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Christine Lienhart US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100153993Video Detection and Insertion - A television signal substitution system that replaces known video segments such as advertisements with selected replacement advertisements. Fingerprint data of known advertisements can be stored in a fingerprint database. When new fingerprint data is available, the fingerprint data can be automatically or manually transmitted to subscribers. Various techniques can be used to identify advertisements based on the fingerprint data.06-17-2010

Fabien Lienhart, Paris FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100207116SUBSTRATE FOR THE EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF GALLIUM NITRIDE - The subject of the invention is a substrate that can be used as a substrate for the epitaxial growth of layers based on gallium nitride and comprising a support material (08-19-2010
20110232749LAYERED ELEMENT AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH AN ELEMENT - This layered element, in particular for a photovoltaic device, includes a polymer layer, a moisture-sensitive layer, and a protective coating forming a moisture barrier inserted between the polymer layer and the moisture-sensitive layer. The protective coating includes an antireflection multilayer comprising at least two thin layers differing in refractive index from each other.09-29-2011
20110294298TEXTURED SINGLE CRYSTAL - A method for fabricating a textured single crystal including depositing pads made of metal on a surface of a single crystal. A protective layer is deposited on the pads and on the single crystal between the pads; and etching the surface with a first compound that etches the metal more rapidly than the protective layer is carried out. Processing continues with etching the surface with a second compound that etches the single crystal more rapidly than the protective layer; and etching the surface with a third compound that etches the protective layer more rapidly than the single crystal. The textured substrate may be used for the epitaxial growth of GaN, AlN or III-N compounds (i.e. a nitride of a metal the positive ion of which carries a +3 positive charge) in the context of the fabrication of LEDs, electronic components or solar cells.12-01-2011
20120279549ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL AND MODULE COMPRISING SUCH A CELL - An organic photovoltaic cell comprising a substrate, a first electrode formed on the substrate, an organic photoactive medium comprising an electron donor and an electron acceptor, and a second electrode comprising a conductive mesh, the first electrode being located between the substrate and the second electrode. The cell comprises an insulating mesh formed on the first electrode. The conductive mesh is formed on the insulating mesh. The insulating mesh and the conductive mesh define together apertures for receiving the photoactive medium, said apertures being able to receive the photoactive medium after the first electrode, the insulating mesh and the conductive mesh have been deposited on the substrate.11-08-2012
20130248846METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN OLED DEVICE - The subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode device comprising at least one electrode based on an electrically conductive thin-film multilayer deposited on a substrate, in which the deposition of said multilayer comprises the following steps: 09-26-2013
20140272465METHOD OF HEAT TREATMENT OF SILVER LAYERS - The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack of thin layers comprising at least one silver layer, said process comprising a step of depositing said stack then a heat treatment step, said heat treatment being carried out by irradiating at least one portion of the surface of said stack using at least one incoherent light source for an irradiation time ranging from 0.1 millisecond to 100 seconds, so that the sheet resistance and/or the emissivity of said stack is reduced by at least 5% in relative terms, the or each silver layer remaining continuous at the end of the treatment.09-18-2014
20140305492SOLAR MODULE WITH REDUCED POWER LOSS AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A solar module is described. The solar module has a laminated composite of two substrates bonded to one another by at least one bonding layer, between which substrates there are solar cells which are connected in series and which each have an absorber zone made of a semiconducting material between a front electrode arranged on a light entrance side of the absorber zone and a rear electrode. A diffusion barrier differing from the front electrode is located between each absorber zone and the bonding layer and is designed to inhibit the diffusion of water molecules from the bonding layer into the absorber zone and/or the diffusion of dopant ions from the absorber zone into the bonding layer. A process for producing such a solar module is also described.10-16-2014

