT - The material strength of extensive objects can be determined efficiently by using two distance measurers, wherein a first distance measurer determines the distance to a first main surface of the object and a second distance measurer determines the distance to a second main surface object opposing the first main surface. If potential measurement errors due to the extensive geometry are avoided by determining a reference distance between the first distance measurer and the second distance measurer by a reference unit via X-radiation, the thickness of the object between the first main surface and the second main surface can be determined with high accuracy and velocity. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100212022 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT - A digital rights management method includes: storing information on a rights object in a memory area, wherein the rights object has been transferred from a first device to a second device, and wherein the rights object includes permissions linked to a digital media object; receiving a rights object at the first device; and accessing the memory area to check whether information on the received rights object is stored in the memory area and to set up the received rights object on the first device in case the information on the received rights object is not stored in the memory area, and to reject the received rights object in case the information on the received rights object is stored in the memory area. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208905 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A COMPONENT SIGNAL WITH HIGH ACCURACY - A device for determining a component signal for a WFS system includes a provider for providing WFS parameters, a WFS parameter interpolator, and an audio signal processor. The provider provides WFS parameters for a component signal while using a source position and while using the loudspeaker position at a parameter sampling frequency smaller than the audio sampling frequency. The WFS parameter interpolator interpolates the WFS parameters so as to produce interpolated WFS parameters which are present at a parameter interpolation frequency that is higher than the parameter sampling frequency, the interpolated WFS parameters having interpolated fractions which have a higher level of accuracy than is specified by the audio sampling frequency. The audio signal processor is configured to apply the interpolated fractional values to the audio signal such that the component signal is obtained in a state of having been processed at the higher level of accuracy. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100203608 | METHOD FOR THE CONVERSION OF BIOMASS FROM RENEWABLE RAW MATERIALS IN ANAEROBIC FERMENTERS - The invention relates to the field of biochemistry and relates to a method that is used in a biogas production plant. The object of the present invention is a method which realizes a shorter total retention time of the raw materials in the biogas plant and/or a higher quantity and/or quality of the biogas. The object is attained through a method in which renewable raw materials are placed in an at least first anaerobic fermenter/reactor together with liquid and further starting materials necessary for methanogenesis, and there subjected to a fermentation process. Subsequently the fermentation residue is subjected to a solid/liquid phase separation and the separated solid phase is subjected to thermopressure hydrolysis at temperatures of at least 170° C. and pressures of at least 1.0 MPa. The solid phase thus treated may either be returned to the first anaerobic fermenter/reactor or fed to a second anaerobic fermenter/reactor and subjected to a further fermentation process. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100200351 | MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL TORQUE TRANSMISSION DEVICE, THE USE THEREOF, AND MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL TORQUE TRANSMISSION METHOD - The present invention relates to a magnetorheological torque transmission device. The same has two device parts rotatable relative to each other about a rotational axis (R) through a torque transmission gap ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100196946 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING BIOLOGICAL CELLS - A conditioning device ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195025 | Display Cell with Compartmentalized Liquid-Crystal Layer, Method for its Production and a Liquid-Crystal Material-Containing Mixture Suitable Therefor - The invention relates to a display cell, comprising two transparent, equidistant plates, wherein the gap between the plates is filled with a liquid-crystal material-containing layer, characterized in that the liquid-crystal material-containing layer is inhomogeneous and anisotropic, wherein it has a first region made up of compartments, which comprise entirely, substantially or mainly liquid-crystal material, and a second, coherent region which comprises entirely, substantially or mainly an organic polymer material and surrounds the compartments made of liquid-crystal material. In addition, the invention relates to a liquid-crystal material-containing mixture which can be used to produce the layer between the plates, and to a method for producing the display cell. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100193002 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to a semiconductor component which contains one semiconductor layer containing germanium. On the rear-side, i.e. on the side orientated away from the incident light, the semiconductor layer has at least one layer containing silicon carbide which serves, on the one hand, for the reflection of radiation and also as rear-side passivation or as diffusion barrier. A method for the production of semiconductor components of this type is likewise described. The semiconductor components according to the invention are used in particular as thermophotovoltaic cells or multiple solar cells based on germanium. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100190249 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARRANGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS - A method for forming a three-dimensional cell arrangement ( | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100189424 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND READING A FILE HAVING A MEDIA DATA CONTAINER AND A METADATA CONTAINER - An apparatus for processing stored data packets in a media data container and stored associated meta information in a metadata container, the associated meta information having transport timing information and location information indicating a storage location of the stored data packets in the media data container, the apparatus having a processor for determining, based on the stored data packets and the stored associated meta information, decoding information for a media payload of the stored data packets, wherein the decoding information indicates at which time instant to replay which payload of the stored data packets. