Allan Wirth
46Patents
21h-index
51Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: May 22, 1985 → Oct 30, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6709108B2 | OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENT WITH ADAPTIVE OPTIC SUBSYSTEM THAT MEASURES ABERRATIONS (INCLUDING HIGHER ORDER ABERRATIONS) OF A HUMAN EYE AND THAT PROVIDES A VIEW OF COMPENSATION OF SUCH ABERRATIONS TO THE HUMAN EYE | Human Necessities | 236 | Expired |
| US6736321B2 | Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said system | Electricity | 180 | Expired |
| US6739511B2 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US6742707B1 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US6595642B2 | Ophthalmic instrument having Hartmann wavefront sensor with extended source | Human Necessities | 72 | Expired |
| US4725138A | Optical wavefront sensing system | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US4737621A | Integrated adaptive optical wavefront sensing and compensating system | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US6978936B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objects | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6863216B2 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6971577B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6830185B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6857570B2 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL FREQUENCY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US5270859A | Optical instrument with micro-lenses | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US6629641B2 | Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US5164578A | Two-dimensional OCP wavefront sensor employing one-dimensional optical detection | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US7131586B2 | Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US6830189B2 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITH SUBTANTIALLY REDUCED SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERNS BY ILLUMINATING SAID OBJECTS WITH SPATIALLY AND/OR TEMPORALLY COHERENT-REDUCED PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US7343099B2 | Free space optical (FSO) laser communication system employing fade mitigation measures based on laser beam speckle tracking and locking principles | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5291334A | Micro-lens panoramic imager | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6669341B2 | Ophthalmic instrument having wavefront sensor with multiple imaging devices that simultaneously capture multiple images of an array of spots produced by a lenslet array | Human Necessities | 24 | Expired |
| US7140543B2 | Planar light illumination and imaging device with modulated coherent illumination that reduces speckle noise induced by coherent illumination | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7437077B2 | Wavefront sensing system employing active updating of reference positions and subaperture locations on wavefront sensor | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7457545B2 | Process for controlling a Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) in an adaptive optic (AO) system | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5083015A | Optical centroid processor wavefront sensor | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6971576B2 | GENERALIZED METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND PARTICULAR FORMS OF APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM AFTER IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET BY APPLYING SPATIAL INTENSITY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE DETECTION OF THE REFLECTED/SCATTERED PLIB | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.