Patent applications by Fabien Lienhart, Paris FR

Fabien Lienhart, San Diego, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140191212SUBSTRATE WITH AN ELECTRODE FOR AN OLED DEVICE AND SUCH AN OLED DEVICE - A substrate carrying an OLED electrode, with a sheet resistance of less than 25 Ω/square, includes an electrically conducting coating, an essentially inorganic thin electrically conducting layer which is a work-function-matching layer and which exhibits a sheet resistance at least 20 times greater than the sheet resistance of the electrically conducting coating, with a thickness of at most 60 nm, and, between the electrically conducting coating and the work-function-matching layer, a thin buffer layer, which is essentially inorganic and which has a surface resistivity within a range from 1007-10-2014
20150041782BACK-EMITTING OLED DEVICE - An OLED device includes a transparent anode of given sheet resistance R1, a cathode of given sheet resistance R2, the ratio r=R2/R1 ranging from 0.1 to 5, a first anode electrical contact and a first cathode electrical contact which is offset from the anode electrical contact, for any point B1 of each anode contact, on defining a distance D1 between the point B1 and a point C1 of the contact surface which is closest to the point B1, and on defining a distance L1 between the point B1 and a point X1 of a second edge of the active zone opposite from the first edge, passing through C1, then the following criteria are defined: 02-12-2015
20150155521TRANSPARENT SUPPORTED ELECTRODE FOR OLED - An electrode for an organic light-emitting diode, includes a transparent or translucent non-conductive substrate, having a refractive index of between 1.3 and 1.6; a transparent electrode layer, formed from a transparent conductive oxide or from a transparent conductive organic polymer; a continuous network of metal lines, deposited on the transparent electrode layer, and, as light-scattering structure, a translucent scattering layer having a refractive index of between 1.7 and 2.4, located between the non-conductive substrate and the electrode layer, wherein the continuous network of metal lines consists, at least at the contact interface with the transparent electrode, of a metal or metal alloy having a reflectivity at least equal to 80% over at least one portion of the visible light spectrum.06-04-2015
20150183301OPTICAL FILM EXHIBITING IMPROVED LIGHT TO SOLAR GAIN HEAT RATIO - The present disclosure is directed to optically transparent and IR reflecting films having a metal oxide based composite layer which can synergistically improve the optical properties, solar properties, and production speed of the whole composite.07-02-2015
20150234104Transparent Composite Including a Solar Control Layer and a Method of Forming the Same - A transparent composite can include a textured substrate and a solar control layer. Portions of the solar control layer may lie at different elevations that are separated by a sidewall of the textured substrate. The portions may be electrically disconnected from each other or include other portions that are highly resistive. In an embodiment, the solar control layer can be non-conformally deposited over the textured substrate. The solar control layer can be formed such that there are no lateral gaps between portions of the solar control layer. In a particular embodiment, the transparent composite can have good transmission of visible light and high frequency signals while still achieving suitably low transmission of near infrared radiation.08-20-2015

Marc-Yves Lienhart, Paris FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20160135280COOLED PRINTED CIRCUIT WITH MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE AND LOW DIELECTRIC LOSSES - The printed circuit with a multi-layer structure comprises: a first layer machined to form a spotface passing through the layer, a second layer comprising a first cavity passing through the layer, a third layer comprising, on one face, an electronic component that it is in the first cavity, a fourth layer comprising a second cavity, a heat-conducting element with two parts: one made of metal, called a thermal cover, inserted into the spotface of the first layer so as to close, mechanically and electrically, the first cavity, the other made of a dielectric material with heat conduction >30 W/(m·K), placed in the first cavity so as to be in contact with the electronic component.05-12-2016

Markus Lienhart, Ottersweier DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150265260MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A medical instrument includes instrument parts which can be releasably connected to one another. One part includes a hollow-cone-shaped receiving space and another part includes a cone-shaped coupling section which can be inserted into the receiving space to connect the parts. The coupling section includes a locking receiver for a locking element of the receiving space and which can be brought into and out of engagement with the locking receiver. A securing element moves between a position holding the locking element in a locking position, and a position releasing the locking element. An actuation element projects into the receiving space of the first instrument part, engages into the locking receiver in the locking position of the locking element and is movable in the direction of its middle axis. The middle axis of the actuation element is aligned in the proximal direction obliquely to a middle axis of the receiving space.09-24-2015