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100189256 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING AND READING A FILE HAVING A MEDIA DATA CONTAINER AND METADATA CONTAINER - An apparatus for recording a file having a related media data container and a metadata container, the apparatus a receiver for receiving first data packets having packetized first media data samples based on a first clock, and for receiving second data packets having second media data samples based on a second clock different from the first clock, wherein the second media data samples are associated to the first media data samples, and for receiving first control packets including information for indicating a relationship of the first clock to a reference clock and for receiving second control packets including information for indicating a relationship of the second clock to the reference clock, and a recorder for storing the received first and second data packets and at least a portion of the received first and second control packets in the media data container, and for storing associated metadata in the metadata container, the associated metadata having timing information of the received first and second data packets and the received first and second control packets and location information indicating a location of the stored first and second data packets and the stored first and second control packets in the media data container. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100184621 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING BIOLOGIC CELL AGGREGATES - The invention relates to a method for cultivating biologic cells ( | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100173354 | METHOD FOR THE FERMENTATION OF ENSILAGED RENEWABLE RAW MATERIALS - A method of fermenting ensilaged renewable raw materials, wherein the method comprises washing and crushing ensilaged renewable raw materials, removing at least some water from the washed and crushed ensilaged renewable raw materials, subjecting the washed and crushed ensilaged renewable raw materials to hydrolysis, and subjecting hydrolysis products to a biogas production method in fermenters | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100158475 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A CORRELATION BETWEEN A TEST SOUND SIGNAL REPLAYABLE AT VARIABLE SPEED AND A REFERENCE SOUND SIGNAL - An apparatus for performing a correlation between a test sound signal replayable at variable speed and a reference sound signal, which is a digitally stored version of the test sound signal, has a determinator for determining a measure for the replay speed of a test sound signal; a variator for varying a test sound signal sampling rate, to generate a modified test sound signal depending on the measure for the replay speed, or for varying a reference sound signal sampling rate, to generate a modified reference sound signal depending on the measure for the replay speed, the variator being formed to vary the test or reference sampling rate so that a deviation between a test or modified test sound signal replay speed and a reference or modified reference sound signal replay speed is reduced; and a comparator for comparing the test or modified test sound signal and the reference or modified reference sound signal to obtain a correlation result. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100152870 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ROBOTS FOR WELDING WORKPIECES - The invention relates to a method for controlling robots for welding three-dimensional workpieces, comprising the following steps: positioning and tacking profiles to a plate in order to form the workpiece to be welded, depicting the workpiece by means of a three-dimensional imaging system in the form of three-dimensional pixels, determining the geometric data of the plate and profiles, including the allocation of cutouts and final cutting shapes from the three-dimensional pixels, determining the weld seam data from the geometric data while considering the profile placement lines and the contact lines of profiles, allocating the weld seam data to parameterizable specifications for the weld plan into stored predefined movement patterns of the robot, and into commands for the control of the welding process. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100141740 | Device and Method for Non-Contact Recording of Spatial Coordinates of a Surface - A device and a method for non-contact recording of spatial coordinates of a surface includes a sensor head and a controller connected to the sensor head. The sensor head is designed as a portable hand-held device, a projector and two cameras. The controller is also designed as a portable device, with an electrochemical energy source housed in the controller or in the sensor head for power supply to the sensor head and the controller and no cable connection of the sensor head or the controller is provided to further stationary components of the device. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100139401 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING ACCELERATION - Exemplary embodiments relate to a sensor for detecting an acceleration acting on the sensor, having: a substrate, a mass unit, which acts as an inert mass in the event of the presence of an acceleration, a fixing structure, wherein the mass unit is articulated on the substrate in such a way that at least one pivot axis is defined, about which the mass unit can perform a rotation relative to the substrate as a result of an acceleration acting on the sensor, and the mass unit has an interial center of gravity, which is at a distance from the respective pivot axis, and at least one detection unit, with which a change in position between the mass unit and the substrate may be detected. The detection unit is arranged with respect to the mass unit in such a way that a deformation of the mass unit cannot be transferred to the detection unit. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100136331 | TRANSPARENT BARRIER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The invention relates to a transparent barrier film, comprising a transparent thermoplastic film and at least one permeation barrier layer, wherein the permeation barrier layer comprises a chemical compound of the elements zinc, tin and oxygen, and the mass fraction of zinc is 5% to 70%. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the production of a barrier film of this type. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100130805 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INACTIVATING A MICROBIOLOGICALLY CONTAMINATED MASS CONTAINING SOLID PARTICLES WITH ACCELERATED ELECTRONS - Method and device for inactivating a microbiologically contaminated mass containing solid particles. The method includes mixing the mass containing solid particles with a gelatinizing agent, transporting the mixed mass of solid particles and gelatinizing agent through a shaping device structured so that the mixed mass, at least in one area, is shaped to form a lamellar volume with a layer thickness of between 1 mm and 3 mm, and impinging the formed lamellar volume of the mixed mass with accelerated electrons. