Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Alan G. Lewis

32Patents
12h-index
53Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 30, 1978 → Mar 29, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5589847A Switched capacitor analog circuits using polysilicon thin film technology Electricity 290 Expired
US5153420A Timing independent pixel-scale light sensing apparatus Electricity 254 Expired
US5204661A Input/output pixel circuit and array of such circuits Physics 250 Expired
US5491347A Thin-film structure with dense array of binary control units for presenting images Physics 68 Expired
US6040812A Active matrix display with integrated drive circuitry Physics 55 Expired
US6078936A Presenting an image on a display as it would be presented by another image output device or on printing circuitry Electricity 52 Expired
US5703621A Universal display that presents all image types with high image fidelity Physics 40 Expired
US7403180B1 Hybrid color synthesis for multistate reflective modulator displays Physics 32 Active
US7855827B2 Internal optical isolation structure for integrated front or back lighting Physics 26 Active
US6281891A Display with array and multiplexer on substrate and with attached digital-to-analog converter integrated circuit having many outputs Physics 26 Expired
US5099239A Multi-channel analogue to digital convertor Electricity 22 Expired
US8204703B2 Measurement and apparatus for electrical measurement of electrical drive parameters for a MEMS based display Physics 13 Active
US7580172B2 MEMS device and interconnects for same Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US4726653A Stereoscopic viewer Physics 9 Expired
US5140327A Analog to digital converter utilizing a semiconductor capicitor array Electricity 7 Expired
US7777715B2 Passive circuits for de-multiplexing display inputs Physics 5 Active
US4171881A Hand held motion picture viewer Physics 4 Expired
US8405649B2 Low voltage driver scheme for interferometric modulators Electricity 3 Active
US5164616A Integrated sample and hold circuit with feedback circuit to increase storage time Physics 3 Expired
US7724417B2 MEMS switches with deforming membranes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8355883B2 Measurement and apparatus for electrical measurement of electrical drive parameters for a MEMS based display Physics 2 Active
US8669926B2 Drive scheme for a display Physics 1 Active
US9818347B2 Display apparatus including self-tuning circuits for controlling light modulators Physics 1 Active
US8040338B2 Method of making passive circuits for de-multiplexing display inputs Physics 1 Active
US9613587B2 Apparatus and method for adaptive image rendering based on ambient light levels Physics 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.