Peter Lienhart, Giengen DE

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20150308725Ice making apparatus for a fridge or freezer - An ice-making device for a refrigerator or freezer comprises: an ice-making tray having an upper side, a lower side, a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of said tray, wherein said ice-making tray is mounted so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation which is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the tray; a collecting container arranged underneath the ice-making tray for catching ice which falls out of said ice-making tray when the latter is in an emptying rotational position; a wall structure which, when the ice-making tray is in an ice-making rotational position, delimits a first air duct which runs underneath said ice-making tray and is open towards the underside of said tray, wherein said first air duct runs in the longitudinal direction of the tray and extends over substantially the entire length of the ice-making tray, wherein the wall structure has at least one wall element which, when the ice-making tray is in the ice-making rotational position, projects into a falling trajectory of the ice falling out of said ice-making tray and is arranged so as to be movable out of said falling trajectory; and a cold air supply system which is designed for the purpose of directing cold air into the first air duct in such a way that said cold air flows, within said first air duct, in the direction from a first longitudinal end of the tray to an opposite, second longitudinal end of said ice-making tray.10-29-2015

Rainer Lienhart, Friedberg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150110387METHOD FOR BINARY CLASSIFICATION OF A QUERY IMAGE - The invention relates to a method for the training of a classifier based on weakly labeled images and for the binary classification of an image. The training of the classifier comprises the steps of automatically and iteratively determining initial regions of interest for a training set and further on refining said regions of interest and adapting the classifier onto the refined regions of interest by a classifier refinement procedure. Further on, for a query image with unknown classification, an initial region of interest is determined and refined as to maximize the probability value derived at the output of said classifier. The query image is automatically assigned a negative classification label if said probability value is lower than or equal to a predetermined first threshold. The query image is automatically assigned a positive classification label if said probability value is greater than a predetermined second threshold.04-23-2015

Rainer W. Lienhart US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100153993Video Detection and Insertion - A television signal substitution system that replaces known video segments such as advertisements with selected replacement advertisements. Fingerprint data of known advertisements can be stored in a fingerprint database. When new fingerprint data is available, the fingerprint data can be automatically or manually transmitted to subscribers. Various techniques can be used to identify advertisements based on the fingerprint data.06-17-2010
20120063636Video Entity Recognition in Compressed Digital Video Streams - A method and system for detection of video segments in compressed digital video streams is presented. The compressed digital video stream is examine to determine synchronization points, and the compressed video signal is analyzed following detection of the synchronization points to create video fingerprints that are subsequently compared against a library of stored fingerprints.03-15-2012

Rainer W. Lienhart, Friedberg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100158358Video stream modification to defeat detection - A method and system for detecting automatic ad detection is presented in which video streams are modified such that features cannot be automatically recognized or statistical parameters and fingerprints derived from the video stream cannot be matched against fingerprints of known video segments in a database.06-24-2010
20100290667Video entity recognition in compressed digital video streams - A method and system for detection of video segments in compressed digital video streams is presented. The compressed digital video stream is examine to determine synchronization points, and the compressed video signal is analyzed following detection of the synchronization points to create video fingerprints that are subsequently compared against a library of stored fingerprints.11-18-2010
20130108173Video Entity Recognition in Compressed Digital Video Streams05-02-2013
20140133695Advertisement Detection - A method and system for detection of video segments in compressed digital video streams is presented. The compressed digital video stream is examine to determine synchronization points, and the compressed video signal is analyzed following detection of the synchronization points to create video fingerprints that are subsequently compared against a library of stored fingerprints.05-15-2014