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100130314 | OVAL BALL, ESPECIALLY RUGBY BALL OR FOOTBALL - An oval ball, in particular rugby ball or football with a casing and with at least one electronic component or module with a transmitter unit, which is arranged in the casing and is held in a defined position, wherein the at least one electronic module is fastened on or in a shape part with a positive and/or material fit, in the region of the tips or in the region of a valve of the casing. In a further embodiment, the module is suspended on nets which are connected to the tip region of the casing in a large-surfaced manner. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100129850 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF A GASEOUS MEDIUM ON A BIOLOGICAL TEST SYSTEM USING AN EXTRACELLULAR METABOLIZATION SYSTEM AND A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - The invention relates to a method for analyzing the effect of a gaseous medium on a biological test system using an extracellular metabolization system. The method consists of the following steps: a biological test sample is cultivated on a permeable carrier, the gaseous medium is guided over the surface of the biological test system in order to form an exposition atmosphere over the biological test system, the extracellular metabolization system is added to a conservation medium and the permeable carrier is brought into contact with a conservation medium that comprises the extracellular metabolization system below the permeable carrier, in such a manner that the extracellular metabolization system only passes through the permeable carrier and that the biological test system is not submerged by the conservation medium containing the extracellular metabolization system. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100126553 | INVERTER WITH INTEGRATED CONTROL AND REGULATION FOR A TRACKER - An inverter for converting the direct current provided by a solar generator to alternating current includes a control providing a control signal for a drive of the solar generator, for allowing tracking the solar generator after the sun, wherein the control is integrated in the inverter. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100121207 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN APNEA USING SIGNALS SENSED IN DEPENDENCE ON THE BLOOD PRESSURE - The existence of an apnea may be inferred when, in a pulse wave signal which is provided and is detected in dependence on the blood pressure, a change in a waveform of the pulse wave signal meets a predetermined detection criterion. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118938 | ENCODER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A STREAM OF DATA - A method generates a stream of data, wherein the stream comprises a plurality of encoded data blocks. The encoded data blocks comprise a plurality of self-contained blocks including all information for decoding the block and a plurality of blocks including only partial information for decoding. The distance of the self-contained blocks in the stream is varied dependent on the content encoded in the stream. The stream is a main stream, and wherein tuning into the main stream is effected via a secondary stream comprising at least a subset of the data blocks of the main stream encoded at a quality different from a quality of the data blocks of the main stream. The self-contained blocks are inserted at positions in the main stream where differences in the quality of the data encoded in the main stream and in the secondary stream are less detectable. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100109219 | Modular interface for damping mechanical vibrations - Interfaces for damping mechanical vibrations are used, for example, for damping vibrations in the automotive or aerospace industry. The interfaces have a base connection element, a load connection element and a support element, with the support element being connected to the base connection element via a pretensioning device. A first energy converter system extends between engagement points on the base connection element and engagement points on the load connection element. A second energy converter system extends between engagement points on the support element and engagement points on the load connection element. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100107732 | CYLINDRICAL PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTOR WITH EXCITATION OF THE SECOND AZIMUTHAL RESONANCE - A device is presented for photoacoustic detection, having a cylindrical acoustic resonator ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100098182 | Method and/or OFDM device for SC-FDMA data transmission - In a method and/or an OFDM device for SC-FDMA data transmission, a sequence of input data is transformed by means of a discrete transformation as transformed data signals of coded and modulated data signals on first frequency channels into a first frequency space over a first number of frequencies. The transformed data signals are mapped on second frequency channels in a second frequency space with a larger second number of frequencies. The transformed data signals on the second frequency channels are inverse-transformed using an inverse transformation. Data inversely transformed in such a way are provided for transmission. The transformed data signals are mapped into a frequency range of the second frequency channels in such a way that a constant component of the transformed data signals is mapped centrally within the frequency range. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097269 | CONCEPT FOR LOCALIZING A POSITION ON A PATH - An apparatus for localizing a position on a path, radio signals of fixedly positioned radio transmitters being receivable along the path, the apparatus including a determiner for determining properties of the radio signals of the fixedly positioned radio transmitters at the position, and a comparator for comparing the determined electromagnetic properties with previously recorded properties which characterize a reference path, and for determining a relation between the position and the reference path on the basis of a result of the comparison. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100096439 | SELF-ASSEMBLY OF COMPONENTS - A method is provided for the production of a bond between a first element having at least one first metal coating and at least one further element having a second metal coating, the at least one further element being freely moveable in a medium and the at least one first metal coating of the first element and the second metal coating of the at least one further element being in a solid state, a liquid phase being formed upon contact of the at least one first metal coating with the second metal coating. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100089167 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING THE PRESSURE IN PRESSURE LINE OR PIPES - An apparatus including a chamber having a chamber opening, a plunger which is movable within the chamber so as to change a chamber volume, which is defined by the plunger and a chamber wall and which adjoins the chamber opening, includes a measurer for measuring a pressure within the chamber or for measuring a force F, F being the force which acts upon the plunger so as to change the chamber volume. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100073689 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THICKNESS MEASUREMENT - The material strength of extensive objects can be determined efficiently by using two distance measures, wherein a first distance measurer determines the distance to a first main surface of the object and a second distance measurer determines the distance to a second main surface object opposing the first main surface. If potential measurement errors due to the extensive geometry are avoided by determining a reference distance between the first distance measurer and the second distance measurer by a reference object, the thickness of the object between the first main surface and the second main surface can be determined with high accuracy and velocity. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100072562 | FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR - A functional element package includes a silicon substrate with a functional element having one of a mobile portion and a sensor thereon; a seal member being bonded with the silicon substrate to form an airtightly sealed space therein, and including a step portion in its height direction; a first wiring portion being connected with the functional element and extending from the airtightly sealed space to an outside thereof; a second wiring portion being different from the first wiring portion and extending from the step portion to an upper surface of the seal member; and a bump on the second wiring portion, in which the first wiring portion is bent towards the airtightly sealed space and connected via a photoconductive member with the second wiring portion on the step portion. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100067805 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING A TRAFFIC SIGN IN AN IMAGE - A device for identifying a traffic sign in an image includes a Hough transformer implemented to identify a plurality of line sections running in different directions through the image in the image or in an edge image derived from same. The device further includes a shape detector implemented to detect a predefined shape in the image or in the edge image derived from same based on the identified line sections. The device apart from that includes a pattern identifier implemented to select an image section corresponding to the detected predefined shape based on the detected predefined shape and to identify a traffic sign based on the selected image section. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100061558 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A SET OF SPATIAL CUES ON THE BASIS OF A MICROPHONE SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A TWO-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL AND A SET OF SPATIAL CUES - An apparatus for providing a set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels on the basis of a two-channel microphone signal has a signal analyzer and a spatial side information generator. The signal analyzer is configured to obtain a component energy information and a direction information on the basis of the two-channel microphone signal, such that the component energy information describes estimates of energies of a direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal and of a diffuse sound component of the two-channel microphone signal, and such that the directional information describes an estimate of a direction from which the direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal originates. The spatial side information generator is configured to map the component energy information and the direction information onto a spatial cue information describing the set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100054347 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL TO BE TRANSMITTED OR A SIGNAL TO BE DECODED - For generating a signal to be transmitted original information is encoded into a main channel and a side channel, wherein the side channel is more robust against channel influences than the main channel. On the receiver side, when the receive quality is above a threshold, which is necessitated to execute a successful decoding of the main channel, the main channel is reproduced. If the receive quality falls below this threshold, however, the side channel is reproduced which may have less bits than the main channel and which is a correspondingly lower quality representation of the original information than the main channel. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100049657 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A VIRTUAL PRODUCT TO THIRD PARTIES - In a method of providing a virtual product to third parties, the virtual product being present in an original version in a digital form having a predetermined quality, a reduced version of the virtual product, along with information relating to a distributor of the virtual product, is initially provided. The reduced version's quality is inferior to the quality of the original version, and the information relating to the distributor are associated with this reduced version. On the basis of the information associated with the reduced version, further information may be created. This further information indicates that the reduced version has been passed on to the third party by the content provider. The further information is created if the third party has acquired rights to the virtual product after having obtained the reduced version of same. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100047557 | CERAMIC AND/OR POWDER-METALLURGICAL COMPOSITE SHAPED BODY AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to the field of ceramics and relates to composite molded articles, such are used, for example, for chip-removal tools. The object of the invention is to disclose composite molded articles that are free in the design of their surface and interface and can be produced in series production. The object is attained through ceramic and/or powder metallurgical composite molded articles comprising a green tape and an injection molded article. The object is further attained through a method in which a green tape is inserted into or placed onto a mold, and subsequently at least one ceramic and/or powder metallurgical injection molding mass is placed on and/or applied to and/or inserted into the mold by means of injection molding, and subsequently the one-part or multi-part mold is removed and/or the one-part or multi-part composite molded part parts are removed from the mold, wherein these process steps can be repeated once or several times. