Inventor · Stapleford, GB

Andrew Blake

64Patents
20h-index
50Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 26, 1997 → Apr 18, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7292735B2 Virtual image artifact detection Electricity 209 Expired
US7512262B2 Stereo-based image processing Physics 162 Active
US7489308B2 Determining the location of the tip of an electronic stylus Physics 82 Expired
US7720282B2 Stereo image segmentation Physics 68 Active
US8094928B2 Stereo video for gaming Physics 61 Active
US7676081B2 Image segmentation of foreground from background layers Physics 48 Active
US6987520B2 Image region filling by exemplar-based inpainting Physics 47 Expired
US7184025B2 Altering a display on a viewing device based upon a user controlled orientation of the viewing device Physics 42 Expired
US7430339B2 Border matting by dynamic programming Physics 33 Expired
US6741755B1 System and method providing mixture-based determination of opacity Physics 33 Expired
US7529429B2 Auto collage Physics 29 Active
US8249333B2 Segmenting image elements Physics 26 Active
US7035431B2 System and method for probabilistic exemplar-based pattern tracking Physics 26 Expired
US7428330B2 Cyclopean virtual imaging via generalized probabilistic smoothing Physics 24 Active
US6301635A Memory device Electricity 24 Expired
US7167578B2 Probabilistic exemplar-based pattern tracking Physics 23 Expired
US6804391B1 Pattern detection methods and systems, and face detection methods and systems Physics 23 Expired
US7218796B2 Patch-based video super-resolution Electricity 22 Expired
US6839463B1 System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity Physics 22 Expired
US8655069B2 Updating image segmentation following user input Physics 21 Active
US8422769B2 Image segmentation using reduced foreground training data Physics 19 Active
US8498481B2 Image segmentation using star-convexity constraints Physics 18 Active
US7257272B2 Virtual image generation Physics 17 Expired
US7391906B2 Methods and system for providing image object boundary definition by particle filtering Physics 15 Expired
US7570803B2 Virtual camera translation Electricity 15 Active

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