Patent applications by Rainer W. Lienhart, Friedberg DE

Renaud Lienhart, San Francisco, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140348327Synchronization of Multi-Channel Audio Communicated over Bluetooth Low Energy - This document describes techniques for synchronizing rendering of multi-channel audio output. First audio data corresponding to a first audio channel and second audio data corresponding to a second audio channel may be received. The first and second audio data may be configured for simultaneous rendering. A transmission schedule for wirelessly transmitting audio data to each of first and second audio rendering devices may be configured, according to which the first audio data may be scheduled for transmission to the first audio rendering device after the second audio data is scheduled for transmission to the second audio rendering device by a first length of time. An indication may be wirelessly transmitted to the second audio rendering device to delay rendering audio data by the first length of time. The first and second audio data may be wirelessly transmitted to the first and second audio rendering devices according to the transmission schedule.11-27-2014
20140364089BLUETOOTH ALERT NOTIFICATION SERVICE - A central wireless communication device communicates with a peripheral wireless communication device to provide an interactive alert notification service. The central wireless communication device obtains alert notification settings for application categories for the peripheral wireless communication device. In response to receiving an alert notification belonging to an application category enabled for the peripheral wireless communication device, the central wireless communication device sends an alert notification message that includes a unique identifier associated with the alert notification to the peripheral wireless communication device. In response to receiving an information request message that includes the unique identifier and one or more parameters, the central wireless communication device sends one or more information response messages that include the unique identifier and values for at least one of the one or more parameters to the peripheral wireless communication device.12-11-2014

Werner Lienhart, Graz AT

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120249783TARGET POINT RECOGNITION METHOD AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENT - Target point recognition method including emitting electromagnetic radiation to illuminate targets, moving the scanning beam within a predetermined angular range in order to scan the surveying environment, detecting reflections of the electromagnetic radiation on the targets, wherein the targets are defining the target points, and determining the angle to the target points. The method further including a capturing procedure with capturing an overall image of the surveying environment, wherein the overall image comprises at least one single image taken by the camera, and determining target points and their angle on the overall image by image processing by matching targets with one or more predetermined search criteria, storing the target points together with their angle a data base, and displaying the overall image together with marks for indicating a position of the target points detected within the scanning procedure and the capturing procedure in the overall image.10-04-2012
20120320193SURVEYING INSTRUMENT - The invention relates to a surveying instrument comprising a telescope, at least one camera providing first, second or more image signals and a controller, wherein the controller is adapted to combine the image signal data of the first, second or more image signals in order to simultaneously display at least two of the images corresponding to the first, second or more image signals on display means.12-20-2012
20130162469GEODETIC SURVEY SYSTEM HAVING A CAMERA INTEGRATED IN A REMOTE CONTROL UNIT - A survey system including a target unit that has a survey stick having a high-precision localizable target and a hand-held remote control unit. The remote control unit has an electronic graphical display and can be mounted on a holder on the survey stick such that the remote control unit is in a fixed position relative to the target fitted to the survey stick. The remote control comprises a camera for taking a camera image in a defined shooting direction. In addition, an image processing and evaluation unit with a data link to the position-finding unit and to the camera is provided which, from knowledge of the fixed relative position and of a defined shooting direction and also on the basis of the determined target position, can spatially relate image data from the camera to the targets in the coordinate system.06-27-2013
20130250284ROBOTIC SURVEYING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATIC COLLIMATION TELESCOPE AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENT WITH AN OBJECTIVE GOAL - Automated autocollimation provides alignment of a telescope of a surveying instrument. The telescope defines an optical axis perpendicular to a reflective surface of an autocollimation target, such as a coated plane mirror. Alignment is performed by a method that includes aligning the telescope with the autocollimation target and illuminating a reticle in the telescope. The telescope is focused on infinite. The autocollimation target and the illuminated reticle reflected by the reflective surface, or the illuminated reticle, are acquired using an image acquisition device in the telescope or a second telescope. The reticle center in the image is determined. The horizontal and vertical distances of the reticle center are determined from the optical axis of the telescope in the image. The horizontal and vertical distances of the reticle center are converted into horizontal and vertical aberration angles of the current alignment of the telescope from the autocollimation alignment of the telescope.09-26-2013
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