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100045991 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING A PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNAL WITH COMPUTER-ASSISTED EVALUATION - The application relates to a method for measuring the photoacoustic signal in a photoacoustic cell ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100040148 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100040138 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100028699 | METAL-CERAMIC COMPOSITE WITH GOOD ADHESION AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION - The invention relates to the field of material sciences and relates to a metal-ceramic composite with good adhesive strength, such as can be used, for example, for forming tools or cutting tools. The object of the present invention lies in the disclosure of a metal-ceramic composite with good adhesive strength which has a strong and durable bond between ceramic and metal. The object is attained with a metal-ceramic composite with good adhesive strength, comprising a metal component and a ceramic component and which are connected to one another by adhesive force or by adhesive force and in a non-positive manner, wherein silicon, beryllium, titanium, chromium, nickel, manganese, hafnium, vanadium, zirconium, aluminum and/or the organic compounds thereof is present in the area of the connection surfaces and wherein the components have been processed as a greenbody to form a composite and jointly sintered. The object is further attained through a method in which at least respectively one metal component and ceramic component are connected as a total greenbody and jointly subjected to a temperature treatment, at least for sintering the ceramic components. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100024562 | MEMS VACUUM SENSOR BASED ON THE FRICTION PRINCIPLE - The invention relates to a sensor element for pressure measurement, having a substrate ( | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100017213 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR POSTPROCESSING SPECTRAL VALUES AND ENCODER AND DECODER FOR AUDIO SIGNALS - For postprocessing spectral values which are based on a first transformation algorithm for converting the audio signal into a spectral representation, first a sequence of blocks of the spectral values representing a sequence of blocks of samples of the audio signal are provided. Hereupon, a weighted addition of spectral values of the sequence of blocks of spectral values is performed in order to obtain a sequence of blocks of postprocessed spectral values, wherein the combination is performed such that for calculating a postprocessed spectral value for a frequency band and a time duration a spectral value of the sequence of blocks for the frequency band and the time duration and a spectral value for another frequency band or another time duration are used, wherein the combination is further performed such that such weighting factors are used that the postprocessed spectral values are an approximation to the spectral values as they are obtained by converting the audio signal into a spectral representation using a second transformation algorithm which is different from the first transformation algorithm. The postprocessed spectral values are in particular used for a difference formation within a scalable encoder or for an addition within a scalable decoder, respectively. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014692 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AUDIO OUTPUT SIGNALS USING OBJECT BASED METADATA - An apparatus for generating at least one audio output signal representing a superposition of at least two different audio objects comprises a processor for processing an audio input signal to provide an object representation of the audio input signal, where this object representation can be generated by a parametrically guided approximation of original objects using an object downmix signal. An object manipulator individually manipulates objects using audio object based metadata referring to the individual audio objects to obtain manipulated audio objects. The manipulated audio objects are mixed using an object mixer for finally obtaining an audio output signal having one or several channel signals depending on a specific rendering setup. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20090317789 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING A CELL POPULATION OF INTEREST CONTAINED IN A HUMAN BLOOD SAMPLE - The present invention provides to a method for quantifying a cell population of interest contained in a human blood sample, comprising the steps of: contacting a sample of human blood with a cocktail comprising a first component, comprising at least one non-human antibody, antibody fragment or derivative thereof, capable of specifically binding to an antigen expressed on the surface of a first cell population distinct from a second cell population, said second cell population being the cell population of interest and being devoid of said antigen, complexed to a second component, comprising at least one non-human antibody, antibody fragment or derivative thereof, capable of specifically binding to the surface of human erythrocytes; separating antibody-labelled from unlabelled cells contained in the blood sample; collecting the supernatant comprising the second cell population; concentrating the second cell population contained in the supernatant and resuspending said cell population in a liquid capable of selectively lysing erythrocytes; concentrating the obtained cells, essentially removing all supernatant and resuspending said cells in a defined volume of physiological buffer; and determining the number of the cells of the second cell population contained in the sample. Furthermore, the invention provides to a kit for performing the method of the invention. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090304374 | DEVICE FOR TRACKING A MOVING OBJECT - A device for tracking a moving object comprises a receiver, an evaluation unit, a camera and a control unit. The receiver is implemented to receive a signal transmitted by a mobile transmitter which is located at the moving object and follows movements of the object. The evaluation unit determines position data of the moving object from the received signal. The control unit aligns the camera to the moving object based on the determined position data. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090304198 | AUDIO SIGNAL DECORRELATOR, MULTI CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR, METHOD FOR DERIVING AN OUTPUT AUDIO SIGNAL FROM AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An audio signal decorrelator for deriving an output audio signal from an input audio signal has a frequency analyzer for extracting from the input audio signal a first partial signal descriptive of an audio content in a first audio frequency range and a second partial signal descriptive of an audio content in a second audio frequency range having higher frequencies compared to the second audio frequency range. A partial signal modifier for modifies the first and second partial signals, to obtain first and second processed partial signals, so that a modulation amplitude of a time variant phase shift or time variant delay applied to the first partial signal is higher than that applied to the second partial signal, or for modifying only the first partial signal. A signal combiner combines the first and second processed partial signals, or combines the first processed partial signal and the second partial signal, to obtain an output audio signal. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090302190 | CHIP HOLDER, FLUIDIC SYSTEM AND CHIP HOLDER SYSTEM - A chip holder for holding a fluidic chip and for providing a fluid connection thereto has a guide adapted such that the fluidic chip can be slid into the chip holder in a guiding direction. The chip holder further has a fastener adapted to press a fluidic connection toward the fluidic chip, such that the fluidic chip is fixed within the chip holder. The guide and the fastener are adapted such that the guiding direction and the direction in which the fluidic connection is pressed exhibit an angle in the range between 45° and 135°, including 45° and 135°. A fluidic system has a chip holder and a fluidic chip inserted therein. A chip holder system has a chip holder and an extension module attached thereto such that the extension module is in contact with the fluidic chip, when the fluidic chip is inserted in the chip holder. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090298526 | SIGNALING METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZED ALLOCATION OF ONLINE TRANSMISSION POWER IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - The invention relates to distributed wireless ad hoc networks having interfering transmission channels, in which direct links between adjacent transmit nodes and receive nodes in a connection pair are established and optimized. The inventive signaling method alternately uses a primary network and an adjoint network, the respective transmit nodes and receive nodes constantly changing their roles in an agreed time pattern. The transmission signals in the adjoint network are predistorted in such a way that the influence of the proper mobile radio channel is canceled on each transmission channel. The occurring interference is implicitly transmitted as well by the receive nodes and can be directly determined and taken into account by the transmit nodes. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090298042 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SKIN MODEL - The present invention relates to methods for cultivating dermal fibroblasts, methods for preparing in vitro dermis equivalents, methods for preparing three-dimensional in vitro skin equivalents, an in vitro dermis equivalent, a three-dimensional in vitro skin equivalent, and methods for determining the effect of a chemical substance or of an agent on human skin cells using the in vitro dermis equivalent and/or the in vitro skin equivalent. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090297595 | Method For Producing A Cross-Linked Substance, Especially In The Form Of A Microcapsule Or Layer - A device for producing a crosslinked substance, e.g., of crosslinked microcapsules ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090202193 | WAVEGUIDE CORE AND BIOSENSOR - A waveguide core made of hydrogel serves as an immobilization matrix having receptor molecules embedded therein. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090202133 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF AN OBJECT PORTION ARBITRARILY ARRANGED WITHIN AN OBJECT - For generating a two-dimensional representation of an object portion arbitrarily arranged within an object, a first image comprising the object, and subsequently a second image comprising the object are generated by means of an imaging device while the object and the imaging device are moving relative to each other. By means of a signal processor, information about a position and a shape of the object portion of interest within the object and its relative motion is received so as to combine, on the basis of the information received, image portions, within the first and second images, which are associated with the object portion of interest. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090201996 | Method and Arrangement for Coding Transform Coefficients in Picture and/or Video Coders and Decoders and a Corresponding Computer Program and a Corresponding Computer-Readable Storage Medium - The present invention describes a method and an arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can particularly be employed as a novel efficient method for binary-arithmetic coding transform coefficients in the field of video coding. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090201986 | Method and Arrangement for Coding Transform Coefficients in Picture and/or Video Coders and Decoders and a Corresponding Computer Program and a Corresponding Computer-Readable Storage Medium - The present invention describes a method and an arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can particularly be employed as a novel efficient method for binary-arithmetic coding transform coefficients in the field of video coding. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090196400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN IMAGE - In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090196399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN IMAGE - In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090183552 | GAS DETECTOR HAVING AN ACOUSTIC MEASURING CELL AND SELECTIVELY ADSORBING SURFACE - A gas detector with a selectively adsorbing surface ( | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090157143 | COCHLEAR IMPLANT, DEVICE FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SIGNAL FOR A COCHLEAR IMPLANT, DEVICE FOR GENERATING A COMBINATION SIGNAL AND COMBINATION SIGNAL AND CORRESPONDING METHODS - A cochlear implant for processing signal parameters which are adapted for controlling the cochlear implant, which are based on the audio signal and which enable generating a representation of the audio signal by the cochlear implant includes a receive interface which is implemented to receive the signal parameters and a nerve stimulator for processing the signal parameters to generate nerve cell stimulation signals based on the signal parameters. A device for generating a control signal for a cochlear implant on the basis of an audio signal includes a cochlear parameter extractor for analyzing the audio signal which is implemented to generate signal parameters as input information for the cochlear implant based on an analysis of the audio signal using a human hearing simulation model, and a transmit interface for transmitting the signal parameters to the cochlear implant. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090141806 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090141803 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090138259 | Method and Apparatus for Introducing Information into a Data Stream and Method and Apparatus for Encoding an Audio Signal - An inventive method for introducing information into a data stream including data about spectral values representing a short-term spectrum of an audio signal first performs a processing of the data stream to obtain the spectral values of the short-term spectrum of the audio signal. Apart from that, the information to be introduced are combined with a spread sequence to obtain a spread information signal, whereupon a spectral representation of the spread information is generated which will then be weighted with an established psychoacoustic maskable noise energy to generate a weighted information signal, wherein the energy of the introduced information is substantially equal to or below the psychoacoustic masking threshold. The weighted information signal and the spectral values of the short-term spectrum of the audio signal will then be summed and afterwards processed again to obtain a processed data stream including both audio information and information to be introduced. By the fact that the information to be introduced are introduced into the data stream without changing to the time domain, the block rastering underlying the short-term spectrum will not be touched, so that introducing a watermark will not lead to tandem encoding effects. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135915 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135908 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135033 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION - For digitizing analog measurement signals, an analog-to-digital converter is used, wherein the offset to be subtracted from an analog measurement value is taken to account within a locked loop by means of which an analog-to-digital converter operating according to the modulation principle is fed back. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090134330 | CONCEPT FOR DETERMINING A MEASUREMENT VALUE AT A COMPONENT - In an evaluation device for determining a measurement value at a component, power is supplied to the component during readout of the measurement value. A controller serves to determine the power supplied to the component during the readout. The measurement value determined by the reader is corrected by a compensator while using the power determined by the controller, so as to obtain a corrected measurement value freed from any effects caused by the power supplied. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090134309 | CHIP FOR ANALYZING A MEDIUM COMPRISING AN INTEGRATED ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTER - A chip for analyzing a medium includes an organic light emitter for emitting a light signal, a photodetector including a detector area, a layer sequence separating the organic light emitter and the detector area, and a reservoir into which the medium may be introduced. The organic light emitter and the photodetector are optically couplable by means of a path of rays of the light signal, and the reservoir is arranged within the path of rays of the light signal. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090125314 | AUDIO CODING USING DOWNMIX - An audio decoder for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having an audio signal of a first type and an audio signal of a second type encoded therein is described, the multi-audio-object signal having a downmix signal and side information, the side information having level information of the audio signals of the first and second types in a first predetermined time/frequency resolution, and a residual signal specifying residual level values in a second predetermined time/frequency resolution, the audio decoder having a processor for computing prediction coefficients based on the level information; and an up-mixer for up-mixing the downmix signal based on the prediction coefficients and the residual signal to obtain a first up-mix audio signal approximating the audio signal of the first type and/or a second up-mix audio signal approximating the audio signal of the second type. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125313 | AUDIO CODING USING UPMIX - A method for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having audio signals of first and second types encoded therein, the multi-audio-object signal having a downmix signal and side information having level information of the audio signals of the first and second types in a first predetermined time/frequency resolution, the method including computing a prediction coefficient matrix C based on the level information; and up-mixing the downmix signal based on the prediction coefficients to obtain a first and/or a second up-mix audio signal approximating the audio signals of the first and second types, respectively, wherein up-mixing yields the first and/or second up-mix signals S | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090102003 | PACKAGE COMPRISING AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT - A package including an electrical circuit may be produced in a more efficient manner when on a substrate including a plurality of electrical circuits the circuits are tested for their functionality and when the functional circuits are connected, by means of a frame enclosing the circuit on the surface of the substrate, to a second substrate whose surface area is smaller than that of the first substrate. The substrates are connected, by means of a second frame, which is adapted to the first frame and is located on the surface of the second substrate, such that the first and second frames lie one on top of the other. Subsequently, the functional packaged circuits may be singulated in a technologically simple manner. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090092363 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A STRUCTURE-FREE FIBERSCOPIC PICTURE - 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. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090080532 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090080521 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090074057 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090066347 | BIOSENSOR AND A METHOD OF MEASURING A CONCENTRATION OF AN ANALYTE WITHIN A MEDIUM - A biosensor for measuring a concentration of an analyte within a medium includes an electrical charge storage and a resistive layer including an electrical resistance which changes upon contact with the analyte. The electrical charge storage includes a sensor electrode, and the resistive layer may be contacted with the medium and is arranged between the medium and the sensor electrode such that during contact with the medium, a number of the electrical charges stored in the electrical charge storage pass the resistive layer. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090062675 | DETECTION OF THE BEGINNING OF AN APNEA - The beginning of an apnea can be recognized reliably if a series of sample values describing the breathing noise of a patient are processed in block-wise manner, and if a fingerprint with a predetermined number of fingerprint coefficients describing a waveform of the sample values within a block is determined for a number of sample values within the block. Since the number of fingerprint coefficients is smaller than the number of sample values within the block, comparison of the fingerprint coefficients with reference fingerprint coefficients characteristic for the waveform at the beginning of an apnea can be performed efficiently and reliably, in order to detect the beginning of the apnea. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090030486 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SIGNAL FOR A COCHLEAR IMPLANT, BASED ON AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method of generating a control signal for a cochlear implant based on an audio signal includes calculating first information on an activity pattern over time at a plurality of inner hair cells of an auditory model, which results based on the audio signal, and filtering out activity events described by the first information, based on a recognition of a characteristic pattern in the activity pattern, whereby cleared information is obtained. The cleared information is further used as a control signal for the cochlear implant, or the control signal for the cochlear implant is derived from the cleared information. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090003612 | Compatible Multi-Channel Coding/Decoding - In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel of the original channels, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information. Since the channel side information only occupy a low number of bits, and since the decoder does not use dematrixing, an efficient and high quality multi-channel extension for stereo players and enhanced multi-channel players is obtained. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080319127 | Method for Bridging Organically Polymerisable Silanes or Silane Resin Units Containing Hydroxy Groups or Carboxylic Acid Groups, and Products of Said Method - The present invention relates to a process for cross-linking a silane with the structure (IIa) | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080283991 | Housed active microstructures with direct contacting to a substrate - A microstructured component with microsensors or other active mircrocomponent is provided. The microstructured component includes a substrate and at least one housing arranged on the substrate with one or more active microstructures situated on it. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080278785 | MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE, MICROMECHANICAL SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING SENSITIVITY OF A MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE - A micromechanical device has a layer; at least a first slot formed in the layer to define a first oscillation element oscillatably suspended via a first spring portion of the layer; and at least a second slot formed in the layer to define a second oscillation element oscillatably suspended via a second spring portion of the layer, wherein a trench is formed in the spring portion pair in a main surface of the layer, wherein a resonance frequency of the first oscillation element is different from that of the second oscillation element, and the first and second spring portions and the trench are formed such that, in an anisotropic lateral material removal and/or addition of the first and second spring portions, a ratio of a relative change of the resonance frequency of the second oscillation element to that of the first oscillation element ranges from 0.8 to 1.2. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080233740 | Method for Producing Electrically Conductive Bushings Through Non-Conductive or Semiconductive Substrates - The present invention relates to a method for producing electrical bushings through non-conductive or semiconductive substrates, which are particularly suitable for electrical applications. The method is characterized in that a semiconductor substrate or a non-conductive substrate ( | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080230109 | Solar Cell Module and Method For Its Production - A solar cell module and a method for the production thereof, are used in particular in the field of concentrating solar technology. The solar cell module has a large number of two-dimensionally disposed solar cells. These solar cells are applied on a substrate which is coated with a metal layer on the surface orientated towards the solar cells. The metal layer is thereby structured in such a manner that it is subdivided into individual two-dimensional portions which are assigned respectively to one solar cell. The metal layer in each of the portions has two regions which are electrically insulated from each other, the first region extending under the assigned solar cell and contacting the latter in an electrically conductive manner. The second region is likewise connected to the other electrical contact of the solar cell. In order to produce a parallel and series circuit of the individual solar cells, the individual portions of the metal layer are now connected to each other in a suitable manner by means of connecting portions which, for their part, are part of the metal layer. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080220662 | Electric Contact for High-Temperature Fuel Cells and Methods for The Production of Said Contact - An electric contact for high-temperature fuel cells and to methods for the production of said contacts. The aim of the invention is to enable long-term use at high operating temperatures of up to 950° C., offering high electrical conductivity and being able to be produced at low cost. The inventive electric contact is produced from a composite consisting of a metal component and a ceramic component. The metal component is, preferably, formed with at least one metal oxide. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080220339 | Film Forming Photosensitive Materials for the Light Induced Generation of Optical Anisotrophy - This invention relates to a self supporting or substrate-supported film or layer of a photosensitive material comprising a water insoluble complex having one of the following sum formulae (I) to (IV) n [R—P—R′] | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080212734 | Correction of Non-Linearities in an Imaging System by Means of a Priori Knowledge in Radiography - The invention relates to a method for online correction of non-linearities in the imaging system during the data acquisition in industrial computer tomography (CT). The above provides a method for the provision of corrected projection data as an improved CT reconstruction, whereby measuring beams (q) are emitted from a radiation source (Q) which pass through the sample ( | 09-04-2008 |
